cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ollapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ollapods
Etymology: From the name of a character in George Colman the Younger's comedy of The Poor Gentleman.
Senses: examples: text: My only fear is, that we have already sunk beneath the Ollapods of former times; and the bleeding pole and the fillet, which once graced the door of the barber-surgeon, were really respectable in comparison with the advertisements and handbills which are put forth by members of royal colleges in these days.
ref: 1836, The Lancet London, page 618:
glosses: A country apothecary.
wikipedia: George Colman the Younger
Ollapods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ollapod
old gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] their horses loaded with 150 to 200 lbs. of “old gown” (smuggled tea) […]
ref: 1879, John Owens, Plain Papers Relating to the Excise Branch of the Inland Revenue Department, From 1621 to 1878, page 444:
text: […] at this time there was a very general leaning towards cheap brandy or tobacco; "old gown," as smuggled tea was called, was in general request, […]
ref: 1883, S. William Beck, Gloves, Their Annals and Associations, page 165:
glosses: smuggled tea
OPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OP
Brine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Bruin.
* As an English surname, possibly from Old English bryne (“burning”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
jossop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jossup
Senses: examples: text: 'Mister? Here's some jossop for you, from the sawbones.' She uncorked the little flask and obliged the stranger to swallow a mouthful.
ref: 2010, Joan Aiken, Is:
qualifier: school slang
glosses: Sauce, gravy, or syrup.
Judas-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a popular belief that Judas Iscariot was red-haired.
Senses: examples: text: One of the crowd was a ruddy-faced, red-bearded, Judas-haired fellow, that looked every inch a Fenian, and might have stepped here from the Kilkenny wilds; […]
ref: 1888, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain, page 475:
glosses: Having red hair.
orange goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Products that are consumed and replaced moderately quickly, more frequently than yellow goods but less than red goods; e.g. clothing.
Freebury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
juwaub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juwaubs
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?] (“an answer”).
Senses: examples: text: These offices are often to be filled up, their untiring perseverance occasioning the secession of a member, who, after having sustained repeated juwaubs, is accepted at last, […]
ref: 1836, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia, page 97:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A formal refusal.
juwaub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: juwaubs
form: juwaubing
form: juwaubed
form: juwaubed
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?] (“an answer”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To refuse or rebuff.
juwaubed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of juwaub
juwaubing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of juwaub
juwaubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juwaub
juwaubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of juwaub
pannam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pannum.
doorsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorsmen
Etymology: From door + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person employed as a barker to solicit customers for a photographer.
doorsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorsman
bastilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bastiled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bastille
bastilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bastiling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bastille
bebees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bebee
block ornament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɒk ˌɔː(ɹ)nəmənt/
enpr: blŏk ôrnəmənt
Forms: form: block ornaments
form: block-ornament
form: block-ornimint
Senses: examples: text: I ought to add, that the “single fellows,” instead of living on “block ornaments” and the like, live, when doing well, on the best fare, at the “spiciest” cook-shops on their rounds, or in the neighbourhood of their residence.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
text: It is certain that in the Chinese meat stores you see a number of scraps of meat of the "block ornament" order, the dubious hue of which–usually a dingy greyish purple, with streaks of drab fat–[…]
ref: 1885, George Augustus Sala, America Revisited, Vizetelly & Company, page 501:
text: [T]ogether with such scraps as may also be purchased, at a penny or twopence the plateful, at the beef and ham emporium, with maybe a "block ornament" or two from the butcher's, in a pie dish, with a superstructure of potatoes, and have the "scrap pie" cooked at the baker's for the Sunday dinner. Poor wretches!
ref: 1897, Edward Spencer Mott, Cakes and Ale, page 78:
text: [H]ow often, after a search through the old purse they clutch so tightly, they turn away the coveted "block-ornimint" being beyond their means.
ref: 1909 January 7, Westminster Gazette, page 2:
glosses: A small fragment of cheap meat offered for sale by a butcher, particularly one of poor quality.
examples: text: a presents the elevation, b the section to the block ornament to A, and c shows a vertical section of the block ornament to B[…]
ref: 1833, Asher Benjamin, Practice of Architecture, →ISBN, page 92:
text: The wall plate is finely moulded, and the wooden columns supporting the principals have a curious diamond block ornament.
ref: 1852, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, page 171:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see block, ornament.
