cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sai Wan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 西環 /西环 (sai¹ waan⁴).
Senses: examples: text: A young couple at the waterfront area known as Instagram Pier in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Sai Wan. Only about 3 percent of Hong Kongers between the ages of 18 and 29 describe themselves broadly as Chinese, according to a recent survey.
ref: 2017 June 30, Austin Ramzy, Alan Wong, “Young People Have Their Say About the Future of Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2017, Asia Pacific:
text: Mock pork is not new to Hong Kong. Alongside fake abalone, chicken and goose at the Po Lin Yuen Vegetarian Food restaurant in the Sai Wan area, co-owner Selina Yeung (no relation to David) sells imitation char siu, and a chopped version labeled in English as “BBQ Veg. Pork.”
ref: 2019 March 18, Andrew Genung, “It’s the Year of the Pig. Is it also the year fake pork takes off in China?”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2019, Food:
glosses: An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
Sai Wan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saywan
Etymology: From Cantonese 西灣 /西湾 (literally “West Bay”).
Senses: examples: text: There was a 6-inch coastal battery at Pak Sha Wan, a 6-inch howitzer battery at Sai Wan and a 3-inch AA battery at Sai Wan Hill.
ref: 2022 September 15, Philip Cracknell, The Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-45, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: An area of Eastern district, Hong Kong: Chai Wan.
glosses: Name of various bays in Hong Kong:
A bay of Cheung Chau in Islands district, Hong Kong.
glosses: Name of various bays in Hong Kong:
A bay in Sai Kung district, Hong Kong: Tai Long Sai Wan.
glosses: Name of various bays in Hong Kong:
A bay of Lantau Island in Islands district, Hong Kong: Fan Lau Sai Wan.
glosses: Name of various bays in Hong Kong:
A bay of Tai A Chau in Islands district, Hong Kong.
Related terms: Sai Wan Ho
Sai Wan Shan
Sai Wan Hill
Siu Sai Wan
Sheung Wan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃɜːŋ wɑːn/
/ʃɜːŋ wæn/
Etymology: From Cantonese 上環 /上环 (soeng⁶ waan⁴), when the initial of the first syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Senses: examples: text: Newspaper vendor Chung Tang, 74, knows just how bad it can be, working all day at a bus stop in Sheung Wan, a busy neighborhood next to the Central business district where pollution-free trams trundle along metal rails, between the cars and buses, just as they have done for more than 100 years.[…]
Tang was referring to a government measure to ban idling engines on streets, especially in densely populated pockets of Hong Kong island, like Sheung Wan, where narrow, poorly ventilated streets help concentrated emissions collect.
ref: 2012 June 29, Sisi Tang, Stephen Aldred, Tan Ee Lyn, Clarie Lee, “Memo to Hong Kong's new leader: must clear the air”, in James Pomfret, Nick Macfie, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2024, Environment:
text: Police and protesters alike shouted warnings to residents to close their windows and protect themselves from tear gas. But the noxious gas fired around the trendy Sheung Wan neighborhood just west of central Hong Kong seeped into packed residential buildings, hotels and air-conditioning systems.
ref: 2019 July 28, Shibani Mahtani, “Hong Kong clashes turn streets into tear-gas filled battleground for second day in a row”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2019, Asia & Pacific:
text: At Mount Zero, a jewel-box-size bookstore in the Sheung Wan district, the owner hosts visits by politically controversial authors.
ref: 2021 June 20, Tiffany May, “In the New Hong Kong, Booksellers Walk a Fine Line”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2021:
glosses: An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
glosses: A former district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom.
Taipingshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 太平山 (taai³ ping⁴ saan¹).
Senses: glosses: A former district of Victoria, Hong Kong.
Related terms: Tai Ping Shan
Mount Davis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Sir John Francis Davis, the 2nd Governor of British Hong Kong.
