cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Naalakkersuisut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Greenlandic Naalakkersuisut.
Senses: examples: text: In 2014, the Greenlandic government — called the Naalakkersuisut — established a reconciliation commission to investigate the continuing consequences of colonialism. After three years, the commission concluded that a majority of the nearly 60,000 people living in Greenland, 88 percent of whom are Greenlandic Inuit, are still marked by the negative effects of the colonial period.
ref: 2019 August 22, Matthew H. Birkhold, “A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The government of Greenland.
fire controlman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire controlmen
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the Navy who carries out repairs and maintenance on weapons, computers, and other equipment.
Synonyms: FC
fire controlmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire controlman
trivalued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + valued.
Senses: glosses: Having three possible values.
furanosyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furanosyl
MS-13
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism of Mara Salvatrucha. The 13 stands for the letter M for Mexican Mafia.
Senses: examples: text: While MS-13 is not the only transnational gang this administration will target, we believe the following background information attributed as “information provided by the Justice Department” will be helpful: […]
ref: 2017 April 18, “DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FACT SHEET ON MS-13”, in United States Department of Justice, page 1:
text: The executive order specifically named Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran MS-13 gang, citing their “campaigns of violence and terror in the United States and internationally” as threats to “the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.”
ref: 2025 January 31, Stefano Pozzebon, “Rubio and Bukele to discuss sending suspected gang members from US to El Salvador”, in CNN:
qualifier: organized crime
glosses: Mara Salvatrucha, a criminal gang operating in some Salvadoran communities in Central and North America.
wikipedia: Mexican Mafia
Derived terms: MS-13er
kittenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kittening
particulate matters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particulate matter
cup cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup cheese
offshorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offshoring
shewes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shewe
hijabsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hijabster
calsomine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calsomines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calcimine.
calsomine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calsomines
form: calsomining
form: calsomined
form: calsomined
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calcimine.
calsomines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calsomine
calsomines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calsomine
calsomining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calsomine
calsomined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calsomine
archeparchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeparchies
Etymology: From arch- + eparchy.
Senses: qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The archdiocese of an archbishop in Eastern Christendom
Related terms: archeparch
archeparchate
archeparchial
bonistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian бонистики (bonistiki).
Senses: examples: text: Export of numismatics, philately, bonistics and faleristics
ref: 2006, Basic Instruments and Selected Documents, volume 6, World Trade Organization, →OCLC, page 301:
text: A number of particular theories were formed, which were dedicated to different types of nonliterary (and sometimes nonwritten) documents: diplomatics, numismatics, sphragistics, emblematics, heraldry, paleography, and bonistics.
ref: 2009 April, A.V. Sokolov, “The epistemology of documents (A methodological essay)”, in Automatic documentation and mathematical linguistics, volume 43, number 2:
text: They include: 1. The Certificate and attached documents: 1.1 a list of cultural properties being exported; 1.2 a photograph with size 13x18 cm (except for numismatic items, bonistics, philately and faleristics which do not require the photos) accomplished according to the requirements, specified in paragraphs 2.1, 3.4, 3.5 ...
ref: 2016, Ramil Imanov, “Methods and Issues of Cultural Property Smuggling Combat on the Railway Transport”, in Customs Scientific Journal, volume 6, number 1:
text: This money, since the 1920s, is well-known by experts in bonistics.
ref: 2017, Petin Dmitriy, “Emission of Money Surrogates By Soviet Authorites in Kiakhta in Summer 1918”, in Tomsk State University Journal of History, number 47:
synonyms: notaphily
glosses: The study and collecting of paper money and banknotes
archeparchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archeparchy
nasnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasnas
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic نَسْنَاس (nasnās).
Senses: topics: Islam
arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
religion
sciences
glosses: A monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being (with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg).
Related terms: jinn
jann
ghoul
shaitan
angel
fachan
Burlington Bertie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Rhyming slang, in reference to the music-hall song Burlington Bertie.
Senses: glosses: gambling odds of 10/3, or one hundred to thirty
wikipedia: Burlington Bertie
nonpenitential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + penitential.
Senses: glosses: Not penitential.
nonpenitent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + penitent.
Senses: glosses: Not penitent.
changemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From change + making.
Senses: glosses: Implementing changes.
changemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From change + making.
