cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
surpay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surpays
form: surpaying
form: surpaid
form: surpaid
Etymology: From sur- + pay.
Senses: examples: text: for foure faire ones we must kisse fiftie foule: and to a nice or tender stomack, as are those of mine age, one ill kisse doth, surpay [translating surpaie] one good.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.5:
glosses: To more than compensate for; to outweigh.
Nineties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Seventies UFO fans also referred to “close encounters,” including the consciousness-raising “close encounter of the third kind,” in which humans and aliens meet. But UFOlogy has gone through a radical change, and in the Nineties the terms of the past are largely obsolete. During the past decade, for instance, literally thousands of people have come forward to say they’ve been kidnapped, or “abducted,” by short, large-headed, thin-lipped entities with saucer eyes.
ref: 1990 December, D. Stacy, T. Sanda, “The alien almanac”, in Omni, volume 13, number 3, pages 97–105:
text: Failure became a buzz word when the dotcom bubble burst in the late Nineties. Many paper millionaires instantly became part of the "90 per cent club" (people who had lost 90 per cent of their wealth, or more). The casualties got together and "dot-commiserated".
ref: 2003 July 29, Helen Kirwan-Taylor, “Rock bottom? We're on a high”, in The Telegraph:
text: The house will be transformed—it will be the Eighties. Not the real Eighties but the Naughties version (Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Naughties) where pink and black come in organic cotton as opposed to stretch polyester.
ref: 2011, Kathryn White, Emily Green and Me, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: For thirty-six years the Lost Property office was managed by Maureen Beaumont, and when I went there to interview her, back in the late Nineties, she told me people didn't seem embarrassed about what they'd lost. She'd known men collect stashes of porn, or blow-up dolls.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 196:
text: Author of The Rise of the Creative Class and many other tomes along similar themes, since his self-described conversion in the late Nineties, he [Richard Florida] has preached to all who will listen his doctrine of creative progress, and the necessity to ‘creatify’ even our most lowly service jobs.
ref: 2013 August 15, Ann O'Dea, “Interview: Richard Florida – talent loves tolerance”, in Silicon Republic, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2016:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of nineties, in the context of a specific decade (almost always) the 1890s or 1990s.
Derived terms: Roaring Nineties
molecular core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular cores
Senses: glosses: a dense core found in molecular clouds which lead to the formation of stars
Hyponyms: alt: a molecular core which contains a protostar or YSO
word: protostellar core
Coordinate terms: Herbig-Haro object
absorption nebula
dark nebula
interstellar nebula
interstellar cloud
nebula
Related terms: molecular cloud
molecular cores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molecular core
your man
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: yer man
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see your, man.
examples: text: ... from the work of John Gilroy, whose animal cartoons and painful puns are still used to this day, to modern masterpieces such as the surfing ad (which led the Irish singer-songwriter Christy Moore to ponder "how yer man stayed up on that surfboard after fourteen pints of stout").
ref: 2002, Geoff Wallis, Mark Connolly, Margaret Greenwood, The Rough Guide to Dublin, page 122:
text: No, your man there with the kind of hooded eyes, talking to Tom O'Reilly. That's Frank Purcell, the general secretary.
ref: 2004, May O'Brien, Clouds on My Windows: A Dublin Memoir, page 151:
text: Your man is talking away but it's not dramatically correct to have him just jawing on and on, when there's no movement.
ref: 2005, John Doyle, A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age, page 81:
text: "What did yer man want?" "Dunno, couldn't understand him."
ref: 2008, Andrew Higgins Wyndham, Re-imagining Ireland, page 29:
glosses: That man, the man in question.
Coordinate terms: your woman
yer woman
your wan
yer wan
your man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yer man
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to DIY, I'm your man.
glosses: The expert one does or should turn to.
remedilessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more remedilessly
form: most remedilessly
Etymology: From remediless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I encounter not two which way soever spoile should enter my hold, there am I open and remedilesly drowned.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.6:
glosses: In such a way as to be beyond all remedy.
Fred Karno's army
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɛd ˈkɑːnəʊz ɑːmiː/
Forms: form: Karno's army
form: Fred Carno's army
form: Carno's army
Etymology: From the First World War marching tune "We're Fred Karno's Army", ultimately from the slapstick music hall entertainer Fred Karno.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever any hon. Member in any part of the Committee thinks about the advisability of this Bill, they all wish the Force that eventually is created to be an efficient one and not a Fred Karno's army.
ref: 1951 November 28, Anthony Head, “New Clause.—(ENROLMENT.)”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), volume 494, column 1656:
text: It was like bloody Fred Karno's army out there. They were sods. Drunk as lords. Been to a wedding party or something.
ref: 1973, John Pellow, With a Little Help from My Friends, page 156:
text: 'Honest, Marian — it's a right Fred Karno's army setup . . .'
ref: 1997, Craig Thomas, A Different War, page 221:
glosses: A chaotic, poorly-managed group.
concitizen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concitizens
Etymology: From con- + citizen.