Derived terms: blocker
block ornaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block ornament
hardo bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard dough bread.
old army game
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the old army game
Senses: glosses: The shell game, or thimblerig.
thingumy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingumies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thingummy.
thingumies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thingumy
metallician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallicians
Etymology: In allusion to the metallic books and pencils they used.
Senses: glosses: A racing bookmaker.
metallicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallician
metallicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metallicize
Mofussilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mofussilites
Etymology: From mofussil + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the mofussil regions.
Mofussilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mofussilite
mopusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mopus
Mullingar heifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mullingar heifers
Senses: glosses: A girl with thick ankles.
Mullingar heifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mullingar heifer
nullifyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nullifying
mumoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mumoir
nanny shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanny shops
Senses: examples: text: I didn't think he'd be spending any money on a girl that night—he had the rail-carriage-glazed look of a tourist and the wide eyes of a man who's never been in a nanny shop before and just wants to take it all in.
ref: 2015, Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory, page 163:
glosses: A brothel.
nanny shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanny shop
Steeple Claydon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP6926).
Related terms: Botolph Claydon
East Claydon
Middle Claydon
meadow map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadow maps
Senses: glosses: An earlier form of navigation mesh used in robotics.
meadow maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadow map
cop the needle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cops the needle
form: copping the needle
form: copped the needle
form: copped the needle
Senses: examples: text: It must have been the way I said it because he copped the needle and sneered, 'I haven't got to talk to you about fuck-all. Whatever I do is none of your Goddamn business.'
ref: 1999, Roy Shaw with Kate Kray, “Nick-Knack-Paddy-Whack”, in Pretty Boy, London: Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: To grow annoyed.
Newgate collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newgate collars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Newgate fringe.
synonyms: word: Newgate fringe
Newgate collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newgate collar
nilly-willy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌnɪliˈwɪli/
Forms: form: more nilly-willy
form: most nilly-willy
Senses: examples: text: Yet it has to be done and, nilly-willy, it is the business of the rabbi to take the foremost part.
ref: 1910, Jewish Charities, volumes 1-4, page 4:
glosses: Synonym of willy-nilly.
synonyms: word: willy-nilly
nilly-willy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌnɪliˈwɪli/
Forms: form: more nilly-willy
form: most nilly-willy
Senses: glosses: Synonym of willy-nilly.
synonyms: word: willy-nilly
neat as ninepence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Neat, tidy, in order.
Related terms: nice as ninepence
right as ninepence
nose-ender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose-enders
Etymology: From nose + end + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sayers won first blood by cutting Crouch's right eye, and the battle by knocking his man out with a nose-ender in 12 minutes 28 seconds, 6 rounds being fought.
ref: 1879, Ed James, The Lives and Battles of the Champions of England, page 39:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A straight blow delivered full on the nasal promontory.
nose-enders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nose-ender
draught on Aldgate pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draughts on Aldgate pump
Senses: glosses: Synonym of draught on the pump at Aldgate.
synonyms: word: draught on the pump at Aldgate
draughts on Aldgate pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draught on Aldgate pump
sounds about white
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A wordplay on "sounds about right".
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:sounds about white.
glosses: Expressing that something (which was done or said by a white person) is the kind of thing the speaker would expect a white person or white people to do.
draggletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draggletails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of draggle-tail.
draggletails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draggletail
Penrose drain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Penrose drains
Etymology: Named after American gynecologist Charles Bingham Penrose (1862–1925).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A flexible rubber tube used to prevent the buildup of fluid during surgery.
Penrose drains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Penrose drain
drive one's pigs to market
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drives one's pigs to market
form: driving one's pigs to market
form: drove one's pigs to market
form: driven one's pigs to market
Senses: examples: text: […] when he suddenly declared his intention of retiring to bed, which he immediately did, and in about ten minutes after he might have been heard "driving his pigs to market"—if the reader will allow the phrase.
ref: 1868, Mary Chester, Memoirs of Madam Chester of Manchester, by herself, page 12:
text: I got him up to where we were camped, and he went to sleep right away, and snored enough for a dozen. He was so busy driving his pigs to market that I could not get to sleep; […]
ref: 1881, Alexander Bathgate, Waitaruna: A Story of New Zealand Life, page 278:
glosses: To snore very loudly.
dry as dust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very dull or boring.
del. trem.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of delirium tremens.