Senses: glosses: The implementation of changes.
examples: text: The changemaking problem has had influence on the results of supermart experimentation. However, new bill changers should alleviate the changemaking aspect of the supermart problem.
ref: 1959, Directory of Automatic Merchandising, page 37:
text: On the Hong Kong system, three types of changemaking machines are likely to be installed in each station, for varying value coins.
ref: 1977, International Railway Journal, volume 17, page 38:
glosses: The act of making change (exchanging one denomination of money for another)
Related terms: changemaker
no thanks to
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: It's no thanks to you that I did not miss the train.
glosses: with no gratitude due to (somebody or something that has been a hindrance); despite
Puno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Quechua Punu or Aymara Punu.
Senses: glosses: A province, department, and administrative region in southeastern Peru. Capital: Puno.
glosses: A city in Peru, in the southeast of the country on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
Arequipa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and district in Arequipa province, Peru, in the south of the country.
glosses: A province in Arequipa department, Peru.
glosses: A department and region in southern Peru.
palang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palangs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ampallang (“type of genital piercing”).
synonyms: word: ampallang
extra: type of genital piercing
Iquitos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Peru, in the northeast of the country
interdream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + dream.
Senses: glosses: Between dreams.
Cuckston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
life, prosperity, health
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Calque of Egyptian ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb, anx-DA-s
Senses: examples: text: It is a communication to the Master,—Life, Prosperity, Health!—about causing to be sent to me 10 re-geese for (?) the servant there.
ref: 1898, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Francis Llewellyn Griffith, Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob (principally of the Middle Kingdom), page 67:
text: The matters that occurred following what was written in the book of decrees from Year 44 of the Pharaoh — life, prosperity, health — Amasis — life, prosperity, health —, until Cambyses was in command of Egypt; he died ...(?) before regaining his country.
ref: 2013, A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period, page 125:
text: Then did His Majesty say to him, ‘I have traversed all the rooms of the palace (life, prosperity, health) in search of recreation, but I have found none.’
ref: 2014, Alan B. Lloyd, Ancient Egypt: State and Society, page 85:
text: However, it happened that, as for King Seqnen-Re—life, prosperity, health!—he was Ruler—life, prosperity, health!—of the Southern City. Distress was in the town of the Asiatics, for Prince Apophis—life, prosperity, health—was in Avaris, and the entire land was subject to him with their dues, the north as well, with all the good prduce of the Delta.
ref: 2016, James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement, page 231:
glosses: an honorific phrase used after the names of kings, queens, princes, etc., after the words of a king, ruler, or prince, after references to the royal household, and, more rarely, after the names of ordinary people.
raw_tags: in translations of Ancient Egyptian documents
adjutants general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjutant general
adjutants-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjutant-general
whole milks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whole milk
sovereign citizen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovereign citizens
Senses: examples: text: An officer from a large metropolitan area said that “militias, neo-Nazis and sovereign citizens” are the biggest threat we face in regard to extremism.
ref: 2015 June 16, Charles Kurzman, David Schanzer, “The Growing Right-Wing Terror Threat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: That subgroup, known as Rise of the Moors, engaged in a standoff with the police for more than nine hours, claiming that as sovereign citizens, law enforcement had no authority to stop them. No one was injured; 11 people were arrested and charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition, among other offenses.
ref: 2021 September 26, Sarah Maslin Nir, “She Bought Her Dream Home. Then a ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Changed the Locks.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: There are “homeschoolers (Christian and otherwise), sovereign citizens, weed lovers, and Hillary haters”; domestic abusers, science-deniers, conspiracy theorists, and, above all, addicts.
ref: 2022 December 8, Judith Shulevitz, “Little House on the Prairie—With Meth”, in The Atlantic:
related: word: Sovereign Citizen
synonyms: sovereign
SovCit
glosses: A member of a loose movement of Americans, Canadians and Australians who consider themselves answerable only to their own particular interpretation of the common law, and not subject to any government statutes or proceedings.
examples: text: The supreme authority remains with the sovereign citizens, and the uncurbed authority of the various branches of government, local, national and federal, extends only to the specific and limited functions which have been conferred upon each by the free consent of hte citizens for their better government.
ref: 1924, Oscar Newfang, The Road to World Peace, page 332:
text: In response, the prosecutor made the simple but valuable point that a government of representative democracy cannot function in an atmosphere of deceit – when one branch is lying to another and lying to the sovereign citizens as well.
ref: 1989 June 24, William Greider, “What Oliver North's Trial Means to US”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2017:
text: These spectacles aren't calls for a Hobbesian war of all against all by some insurgent movement that, however dangerous, would have First Amendment protection. They're driven primarily by institutions that we as sovereign citizens created to serve our purposes.
ref: 2013 January 25, Jim Sleeper, Daniel J. H. Greenwood, “To Stop Gun Violence, We Need to Remember We Can Regulate Corporate Speech and Advertising”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The body politic of a nation.
