cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pin cameras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin camera
HLS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: automation
glosses: Abbreviation of high-level synthesis.
topics: health
medicine
sciences
synonyms: H&LS
coordinate_terms: life science
health science
glosses: Abbreviation of health and life sciences.
topics: media
glosses: Abbreviation of HTTP live streaming.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Abbreviation of human landing system.
synonyms: HSL
HSV
qualifier: video
glosses: Abbreviation of hue, level/lightness, saturation.
Vettese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vetteses
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Vettese.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
rotoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roto
rotoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roto
rotorstators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotorstator
rotoscoper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotoscopers
Etymology: From rotoscope + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rotoscopes.
rotoscopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotoscoper
Ellsberg paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ellsberg paradox
form: Ellsberg's paradox
Etymology: Popularized by Daniel Ellsberg in his 1961 paper “Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms”, although a version of it was noted considerably earlier by John Maynard Keynes.
Senses: glosses: A paradox of choice in which people's decisions produce inconsistencies with subjective expected utility theory.
Related terms: ambiguity aversion
Allais paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Allais paradox
Etymology: Designed by Maurice Allais (1953).
Senses: glosses: A choice problem designed to show an inconsistency of actual observed choices with the predictions of expected utility theory.
screwheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwhead
Heaneyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Heaneyan
form: most Heaneyan
Etymology: From Heaney + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Irish poet and playwright.
reexhumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reexhume
reexhuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reexhume
reexhumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reexhume
drogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drogher.
droggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drogger
daroga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darogas
form: darogha
form: daroghah
Senses: glosses: A police official in the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.
daroghah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daroghahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daroga.
darogha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daroghas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daroga.
daroghahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daroghah
daroghas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darogha
darogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daroga
Debal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient port located near modern-day Karachi, Pakistan.
Tellicherry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Thalassery (“part of Kerala, India”).
Derived terms: Tellicherry bark
Tellicherry pepper
dewaun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewauns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dewan.
dewauns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dewaun
poojari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poojaris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pujari.
poojaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poojari
pujaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pujarees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pujari.
pujarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pujaree
Doorga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Durga.
doorbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From door + busting.
Senses: examples: doorbusting deals
glosses: Of or relating to a doorbuster, a limited sale at low prices.
honble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of honorable.
Ferozeshuhur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Ferozeshah.
Ferozeshah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ferozeshuhur
Senses: glosses: A village in Punjab, India, the site of the Battle of Ferozeshah in 1845.
barndominium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barndominiums
Etymology: Blend of barn + condominium
Senses: glosses: a type of building that combines a barn and condominium to create a residential residence.
Synonyms: barndo
barndominiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barndominium
Point de Galle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Galle (“city in Sri Lanka”).
Churchill Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɝtʃ.ɪl ˈfɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Etymology: Churchill+falls (“waterfall”). Coined by Joey Smallwood in 1965. From being a waterfall (“falls”) named in honour of Sir Winston Churchill, by Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood, renamed along with the river it is situated in, just prior to the commencement of the hydroelectric project; renaming from McLean Falls, itself renamed from Grand Falls, which it was labelled instead of the native Innu name Patshishetshuanau.
The community is named after the nearby waterfalls.
Senses: glosses: A waterfall in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, on the Churchill River.
glosses: A community in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A hydroelectric power generation station located at the falls.
Synonyms: sense: waterfall
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Grand Falls
sense: waterfall
english: former name
translation: former name
word: McLean Falls
sense: waterfall
english: borrowed from Innu
translation: borrowed from Innu
word: Patshishetshuanau
eco-fascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-fascists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecofascist.
Churchill River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Churchill River
Etymology: Churchill+river. Coined by Joey Smallwood in 1965. From being a river named in honour of Sir Winston Churchill, by Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood, renamed along with the waterfall situated along it, just prior to the commencement of the hydroelectric project at the falls; renaming it from Hamilton River, itself renamed from Grand River, derived from the Innu name of the river, Mishtashipu.