Senses: examples: text: But they were particular ones who had bred this custome to gratifie their con-citizens and fellowes; especially by their purse, by such profusion and magnificence.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.6:
glosses: A fellow citizen.
concitizens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concitizen
Metonic cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Metonic cycle
adjunct treatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjunct treatment
trolley jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trolley jacks
Senses: glosses: A hydraulic jack (lifting device) mounted on wheels, and equipped with a long handle which also acts as a pump handle, which can be pulled to wherever it is needed.
bib number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bib numbers
Senses: glosses: The number, on a bib, that is used to identify entrants in a race
Harajuku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑɹəˈd͡ʒuːku/
rhymes: -uːku
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 原宿 (Harajuku, literally “lodging in the prairie”).
Senses: glosses: A district of Shibuya ward, Tokyo, Japan.
Derived terms: Harajuku girl
predefinition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predefinitions
Etymology: From pre- + definition.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of defining something in advance.
glosses: A definition provided in advance.
predefinitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predefinition
cryfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryfests
Etymology: From cry + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: The Sin of Madelon Claudet was another hugely successful exemplar of the crime-and-punishment cryfests that shopgirls and housewives took to heart.
ref: 1999, Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 130:
text: But if heartfelt, sensitive, talky, emotional cryfests have become scarce at the multiplex, we also have seen the rise of the He-Woman, the battling babe who can tote that gun and sling that punch and close that business deal.
ref: 2002 May 26, Dave Gathman, “Movie Review”, in The Beacon News, Aurora, Illinois:
text: Main songwriter and pianist Dan Messe makes each song a regret-soaked cryfest, […]
ref: 2002, Tom Mallon, Rabbit Songs review, CMJ New Music Monthly, July 2002, page 42
glosses: Something sad or moving, especially a film.
examples: text: Knowing that I had but seconds left before my kid exploded into a full-blown cryfest and knowing that I absolutely had to have an article of clothing that could camouflage baby barf, I raced to the register with my sapling tucked under my arm.
ref: 1997, Anne Voelckers Palumbo, The Stay-At-Home Mom's Survival Guide, White-Boucke Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Tears were a part of who he was. But this wasn't the usual cryfest. It was a deluge.
ref: 2010, Gregg Olsen, A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 234:
text: Her eyes were raw and crusted from her big cryfest the day before, which had lasted late into the evening.
ref: 2011, Jennifer Ziegler, Sass & Serendipity, Ember, →ISBN, pages 65–66:
glosses: An episode of intense crying.
Synonyms: sense: something sad or moving
word: sobfest
sense: something sad or moving
word: tearjerker
sense: intense crying episode
word: sobfest
cryfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryfest
expiration date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expiration dates
form: exp. date
Senses: examples: text: credit card expiration date
text: Well, in the mercy of God we are normally unaware of our personal expiration date.
ref: 2013, Harold F. Green, Prison Stories: Harold F. Green, →ISBN, page 119:
text: You have an expiration date, and despite your wanting to claim control over life circumstances, you're not entitled to know when your expiration date will be.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino, Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through, →ISBN:
text: If my expiration date is set, then it doesn't matter if I smoke or eat a gallon of ice cream a day; however, the quality of my life between now and that point will be improved considerably by eating well and taking good care of myself.
ref: 2016, Heidi Bright, Thriver Soup: A Feast for Living Consciously During the Cancer Journey, →ISBN:
text: It is modern medicine's best guess, a 50/50 shot, a coin flip of a lifespan. I would not want to know my expiration date or median survival.
ref: 2017, Cory Walborn, Out of Control: Victory in Surrender, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: best-by date
issue date
sell-by date
use-by date
hypernyms: date
synonyms: word: expiry
word: expiry date
alt: Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Canada
word: EXP
glosses: A date by which an object either should not be used or loses its value, depending upon the item.
Derived terms: sexpiration date
Related terms: expire
Doylist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Doylist
form: most Doylist
Etymology: From Doyle + -ist, with reference to Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Adjective formed by analogy to Doyle as the real author of the text, as opposed to Dr. John Watson as the fictional author within the text. Started in Sherlock Holmes fandom before spreading to other fandoms. Possibly originating in the "Baker Street Irregulars" fan club and entering the science fiction fandom usage (fanspeak) via the Lois McMaster Bujold mailing list.