Senses: examples: text: As mentioned, the 1st Middlesex occupied beach pill boxes extending along the west, south and eastern littoral from beneath Mount Davis in the West to Sau Kei Wan [Shau Kei Wan] Hill in the northeast. The Hong Kong Volunteers, mostly assigned to man weapons ranging from artillery to machine guns, together with various auxiliary units, supported these units.
ref: 2001, Dauril Alden, Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life : Soldier, Historian, Teacher, Collector, Traveller, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 147:
text: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a top American business school, is set to relocate its Singapore campus to Hong Kong next year after the government offered it a 17,000 sq ft heritage building on Mount Davis for a one-off premium of just HK$1,000 ($130).
ref: 2013 July 11, “PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - July 12”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 17 May 2021, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS:
text: Villa Cecil on Mount Davis was found to have had a private pool partially on government land for over two decades.
ref: 2023 September 14, James Lee, “Hong Kong urban planning NGO finds 173 alleged illegal structures at luxury houses”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 29 Feb 2024, Hong Kong:
glosses: A hill in Kennedy Town, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
glosses: An area of Kennedy Town, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
black British
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black British
form: Black British
Senses: examples: text: Theresa identifies herself as Caribbean, taking distance from those she defines as ‘black British’. The way she defines ‘those’ women is challenged by Beatrice (who does at this moment identify as black British) and Priscilla (who defends and explains the black British without explicitly identifying as such).
ref: 1995, Amina Mama, Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender, and Subjectivity, page 84:
text: Similarly, the black British are always depicted as outsiders to British culture.
ref: 1996, Mantia Diawara, “Black British cinema: spectatorship and identity formation in Territories”, in Houston A. Baker, Manthia Diawara, Ruth H. Lindeborg, editors, Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader, page 299:
text: As the Islamic world replaces Communism as the threat to Western civilisation […] the Caribbean black British seem less alien, untainted by the stigma of religious separatism.
ref: 2007, David Ellis, Writing Home: Black Writing in Britain Since the War, page 145:
glosses: A social and cultural group in Britain comprising people of Black ethnic origin, sometimes including people of other nonwhite ethnicity.
black British
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Black British
Senses: examples: text: By 1980 pictures about black British people were becoming much more angry, explicit and partisan.
ref: 1999, David Christopher, British Culture: An Introduction, page 90:
text: Black British literature (which is as multifarious as the cast of White Teeth) not only deals with the situation of those who came from former colonies and their descendants, but also with the society which they discovered and continue to shape—and with those societies left behind.
ref: 2004, Mark Stein, Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation, page xii:
glosses: Of or related to the social and cultural group of Black or other nonwhite Britons.
Related terms: Black Briton
Black English
Multicultural London English
Black British
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black British
Senses: examples: text: Bloom’s Black British dialect is a technical and rhythmic innovation. It is a self conscious attempt to subvert the traditional language of poetry and insist on a merciless difference.
ref: 1991, Maggie Humm, Border Traffic: Strategies of Contemporary Women Writers, page 59:
text: By the time that awareness had been raised in educational circles, the ability to code-switch between the local British dialect and Black British English was widespread; the distinctively Black British variety which was emerging among second-generation children was essentially a marker of identity.
ref: 2007, Viv Edwards, Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World : Pedigree of Nations, page 126:
synonyms: Black British English
British Black English
glosses: A variety of English language spoken by or associated with Black people in Britain.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of black British, a social and cultural group consisting of Black Britons.
Black British
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of black British.
Related terms: Black English
Multicultural London English
britch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Hal, for shame! Mother, he has stuffed a whole tea-cake in his britch pockets,” was poor Bridget’s aside, spoken in a voice of distress, for the tea-cakes were plentifully buttered in honour of the guest.
ref: [1884], Esmè Stuart [pseudonym; Amélie Claire Leroy], “The Tailor’s Tea-Party”, in The Prisoner’s Daughter. A Story of 1758., London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, […]. Brighton: […]. New York: E. & J. B. Young and Co., →OCLC, page 65:
text: I never will forgit that ol’ feller a-standin’ thar, cussin’ loud as he could, an’ feelin’ round in his britch-pockets atter more cattridges!
ref: 1932, Vance Randolph, Ozark Mountain Folks, New York, N.Y.: The Vanguard Press, →OCLC, page 59:
text: I got up and jammed my hands to the wrists in my britch pockets and stared into the crazy black branches of the winter apple tree.
ref: 1955, Davis Grubb, A Dream of Kings, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →LCCN, page 122:
glosses: Attributive form of britches.
whimsic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whimsic
form: most whimsic
Etymology: From whimsy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] Dutch whirling, whimsic chair, / Turning more swift than unrestrained air; […]
ref: 1684, “Behold the Wonders of Almighty God. [From a MS. in a private Collection.]”, in Edward F[rancis] Rimbault, editor, Old Ballads Illustrating the Great Frost of 1683-4 and the Fair on the River Thames, London: […] for the Percy Society, by T. Richards, […], published February 1844, page 29:
text: Even this Spark five terms at least, before / H’ has taken a degree; and full Ten more / Before he has deserv’d it; shall adore / Those Ancient Sots, whose whimsick brain alone / Found out Dame Nature’s ways before unknown, / Whereby she acted, or at least she might have done.