Related terms: freeman on the land
sovereign citizens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sovereign citizen
l.p.h.
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: L.P.H.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of life, prosperity, health.
L.P.H.
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: l.p.h.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of life, prosperity, health.
every rose has a thorn
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: He pricked a finger. Every rose has a thorn. Isabella is a rose. Her father is a thorn.
ref: 2007 -, Mary Louise McCaffrey, A Handful of Sand, →ISBN:
text: I then See it a rose with a thorn on it the last One there and I grab it and tell the guy I will take it with a card saying to my True love let this rose be a gift to you Even though every rose has a thorn But my heart will always be yours.
ref: 2010, Cordan Stough, A World of Fantasy and Disaster, →ISBN, page 103:
text: However, every rose has a thorn.
ref: 2012, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star: A Novel, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Perhaps, like every rose has a thorn, every latent-variable SEM model begins with a contirmatory Factor analysis (CFA) model.
ref: 2013, Todd D. Little, Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Alternative form of every rose has its thorn.
spit in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spits in the wind
form: spitting in the wind
form: spat in the wind
form: spat in the wind
form: spit in the wind
form: spit in the wind
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piss in the wind.
spit into the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piss in the wind.
beat one's swords into plowshares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats one's swords into plowshares
form: beating one's swords into plowshares
form: beat one's swords into plowshares
form: beaten one's swords into plowshares
form: beat one's swords into plowshares
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beat one's swords into ploughshares.
synestia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈnɛstɪə/
Forms: form: synestias
Etymology: From syn- (“together”) + Hestia.
Senses: examples: text: For any rotating planetary body, there is a thermal limit beyond which the rotational velocity at the equator intersects the Keplerian orbital velocity. Beyond this corotation limit (CoRoL), a hot planetary body forms a structure, which we name a synestia, with a corotating inner region connected to a disk-like outer region.
ref: 2017 May 23, SJ Lock, ST Stewart, “The structure of terrestrial bodies: Impact heating, corotation limits, and synestias”, in Journal of Geophysical Research:
text: For a brief time during its infancy, Earth was a hot, doughnut-shaped blob called a synestia. […] A synestia has an exterior region marked by clouds of molten rock and dust, all at a scorching 2000°C or hotter.
ref: 2017 June 3, Shannon Hall, “Early Earth was a molten doughnut”, in New Scientist, volume 234, number 3128, page 10:
text: The investigation also examined the geochemical consequences of lunar formation resulting from the high-energy collision of proto-planets that created a huge, vaporized, doughnut-shaped object called a synestia.
ref: 2019 April 24, G. Jeffrey Taylor, “Volatile Elements Test Models for the Origin of the Moon”, in Planetary Science Research Discoveries:
topics: astrophysics
glosses: A donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock formed from the collision of two planet-sized objects.
synestias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synestia
Bajorek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bajoreks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Bajorek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
spanks the monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spank the monkey
spanked the monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spank the monkey
fight one's corner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights one's corner
form: fighting one's corner
form: fought one's corner
form: fought one's corner
form: fight for one's corner
Senses: examples: text: The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Trinity College, who had fought his corner well for the landlords, must know the heavy disabilities under which the tenants referred to suffered through no fault of their own.
ref: 1896, The Parliamentary Debates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. XLIII, p. 866 (Google preview)
text: Mr Kornhauser could now have the British Government helping to fight his corner. Malcolm Rifkind, the Foreign Secretary, is to put pressure on the Swiss government.
ref: 1996 September 10, Charlie Bain, Louise Jury, “Swiss asked: 'Where is that stolen gold?'”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 11 Aug 2017:
text: Mr. Berezovsky left Russia for a relatively opulent self-exile. . . . [H]e estimated his fortune at some $3 billion and he has enlisted high-powered public relations and law firms to fight his corner.
ref: 2003 March 25, Alan Cowell, “Russian Billionaire Is Arrested in London”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Aug 2017:
text: Dermot Ahern established himself as a reforming and combative minister during his two years holding the Justice portfolio. . . . [H]e relished fighting his corner with successive opposition spokesmen.
ref: 2010 December 1, Tom Brady, “Combative reformer who relished fighting his corner”, in Independent.ie, Ireland, retrieved 11 Aug 2017:
text: The gull stabbed and weaved. The big crab held up its fighting claws and circled. Suddenly all the birds in the tide water flew up at once in a clatter of wings. The crab fought his corner.