Dutch consolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dutch comfort.
synonyms: word: Dutch comfort
Hopcroft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Hopcroft's algorithm
earwiggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earwigging
Brazilian aardvark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəˌzɪ.ljən ˈɑːd.vɑːk/
ipa: /bɹəˌzɪ.ljən ˈɑɹd.vɑɹk/
Forms: form: Brazilian aardvarks
Etymology: The name was picked up following its insertion into Wikipedia in July 2008 by Dylan Breves as a joke. The hoax was uncovered in 2014, but some use of the name has continued.
Senses: examples: text: Specializing mostly in birds, pheasants and ducks, they also have a few donkeys, snakes, porcupines and a group of animals: Brazilian aardvarks, Mexican tejon, hog-nosed coons, pistoes and snookum bears, which are cousins of the racoon.
ref: 2010 April 20, Randy Burns, “Scape Ore Farms' menagerie becoming an attraction”, in The Item, volume 115, number 157, page A4:
text: If they receive government approval, the species they'll be working with would include the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus); jaguar (Panthera onca); black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus); bush dog (Speothos venaticus); Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua); collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla); gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira); and bison (Bison bison).
ref: 2012 November 14, John R. Platt, “Brazil Plans to Clone Its Endangered Species”, in Scientific American, quoted in print in Phillips, published 2020, →ISBN:
text: […] A Brazilian aardvark, pictured enoying a snack in Tulum, Mexico.
ref: 2020, Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t, Harlequin, →ISBN:
qualifier: ghost word
glosses: The coati (Nasua spp.).
Brazilian aardvarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brazilian aardvark
shake one's elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes one's elbow
form: shaking one's elbow
form: shook one's elbow
form: shaken one's elbow
Senses: examples: text: When a little after as I passed by (the publick Kitchen just before mentioned) I saw him shaking his Elbow over a Gaming Table.
ref: 1739, George Whitefield, The Life ... of ... G. W., page 93:
text: Come with me this very moment, I will take you to a house where you will see him shaking his elbow in good earnest.
ref: 1837, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 41, page 520:
glosses: To gamble with dice.
crook one's elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crooks one's elbow
form: crooking one's elbow
form: crooked one's elbow
form: crooked one's elbow
Senses: examples: text: His first drink went over in a gulp and Jol had the second ready for him when he set down the empty glass. Just as Nord was crooking his elbow on the second drink, a small, rat-faced man sidled up to him at the bar.
ref: 1950, Wonders of the Spaceways, numbers 1-6, page 30:
text: Once a top-hand cowboy was leaning over the mahogany of a watering hole between cattle drives, merrily crooking his elbow and painting his nose and watching his trail pay melt away, drink by drink.
ref: 2011, Richard Bird Baker, Corral Dust from Across the Big Divide:
glosses: To consume alcoholic drink.
Essex lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Essex lions
Senses: glosses: A calf (young cow or bull).
Essex lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Essex lion
sock monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sock monkeys
Senses: glosses: A soft toy made from socks fashioned in the likeness of a monkey.
Related terms: sock puppet
sock monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sock monkey
faggot brief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faggot briefs
Senses: glosses: A bundle of worthless papers tied up with red tape, carried by unemployed barristers in the back rows of the courts to simulate briefs.
faggot briefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faggot brief
fanqui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanquis
Etymology: Anglo-Chinese; literally "foreign devil".
Senses: glosses: A European.
fanquis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanqui
Old Milverton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Old Milverton and Blackdown Joint Parish Council) in Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3067).
punishmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From punishment + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The “cat” is now a recognised term for the punishmental whip.
ref: 1874, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal, page 111:
text: This confused picture, coupled with the opinion of most people that most drivers (including themselves) violate laws fairly frequently, suggests a pattern of belief that it is not the punishmental aspects of the TLS that create safety.
ref: 1975, The traffic law system: readings from research; draft two, page 233:
glosses: punitive
pukeholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pukehole
Raskelf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE4971).
turnip cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnip cake
turnpike sailor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnpike sailors
Senses: synonyms: whipjack
glosses: A beggar who pretends to be a sailor.
turnpike sailors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnpike sailor
twelver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twelvers
Etymology: From twelve + -er.