Senses: examples: text: I would accept that many of them behave like humans born on earth would, but that must be an artefact of poor translation or our poor understanding of their motives and objectives [Watsonian] or lack of vision on the writers part [Doylist - to borrow some terms from the Bujold mailing list - think 'as written by' Dr Watson or by Arthur Conan Doyle].
ref: 2000 October 6, Martin Bonham, “Banks was Re: Multi-culturalism in space?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <970804830.406747@hermes>:
text: Roddenberry's official explaination^([sic]) was "They always looked like that. We just didn't have the budjet^([sic]) in the 1960's to show them properly."¶ This is one case where I prefer the Doylist explaination^([sic]).
ref: 2001 September 30, Rob Wynne, “Re: OK, Enterprise...”, in rec.music.filk (Usenet), message-ID <74Jt7.875$oL3.24397@eagle.america.net>:
text: While fans recognize and do engage in Doylist readings, they tend to find Watsonian readings more engaging. Fan fiction writers in particular engage with the text intradiegetically.
ref: 2012, Laurie Cubbison, “Russell T Davies, 'Nine Hysterical Women,' and the Death of Ianto Jones”, in New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: From a real-world perspective; of or relating to an explanation outside the text; external to the narrative.
Synonyms: extradiegetic
out-of-universe
Doylist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doylists
Etymology: From Doyle + -ist, with reference to Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Adjective formed by analogy to Doyle as the real author of the text, as opposed to Dr. John Watson as the fictional author within the text. Started in Sherlock Holmes fandom before spreading to other fandoms. Possibly originating in the "Baker Street Irregulars" fan club and entering the science fiction fandom usage (fanspeak) via the Lois McMaster Bujold mailing list.
Senses: examples: T. Raymond
One can imagine the devout Doylist wringing his hands over every fresh appearance of Sir Arthur in the character of an exponent of spiritualism.
glosses: An enthusiast of the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.
rage boner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rage boners
Senses: examples: text: His nasal whine and reflective tenderness killed every righteous rage boner I’d worked up during Chris Hannah’s more aggressive tunes, and if there’s anything a sixteen year-old vegan with really bad acne hates, it’s a deflating rage boner.
ref: 2012 March 29, Chris Stamm, “Upper Extremities #32: Emotional Rescue”, in Willamette Week:
text: Since these are bitter, polarized, flame-baiting times (in The Year of Our Perpetual Rage Boner), I’ll let you fill in the empty spaces about which entrenched ideology was to blame for the extended strike.
ref: 2012 December 7, Sean Conboy, “There Will Be Blood”, in Pittsburgh Magazine:
text: Learning that the Portsiders were badass gangsters was all very well and good, but nowhere did Garth see anything that could explain their sudden rage boner for one measly Offworlder.
ref: 2015, Lee Bond, Foreign Devil, unnumbered page:
glosses: An intense state of anger or hatred, especially toward someone or something.
Related terms: hateboner
Russianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russianists
Etymology: From Russian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies Russian language, culture or history.
Synonyms: Russicist
Russianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russianist
motor trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor trades
Senses: glosses: Those businesses involved in the buying and selling of motor vehicles, supply of spare parts, and the repair of vehicles.
genderpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gender + punk.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of genderfuck.
synonyms: word: genderfuck
non-return
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonreturn.
non-return
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonreturn.
paradise on earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradises on earth
form: paradise on Earth
Senses: glosses: An ideal or idyllic place.
paradises on earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradise on earth
paradise on Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradises on Earth
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paradise on earth.
paradises on Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradise on Earth
foreheat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreheats
form: foreheating
form: foreheated
form: foreheated
Etymology: From fore- + heat.
Senses: examples: text: The most recent development in this line is the combination of a foreheating apparatus employing oxygen and hydrogen, with a cutting jet of pure oxygen playing on the surface previously made red hot by this oxyhydrogen jet.
ref: 1908, American Machinist, Volume 31, Part 1 - Page 320:
text: The photograph shows the special connections on the first heater section, whereby the milk is foreheated for the clarifier.
ref: 1920, The Milk Dealer - Volume 10 - Page 45
glosses: Synonym of preheat (“heat in advance”).
synonyms: word: preheat
extra: heat in advance
Derived terms: foreheater
Muktsar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Sri Muktsar Sahib.