ref: 2013, Ian McDonald, chapter 62, in Chaga, →ISBN:
text: The federation, set up in 1919 after police were banned from taking industrial action when strikes led to riots and looting, is a statutory body that provides legal support to its officers, as well as fighting their corner like a union would over pay, conditions and welfare.
ref: 2025 April 5, John Simpson, “Police Federation under fire for backing ‘unsackable’ rogue cops”, in The Observer:
glosses: To vigorously promote or defend one's interests, views, etc.
anti-particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-particles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiparticle.
patrol leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patrol leaders
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: A youth Scout who leads a patrol, having been elected by fellow Scouts in their troop.
Derived terms: senior patrol leader
patrol leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrol leader
senior patrol leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senior patrol leaders
form: SPL
Etymology: The senior patrol leader is the leader of all patrols in his troop, which is the reasoning behind this title.
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: A youth Scout, elected by fellow Scouts, who holds the highest amount of authority in their troop in terms of youth members.
Related terms: Scoutmaster
senior patrol leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senior patrol leader
DRP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: Initialism of Declaration of Religious Principle(s).
DRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DRPs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of disaster recovery plan.
Maspero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Masperos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Maspero.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Cubmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cubmasters
Etymology: From Cub + master.
Senses: qualifier: scouting
glosses: A Scoutmaster who leads a group of Cub Scouts.
Cubmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cubmaster
Norries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norrie
trichloramines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichloramine
monochloramines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monochloramine
Darwin's Bulldog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Darwin's bulldog
Etymology: From a comparison the English biologist Huxley made between himself and the bulldog, since they are both ferocious fighters (the bulldog fights with spirit to win fights, and Huxley fought with spirit in defense of evolution). Also, a pun on actual animals named after Darwin (Darwin's finch, Darwin's frog, etc.).
Senses: examples: text: He said afterwards, “you know I have to take care of him, in fact I have always been Darwin's bulldog,” and this exactly expressed one of the many relations which existed so long between the two men. Huxley was not always fortunate in the intellectual calibre of the men to whom he lectured in the Royal School of Mines.
ref: 1896, Henry F. Osborn, “Memorial tribute to Professor Thomas H. Huxley”, in Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, volume XV, New York, pages 46–47:
glosses: Nickname for Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist and comparative anatomist
relativistic masses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relativistic mass
perpetuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perpetual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being perpetual.
Related terms: perpetuity
metapackage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapackages
Etymology: From meta- + package.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software package that contains no software itself, but serves to install a particular set of other packages.
metapackages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metapackage
unicorn barf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The vanilla came from a body spray, something cheap and bright that made Emma think of unicorn barf.
ref: 2015, Jenni Wiltz, The Red Road, page 29:
text: I mean, I know that love isn't just pixie dust and unicorn barf, but I'd like to think that there's something a little magical about love.
ref: 2016, Jason Rossiter, March: A Good Man, unnumbered page:
text: You might be wondering who would take the time and spend the money to put a bunch of unicorn barf inside a PC. It's not like RGB lights will actually make your PC faster. (Or will they?)
ref: 2019 November 20, Dallin Grimm, “I blew my budget on strobing lights and I'm proud of it”, in PC Gamer:
glosses: Synonym of unicorn vomit.
synonyms: word: unicorn vomit
heteromale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteromales
Etymology: From hetero- + male.
Senses: glosses: A man who is heterosexual.
heterofemale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterofemales
Etymology: From hetero- + female.
Senses: glosses: A woman who is heterosexual.
outlayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outlaying
dramatis persona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dramatis personae
Senses: glosses: singular of dramatis personae (when there is only a single character in a play)
semiautomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiautomaton
breadcrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breadcrusts
Etymology: From bread + crust.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The crust of bread.
Derived terms: breadcrust bomb
breadcrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breadcrust
Trekless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Without Star Trek.
interpretors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpretor
rocketpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rocket + -punk.
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of speculative fiction based on space exploration.
combat trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From their original use in the military.
Senses: glosses: cargo pants
Kharia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.ɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹiə
Forms: form: Kharias
form: Kharia
Senses: glosses: A member of a large indigenous ethnic group of India, mainly inhabiting Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal, Maharashtra.
Kharia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.ɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹiə
Senses: glosses: Their Munda language.
Kharias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kharia
normalcy biases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of normalcy bias
lacustric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacustric
form: most lacustric
Senses: glosses: lacustrine
Derived terms: sublacustric
dorsalgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorsalgia
Lipowiec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Lipowiec.