Senses: glosses: A shilling.
twelvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twelver
twitchety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twitchety
form: most twitchety
Senses: glosses: nervous; fidgety
sluicery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluiceries
Etymology: From sluice + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: When men go into a 'sluicery' for a 'sensation,' a 'drain,' or a 'common sewer,' they call the glass of gin they seek, in allusion to the juniper, a 'nipper,' or, more briefly, a 'nip,' occasionally a 'bite,' and not unfrequently it turns out a 'flogger.'
ref: 1869, Meliora, volume 12, page 47:
glosses: A gin shop or public house.
sluiceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sluicery
splendaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splendaceous
form: most splendaceous
form: splendacious
Senses: glosses: wonderful; splendid
splendacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splendacious
form: most splendacious
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of splendaceous.
stab yourself and pass the dagger
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: This is what is done by strong drink; in fact, some drinkers, when they have wished the bottle passed, have cried, “Stab yourself, and pass the dagger!”
ref: 1889, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Salt-cellars, page 275:
text: “Here,” he said, passing it to her, “stab yourself and pass the dagger.” Monica had had only one glass of champagne at the party, and Revelstoke, who never drank much, had taken little more.
ref: 1958, Robertson Davies, A Mixture of Frailties, page 217:
text: 'Stab yourself and pass the dagger!'
In response to this dramatic cant, Smith poured himself a drink and passed the bottle.
ref: 1976, Forbes Bramble, The Strange Case of Deacon Brodie, page 96:
glosses: Help yourself to the alcoholic drink and then pass the bottle.
Hatherley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A suburb of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9221).
Derived terms: Down Hatherley
Up Hatherley
Benhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9121).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Benhall and Sternfield Parish Council) in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM3861).
CMGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CMG
Wallander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wallanders
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Wallander.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Van der Valk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Van der Valks
form: van der Valk
form: van Der Valk
form: Van Der Valk
form: Vandervalk
form: VanDerValk
form: VanderValk
form: Vander Valk
form: Valk
Etymology: From Dutch Van der Valk.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Mankell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mankells
Etymology: From Swedish Mankell.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Freeling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Freelings
Etymology: From Dutch Freeling.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
glosses: A town in South Australia, Australia.
flint paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sandpaper
Westoxification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: westoxification
form: Westoxication
Etymology: Blend of West + toxification; ultimately calque of Iranian Persian غربزدگی (ġarb-zadegi), coined by Iranian philosopher Ahmad Fardid and popularised by Jalal Al-e-Ahmad.
Senses: synonyms: Westitis
occidentosis
Gharbzadegi
glosses: The adoption of Western lifestyle (e.g. consumerism, materialism) and technology without the adoption of Western values such as equality of opportunity.
wikipedia: Ahmad Fardid
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
selenofuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenofurans
Etymology: From seleno- + furan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any analog of a furan in which the oxygen atom is replaced by one of selenium
semi-alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-alphabets
Etymology: From semi- + alphabet.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of semisyllabary.
synonyms: word: semisyllabary
semicone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicones
Etymology: From semi- + cone.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: half of a cone
semiopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semio- + -poiesis.
Senses: glosses: The generation of semiotics
Related terms: semiopoietic
semisum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisums
Etymology: From semi- + sum.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: half the result of an addition
TME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TMEs
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Initialism of total mesorectal excision.