Khidrana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Sri Muktsar Sahib.
bushy-tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bushy-tailed
form: most bushy-tailed
Senses: glosses: Having a bushy tail.
glosses: Ellipsis of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
foreowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + owned.
Senses: examples: text: [...] and the New York corporation proceeded to manufacture paper cups and dispensers and carried on a general paper drinking cup business under the protection of the patents and applications for patents thereto foreowned and held by the Maine corporation and transferred to it in exchange for shares of its capital stock.
ref: 1945, United States. Board of Tax Appeals, B.T.A. Memorandum Decisions - Volume 1 - Page 31:
glosses: Owned beforehand; previously owned.
Synonyms: pre-owned
Bhatinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bathinda.
Raj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːd͡ʒ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /ɹɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒ
homophone: raj
homophone: Rog (US pronunciation)
Forms: form: Rajs
form: Rajes
Etymology: Proprialisation of raj (“(India) reign, rule”, noun), borrowed from Hindustani
राज / راج (rāj, “reign, rule; empire, kingdom; country, state; royalty”), from Sanskrit राज्य (rājyá, “empire, kingdom, realm; kingship, royalty, sovereignty; country”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right or straighten oneself; to govern, rule; just; right”). Doublet of Reich.
Senses: examples: text: during the Raj
synonyms: British India
glosses: Ellipsis of British Raj, the period of colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire between 1858 and 1947.
glosses: The whole period of British influence or rule in the Indian subcontinent from the 1600s to 1947.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
Raj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːd͡ʒ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /ɹɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒ
homophone: raj
homophone: Rog (US pronunciation)
Forms: form: Rajes
Etymology: Proprialisation of raj (“(India) reign, rule”, noun), borrowed from Hindustani
राज / راج (rāj, “reign, rule; empire, kingdom; country, state; royalty”), from Sanskrit राज्य (rājyá, “empire, kingdom, realm; kingship, royalty, sovereignty; country”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right or straighten oneself; to govern, rule; just; right”). Doublet of Reich.
Senses: examples: text: After Gandhiji's Ram Raj, which lived and went with him to the wilderness, it was Goonda Raj everywhere[...]There was nothing that the goonda did not manpiulate. He turned community development blocks into chips of self-aggrandisement. Panchyat Raj was the Pentagon of Goonda Raj.
ref: 1965, New Race, volume 1:
text: Concern that the license - permit quota raj was stifling growth focused on the drop in the rate of growth in industry after 1965...
ref: 1999, Ronald J. Herring, edited by Meredith Jung-En Woo, The Developmental State, →ISBN, page 310:
glosses: A system of government where authority is exercised by a specific group.
raw_tags: from the proper noun
Raj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːd͡ʒ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /ɹɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒ
homophone: raj
homophone: Rog (US pronunciation)
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: Abbreviation of Rajasthan.
Raj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːd͡ʒ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /ɹɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒ
homophone: raj
homophone: Rog (US pronunciation)
Forms: form: Rajs
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Rajiv.
hixploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hicksploitation
Etymology: From hick + -sploitation.
Senses: examples: text: The apotheosis of the hixploitation movement was Smokey and the Bandit (1977), the directorial debut of Tennessee-born veteran stuntman Hal Needham, who actually cast Mel Tillis, Foster Brooks, and Ruth Buzzi for unironic effect.
ref: 2006, David Kamp, Lawrence Levi, The Film Snob*s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 48:
text: While Black Snake Moan seems to unfold in a realm of synthetic fantasy—a hybrid of hip-hop's Dirty South, a bluesman's back roads, and the Dixie of '70s hixploitation flicks—it's actually set in a corner of Tennessee where a white girl named Rae (Ricci) holds the title of town slut.
ref: 2007 February, Troy Patterson, “Chick Flicked”, in Spin, page 92:
text: Historians of what Scott Von Doviak dubbed "Hick Flicks" in his 2005 book by that name, point out that a "Southern" genre of film never emerged to compete with the western as such for a national audience, though there was a rise of hixploitation films in the 1970s whose success hinged on and ultimately died with the demise of the drive-in regional theater (French, Von Doviak).
ref: 2011, Tara Powell, “'You Taste of America': Talladega Nights, Deliverance, and Southern Studies”, in Andrew B. Leiter, editor, Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 220:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A genre of exploitation film that relies on the stereotypical (and often negative) depiction of rural whites of the American South and Appalachia.
wikipedia: Farmer's Daughters
Hypernyms: whitesploitation
Rangpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali রংপুর (roṅpur).