Senses: glosses: A river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, containing Churchill Falls.
wikipedia: en:Sir Winston Churchill
Synonyms: english: former name
translation: former name
word: Grand River
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Hamilton River
word: Mishtashipu
english: borrowed from Innu
translation: borrowed from Innu
word: Mishta-shipu
english: from Innu
translation: from Innu
word: Patshishetshunau-shipu
eco-fascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecofascism.
set loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets loose
form: setting loose
form: set loose
form: set loose
Senses: examples: text: The new product was the Game Boy — a hand-held, battery-powered plastic slab that promised to set gamers loose, after all those decades of sweaty bondage, from the tyranny of rec rooms and pizza parlors and arcades.
ref: 2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: He laid the foundation stone on August 1 1847, and then set around 2,000 workmen loose on the undertaking. The station opened exactly one year later on August 1 1848.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58:
glosses: To set free, let go, release, liberate, unleash.
Synonyms: let loose
turn loose
Grand River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: (Churchill River): grand+river. Calque of Montagnais Mishta-shipu Literally, “Great River”. From mishta+shipu.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Churchill River; Former name of Hamilton River; A river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A small town in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A river in Ontario, Canada, that flows into Lake Erie.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A river in the United States:
Former name of Colorado River, Colorado, renamed in 1921.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A river in the United States:
A river in Michigan, that flows into Lake Michigan.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A river in the United States:
A river in Ohio, that flows into Lake Erie.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A river in the United States:
Synonym of Neosho River in Oklahoma.
synonyms: word: Neosho River in Oklahoma
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A river in the United States:
A river in Iowa and Missouri, a tributary of the Missouri River.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A river in the United States:
A river in South Dakota, a tributary of the Missouri River.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Adair County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city and township in Decatur County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Madison County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Wayne County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bates County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An inactive township in Cass County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Daviess County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in DeKalb County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bowman County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Lake County, Ohio.
Derived terms: Grand Falls
angely wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angelin wood
Etymology: From Tamil அஞ்ஜிலி (añjili, “Artocarpus hirsutus (tree)”). Compare Portuguese angelim.
Senses: glosses: The wood of the Indian tree Artocarpus hirsutus.
angelin wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of angely wood.
McLean Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: (Churchill Falls): McLean+falls (“waterfall”). Named in honour of John McLean, explorer for the Hudson's Bay Company, who was the first white man to see the falls in the 1820s. McLean himself would name the falls Grand Falls, after the river it is situated on, the Grand River. Others would call it McLean Falls, after its discoverer, especially afterwards as the river itself would be renamed Hamilton River.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Churchill Falls: a waterfall in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
wikipedia: en:John McLean (explorer)
Hamilton River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hamilton River
Etymology: (Churchill River): Hamilton+river. Coined by British Royal Navy captain William Martin in 1821. Named in honour of Commodore-General of Newfoundland Sir Charles Hamilton. Renaming the river formerly called Grand River.
Senses: glosses: Former name of the Churchill River: a river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
wikipedia: en:Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Marlborough House
eco-fascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-fascist
dumpling-depot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumpling-depots
Senses: examples: text: "And because you would'nt^([sic]) let him he doubled you up with a wallop in your dumpling-depot, did'nt^([sic]) he?"
ref: 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, page 35:
text: But the mashers glared through their eyeglasses with surprise, as Montague's cheese whirled along, and flattened the waiter's dumpling-depot like a pancake.
ref: 1886, Judy's Annual, volume 38, page 182:
glosses: Synonym of breadbasket (“the abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack”).
synonyms: word: breadbasket
extra: the abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack
Patshishetshuanau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Montagnais Patshishetshuanau Literally, “Place Where The Current Makes Clouds”.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Churchill Falls; A waterfall in the Churchill River, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
synonyms: word: Churchill Falls
extra: A waterfall in the Churchill River, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Related terms: Patshishetshuanau-shipu
Patshishetshuanau Shipu
Patshishetshuanau-Shipu
break shins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks shins
form: breaking shins
form: broke shins
form: broken shins
Senses: glosses: To borrow money.
lazy Laurence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazy Laurences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lazy Lawrence.