TME
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: examples: text: This chapter is based on sixteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews with US-based transgender sex workers on the trans masculine spectrum; specifically, the sample includes seven nonbinary individuals and nine trans men who are TME (trans misogyny exempt).
ref: 2023, Elliot Chudyk, The Gendered Relations of Queer(ed) Femininities: Failures, Tensions, Subversions, and Queer Potentialities, PhD dissertation, order no. 30318654 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global:
text: Additionally, trans women and other trans feminine individuals face far elevated levels of mental and physical trauma and violence compared to their transmisogyny-exempt (TME) peers, directly related to their gender and gender expression through pervasive transmisogyny
ref: 2024, Teresa Van Winkle, Navigating the World: Understanding Gender Expression Through the Experiences of Transgender and Nonbinary People, Master's thesis, order no. 31336206 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global:
text: Perhaps most famous among contemporary accounts of such condemnation is Porpentine Charity Heartscape’s (2015) pivotal text on transfeminine disposability, “Hot Allostatic Load,” which describes conditions of abjection faced by victims of unsubstantiated callouts, abuse, and ultimate abandonment. In it Heartscape traces a pattern of incorporation, exploitation, and abandonment that characterizes transfeminine involvement in self-identified “queer spaces” dominated by transmisogyny-exempt (TME) people.
ref: 2025 May 24, [sarah] Cavar, “Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN:
text: Coordinate term: TMA
glosses: Initialism of transmisogyny-exempt: not transfeminine.
TME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German TME (“technische Masseneinheit”, literally “technical mass unit”).
Senses: examples: text: The hyl is also called "metric slug" or designated by the German acronym TME (Technische Mass Einheit).
ref: 2000 October 9, Gérard P. Michon, “What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement system?”, in Numericana.com:
glosses: hyl
beerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beerful
form: most beerful
Etymology: From beer + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: David has decided to walk home tonight, rather than ride with Skippy as planned: he wants to walk off the huge supper that still sits heavy in him and the postgame beers that have bloated him. He releases a prodigious, beerful belch that earns him a pat on the back from Simon and evokes a “Simon, for God's sake!” from Nancy in the kitchen window.
ref: 2007, Peter Scott, Barter Island, Camden, ME: Down East Books, →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: Full of beer; having drunk a lot of beer.
whiskeyful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whiskeyful
form: most whiskeyful
Etymology: From whiskey + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: “Scots Wha Hae” is a poor song to sing in the circumstances, and as For “My Ain Kind Dearie O,” she probably fumes at home and is not in the least kind in her welcoming of her whiskeyful lord.
ref: 1908, T. W. H. Crosland, The Unspeakable Scot, London: Stanley Paul & Co., page 165:
text: A sexless night in your city would have kept you from having to turn down real drinks to begin with, right? Oh well. You might as well celebrate your current state with what many say is a dead-ringer for the whiskeyful original.
ref: 2007, Jackie Rose, Caroline Angel, The Newly Non-Drinking Girl's Guide to Pregnancy: Advice and Support for Surviving 40 Weeks without a Cosmopolitan, Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Full of whiskey; made with wiskey; having drunk a lot of whiskey.
Beyrout
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of Beirut.
Hamawi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Hama.
Hamawi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamawis
Senses: glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Hama.
herdful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herdful
form: most herdful
Etymology: From herd + -ful (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] Spoiled of Orgallia's green domain, of wide Tir-Owen's woods, / Of high Tir-Conal's herdful hills and fishy-teeming floods; / Of all the warm vales, rich in goods of glebe-manuring men, / That bask against the morning sun along the Royal Glen.
ref: 1872, Samuel Ferguson, Congal: A Poem, in Five Books, Dublin: Edward Ponsonby, page 17:
glosses: Rich in herds (of cattle etc.).
herdful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From herd + -ful (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In addition to decreasing your odds of being the unlucky item on the big cat's menu, being in a herd also means that you can find out about impending danger much sooner than you would if you were alone. After all, a herdful of eyes is better than one measly pair.
ref: 2005, Audrey Pavia, Janice Posnikoff, “Understanding Horses from Head to Hoof”, in Horses For Dummies, 2nd edition, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: The amount that constitutes a herd.
sesquidecennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sesqui- + decennial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a fifteen year period
sphingophosphatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphingophosphatides
Etymology: From sphingo- + phosphatide.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sphingophospholipid.
synonyms: word: sphingophospholipid
teamful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teamfuls
Etymology: From team + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: “We have no outstanding man.” ¶ When Mitchell was competing the Americans had a teamful. Besides Boitano, who won the gold medal in Calgary, the 1988 squad included Paul Wylie, who won silver in 1992, and Christopher Bowman, who collected two world medals.
ref: 2014 January 5, John Powers, “US figure skaters aren’t expected to be forces in Sochi: Americans are slipping”, in The Boston Globe:
glosses: The amount that constitutes a team.
teamfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teamful
flockful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flockfuls
Etymology: From flock + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A flockful of late-season tourists, animated and colorful, buzzing and warm, laden and anticipatory, was waiting to board the steamer or had just come out of it.
ref: 1971, Everett S. Allen, This Quiet Place: A Cape Cod Chronicle, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 250:
glosses: The amount that constitutes a flock (of birds, people etc.).
silicochloroform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The silicon analog of chloroform SiHCl₃
caveful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavefuls
Etymology: From cave + -ful.