Senses: glosses: A large city in northern Bangladesh, capital of the division of the same name.
Derived terms: Rangpuri
Bodoland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bodo + -land.
Senses: glosses: The homeland of the Bodo people in Assam, India.
glosses: The proposed Indian state to encompass it.
Igboland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iboland
Etymology: From Igbo + -land.
Senses: examples: text: Such an action had no parallel anywhere in Igboland.
ref: 1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 177:
glosses: The homeland of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria.
Related terms: Hausaland
Isokoland
Yorubaland
Iboland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Igboland.
Yorubaland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yorùbáland
Etymology: From Yoruba + -land.
Senses: examples: text: The bold little ships even broke through the Gates of Hercules to the open ocean, coasting then northward to take the gold of Ireland and the tin of Cornwall, as well as southward, around the bulge of Senegal, to remote Yorubaland and the distant marts of ivory, gold, and slaves.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 14:
glosses: The homeland of the Yoruba people in the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo in West Africa.
Related terms: Hausaland
Igboland
Isokoland
Esanland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Esan + -land.
Senses: glosses: The homeland of the Esan people in southwestern Nigeria.
Esan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Esan Ẹ̀sán.
Senses: glosses: A people of South South Nigeria, whose homeland in Edo state is known as Esanland.
glosses: Their language, from the Edoid group of Niger-Congo languages.
Esan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Isan (region in Thailand)
Teluguland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Telugu + -land.
Senses: glosses: The homeland of the Telugu people in the modern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India.
eastern buzzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern buzzards
Senses: glosses: A species of buzzard, Buteo japonicus, similar to the common buzzard, but with less variability in plumage and smaller dark carpal spots, and with usually dark-brown upperparts, pale nearly-white underparts, and darkish primaries.
guardian of the peace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guardians of the peace
Etymology: From the Irish name for the police force, Garda Síochána (literally “Guardians of the Peace”).
Senses: glosses: A police officer.
free country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free countries
Senses: examples: text: Now we should like to know whether, in a free country like this, and under a government instituted for no earthly object but to establish equality of rights and equality of protection — we should like to know, we say, whether a poor man has not a vested interest in a cheap coat, and whether his vested interest does not as much entitle him to the care and consideration of the government, as the vested interest of the manufacturer?
ref: 1840, Condy Raguet, The Principles of Free Trade:
text: Such pride is expressed today in the praises to “the land of the free” sung before every baseball game, or the sometimes prickly, sometimes resigned commonplace that one can do or say whatever one wants because, after all, “It's a free country."
ref: 2003, Kenneth Ira Kersch, Freedom of Speech: Rights and Liberties Under the Law, →ISBN, page 1:
text: You might think that in a free country a public building would allow citizens to take shelter from inclement weather, but not our post office.
ref: 2009, Richard Schmitt, An Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy, →ISBN:
text: To live in a free country is to tolerate a minimum level of risk. The framers thought that freedom was worth this cost.
ref: 2010, Paul Butler, Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: A country that protects the civil liberties of its citizens; a country whose government is not despotic.
examples: text: The collapse of the imperialist colonial system has complicated the problem of marketing for capitalists in two ways. Positively from the angle of international monopoly capital, the struggle of the newly free countries for economic independence and their first steps towards the creation of a modern diversified economy are increasing the demand for certain modern consumer goods, and for equipment and other production commodities from the industiralized capitalist countries.
ref: 1978, Clarence J. Munford, Production Relations, Class and Black Liberation, →ISBN:
text: In doing so it has evoked conflicting sentiments: Kalyanaswamy is either portrayed as a wicked freebooter, spreading destruction wherever he went or as a noble 'freedom fighter' who had visions of a free country, purged of its colonial oppressions.
ref: 1998, N. Shyam Bhat, South Kanara, 1799-1860: A Study in Colonial Administration and Regional Response, →ISBN:
text: The first was that it obliged the Colonies to receive free of duty goods coming from France, while it taxed colonial goods coming into France. Now, it is impossible to imagine a treaty of that kind being passed between two free countries, and if it was passed with the Colonies, it was because these Colonies were weak, and not in the position to defend themselves vis-a\-vis the Mother Country.
ref: 2013, Norman Angel, The Great Illusion, →ISBN:
glosses: A sovereign or independent country.
Derived terms: it's a free country
attediate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: attediates
form: attediating
form: attediated
form: attediated
Etymology: From (the stem of) Late Latin attaediāre.