ref: 1696, “A Letter to a Friend, Concerning an University Life”, in The Second, Fourth, and Seventh Satyrs of Monsieur Boileau Imitated, with Some Other Poems and Translations Written upon Several Occasions, London: […] R. Sare […] and H. Hindmarsh […], page 125:
text: My Phyllis, now, capricious maid, / And whimsic as the fickle breeze, / Within an hour has oft betrayed / A score of personalities.
ref: 1908, Truth, page 693:
text: We strolled through quaintly crooked little side streets, so rich in casual and whimsic architecture, and drove over the brown hills, where rabbits occasionally dashed to cover, and the impudent crow patrolled the horizon.
ref: 1918, Sidney Williams, The Eastern Window, Boston, Mass.: Marshall Jones Company, page 91:
text: Whimsic fantasy, grub fact, pure senseless music—none in itself would do; to embody all and rise above each, in a work neither longfaced nor idiotly grinning, but adventuresome, passionately humored, merry with the pain of insight, wise and smiling in the terror of life—that was my calm ambition.
ref: 1968, John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 198:
text: Harry Potter can now feel at home in California, shopping in Whimsic Alley, a re-creation of the mystical London Street where the famous wizard buys his school supplies.
ref: 2005, Jan Friedman, Eccentric California, Bradt Travel Guides Ltd; The Globe Pequot Press Inc, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Rare form of whimsical.
Aytoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tashnag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tashnags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dashnak.
Tashnags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tashnag
Tashnak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tashnaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dashnak.
Tashnaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tashnak
Mid-Levels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The $29 million people mover, which snakes its way through some of the oldest sections of Hong Kong, connects the British territory's Central business district with the densely populated Mid-Levels residential area, which, while close to Central, is up a very steep hill from it.
Mid-Levels, Hong Kong's fastest growing area, sprang from a sleepy neighborhood of individual houses in the 1950s to a concrete jungle now, packed with 30-story apartment blocks and a population of some 60,000 people.
ref: 1993 October 18, Daniela Deane, “FOREIGN JOURNAL”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2023:
text: On the morning of March 25, 2006, all the available reporters in Hong Kong scurried to my Mid-Levels neighborhood to photograph my dog being dramatically rescued from the top of a tree.[…]
Jade and I proceeded outside for our morning dog walk on the trails behind my Mid-Levels apartment.
ref: 2009, Jessica Bellas, “Hong Kong Fire Service Rescues Dog from Cliff Side”, in Maotai, Mooncakes & Monks: Misadventures in Hong Kong & China, Hong Kong: TAMCO Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Bacani, who comes from a village in Nueva Vizcaya, moved to Hong Kong when she was 19, giving up her nursing studies so she could help pay for her younger brother and sister's schooling.
For the last decade she has worked alongside her mother for an Australian-Chinese businesswoman in the affluent Mid-Levels neighbourhood on Hong Kong island.
ref: 2015 May 26, Emma Batha, “Filipina maid photographs "modern slavery" in Hong Kong”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2024:
text: This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.
ref: 2019 April 17, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, “House Hunting in … Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2019, Real Estate:
text: Following the outbreak at the Ursus Fitness gym in Sai Ying Pun, the government announced two ambush lockdowns on Saturday, and another on Sunday, in the Mid-Levels district.
ref: 2021 March 15, Candice Chau, “Covid-19: 2 cases found after almost 3,500 people tested in Mid-Levels ‘ambush’ lockdowns”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2024, Hong Kong:
text: While Dent & Co. left little mark in that particular area, Glenealy (己連拿利) in Mid-Levels is named after the residence of Dent & Co.’s partner.
ref: 2024 February 17, Diana Pang, “Foreign influence Part 4.: From wharves to wealth – how trade & commerce shaped Hong Kong’s street names”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2024, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
tontipop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tontipop.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a Spanish genre and scene which draws directly from British twee pop, as well as yé-yé, bubblegum, and synthpop.
Glanmire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Gleann Maghair.
Senses: glosses: A suburban town within the City of Cork, County Cork, Ireland.
vanlife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From van + life, popularized on social media in the 2010s.