lazy Laurences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazy Laurence
ghost peaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost peak
Mishtashipu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mishtashipu
form: Mishta-Shipu
form: Mishta Shipu
form: Mishta shipu
form: Mishta-shipu
Etymology: From Montagnais Mishta-shipu. Literally, “Great River”. From mishta+shipu.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Churchill River; A river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
synonyms: word: Churchill River
extra: A river in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Related terms: Grand River
long ghost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long ghosts
Senses: examples: text: “Pray,” said Doctor Waldron, addressing Mrs. Green, “who is that little fubsy lady, with scarce a morsel of neck, and all covered with ribbands, pursued by that long ghost of a man in the Spanish dress?”
ref: 1833, anonymous author, Frank Orby, page 11:
text: “Now, you long ghost with the bell-topper, what did you pay for that coat? It's a Houndsditcher!” The sally was greeted with laughter from all who heard it.
ref: 1903, William Craig (of Invercargill, N.Z.), My Adventures on the Australian Goldfields (page 11)
synonyms: beanpole
lamppost
glosses: A tall, thin person.
long ghosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long ghost
bell-topper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell-toppers
Etymology: From bell, referring to its shape + topper (“top hat”).
Senses: examples: text: “Now, you long ghost with the bell-topper, what did you pay for that coat? It's a Houndsditcher!” The sally was greeted with laughter from all who heard it.
ref: 1903, William Craig (of Invercargill, N.Z.), My Adventures on the Australian Goldfields (page 11)
text: There was a surprise awaiting them at Tooraloo, for the moment they arrived two persons in bell-toppers and long-tailed coats ran out from behind a fence[.]
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 132:
glosses: top hat; chimney-pot hat
bell-toppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell-topper
exvangelicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exvangelical
neo-Malthusians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-Malthusian
on the ran tan
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The proofreader had been evidently on the ran tan […]
ref: 1920, Dogdom: Monthly, volume 21, page 497:
glosses: Drunk.
tar out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tars out
form: tarring out
form: tarred out
form: tarred out
Senses: examples: text: We had him stopped the year before, the time we whupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: we tarred him out so bad he had to wait.
ref: 1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga:
glosses: To punish; to pay back or take revenge on.
step show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step shows
Senses: examples: text: Howard University hosted the first national championship step show during homecoming in 1994.
ref: 2003, Elizabeth Calvert Fine, Soulstepping: African American Step Shows, page 43:
text: We used some moves from the Q-dog step show and hooked up a slammin' routine for my audition.
ref: 2012, Nikki Carter, Step To This: A So For Real Novel:
text: Even though the gumboot dance is from a culture that is far away from the United States, it shares a vast number of similarities to some step show dances.
ref: 2016, David Akombo, The Unity of Music and Dance in World Cultures, page 26:
text: The two of them dancing together was like a step show.
ref: 2018, Toni Watkins, Step To This, page 139:
glosses: A performance or competition of the African-American choreographed dance form derived from tap dancing.
step shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step show
tabby party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabby parties
Senses: glosses: A social meeting of women for tea and gossip.
tabby parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabby party
Northeast Passage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Northeast Passage
Etymology: Coined in analogy to Northwest Passage.
Senses: glosses: The sea route that follows the Arctic Ocean coast of Russia, linking the Atlantic coast of Norway to the Bering Strait
Synonyms: Northern Sea Route
Coordinate terms: Maritime Silk Road
Northwest Passage
Silk Road
Spice Route
two-to-one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “A pawnbroker!” cried Dick, with a loud laugh; whereupon the two-to-one lady blushed up to the eyes and whispered to her friend, “How could they know us?”
ref: 1819, Felix Mac Donough, The Hermit in London; or, Sketches of English Manners, page 182:
text: A song I'm going to sing you, / And presently I'll bring you, / Where your conscience I hope won't sting you, / — At the sign of the Two-to-one!
ref: 1877, John Diprose, New standard song book and reciter, page 194:
glosses: The pawnbroker's sign of three balls.
reincarnational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to reincarnation.
reincarnationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to reincarnation.
electrolaryngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or produced by an electrolarynx
namesclop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namesclops
Etymology: Back slang for policeman.
Senses: qualifier: costermongers
glosses: A policeman.