Senses: examples: text: I often find him barren, sleightlie running-over those glorious deaths, as if he feared to attediate and molest us with their multitude and continuance.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.8:
glosses: To be tedious to; to exhaust.
outslip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outslips
form: outslipping
form: outslipped
form: outslipped
Etymology: From out- + slip.
Senses: glosses: To escape, to slip away from.
outslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outslips
Etymology: From out- + slip.
Senses: examples: text: I often hazard upon certaine outslips [translating boutades] of my minde for which I distrust my selfe; and certaine verball wilie-beguilies, whereat I shake mine eares; but I let them runne at hab or nab […].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.8:
glosses: Something that has slipped out; a mistake, a slip.
outslips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outslip
wily beguily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wily beguilies
Etymology: Rhyming alteration of wily + beguile.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is caught by their own trickery; a person that becomes trapped by their own craftiness.
examples: text: I often hazard upon certaine outslips of my minde for which I distrust my selfe; and certaine verball wilie-beguilies [translating finesses], whereat I shake mine eares; but I let them runne at hab or nab […].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.8:
glosses: A cunning trick, something wily, trickery.
wily beguilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wily beguily
hate-boner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hate-boners
form: hate boner
form: hateboner
Senses: examples: text: Nothing makes liberals sport a hate-boner more than the word oil.
ref: 2011 September 30, Kevin Moser, “Don't fear the pipeline, trust expert's opinion”, in Daily Nebraskan, volume 111, number 30, Lincoln: University of Nebraska, page 6:
text: Roxy is a pretty liberal gal, and so while rape porn is kinda tacky and gross, she doesn't have a raging feminist hate-boner for it.
ref: 2012 April 23, “Roxy Heart”, in Salient, volume 75, number 6, Victoria University of Wellington, page 23:
text: I voted for Obama in 2008, for much the same reason I would vote for a candidate that didn't sell his soul to a core group of slobbering maniacs with hate-boners for welfare.
ref: 2012 November 8, Josh Ruffin, “The Wasteland”, in Metro Spirit, volume 23, number 44, page 6:
glosses: An intense and enthralling feeling of hatred for someone or something.
Related terms: rage boner
hate-boners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hate-boner
hate boner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hate boners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hate-boner.
hate boners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hate boner
gapeseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gapeseeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gape seed.
overuniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overuniform
form: most overuniform
Etymology: From over- + uniform.
Senses: examples: text: It is some pleasure to command, were it but a mole-hill, and a delight to be obaied. But it is a pleasure over-uniforme and languishing.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.9:
text: Throughout the 1990s, the Japan Business Federation and Japanese Association of Business Executives advocated deregulation and decentralization to what they saw as an over-uniform and centralized education system.
ref: 2008, Keith A Nitta, The Politics of Structural Education Reform:
text: For all those weary of an overuniform world, that realization is surely cause for a measure of rejoicing.
ref: 2013, Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, page 143:
glosses: Too uniform; not sufficiently varied.
nitramidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An early form of nitrocellulose
dusky thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dusky thrushes
Senses: glosses: A species of thrush, Turdus eunomus, which breeds eastwards from central Siberia.
benjamina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benjaminas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of weeping fig.
synonyms: word: weeping fig
non-traditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + traditional.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nontraditional.
benjaminas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benjamina
lean-burn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the burning of fuel with an excess of air in an internal combustion engine.
lean burn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lean-burn.
low-class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more low-class
form: most low-class
Senses: glosses: Lacking social rank or respectability.
Morgaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Morgan le Fay.
pondok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pondoks
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)
Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-
Ancient Greek δοκ- (dok-)
Ancient Greek -εῖον (-eîon)
Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον (pandokeîon)bor.
Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq)bor.
Malay pondokbor.
English pondok
Borrowed from Malay pondok, borrowed from Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq), borrowed from Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον (pandokeîon), from πᾰν- (păn-, “all, every”) + δοκ- (dok-, o-grade of the stem of δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to receive”)) + -εῖον (-eîon).
Senses: glosses: A crudely-built hut in parts of Asia.
Japanese cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese cedars
Senses: glosses: A conifer of species Cryptomeria japonica, the only species of the genus Cryptomeria.
Synonyms: Japanese redwood
glown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Perhaps a survival of Middle English *glowen, *iglowen, from Old English glowen, ġeglōwen, past participle of Old English glōwan (“to glow”); equivalent to glow + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of glow
thermoballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + ballistic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Subject to both thermal and ballistic influences
sicaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sicarias
Etymology: From Spanish sicaria.
Senses: glosses: A female sicario; a hitwoman.
tamaleros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamalero
paisana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paisanas
Senses: glosses: A female paisano.
abegha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abeghas
Etymology: From Armenian աբեղա (abeġa).