Senses: examples: text: Vanlife is an aesthetic and a mentality and, people kept telling me, a “movement.” S. Lucas Valdes, the owner of the California-based company GoWesty, a prominent seller of Volkswagen-van parts, compared vanlife today to surfing a couple of decades ago.
ref: 2017 April 17, Rachel Monroe, “Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 23 Aug 2021:
text: Vanlife is an aesthetic trend, closer to the tiny-home movement, yet even richer, lusher and typically sexier.
ref: 2020 July 3, Nellie Bowles, “The #Vanlife Business Is Booming”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A lifestyle of living in a vehicle, especially a van, full or part-time.
Derived terms: vanlifer
vanlifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanlifers
Etymology: From vanlife + -er.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:vanlifer.
glosses: Someone leading a vanlife.
vanlifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanlifer
supermannish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermannish
form: most supermannish
Etymology: From superman + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: There were seals on the rocks, and others on the beach, though their silly faces gave no evidence of the supermannish qualities attributed to them by Mr. E. V. Lucas.
ref: 1909, F[rederick] G[eorge] Aflalo, Sunset Playgrounds: Fishing Days and Others in California and Canada, London: Witherby & Co. […], page 126:
text: It is very probable that Nietzsche frequently felt himself so supermannish as to regard the clouds of earth over which he had to step in order to keep his head in the clouds.
ref: 1910 June 9, Cally Ryland, “Every Day Trials of Life”, in The Washburn Times, volume 18, number 5, Washburn, Wis.:
text: Her influence has been held supermannish—daimonic or demonic—under the prevalence of ideals monastic, chivalric, or platonic; […]
ref: 1911, Jefferson Butler Fletcher, “Preface”, in The Religion of Beauty in Women and Other Essays on Platonic Love in Poetry and Society, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page vii:
text: Her second lover is as disagreeable a cad as one is likely to meet, who exhibits a supermannish selfishness in his love that makes one wonder why he should have consented to a secret marriage.
ref: 1915 April 15, “Notes on New Novels”, in Waldo R. Browne, editor, The Dial: A Fortnightly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information, volume LVIII, number 692, Chicago, Ill.: The Henry O. Shepard Co., page 305, column 2:
text: Pulled by that “supermannish” strength the princess rises from bed and, in order to “celebrate” her husband’s death, offers herself naked at the window.
ref: 1994, Graziella Parati, “The Transparent Woman: Reading Femininity within a Futurist Context”, in Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, editor, Feminine Feminists: Cultural Practices in Italy, Minneapolis, Minn.; London: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, 1 (Registers of History), page 56:
text: The real body can only ever be an imperfect, failed imitation of the higher supermannish archetype.
ref: 2002, Esther Leslie, Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde, Verso, →ISBN, page 140:
text: ‘Der Sieger’ (The Victor) from 1927, used a large section of a bulky torso and a composite head, twisted to gaze into that middle distance familiar from propaganda imagery of supermannish strong heroes.
ref: 2002, Dave Beech, John Roberts, The Philistine Controversy, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, page 216:
text: Though Engels and others saw in Carlyle a compelling arguer against social ills, his own ideology with its worship of supermannish heroes, ‘the select of the earth’, takes its bearings from a secularization of the Calvinist idea of the elect, and points towards both Nietzsche and fascism.
ref: 2009, Robert Crawford, Scotland’s Books: A History of Scottish Literature, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 462:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a superman.
Wan Chai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wɑːn t͡ʃaɪ/
/wæn t͡ʃaɪ/
Forms: form: Wanchai
Etymology: From Cantonese 灣仔 /湾仔 (waan¹ zai²).
Senses: examples: text: Unbeknownst to him, as he was taken into custody, the businessman had become a victim of drink spiking – a crime seen in Wan Chai, a district bristled with clubs and watering holes.
ref: 2019 May 13, Jennifer Creery, “Dazed and confused: Hong Kong’s tourists at risk of drink spiking in Wan Chai”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2024, HKFP Features:
text: As dusk fell, demonstrators in the Wan Chai district continued to toss Molotov cocktails at the police while the clanging of bricks on metal street signs — the protesters’ call to arms — echoed through a canyon of tall apartment buildings.
ref: 2019 September 29, Mike Ives, Keith Bradsher, Andrew Jacobs, “Major Clashes Erupt in Hong Kong Ahead of China’s National Day”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2019:
glosses: A district of Hong Kong.