Synonyms: police officer
Related terms: ecilop
slop
clinging on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cling on
cinqueda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinquedas
Senses: examples: text: Thaddeus Mann hadn't even bothered to take the knife away from him, though he was curious to see the legendary, triangular-bladed cinqueda.
ref: 1980, William M. James, Slow Dying, →ISBN:
text: The cinqueda might be used in conjunction with a full-length sword in sword and dagger play. Also, called an anelace, […]
ref: 1995, Nick Evangelista, The Encyclopedia of the Sword, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 112:
text: She helped him put his heavy cinqueda onto his military belt. She pulled his cloak—which she had also made—from their sleeping pile. It was made of hundreds of black squirrel pelts stitched together invisibly and lined with bright red ...
ref: 2014, Miles Cameron, The Fell Sword, Orbit, →ISBN:
text: Arms — Per pale argent and azure, on the first three pallets sable, all within a bordure of the last. Crest — A cubit arm erect, vested azure, cuffed argent, holding in the hand a Cinqueda sword, both proper.
ref: 2020, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 4618:
glosses: Alternative form of cinquedea.
cinquedas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinqueda
feebler-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of feeble-minded: more feeble-minded
feeblest-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of feeble-minded: most feeble-minded
close helm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: close helms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of close helmet.
synonyms: word: close helmet
close helms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of close helm
feeble-brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feeble-brained
form: feebler-brained
form: most feeble-brained
form: feeblest-brained
Senses: examples: text: She was not clene ensaymed,
She was not wel reclaymed;
But the fawconer unfayned
Was moch more febler brayned.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 79–83:
glosses: Feeble-minded, harebrained.
social ecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Social ecology, as it has been taught in Australia and elsewhere, is a broad, deep and tangential (out of the box) area of study. At its heart it imagines conversations across disciplines about social-ecological interrelationships.
ref: 2020, “Preface”, in David Wright, Stuart B. Hill, editors, Social Ecology and Education, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The study of relationships between people and their environment, especially the interdependence of people, collectives and institutions.
examples: text: We can now look more broadly beyond the political economy with which Bookchin was chiefly concerned to develop a more inclusive understanding of social ecology that takes in other dimensions of society, such as gender, race, technology, and cognition.
ref: 2012, Stephen M. Wheeler, Climate Change and Social Ecology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: A philosophical theory about the relationship between ecological and social issues associated with Murray Bookchin.
Related terms: Bookchinism
pro eo quod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prō eō quod (literally “for this, that”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In pleading.
marsh wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh wrens
Senses: synonyms: tule wren
glosses: A North American wren, Cistothorus palustris.
Derived terms: short-billed marsh wren
apostrophization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostrophizations
form: apostrophisation
Etymology: From apostrophize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: An open letter penned by two prominent French intellectuals, Michèle Cohen-Halimi and Francis Cohen, called into question the curious apostrophization of the word, “‘Jews,’”—a diacritical practice that, in previous cases, has yielded to dubious interpretive license, signaling that “figural” rather than “real” Jews were at issue.
ref: 2015 August 25, Richard Wolin, Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse, Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The use of apostrophe characters.
glosses: The use of an apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).
apostrophizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostrophization
apostrophisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: apostrophisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of apostrophization.
apostrophisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostrophisation
Skuse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Skuses
Etymology: Variant spelling of Skewes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cornish.
Suzzallo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Suzzallos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
plaster saint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaster saints
Senses: glosses: someone who makes a show of being benevolent and morally upright, often in a hypocritical way
plaster saints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaster saint
millimetres of mercury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millimetre of mercury
Scorbus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Scorpius + Albus.
Senses: examples: text: Because of this, some commentators are suspicious that the appetite for a Scorbus romance was not unknown to those catering to it.
ref: 2016 August 16, Ilana Masad, “Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance”, in The Guardian:
text: For Harry Potter fandom, the idea of a romantic relationship (or ship) between Albus/Scorpius or "Scorbus," the ship's portmanteau, is nothing new.
ref: 2018, Emily E. Roach, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child”, in Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark, editors, Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse, page 133:
text: For years, Scorbus fans had almost no canonical information with which to base their fan works, therefore fics varied wildly in characterisation.
ref: 2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 98
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter of the Harry Potter franchise.
Kumbh Melas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kumbh Mela
gorgeret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɔɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɛt/
Forms: form: gorgerets
Etymology: From French gorgeret (“surgical instrument”).