Senses: glosses: The amount that fits in a cave.
pergolaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pergola + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a pergola.
epizootic hemorrhagic disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epizootic haemorrhagic disease
Senses: examples: text: Bluetongue symptoms in white-tailed deer are identical to epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD).
ref: 1981, Bluetongue: A Threat to U.S. Exports, U.S. Department of Agriculture, unnumbered page:
text: Other species, including pronghorns and mule deer, sometimes are infected, but epizootic hemorrhagic disease is most evident in white-tailed deer.
ref: 2003, Eric G. Bolen, William Laughlin Robinson, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Prentice Hall, page 138:
glosses: A disease, often fatal, of wild ruminants, most notably white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), caused by Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus transmitted by certain midges, especially the species Culicoides variipennis.
Synonyms: sense: disease of wild ruminants
word: EHD
sense: disease of wild ruminants
word: epizootic hemorrhagic disease of deer
Derived terms: epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus
EHDV
Related terms: bluetongue
grinworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grinworthy
form: most grinworthy
Etymology: From grin + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: But The Hamilton Mixtape—an exuberant, taste-scrambling medley that swings between grinworthy and cringeworthy—also underlines how much of Hamilton’s novelty came from Miranda himself being influenced by pop culture.
ref: 2016 December 1, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Hamilton Mixtape, a Love Letter to a Love Story”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Worthy of being grinned at.
New Earswick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village and civil parish in City of York district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6055).
hand-sitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-sitters
Senses: examples: text: A key factor in Nelson Rockefeller's noncandidacy decision was the failure of the Republican governors—and leading liberal Republicans—to come out for him publicly after New Hampshire. There were personal telephone calls urging him to run, but that was all … Among the biggest hand-sitters was a former Republican governor […]
ref: 1968, Newsweek, volume 71, numbers 10–18, page 13:
synonyms: word: bum
word: couch potato
word: dawdler
word: deadbeat
word: dogfucker
word: do-naught
word: do-nothing
word: dosser
word: idler
word: idleton
word: faineant
word: flaneur
word: footler
word: get-nothing
word: goldbricker
word: goof-off
word: lallygag
word: lollygagger
word: laggard
word: layabout
word: lazy ass
word: lazybones
word: lazy louse
word: lidderon
word: lie-abed
word: loafer
word: loiter-sack
word: lounge lizard
word: lounger
word: morepork
word: poop
word: ragabash
word: shirker
word: slacker
word: slow belly
word: slugabed
word: slug-a-bed
word: slugabug
word: sluggabed
word: sluggard
word: sofa spud
word: tarrier
word: truant
glosses: A person who sits on their hands; one who dawdles or remains idle when action is needed.
examples: text: They were such a responsive audience, for one thing, so unlike the academic hand-sitters he was used to, and they'd turned out in such large numbers, despite a heavy downpour, filling the basement of the First Presbyterian Church to capacity, even standing in the back and along the walls.
ref: 1989, Indiana Review, volume 13, page 98:
glosses: An unenthusiastic or unresponsive member of an audience.
hand-sitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-sitter
North Luffenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK9303).
Related terms: South Luffenham
quartermasterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quartermasterly
form: most quartermasterly
Etymology: From quartermaster + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like or suiting a quartermaster.
South Luffenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK9401).
Related terms: North Luffenham
ondes Martenot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ondes Martenot
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ondes martenot.
Generation XL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Generation X + XL (“extra large”).
Senses: glosses: A notional generation or sociological group of people, especially children, who are overweight or obese.
Goring-by-Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in Worthing borough, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ1102).
transfem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transfem
form: most transfem
Etymology: Clipping of transfeminine.