examples: text: The flavor of the event was clear from the outset. Police had planned various routes to bring Lam into and out of the stadium, a 3,500-seat indoor sports arena in the Wan Chai district, after forums online discussed blocking her path.
ref: 2019 September 26, Shibani Mahtani, Tiffany Liang, “Hong Kong’s embattled leader faces barrage of criticism at ‘dialogue’ session”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2019, Asia & Pacific:
text: Four activists from the League of Social Democrats, a pro-democracy political party, staged a small protest near a polling station in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai neighborhood. The activists displayed banners that criticized using this "small circle election" to showcase "public opinion." The police stopped and searched the protesters.
ref: 2021 September 19, “Hong Kong: 'Patriots only' election starts without pro-democracy candidates”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2021, News:
glosses: An area of Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
Wanchai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 灣仔 /湾仔 (waan¹ zai²).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wan Chai (“area in Hong Kong”).
examples: text: I also had a Hong Kong address for him, in the Wanchai district.
ref: 2014 May, Ian Hamilton, The Water Rat of Wanchai: An Ava Lee Novel, New York: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:
glosses: A former district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom.
Ha Wan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 下環 /下环 (haa⁶ waan⁴).
Senses: glosses: A former district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom.
postsubject
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-subject
Etymology: From post- + subject.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: presubject
glosses: Occurring after the subject in a sentence or expression.
raw_tags: of a part of speech
Bowrington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John Bowring, the 4th Governor of British Hong Kong.
Senses: examples: text: He’d spent free time when he was young, walking through the streets of neighbouring Bowrington, a place near Wanchai where you had a good day if you didn’t get hit by falling garbage.
ref: 1995, Jared Mitchell, “War”, in The Invincible (Fiction), Lester Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:
text: Tucked away between Wan Chai and Causeway Bay, Bowrington is one of Hong Kong Island's more interesting neighbourhoods.
ref: 2008 June 29, Jason Wordie, “Out and about”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2023:
text: On Christmas Day the Allied forces on Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese. At the time of surrender the East Brigade had been pushed down into the tip of the Stanley peninsula, and the West Brigade held a line that ran roughly from Bowrington in the north to Aberdeen in the south — less than a quarter of the Island’s territory was held between them.
ref: 2009, Robyn Walker, “The Battle Rages”, in Sergeant Gander: A Canadian Hero, Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: An area of Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
glosses: A former district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom.
Synonyms: sense: area in Hong Kong
word: Ngo Keng
sense: area in Hong Kong
word: Bowring City
post-subject
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postsubject.
Choong Wan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chung Wan
Etymology: From Cantonese 中環 /中环 (zung¹ waan⁴).
Senses: examples: text: The map was in the office before he entered it, but he believed it was the map specially prepared in reference to Ordinance 7 of 1866. He considered lot 713 to be within the distict of Choong Wan.
ref: 1880 April 9, Mr. Gerrard, quotee, “ALLEGED NUISANCE.”, in The Hong Kong Daily Press, number 6969, Hongkong, page 2, column 3:
text: Henry Chan Hay has been involved in community work in Western District for many years. He became Area Committee Chairman for Chung Wan in 1990 and took part in many district projects during 1992.
ref: [1993 June 12, “Queen's Birthday Honours”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2023:
text: 49 voters under the Chung Wan constituency in Central and another 49 under the Sheung Wan constituency were registered to commercial properties.
ref: [2015 September 1, Kris Cheng, “131 voters found registered to questionable addresses, including dismantled building”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2025, Hong Kong, Politics & Protest:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Chung Wan, former name of Central: an area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
glosses: A former district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom.
cool pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cool pops
Senses: examples: text: Cool Pop:[…]Whenever Josh visits, his step-grandfather always has Josh's favorite treat waiting for him - a frozen ice cool-pop. From that came the perfect name for the coolest grandfather - Cool Pop!
ref: 1998, Carolyn Booth, Mindy Henderson, Grandfather By Another Name: Heartwarming Stories About What We Call Our Grandfathers:
text: To us, these are (and always have been) called 'cool pops'. To others - particularly on Twitter - they're everything from 'ice pops' to 'ice lollies' to 'ice poles' to 'freeze pops' to Tip-Tops.
ref: 2023 April 17 (last accessed), “The internet is arguing about what these frozen things are officially called”, in entertainment.ie, entertainment.ie, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2022:
glosses: A frozen snack consisting of flavored ice or juice in a tube; a freeze pop.