Senses: glosses: Several settlements in Poland.
Related terms: Lipa
Lípa
Lipá
Lipová
Lipova
Lipovac
Lipovača
Lipovci
Lipovec
Lipovets
Lipovica
Lipovice
Lipovicë
Lipovo
Lipowice
Lippa
Lypovets
Nunbergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nunbergian
form: most Nunbergian
Etymology: From Nunberg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Geoffrey Nunberg (born 1945), American linguist known for his work on lexical semantics.
bladderball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bladder + ball.
Senses: glosses: A variant of the sport of pushball, traditionally played by students of Yale University.
fake geek girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fake geek girl
fake geek girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fake geek girls
Senses: examples: text: But as one might guess from the discussion of social identity theory above, many of those women are relegated to out-groups and often regarded as “fake geek girls” for their interest in traditionally male corners of the entertainment world.
ref: 2015, Jamie Madigan, Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People Who Play Them:
text: Similarly, tech writer Tara Tiger Brown pleaded for “fake geek girls” to just go away. She described them as invaders of geek spaces who attempt to “get attention,” “to maximize their klout,” or to simply serve as “exhibitionists.”
ref: 2016, Nickie D. Phillips, Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media, page 99:
text: The constant questioning Superhero Girl gets from those claiming she's not a “real” superhero (questioning her superhero brother, Kevin, never gets) could also be seen as a metaphor for the ongoing “fake geek girl” elitist controversy […]
ref: 2016, Alex Langley, Katrina Hill, A Geek's Guide to 100 of the Most Kick-Ass Graphic Novels Ever:
glosses: A girl or woman who feigns interest in geeky topics in order to get attention.
Hypernyms: fake fan
Cyran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cyrans
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Cyran.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
demnition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Alteration of damnation; appears to have been popularized by the speech of the character Mr. Mantalini in Charles Dickens’ novel Nicholas Nickleby (1839).
Senses: examples: text: 1841, Edward FitzGerald, letter to W. F. Pollock dated 10 February, 1841, in The Variorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward FitzGerald, Volume 7, p. 22,
Luckily for you, my farming is a good deal hindered by these demnition snows and frosts […]
text: It is hard to tell whether the American stage is going to the demnition bow-wows for lack of honest and intelligent criticism or whether there is no such thing as criticism because there is nothing on the American stage worth criticising.
ref: 1891 May 21, James Stetson Metcalfe, “Theatre-Goers’ Enemies”, in Life, volume 17, number 438, page 325:
text: “Look here, dash it all,” said the General, “are we to understand that we are a couple of demnition ghosts?”
ref: 1907, Robert Blatchford, chapter 3, in The Sorcery Shop, London: Clarion, page 31:
text: Since June 4th, when we had to whang off the whole of our priceless 600 rounds of H.E., we have had none for 18-prs. on the Peninsula—not one solitary demnition round; nor do we seem in the least likely to get one solitary demnition round.
ref: 1920, Ian Hamilton, chapter 13, in Gallipoli Diary, volume 2, London: Edward Arnold, page 9:
glosses: Damned.
demnition
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Alteration of damnation; appears to have been popularized by the speech of the character Mr. Mantalini in Charles Dickens’ novel Nicholas Nickleby (1839).
Senses: examples: text: ‘The wine is demnition good!’ replied Selden; ‘but our friend Charley seems to be in the dumps—it don’t wake him up.’
ref: 1849, Ned Buntline, New York: A Story of Real Life, Dublin: James M’Glashan, Part 5, Chapter 4, p. 287:
text: 1918, Clarence Herbert New, The Unseen Hand: Stories of Diplomatic Adventure, New York: Caldwell, Chapter 1, p. 12,
They read a bloomin’ magazine story clear through from start to finish—written by a man who’s not even English, I’m told—an’ then are so demnition thick they don’t even know it’s pure fiction!
glosses: Damned, very.
demnition
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Alteration of damnation; appears to have been popularized by the speech of the character Mr. Mantalini in Charles Dickens’ novel Nicholas Nickleby (1839).
Senses: examples: text: “[…] It is enough to make one swear. Demnition! if my mother heard of it, what would she say!”
ref: 1852, Dennis Hannigan, chapter 11, in The Swamp Steed, New York: Dewitt & Davenport, page 82:
glosses: Damn (used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.).
docimasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docimasy
dwimmery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwɪ.mə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdwɪ.mɚ.ɹi/
Etymology: From DWIM + -ery, influenced by dwimmer.