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A celibate priest or monk of the Armenian Apostolic Church; a hieromonk.
paisanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paisana
Dutt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English, Punjabi, or German.
Sunnistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sunnistic
form: most Sunnistic
Senses: examples: text: There are three dominant lines of conflict: the linguistically-marked ethnicity of Kurdish-Turkish, the ascription of Alevistic-Sunnistic in reference to religious orientation and the ascription ...
ref: 2008, Jörn Thielmann, Islam and Muslims in Germany, Page 530
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Sunnism
veghar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veghars
Etymology: From Armenian վեղար (veġar). Doublet of velarium.
Senses: examples: text: All wear this, but only the celibate priests and higher clergy may cover it with a large black veil (veghar) which hangs down behind.
ref: 1913, Adrian Fortescue, The Lesser Eastern Churches, page 436:
glosses: The pointed conic cowl worn by the celibate clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church, including abeghas, bishops and the catholicos.
brown snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown snakes
Senses: glosses: Any of certain snakes that are brown in color of species:
Pseudonaja spp., Australian brown snakes
glosses: Any of certain snakes that are brown in color of species:
Storeria spp., North American brown snakes
glosses: Any of certain snakes that are brown in color of species:
Elapognathus minor, Australian short-nosed snake or little brown snake
glosses: Any of certain snakes that are brown in color of species:
Pseudechis australis, Australian mulga or king brown snake
North Downs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From north + downs. Downs, meaning "hills", coming from Middle English doun and, in turn, from Old English dūn (“hill, mountain”).
Senses: glosses: An area of chalk downland in Kent and Surrey, in south-east England.
Related terms: South Downs
narcotises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of narcotise
narcotising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of narcotise
Shibuya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈbuːjə/
rhymes: -uːjə
Forms: form: Shibuyas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 渋谷 (しぶや, Shibuya, literally “harsh valley”).
Senses: examples: text: The neighborhood we lived in wasn’t like the image most people have of Tokyo, all slick and modern like Shinjuku or Shibuya, with skyscrapers made of concrete and glass.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 139:
glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Shinjuku, Minato, Shinagawa, Meguro, Setagaya, Suginami, and Nakano special wards.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: Shibuya-kei
Shibuya toast
Barrack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barracks
Etymology: Scottish habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Barrack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Barack.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
crown groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown group
Takaishi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 高石.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese family name.
Sky Fairy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: the Sky Fairy
Etymology: From sky + fairy, in reference to the usual conception of the Abrahamic God as a supernatural being resident in Heaven.
Senses: examples: text: Because theists are forgiven by the Sky Fairy. So they can be as bad as they wanna be.
ref: 2007 October 25, ScottyFLL [username], “Re: Dr. Francis Collins on The Colbert Report”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: ... other than the fact that they have different names for the Sky Fairy?
ref: 2010 June 29, Major Debacle [username], “What's the difference between the Taliban and the Christian right?”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet):
text: Which is pretty much the tantamount to saying the Sky Fairy sent the tsunami to punish man's wickedness, i.e^([sic]) utter nonsense.
ref: 2011 March 11, Kevin N, “Re: OT: Monster Quake and Tsunami in Pacific”, in rec.music.classical.recordings (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of God, particularly the Abrahamic God.
synonyms: word: God
word: particularly the Abrahamic God
Synonyms: sky daddy
god
Derived terms: sky fairy
hammer fist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammer fists
form: hammer-fist
form: hammerfist
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A blow with a clenched fist, usually using the side of the hand or wrist
glosses: the form of fist used in such a blow.
sky fairy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky fairies
Etymology: A generalization of the earlier Sky Fairy, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: Then there's the Roman sky fairies, the ancient Greek sky fairies the multi-limbed female with an Elephant's head that the "world's biggest democracy" (India) believes in.
ref: 2008 March 20, Zarya, “Re: If You Have Morality and Reason on Your Side . . . .”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: This thread has degenerated now into a debate about whose sky fairy is the true sky fairy and therefore has reached the point of total absurdity.
ref: 2012 February 13, Ördög [username], “Re: The most unpopular government ever...”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: You don't prove the negative. The burden of proof is on those who posit the existence of their cosmic sky fairy.
ref: 2013 December 1, Gawdlezz [username], “Re: What!? You Mean Birds Did Come from Dinosaurs, After All?”, in alt.politics.usa (Usenet):
synonyms: word: sky daddy
word: god
word: godship
word: deity
word: divinity
word: manitou
word: sky daddy
word: sky fairy
word: supreme being
glosses: A god.
sky fairies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky fairy
kyphos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The convex prominence of kyphosis.
kyphotone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪfətəʊn/
Forms: form: kyphotones
Senses: glosses: A special brace used in the case of tuberculosis of the spine.
drop the hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops the hand
form: dropping the hand
form: dropped the hand
form: dropped the hand
Senses: glosses: To engage in sexual petting.
open call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open calls
Senses: glosses: An open and/or public audition, especially for actors and actresses.