Jardine's Lookout
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William Jardine of the Jardine, Matheson & Company.
Senses: examples: text: Her Hong Kong hotel suite had a view of Jardine’s Lookout, which commemorates William Jardine, an opium agent and one of the founders of the powerful trading company known today as Jardine Matheson Holdings.
ref: 2011 August 18, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Highlighting Differences in Interpretations of the Opium War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2011, Books:
text: The 58-year-old male worker fell from a wooden ladder while installing an air-conditioner at a house on Jardine’s Lookout, the Labour Department said on Monday night. He was sent to hospital and later certified dead.
ref: 2025 January 21, Irene Chan, “Use step platforms, NGO says after Hong Kong worker dies following fall from wooden ladder”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2025, Hong Kong:
glosses: A hill in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
examples: text: Chen owns a home on Purves Road in the luxury district of Jardine's Lookout, which overlooks Happy Valley racecourse, local media reported.
ref: 2012 August 31, Alex Frew McMillan, Joy Leung, Umesh Desai, “Chinese home builder Agile's chairman arrested over indecent assault”, in Daniel Magnowski, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2024, Markets:
glosses: A residential area of Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
Chieng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiengs
Etymology: From Chinese
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese
glutition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin gluttītiō, from gluttiō (“to swallow”).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: deglutition
glosses: The act or process of swallowing.
NFPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NFPOs
Senses: coordinate_terms: NPO
glosses: Initialism of not-for-profit organization.
NFPOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NFPO
Mr Freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mr Freezes
Etymology: In Britain from the name of the British freeze pop brand Mr Freeze, created in 1966 and since produced by a series of British and Irish companieshttps://www.talkingretail.com/products-news/chilled/mr-freeze-reports-good-march-sales-18-05-2012/ (currently Calypso Soft Drinks Ltd)https://www.talkingretail.com/products-news/frozen/mr-freeze-unveils-limited-edition-bulk-box-15-05-2014/. In Canada from the Canadian Mr Freeze brand that was acquired by their local rival Kisko in 2005https://kiskofreezies.com/pages/about-us#:~:text=Kisko%20freezies%20initially%20founded%20in,Kingston%2C%20Jamaica%20by%20the%20Josephs%20family.
Senses: examples: text: Brand names also came up with many naming the treat based on the product sold in their region. US users claimed that the sweet treat aught(sic.) to be referred to as an Otter Pop, a popular brand across the pond. Meanwhile UK users were more in favour of the Mr Freeze, found in many a corner shop while Welsh customers said the correct name was in fact a Tip Top.
ref: 2018 June 25, Martha Cliff, “Ice pops... or freezies? Debate over the CORRECT name for classic summer treat goes ciral on Twitter - so what do YOU call them?”, in MailOnline, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2021:
glosses: A frozen snack consisting of flavored ice or juice in a tube; a freeze pop, irrespective of brand.
joint investigation teams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joint investigation team
pillow-cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillow-case
internal jugular veins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internal jugular vein
book binders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book binder
book reports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book report
bookceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookception
booking classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booking class
bookrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookright
bookstagrammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookstagrammer
Bookstagrammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bookstagrammer
digibooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digibook
order books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of order book
phrase-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phrase-book
Sookun Poo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 掃桿埔 /扫杆埔.
Senses: glosses: A former district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom.
Related terms: So Kon Po
recipe books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recipe book
rhyme books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhyme book
Causeway Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Causeway Road, which was originally built as a causeway.
Senses: examples: text: But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom.
ref: 2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023, In Transit:
text: For a long time, Hong Kong’s frenetic night life scene has centered on fancy hotel bars and glitzy clubs swarmed with corporate bankers. Tai Hang — a quickly gentrifying area southeast of the city’s shiny Causeway Bay district — is now offering more laid-back options.
ref: 2013 September 25, Aric Chen, “A Hong Kong Neighborhood That’s a Lot Like Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023, Food, Travel:
text: The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit.
ref: 2019 August 11, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2019:
text: Black-clad protesters were seen chanting pro-democracy slogans in the city's busy shopping districts of Causeway Bay and Wan Chai, demanding "Liberate Hong Kong, "Stand with Hong Kong" and "Revolution of our times."
ref: 2020 May 24, “Hong Kong: Tear gas fired as thousands protest new security law”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 25 May 2020, Politics:
text: On Friday, police cordoned off parts of the park in Causeway Bay, which for some 30 years was the site of annual candlelight vigils to remember those who died during the 1989 crackdown.
ref: 2022 June 4, “In Pictures: High security and mini acts of defiance as Hong Kong seeks to thwart Tiananmen crackdown commemorations”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2022:
text: Police on Monday took away Sanmu Chen on a street of Causeway Bay, a busy Hong Kong shopping district, close to a park that for decades hosted an annual vigil to mourn the victims of the 1989 crackdown.
ref: 2024 June 3, Kanis Leung, “Hong Kong detains an artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown”, in AP News, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2024, World News:
glosses: An area of Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
glosses: A bay of Hong Kong Island in Causeway Bay and Tai Hang, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong, now reclaimed.