Senses: examples: text: Self-described transfem performer and activist The Lady B, a cast member of the show “Dear White People,” says gender-fluid identity poses daily challenges. [image caption]
ref: 2017 January 26, Tyrone Beason, “Black Like Me: It’s time for a deeper conversation about race in America”, in Pacific NW Magazine:
text: “People are always surprised when I tell them, but as transfem nonbinary folks, what we face is drastic,” Mx. Tobia said, explaining how on a visit to New York not long ago they listened in horror on a subway car as two strangers loudly discussed whether to set them aflame. “They were, like: ‘What is that? We should be burning that.’”
ref: 2018 September 18, Guy Trebay, “For Capitalism, Every Social Leap Forward Is a Marketing Opportunity”, in The New York Times:
coordinate_terms: transmasc
glosses: Transfeminine.
transfem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfems
Etymology: Clipping of transfeminine.
Senses: examples: text: The #1 leading cause of death for transfems is lack of cuddles.
ref: 2023 April 8, RobinsEggViolet, “Comment on 'I just want to fall asleep in someone's arms ;_;'”, in r/MtF, Reddit, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2023:
coordinate_terms: transmasc
glosses: A trans woman or other transfeminine person.
McAleese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McAleeses
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Íosa and Irish Mac Giolla Íosa (“son of the servant of Jesus”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shieldmuir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7755).
stereokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + -kinesis.
Senses: glosses: A change in the movement of an organism or cell following contact stimulus
Llanbradach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Llanbradach and Pwllypant community, Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1490).
creaming off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cream off
go-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of go bag.
Sarum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From medieval abbreviations of Middle English Sarisberie, Sarisburie (the spelling attested in the Domesday Book) as Sar̅ or Saꝝ. Because such marks were usually used to abbreviate the Latin ending -rum, by the 13th century some writers mistakenly assumed the full name was Sarum (by the 14th century, Robert Wyvil described himself as episcopus Sarum). For more, see Salisbury.
Senses: examples: text: Although she was fairly comfortable, her movements were restricted, and her family was not allowed to visit her. Sometimes she was moved to another castle, at the city of Sarum, 25 miles (40 km) west of Winchester.
ref: 2004, David Hilliam, Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Richest Queen in Medieval Europe:
qualifier: Old or New
glosses: Salisbury, England.
examples: text: According to Hereford, the Priest went to the Epistle side and washed the Chalice with wine, saying the prayer as in Sarum; then his fingers with wine and water, saying, Let this Communion.
ref: 1868, Albert Harford Pearson, The Sarum Missal, in English [by A.H. Pearson], page xlix:
glosses: The Latin liturgical rite developed at Salisbury Cathedral from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation.
Derived terms: New Sarum
Old Sarum
Streethay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England; it was in Fradley and Streethay parish until 1 April 2023 (OS grid ref SK1410).
Fradley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England; it was in Fradley and Streethay parish until 1 April 2023 (OS grid ref SK1613).
appellativization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appellativizations
form: appellativisation
Etymology: From appellative + -ization.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: proprialization
deappellativization
glosses: The process of a proper name becoming a common noun.
Linaker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lineker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Linekers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Raynsford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
transmedicalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmedicalist
Wealdstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːldstən/
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Harrow, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1590).
debud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debuds
form: debudding
form: debudded
form: debudded
Etymology: From de- + bud.
Senses: glosses: To remove the bud or buds from.
astretch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + stretch.
Senses: examples: text: A thing half dead, with weary arms astretch / For anything to cling to
ref: 1854, John Stanyan Bigg, Night and the Soul, London: Groombridge, Scene 5, p. 69:
text: My second mate was standing […] with his short, thick legs astretch, for the gale had left a considerable swell behind it,
ref: 1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Striped Chest”, in The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport, London: Smith, Elder, published 1905, page 204:
text: 1912, Saki (H. H. Munro), “The Music on the Hill” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 153,
Astretch in a pool of mud was an enormous sow,
text: This time I heard something new in the beat of the drums, a trip-hammer knock that sent my heart racing, a stutter that made me choke and grin, that set my heels tapping, my toes astretch.