Senses: examples: text: This dwimmery causes the model to show that polar melting rates have absolutely no connection to world climate in general, and to rising ocean levels in particular.
ref: 2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices:
text: I think that, as with various other parts of Perl 6, we can try to sweep all the dwimmery into one spot so that it can be easily recognized and/or avoided.
ref: 2005 May 6, Larry Wall, “stdio”, in perl.perl6.language (Usenet):
text: The big challenge of Perl 6 is to achieve a high degree of dwimmery
ref: 2007 November 11, Michele Dondi, “Why can't you slice an array @a[3..-1]?”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program's ability to sense the user's intentions rather than work according to a well-defined specification.
Related terms: DWIM
gunmetal grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunmetal greys
form: gunmetal gray
Senses: glosses: A dark grey colour with a tint of blue; gunmetal.
Synonyms: gunmetal
Derived terms: word: gunmetal-grey
gunmetal greys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunmetal grey.
gunmetal-gray
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gunmetal-grey.
Related terms: word: gunmetal gray
gopnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊpnɪk/
Forms: form: gopniks
form: gopniki
form: gopota
form: gopari
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian го́пник (gópnik).
Senses: coordinate_terms: gopnitsa
glosses: In Russia, Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics, and other Slavic countries, a member of a subculture of young people of lower-class low-income backgrounds, mostly millennials, who usually live in the Russian suburbs.
Synonyms: gop
gopota
gopar
chav
thug
zef
hoodlum
bogan
Ah Beng
gopota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian гопота (gopota).
Senses: glosses: plural of gopnik
gopar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian гопарь (goparʹ).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gopnik.
synonyms: word: gopnik
gopniki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gopnik
gopari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gopnik
gopnitsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡopnɪ(t)sɑ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian го́пница (gópnica).
Senses: glosses: Female gopnik.
C'ville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker was having a long and frustrating day. […] So the mayor consoled herself by writing a poem — one that soon had parts of C'ville recoiling.
ref: 2021 April 5, Laura Vozzella, “Charlottesville mayor says graphic poem illustrates Black experience in city”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
whitegraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, it was also possible to induce accelerated rejection and the whitegraft phenomenon in skin grafts by previous injection of buffy coat from the same donor.
ref: 1957, Experimental Hematology - Issues 1-7, page 20:
text: Four other group AB grafts were accorded whitegraft rejection.
ref: 1968 October, FT Rapaport, J Dausset, L Legrand, A Barge, HS Lawrence, JM Converse, “Erythrocytes in human transplantation: effects of pretreatment with ABO group-specific antigens”, in Journal of Clinical Investigation, volume 47, number 10:
glosses: Alternative form of white graft.
Onitsha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Igbo Ọ̀nị̀chà.
Senses: examples: text: He tells them […] that they must leave before noon so that they’ll arrive in Onitsha by tomorrow morning.
ref: 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 288:
glosses: A city in Anambra State, Nigeria, located on the eastern bank of the Niger river.
wenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wenny
form: most wenny
Etymology: From wen + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Should not the Savoyards be called a nation of 'wenny throats, as those enormous wens are their charaćteristic ?
ref: 1774, Letters from Italy, in the Years 1754 and 1755:
glosses: Covered with wens.
examples: text: I have seen two cases of this wenny, or fatty disease, which had seized the breasts of women.
ref: 1789, John Obadiah Justamond, William Houlston, Surgical Tracts, page 141:
text: When enlargements of the wenny kind take place on the legs and heels of animals, as is often the case in the horse, in the more simple kinds of them, the cure may be sometimes effected by the use of applications such as hot vinegar and alum;
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia:
synonyms: wennish
glosses: Characteristic of a wen.
Kwara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hausa Kwārà.
Senses: examples: text: This is an annotated wordlist of the Ayere language, spoken in Ayere village in Kwara State, Nigeria. The wordlist was written by Mr. E.O. Olumorin for the West African Languages Survey in November 1961.
ref: 2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, page 1:
glosses: A state of Nigeria in the North Central geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Ilorin.
water-porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At seven they all came in to breakfast, which consisted of one large dish of water-porridge, made of oat-meal, water and a little salt, boiled thick, and poured into a dish.
ref: 1842, James Wheeler, Manchester:
text: Six-, seven- and eight-year-olds, working a sixteen-hour day on a breakfast of water-porridge.