Synonyms: sense: area in Hong Kong
word: CWB
Tai Hang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 大坑 (daai⁶ haang¹).
Senses: examples: text: For a long time, Hong Kong’s frenetic night life scene has centered on fancy hotel bars and glitzy clubs swarmed with corporate bankers. Tai Hang — a quickly gentrifying area southeast of the city’s shiny Causeway Bay district — is now offering more laid-back options.
ref: 2013 September 25, Aric Chen, “A Hong Kong Neighborhood That’s a Lot Like Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023, Food, Travel:
text: “We are not wealthy people and not financially sound. To earn a living is of the utmost importance so as to feed my family,” said Ben Ip, 45, a mechanic and owner of a vehicle paint shop in the city’s Tai Hang district.
ref: 2020 May 23, Jessie Pang, Donny Kwok, Anne Marie Roantree, “Hong Kongers fret over Beijing's planned new security laws”, in Lincoln Feast, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 May 2020, World:
text: Smoke and fire swirled in the heady air, wafting from the dragon’s 67-metre (219-feet) body which is made up of thousands of incense sticks.
The dragon was hoisted by hundreds of volunteers who danced and bounded along the streets of the Tai Hang neighbourhood in a raucous parade.
ref: 2023 September 29, “Hong Kong ‘living tradition’ of fire dragon dance returns to Tai Hang after 3-year hiatus”, in Hong Kong Free Press, sourced from AFP, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2024, Hong Kong:
glosses: An area of Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
femby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛm.bi/
ipa: [ˈfɛɱbi]
rhymes: -ɛmbi
Forms: form: fembies
form: fembys
Etymology: Blend of femme + enby, possibly influenced by femboy.
Senses: synonyms: femenby
fenby
finby
finenby
galby
girlby
womanby
antonyms: mascby
hypernyms: enby
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A feminine non-binary person.
femby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛm.bi/
ipa: [ˈfɛɱbi]
rhymes: -ɛmbi
Forms: form: fembies
form: fembys
Etymology: Clipping of femboy.
Senses: glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of femboy.
Barnsdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barnsdales
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Beorn + -s- + dæl (“valley, dale”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A locality mainly in Exton and Horn parish, Rutland, England, with many places/properties named Barnsdale (OS grid ref SK9009).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in Doncaster borough, South Yorkshire and Wakefield borough, West Yorkshire, England, including Barnsdale Bar on the county boundary (OS grid ref SE5113).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
status quo warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: status quo warriors
form: SQW
Senses: examples: text: The SJW approach seems to have inspired a reaction from an equally impassioned group, the so-called “Status Quo Warriors” or SQWs [...]
ref: 2019, Applying Wisdom to Contemporary World Problems, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence, page 159:
text: Scratch a critic of social justice warriors and a status quo warrior bleeds.
ref: 2020, John Faithful Hamer, Social Distancing: Poems and Aphorisms, Likeville Books:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A person who zealously promotes or defends socially static or regressive policies; the antithesis of social justice warrior.
Related terms: purity spiral
virtue signalling
reactionary
Kallam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kallams
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* A variant of Kelham, an English habitational surname from a place in Nottinghamshire.