ref: 1987, Edith L. B. Turner, “The Fish Eagle”, in The Spirit and the Drum, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, page 97:
glosses: Stretched out, extended.
examples: text: 1833, Hamlet Wood, The Negro: An Historical Poem […] describing the unchristian and wicked principle and practices of slavery, Burslem, UK: for the author, p. 41,
[…] with attentive gaze,
As winds dispelled the dark’ning haze,
My eyes astretch—and all my mind afloat,
To learn what sort of beings filled the boat;
text: At the same moment every faculty is keenly astretch for further information which may aid in the conclusion he must come to before he stirs hand or foot.
ref: 1897, Louis Robinson, Wild Traits in Tame Animals, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Introduction, pp. 19-20:
text: And when, very late, I heard a car coming up the zigzag I jumped to my feet, nerves instantly astretch,
ref: 1958, Mary Stewart, chapter 9, in Nine Coaches Waiting, New York: Fawcett Crest, published 1970, page 127:
text: Undoubtedly the old bag had been hovering just inside her own doorway, ears astretch to catch his fairy footstep.
ref: 1978, Nicolas Freeling, chapter 15, in The Night Lords,, New York: Pantheon, page 63:
glosses: Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties).
scammered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scammered
form: most scammered
Senses: glosses: drunk
quartereen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartereens
Etymology: From Italian quattrino.
Senses: glosses: A farthing.
quartereens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quartereen
rantipoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rantipolls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rantipole.
rantipolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rantipoll
Soulsby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Aldrington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2705).
eschatologistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eschatologistic
form: most eschatologistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to eschatologism.
switching off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of switch off
transfemme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfemmes
Etymology: From trans- + femme.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:transfemme.
glosses: A transfeminine person.
transfemme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + femme.
Senses: glosses: Transfem; transfeminine.
Related terms: transmasc
transfemmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfemme
on stun
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."
ref: 1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An intensity setting of the fictional phaser energy weapon, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69), which non-lethally stuns its target.
examples: text: It's all happening at once, right? All news streams on stun. Everything happening at the same time.
ref: 2020 September 28, The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel Maddow (actor):
glosses: (usually after a plural noun), to a degree that is stunning.
Innsbruckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Innsbrucker
Innsbrucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Innsbruckers
Etymology: From Innsbruck + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Innsbruck.
endothelioprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endotheli(um) + -o- + protective.
Senses: glosses: That protects the endothelium.
hypercoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + coiled.
Senses: glosses: Excessively coiled (typically of an umbilical cord)
Related terms: hypercoiling
hypercoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + coiling.
Senses: glosses: Excessive coiling (typically of the umbilical cord)
Related terms: hypercoiled
nondiatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diatonic.
Senses: glosses: Not diatonic
glosses: Misspelling of nondilatonic.
occipitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of occipitalised.
parakinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to parakinesis
soprocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hexachlorocyclohexane (“when used as a pesticide”).
synonyms: word: hexachlorocyclohexane
extra: when used as a pesticide
toneset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonesets
Senses: glosses: A set of tones played in sequence
tonesets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toneset
himpathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of him + sympathetic, or of himpathy + sympathetic.
Senses: examples: text: Yet it would be a mistake to view them as on a different plane of moral obtuseness, as opposed to merely being on the extreme end of a himpathetic spectrum on which many of us lie. Brock Turner's defenders exhibited forgiving tendencies, ...
ref: 2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 200:
text: But in a himpathetic world view this does make sense because the question we are invited to ask is what does it mean for him? That Kavanaugh's (and, to an extent, Thomas's) privilege is such that his greatest fear is the loss of his name […]
ref: 2019, Karen Boyle, #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113:
text: This was picked up and repeated by women in the media who were “himpathetic” to the idea. Trump's win “gives us an opportunity to reflect on how badly misogynist forces can distort our thinking and bias our reasoning” (Manne 2019, 250).
ref: 2019, Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:
text: When a woman fails to give a man what he's supposedly owed, she will often face punishment and reprisal — whether from him, his himpathetic supporters, or the misogynistic social structures in [society].
ref: 2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to himpathy; inappropriately sympathetic to men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.
Related terms: himpathy
himpathize
nouns adjunct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noun adjunct