Senses: examples: text: […] then placing the Bill which is at the end of the Gorgeret into the Groove of the ...
ref: 1710, Pierre DIONIS, A Course Of Chirurgical Operations: Demonstrated in the Royal Garden At Paris. Translated from the Paris Edition, page 119:
text: These, having first made an Incision as before, pass the End of the Gorgeret thro' the Groove of the Catheter into the Bladder, as we directed for the male Conductor :
ref: 1763, Lorenz Heister, A General System of Surgery, page 170:
text: V. The under part of the double gorgeret separated from the upper, which varies but little in shape from the common gorgeret.
ref: 1773, William Bromfield, Chirurgical Observations and Cases, page 378:
text: I then introduce the beak of the common gorgeret into the groove of the staff, and press, it on, till it gets into the bladder, […]
ref: 1773, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, page 182:
text: I therefore took the double gorgeret, without the cutting blade affixed, intending only to push back the stone, and dilate the neck of the bladder, which I did by getting the beak of the gorgeret into the sulcus of the staff […]
ref: 1835, Astley Cooper, Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, page 453:
text: After this method became known, many different forms of gorgets and gorgerets were invented ; which it would answer no useful purpose to describe. Of one of them, Mr. Liston remarks, "It is more like an instrument for cutting turf, - a 'flauchter-spade,' - than for performing a delicate surgical operation."
ref: 1860, William Pirrie, The Principles and practice of surgery, page 644:
glosses: Synonym of gorget (“surgical instrument”).
synonyms: word: gorget
extra: surgical instrument
Related terms: gorgerette
gorget
gorgerets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorgeret
EWE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EWEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of extreme wildfire event.
examples: text: A collective desire to explore some of the themes Rowling hadn't satisfactorily addressed helped fuel the development of hundreds of “Epilogue, What Epilogue?” (EWE) fanfics following the publication of Deathly Hallows.
ref: 2009, Peggy Lin Duthie, “The Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings”, in Giselle Liza Anatol, editor, Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays, pages 45–46:
text: 'EWE' (Epilogue-What Epilogue?) fics are similar to some AU stories in that they ignore the often-disliked epilogue of Rowling's Deathly Hallows, and instead create their own future of the Wizarding World.
ref: 2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, page 280:
text: Bringing beloved characters back to life is one of the most recurrent elements of EWE fics, […]
ref: 2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 120
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel.
Hypernyms: fix-it
professionalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professionalization
professionalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professionalisation
Bookchin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bookchins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bookchinian
Bookchinism
Bookchinist
Bookchinite
booknapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of booknap
booknaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of booknap
booknapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of booknap
chemoluminescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoluminescence
polyball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyballs
Senses: glosses: A polystyrene sphere, used in fishing, in science experiments, etc.
polyballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyball
boundations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boundation
humming October
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Very strong ale.
flatter oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flatters oneself
form: flattering oneself
form: flattered oneself
form: flattered oneself
Senses: examples: He flatters himself that he has a good voice.
glosses: To have the false but pleasant belief that something is true.
Severitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In the early 2000s, a fan going by the pseudonym Severitus (presumably constructed from Severus + -itis) issued a challenge requesting fanfics with several specific elements, including Snape being revealed as Harry's true father. This became known as the Severitus Challenge, which was later shortened to Severitus, and came to refer exclusively to the paternity trope.
Senses: examples: text: Arguably Snape's lifelong obsession with Lily in canon is more disturbing than the least imaginative and most derogatory Severitus conception, the drunken one night stand.
ref: 2007 September 5, A. G. McDowell, “Re: The Future of Fan Fiction”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: Unlike the other Severitus fanfics analysed in this chapter, there is not a simple progression from dislike to affection and family feeling.
ref: 2011, Suzanne Passmore, "Rereading the Magical World of Harry Potter: Fanfiction as an Alternative Critical Modality", thesis submitted to the University of Western Australia, page 52
text: […] and in making Lily break her vows to James, Severitus fanfiction authors undermine the status of the heteronormative family in the original series.
ref: 2015, A. J. Koning, "The Famous and Their Followers: Fanfiction as an Alternative Form of Literary Criticism", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 22
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction in which Severus Snape is the biological father of Harry.
give someone Jessie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone Jessie
form: giving someone Jessie
form: gave someone Jessie
form: given someone Jessie
form: give someone Jesse
Senses: glosses: To beat or thrash someone.
flying stationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying stationers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of running stationer.
synonyms: word: running stationer
flying stationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying stationer
running stationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running stationers
Senses: synonyms: flying stationer
paperworker
glosses: A street hawker of books and newspapers.
running stationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of running stationer
rustyguts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rustyguts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rusty guts.
rusty guts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rusty guts
form: rustyguts
Etymology: Hotten suggests a corruption of Latin rūsticus (“boorish; a boor”).