* Borrowed from Telugu కళ్ళం (kaḷḷaṁ), a surname that is predominantly found in Andhra Pradesh.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Loadholt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Loadholts
Etymology: Possibly an altered form of Swiss German Leuthold.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Loadholts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Loadholt
Kallams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kallam
North Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.
ref: 2014, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, “The Fall of Hong Kong, December 1941”, in Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:
text: Three masked explorers appeared atop an apartment tower in Hong Kong’s North Point district and sent a black drone flying, over a clothesline, until it was buzzing more than 10 stories above the cars, trams and pedestrians on the street below.
ref: 2017 February 7, Mike Ives, “Using Stealth, and Drones, to Document a Fading Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2017, Asia Pacific:
text: The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit.
ref: 2019 August 11, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2019:
text: Even in pro-Beijing strongholds such as North Point, fresh-faced candidates running on an explicitly pro-democracy platform unseated longtime incumbents.
ref: 2019 November 24, Shibani Mahtani, Simon Denyer, Tiffany Liang, Anna Kam, “Hong Kong’s pro-democracy parties sweep pro-Beijing establishment aside in local elections”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2019, World:
text: Densely packed with dilapidated, high-rise apartment blocks looming above bustling neon-lit streets, North Point has long been known as one of the “reddest” – or most pro-Beijing – districts in Hong Kong.
ref: 2019 December 23, Kate Lamb, Jessie Pang, “Young democrats shake up pro-Beijing stronghold in Hong Kong”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023, Top News:
glosses: An area of Eastern district, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: sense: now usually synonymous
word: Tsat Tsz Mui
Lezotte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lezottes
form: LeZotte
Etymology: Variant of Lizotte.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Tsat Tsz Mui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 七姊妹 (literally “Seven Sisters”).
Senses: examples: text: PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 5th day of September, 1904, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, at Tsat Tsz Mui, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
ref: 1904 August 30 [1904 August 27], “Government Notification”, in The Hongkong Telegraph (New Series), number 4633, →OCLC, page 3, column 1:
text: There is another example of the Seven Sisters. It is an area in the east portion of North Point, near Quarry Bay, Hong Kong called Tsat Tsz Mui (七姊妹 Seven Sisters).
ref: 2007, Roy Bates, 10,000 Chinese Numbers, Beijing: China History Press, →ISBN, page 172:
text: A worker at Tsat Tsz Mui post office admitted in Eastern Court yesterday to using old stamps and pocketing the postage payment meant for mailing a package.
ref: 2009 April 1, Joyce Man, “Postal worker admits pocketing HK$22.50”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023:
glosses: An area of Eastern district, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: sense: now usually synonymous
word: North Point
word: Braemar Point
Lezottes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lezotte
Llerenases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Llerenas
Levenhagen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Levenhagens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Levenhagen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Lerro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lerros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Lerro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Lerros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lerro
Levenhagens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Levenhagen
Braemar Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: brāmärʹ
Etymology: Named after British Royal Navy officer Gordon Bremer.
Senses: examples: text: MEANWHILE ON THE internet, people are swapping examples of the worst examples of parking in Hong Kong. Here’s a picture this columnist took the other day in Braemar Hill. The motorist has managed to park not exactly in the middle of the road, but pretty close.
ref: 2015 December 18, Nury Vittachi, “Nury’s Diary: Concentration camp being built in Macau”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2023:
glosses: An area of Eastern district, Hong Kong.
examples: text: The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.
ref: 2014, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 195:
text: There are a few criss-crossed trails, and not all have signs, but head for Braemar Hill.[…]
Now on the trail, you’ll have to push your way through some branches and maybe some spiderwebs, but only a couple of minutes away is a large outcrop of rocks, which you can clamber up and see Hong Kong from a magnificent angle.
ref: 2020 May 13, “The best hikes with views of Hong Kong – take in the skyline from a new and unique angle”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 May 2020, Trail Running:
glosses: A hill in Eastern district, Hong Kong.
Manzoor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Manzoors
Etymology: Alternative form of Mansour.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Manzoors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Manzoor
Lyssys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lyssy
West Horsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0753)).
Related terms: East Horsley
surprise lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surprise lilies
Senses: glosses: Lycoris squamigera, a pink-flowered plant native to China and Korea.
resurrection lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resurrection lilies
Senses: glosses: Lycoris squamigera (surprise lily).
glosses: Kaempferia galanga (cutcherry).
Hiciano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hicianos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Hiciano; this surname is predominantly found in the Dominican Republic.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Heyliger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heyligers
Etymology: Americanized form of German Heiliger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Heyligers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Heyliger
Hicianos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hiciano
Harcum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Harcums
Etymology: Altered form of the English habitational surname Harcombe.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Harcums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Harcum
Hamars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hamar
shadow snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow snakes
Senses: glosses: A South American snake of the genus Synophis.
McCorquodale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCorquodales
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Thorcadaill (“son of Thorcadall”), a personal name composed of the Old Norse elements Þórr + ketill (“kettle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn from Old Norse].