Related terms: open-call
credit ratings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit rating
credit reports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit report
fund house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fund houses
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A company that owns and operates a mutual fund.
fund houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fund house
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Flying Spaghetti Monster + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: When the Kansas Board of Education took up the question of teaching intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinian evolution, Henderson wrote an open letter (posted at www.venganza.org) demanding equal classroom time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism as well.
ref: 2005 October 2, Jeff Jacoby, “The timeless truth of creation”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2012:
text: Meanwhile, Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (FSM-ism to its "adherents") has thrived — particularly on college campuses and in Europe.
ref: 2007 November 16, Justin Pope, “Pasta theology: Scholars mull Spaghetti Monster”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2015:
text: Despite the inherent ridiculousness of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, he said Mr. Canuel’s case is a legitimate religious freedom issue.
ref: 2014 October 8, Tristin Hopper, “B.C. ‘pastafarian’ fights for a driver’s license, and religious freedom, with a spaghetti colander on his head”, in National Post:
glosses: A parody religion centered around the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a creator deity who resembles spaghetti and meatballs.
Synonyms: Pastafarianism
French measles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rubella.
false measles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: German measles.
red measles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: To distinguish from the milder German measles, which has paler spots
Senses: glosses: Measles, rubeola.
vooley
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Spelling representing a US pronunciation of the French word voulez.
Senses: examples: text: She implied that a fully modern girl like herself didn't need to be told what happened after a man asked, "Vooley voo?" She thought a man's man could be forgiven what he did while he was far from home and close to death.
ref: 1991, James White, Clara's Call, Unknown Soldier, page 18:
text: "Non, course not," the farrier grumbled. "We're hout in the medders makin' daisy-chains an' henjoyin' the glorious sunshine. Ker vooley voo? Coin' to start one o' yer popular fatigues?"
ref: 1935, Crosbie Garstin, The Sunshine Settlers, page 226:
text: "Vooley voo le vooley voo," said he fiercely, at the same time looking at me suspiciously.
ref: 1923, Woman's Home Companion, volume 50, numbers 7-12, page 8:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling indicating a non-French-speaker pronouncing the French word voulez.
Related terms: voolay
three-day measles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3-day measles
Senses: glosses: German measles, rubella.
3-day measles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-day measles
Senses: glosses: German measles, rubella.
epidemic roseola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: German measles, rubella.
hard measles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: To distinguish from the milder German measles
Senses: glosses: Measles, rubeola.
7-day measles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: To distinguish from the milder German measles, also known as 3-day measles.
Senses: glosses: Measles, rubeola, 10-day measles.
10-day measles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: To distinguish from the milder German measles, also known as 3-day measles.
Senses: glosses: Measles; rubeola; 7-day measles.
spill the tea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspɪl ðə ˈtiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: spills the tea
form: spilling the tea
form: spilled the tea
form: spilled the tea
form: spilt the tea
form: spilt the tea
Etymology: Originally from spill the T, standing for truth, which evolved into tea. Possibly as a blend with spill the beans.
Senses: examples: text: They are up in your business because you invited them in by spilling the tea on what you and your man earn.
ref: 2012 October, Demetria L. Lucas, “Should I Worry That He Earns Less Money?”, in CARE, number 18, page 18:
text: […] she makes good on her promise to out her celebrity husband in the media by going on the top nationally syndicated radio talk show of Neicy Ross, an even more tacky version of Wendy Williams, and spills the tea on her man in delicious detail, […]
ref: 2013, Stanley Bennett Clay, "A Fun Quick Read", DBQ Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1, January/February 2013, page 9
text: Four different entrepreneurs and talents spill the tea on success, failure and lessons learned.
ref: 2013, "The Ones To Watch", Brink Magazine, Issue 26, February/March 2013, page 17
synonyms: let the cat out of the bag
spill the beans
spill one's guts
glosses: To disclose information, especially of a sensitive nature.
Related terms: english: information, especially sensitive and/or juicy gossip
translation: information, especially sensitive and/or juicy gossip
word: tea