Senses: glosses: A blunt, rough old fellow.
raw_tags: as a nickname
Bariba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The principal inhabitants of Borgou and Alibori Departments, Benin, and cofounders of the Borgu kingdom of what is now northeast Benin and west-central Nigeria.
Bariba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Baatonum
glosses: The language of these people.
half-natural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-naturals
Senses: synonyms: natural
glosses: One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
half-naturals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-natural
gorgerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorgerines
Etymology: From French gorgerin.
Senses: examples: text: A glittering gorgerine—a necklace of layered disks— hung around her neck while, from a circlet of gold around Alicia's head, a rearing cobra stared back at her. She was the picture of ancient royalty […]
ref: 2016, Tracy Hickman, Laura Hickman, Unhonored: Book Two of The Nightbirds, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 26:
text: A loose red linen dress left her bronze shoulders bare, a shawl of green feathers hung from her arms, and a gorgerine of red, black, and turquoise stones covered her chest.
ref: 2017, Randy Henderson, Smells Like Finn Spirit: The Familia Arcana, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: A necklace, an ornamentation for the neck; synonym of gorget (“ornamental collar”).
tripe and onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Well, sir, there he was standing up spouting a lot of tripe and onions and Miss Seeton was taking the odd note.
ref: 1971, Heron Carvic, Witch Miss Seeton, page 59:
text: All that nonsense about charms and protection against witches. . . . It's a lot of tripe and onions, that's what it is.
ref: 1996, Constance Laux, Touched by Magic, page 234:
text: “It's gammon and pickles. That's what it is. Angels and wishes and answers to prayers! Really, Miss Gordon, it's tripe and onions!”
ref: 1996, Janice Bennett, Karen Ranney, Doreen Owens Malek, Angel Love, page 214:
synonyms: gammon
gammon and pickles
tripe
glosses: Nonsense; folly.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tripe, onion.
gorgerines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorgerine
gammon and pickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “It's gammon and pickles. That's what it is. Angels and wishes and answers to prayers! Really, Miss Gordon, it's tripe and onions!”
ref: 1996, Janice Bennett, Karen Ranney, Doreen Owens Malek, Angel Love, page 214:
text: "Gammon and pickles," she mumbled. She tried to shrug off the effects of her own overactive imagination and failed miserably.
ref: 2000, Constance Laux, Diamonds and Desire, page 299:
text: “The cove was blethering all gammon and pickles about yer Da'. You never said much about him to me,” Cian hiccupped accusingly.
ref: 2016, Roger Higgins, Billy Gogan, American:
synonyms: gammon
tripe
tripe and onions
glosses: Nonsense; folly.
stayfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stayfall
staring spells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staring spell
riceland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ricelands
Etymology: From rice + land.
Senses: examples: text: Taiyuan, the capital of the province, lies on the upper reaches of the Fen surrounded by irrigated ricelands, orchards and vineyards on the mountain slopes, with enormous seams of coal underground. In Shansi all roads lead to Taiyuan, but the roads that radiate out of Taiyuan in every direction lead nowhere.
ref: 1983, William Hinton, “Introduction: Shansi, Land of the Oxhide Lanterns”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxxiv:
glosses: An area of land where rice is grown.
ricelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riceland
Mazgaon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mazagaon (“island of India”).
Mazagon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mazagaon (“island of India”).
dubbeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubbeers
Senses: glosses: A writer or secretary.
dubbeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dubbeer
jocolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chocolate.
Jaganaut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Juggernaut.
Jagarynat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Juggernaut.
Jagganaut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Juggernaut.
Jaggernaut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Juggernaut.
Jagnaut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Juggernaut.
Pedir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Pidie (“a regency of Indonesia”).
Pider
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Pidie (“a regency of Indonesia”).