ref: 2016, John Buxton Hilton, The Quiet Stranger, →ISBN:
text: He looked back upon his workhouse life with a sickening yearning, and when he remembered the regular and abundant meals of the House, his gorge rose at the ever-recurring surfeit of water-porridge to breakfast, water-porridge to dinner, water-porridge to supper, and water-porridge between meals.
ref: 2017, Daniel Frederick, Edward Sykes, Tom Pinder, Foundling, →ISBN:
glosses: Porridge made by cooking rolled oats in water.
water is wet
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: We constantly “see” heterosexuality in Trek; to say that heterosexuality is explicit in Trek is to say that water is wet.
ref: 2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, →ISBN:
text: "You're a monster," Gil said, but his words were toothless, without the fire behind them that he'd previously stoked. Coburn shrugged. “And water is wet, old man.”
ref: 2011, Chuck Wendig, Double Dead, →ISBN:
text: For example, the computer desktop is meant to suggest a physical desktop, and files that contain folders are meant to remind users of plain old filing systems. This may seem like we're telling you that water is wet, but the pre-GUI days involved a lot of command line typing.
ref: 2015, Katie Morris & Gad Chick, A Beginners Guide to Windows Surface, →ISBN:
glosses: A statement of the obvious.
Related terms: Captain Obvious
does a bear shit in the woods
fork found in kitchen
is the Pope Catholic
more at eleven
film at 11
no shit, Sherlock
people sit on chairs
Piecuch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Piecuches
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Piecuch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Persophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Persophobic
form: most Persophobic
Etymology: From Perso- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Iranophobic
Persophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊb
Forms: form: Persophobes
Etymology: From Perso- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: Iranophobe
wet lab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet labs
form: wet-lab
Senses: examples: text: After it was over, his small trust fund was $12,500 smaller. But he now has a mobile wet lab he can take wherever someone had a big enough backyard and a good idea.
ref: 2011, Marcus Wohlsen, Biopunk: Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages, →ISBN:
text: In the USA, access to a wet lab is a prerequisite for training programmes in ophthalmology; in the UK this requirement is less explicit.
ref: 2013, Bruno Zuberbuhler, Stephen Tuft, David Gartry, Corneal Surgery: Essential Techniques, →ISBN, page 135:
text: In the beginning, the analysis of the sectors was done by looking at the images of the colony at different time points and deciding if the sector-like patterns are similar to the ones in the wet lab.
ref: 2013, Ashutosh Gupta, Thomas A. Henzinger, Computational Methods in Systems Biology, →ISBN:
glosses: A laboratory that is equipped with plumbing, ventilation, and equipment for performing physical experiments.
wet lab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wet labs
form: wet labbing
form: wet labbed
form: wet labbed
form: wet-lab
Senses: glosses: To perform experiments that require a wet lab.
Related terms: dry lab
Katsina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hausa Katsina.
Senses: glosses: A state of Nigeria in the North West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Katsina City.
glosses: The largest city and state capital of Katsina State, Nigeria.
glosses: An emirate in West Africa centred on the city of Katsina; now mostly ceremonial.
Verdun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /və(ɹ)ˈdʌn/
ipa: /və(ɹ)ˈdɜ̃/
rhymes: -ʌn
Etymology: From French Verdun, from Latin Virodunum, from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wiros (“man”) + *dūnom (“fortress”), thus literally, “manly/powerful fortress”.
Senses: glosses: A small city in Meuse department, Grand Est, France, the site of a ten-month long battle in World War I.
glosses: A borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
molestering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of molester
anal fissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anal fissures
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A break or tear in the skin of the anal canal, resulting in bleeding and occasionally pain on defecation.
woodway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodways
Etymology: From wood + way.
Senses: examples: text: So they went through the summer night-tide by many a woodway dim, Till they came to a certain wood-lawn, and Sigmund lingered there,
ref: 1877, William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs:
text: The line had not moved a bowshot when De Aquila's great horn blew for a halt, and soon young Fulke—our false Fulke's son—yes, the imp that lit the straw in Pevensey Castle—came thundering up a woodway.
ref: 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:
text: Tiphaine was silent when he had ended, watching the winding woodways of the forest.
ref: 1908, Warwick Deeping, Bertrand of Brittany, page 240:
glosses: A road or path through the forest.
examples: text: I surmise that pond originally meant a deep water. So pontus (the old Roman for bridge) may be a shortcut expression for a woodway over a pond.
ref: 2005, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta - Volume 1, Issue 2, page 192:
glosses: A path for pedestrians paved in wood; boardwalk.