Pidie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pedir
form: Pider
Senses: glosses: A regency of Aceh special region in Indonesia.
Pardesi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pardesis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paradesi.
Pardesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pardesi
Purdesee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Purdesees
Senses: examples: text: The diet of the Christian and Jew privates is but little richer than that of their Brahmin and Purdesee comrades; but the men are more robust-looking, and are certainly less frequently inmates of the hospital.
ref: 1875, Sketch of the Medical History of the Native Army of Bombay, page 154:
glosses: In the Bombay army, a sepoy from northern India.
Related terms: Paradesi
Purdesees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Purdesee
gold mohur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold mohurs
form: gool mohur
form: gulmohar
form: gulmohur
form: gul mohur
Etymology: Corruption of Hindi [Term?], influenced by mohur (“a gold coin”).
Senses: glosses: The fabaceous flowering plant Caesalpinia pulcherrima.
gool mohur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gool mohurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gold mohur (“the plant Caesalpinia pulcherrima”).
gulmohur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulmohurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gold mohur (“the plant Caesalpinia pulcherrima”).
gul mohur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gul mohurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gold mohur (“the plant Caesalpinia pulcherrima”).
gulmohurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gulmohur
gul mohurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gul mohur
gool mohurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gool mohur
overstrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overstraps
Etymology: From over- + strap.
Senses: examples: text: The traditional Indian sandals, with leather rings for the big toe and overstraps for the upper arch […]
ref: 2013, Lynne Hume, The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith, page 106:
glosses: A strap running above something.
overstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overstrap
overstratify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstratifies
form: overstratifying
form: overstratified
form: overstratified
Etymology: From over- + stratify.
Senses: glosses: To stratify excessively.
overstratifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overstratify
overstratifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overstratify
overstratified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overstratify
Bengal babbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengal babblers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jungle babbler.
synonyms: word: jungle babbler
Bengal babblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bengal babbler
Seven Brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seven Brothers
Senses: glosses: The jungle babbler, Turdoides striata, habitually flocking in extended family groups.
unopinionative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unopinionative
form: most unopinionative
Etymology: From un- + opinionative.
Senses: glosses: Not opinionative.
anthropocentricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropocentricisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthropocentrism.
chronotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chronotype
craniosurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + surgical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to craniosurgery.
craniosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cranio- + surgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: surgery to the cranium
Related terms: craniosurgical
evapoconcentrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evapoconcentrates
form: evapoconcentrating
form: evapoconcentrated
form: evapoconcentrated
Senses: glosses: To concentrate a solution by means of evapoconcentration
evapoconcentrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evapoconcentrate
evapoconcentrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evapoconcentrated
form: most evapoconcentrated
Senses: glosses: concentrated by means of evapoconcentration
flintworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of simple tools from flints
hypoconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + connected.
Senses: glosses: Having fewer than normal interconnections
neolymphangiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + lymphangiogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation of new lymphatic vessels or tissue
orthoroentgenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + roentgenography.
Senses: glosses: orthopedic roentgenography
Related terms: orthoroentgenogram
perisplenitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + splenitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the area surrounding the spleen.
plasmakinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to (fast) moving plasma
Related terms: plasmakinesis
have the cards in one's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the cards in one's hands
form: having the cards in one's hands
form: had the cards in one's hands
form: had the cards in one's hands
Senses: examples: text: Gogs bloud Iacke, haue we the cards in our hands?
Lets take it vpon vs while we haue it.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
synonyms: have the cards
glosses: To have the initiative for or the means of success, to be in a position to control the outcome.
issokay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Issokay sir, I already got one here,” says his tormentor, gingerly holding up a decidedly sick piece of fruit hanging on desperately to the last vestiges of bananahood, before lowering it from Kevin's view.
ref: 2019 December 14, Marc Lindon, The Long Way to Get to Me, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 20:
text: “You didn't tell me about career day.”
“Issokay,” he said, combining the two words together. “I told them about you.”
ref: 2020, Claire Adams, Daddy's Virgin, Ownit Publishing LLC:
glosses: Alternative form of it's okay.
Berryfields
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A modern housing development and civil parish (created 2015) north-west of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP7815).
Akshay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi अक्षय (akṣay).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hindi.