woodways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodway
work the refs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works the refs
form: working the refs
form: worked the refs
form: worked the refs
Senses: examples: text: You should also work the refs during pregame warmups, telling them how hard your players work on blocking out in practice and hope that the refs give your players a fair chance.
ref: 1996, William E. Warren, L. Chapman, Basketball Coach's Survival Guide, →ISBN, page 233:
text: He worked the refs better than anyone I've ever seen. He was a great bench coach, too. He had a great feel for playing the right people at the right time.
ref: 1998, Rod Hundley, Tom McEachin, Hot Rod Hundley: "You Gotta Love It, Baby", →ISBN, page 241:
text: I don't remember much about the game, who won or lost, but what I do remember was Jack, his intensity and the fierce, passionate way he worked the refs.
ref: 2004, Jack Ramsay, Dr. Jack's Leadership Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Basketball, →ISBN:
text: All coaches work the refs because they understand human nature better than anyone.
ref: 2015, Harlan Coben, The Stranger, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To attempt to persuade the referee or other officials to view the players on one's team with a sympathetic bias.
examples: text: Slater said that Bush would charm reporters in an attempt to "work the refs" much like a basketball coach will try to cajole and hassle referees in order to influence calls.
ref: 2006, James E. Mueller, Towel Snapping the Press, →ISBN:
text: Today this pressure is better funded and more coordinated on the Right, making their efforts to work the refs, to script our political spectacles, more powerful.
ref: 2010, Julie Drew, William Lyons, Lance Svehla, Sound-Bite Saboteurs, →ISBN:
text: In a sense, for conservatives the “changed his mind” story is a continuation of their efforts to work the refs, this time treating the American people as the referees in a contest over respect for the Supreme Court.
ref: 2013, Mark Tushnet, In the Balance: Law and Politics on the Roberts Court, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Both candidates worked the refs ahead of the game.
ref: 2016 September 26, David Goldstein, Anita Kumar, “Trump is still Trump in first debate and Clinton doesn’t take the bait”, in Miami Herald:
text: ThinkProgress’ Judd Legum suggests Comey was overcorrecting in response to a monthslong assault by the GOP on the FBI’s authority. “Republicans worked the refs at the FBI,” Legum tweeted, “and it worked.”
ref: 2016 October 31, Isaac Chotiner, “Donald Trump Is on the Ballot Next Week. Why Are We Talking About Emails?”, in Slate Magazine:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To manipulate the press to view one's candidate favorably and to report negative stories on one's opponent.
worldbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From world + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: Since every concrete individual or thing is worldbound, I could not have had properties other than those I in fact have
ref: 2005, David H. Lund, The Conscious Self: The Immaterial Center of Subjective States:
text: What we should do here is not to set up a contrast between worldbound individuals and world lines, but to recognize that world lines are an indispensable means of speaking and thinking of the usual perfectly ordinary-looking entities, the ordinary denizens of the actual world.
ref: 2012, Jaakko Hintikka, Merrill B.P. Hintikka, The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic, →ISBN:
text: Lewis accepts that both these objects exist: his mereological universalism (belief in arbitrary sums) guarantees the existence of the transworld object, given the existence of the various worldbound objects.
ref: 2015, Barry Loewer, Jonathan Schaffer, A Companion to David Lewis, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: Existing in exactly one world.
works the refs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work the refs
working the refs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work the refs
worked the refs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of work the refs
archeparch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeparchs
Etymology: From arch- + eparch.
Senses: qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The archbishop of an archeparchy.
Derived terms: archeparchial
archeparchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archeparch
anal fissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anal fissure
mosquito wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Where the Pass widened to the Valley above the Sheriff’s homestead, they came on a huge miner’s tent boarded half way up as for winter residence, with eight tow-headed half-clad urchins thumb in mouth staring out from the open mosquito wire door.
ref: 1910, Agnes Christina Laut, chapter 21, in The Freebooters of the Wilderness, New York: Moffat, Yard & Co, page 311:
text: One pane of stained glass had been let in: a Madonna gazed out through the mosquito wire at the turkeys in the yard.
ref: 1940, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in The Power and the Glory, Vintage, published 2001:
glosses: Wire mesh used to keep out mosquitoes.
beta-lipoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta-lipoproteins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of low-density lipoprotein.
synonyms: word: low-density lipoprotein
betalipoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betalipoproteins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beta-lipoprotein.
BRC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Vadodara Junction railway station in India.
glosses: Initialism of British Retail Consortium.
glosses: Initialism of British Rabbit Council.
qualifier: scouting
glosses: Initialism of Blue Ridge Council.
BRC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BRCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of biometric residence card.