cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sicker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sickers
form: sickering
form: sickered
form: sickered
form: sigger
form: zigger
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English *sikeren (attested only as sikeriez (“(it) trickles, (it) leaks, (it) oozes”)), from Old English sicerian (“to ooze, seep”), from Proto-West Germanic *sikarōn, from Proto-Germanic *sikarōną (“to trickle”), from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow running water”). Cognate with German Low German sickern (“to seep”), German sickern (“to seep, trickle”). Akin also to English sitch.
Senses: examples: text: No drop of water fell from the hot blue
Or sickered from the skeleton of earth.
ref: 1917, Gerhart Hauptmann, Ludwig Lewisohn, The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, volume 7, page 185:
text: This cause had sickered into his soul; it had been branded upon his forehead somehow, by some hand; he knew not how nor by whom.
ref: 1926, Jakob Wassermann, Wedlock, volume 10, page 217:
text: The solution steadily sickered through the debris and the sampling of the solutions could be carried out without taking the equipment into pieces.
ref: 1943, Acta minerologica, petrographica, volumes 1-11, page 17:
qualifier: literal
glosses: To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.
recuperating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recuperate
pretenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretense
fantasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fantasising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fantasize
fantasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasizings
form: fantasising
Senses: examples: text: The notion of schools gave free rein to lubricious fantasizings. The orthodox newspaper Samacharchandrika warned that male teachers — however old or pious — would surely be a danger.
ref: 2002, Supriya Chaudhuri, Sajni Mukherji, Literature and Gender: Essays for Jasodhara Bagchi (page 169)
glosses: The act of one who fantasizes.
prepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛpɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prep
prepping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛpɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: The action or process of preparing something, or preparing for something.
glosses: The practice of making active preparations for a possible catastrophic disaster or emergency, typically by stockpiling food, ammunition, and other supplies.
golfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of golf
golfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golfings
Senses: glosses: A session of playing golf.
Related terms: mini-golfing
nongolfing
waltzing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waltzings
Etymology: From waltz + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Among the waltzings, and the droppings, and the swarmings of the sounds, Pierre now heard the tones above deftly stealing and winding among the myriad serpentinings of the other melody: […]
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book VI. Isabel, and the First Part of the Story of Isabel.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section VI, page 172:
glosses: gerund of waltz: the motion of one who waltzes.
waltzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From waltz + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waltz
waitressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waitress
frightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frighten
counselors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counselor
groveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grovelling
Senses: examples: text: New ways I must attempt, my groveling name
To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.
ref: 1697, John Dryden, Georgics, translation of original by Virgil, Book III, lines 13–14:
glosses: present participle and gerund of grovel
groveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grovelings
form: grovelling
Senses: glosses: The act of one who grovels.
cockroaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockroach
weiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “I saw him out of the corner of my eye,” Burck told The Post. “He wanted to just rip my underwear off and i didnt want my weiner flipping around. It scraped the hell out of my knee.”
ref: 2020 November 12, Tina Moore, quoting Naked Cowboy, “Someone tried to pants Times Square's Naked Cowboy”, in New York Post:
glosses: Misspelling of wiener.
scones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scone.
cufflinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cufflink
upped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpt/
rhymes: -ʌpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of up
theaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theater
iatrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iatro- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Though such iatrophobia has always been with us, it assumed an especially virulent form in the sixties.
ref: 1996, Leslie A. Fiedler, Tyranny of the Normal: Essays on Bioethics, Theology & Myth, page 114:
synonyms: medicophobia
iatromisia
glosses: An abnormal or irrational fear of doctors or going to the doctor.
Derived terms: iatrophobic
divalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈveɪlənt/
Etymology: From di- + valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having an atomic valence of 2.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a vaccine valence of 2.
Derived terms: divalently
divalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈveɪlənt/
Forms: form: divalents
Etymology: From di- + valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any divalent substance.
Related terms: bivalent
slumming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slum
slumming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slummings
Senses: examples: text: Few understand the works of Cummings,
And few James Joyce's mental slummings,
And few young Auden's coded chatter;
But then it is the few that matter.
ref: 1933, Dylan Thomas, From a Letter to my Aunt, Discussing the Correct Approach to Modern Poetry:
text: Sir Arthur Sullivan, genius of the comic-opera is — by a curious paradox of fate — remembered on the centenary of his birth by those very scores which he considered his musical slummings […]
ref: 1942, Opera News, volume 7, page 26:
glosses: A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.
shacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shack
burritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burrito
burritos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burrito
ovulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ovulate
materiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: materialities
Etymology: From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās.
Senses: examples: text: This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power. Something of the light that blazes invisible within the abysses of its normally opaque materiality breaks forth, with an increasing uproar.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29:
text: According to Judd, in his polemical statement of aesthetic purpose "Specific Objects," written the year he created Untitled, the intransigent materiality of his nonallusive objects would provide a "credible" experience for viewers, free from any external connotations.
ref: 2013, Robert Slifkin, Out of Time, page 19:
glosses: The quality of being material; having a physical existence.
topics: law
glosses: The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.
Derived terms: nonmateriality
sociomateriality
materialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of materiality
ethereality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˌθɪə̯.riˈæl.ə.ti/
ipa: /əˌθɪə̯.riˈæl.ə.ti/
ipa: /iˌθɪr.iˈæl.ə.t̬i/
Forms: form: etherealities
Etymology: From ethereal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ethereal.
Synonyms: etherealness
etherealities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethereality
spiritualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirituality
absurdum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɝːd.m̩/
ipa: /æbˈsɝd.m̩/
ipa: /əbˈsɝd.m̩/
Forms: form: absurda
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin absurdum, neuter singular of absurdus (“discordant, harsh”).
Senses: glosses: An illogical conclusion or state.
Related terms: reductio ad absurdum
phone survey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone surveys
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: An opinion poll or survey conducted through the use of calling people on their telephones to gather information relating to the public.
serpentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpentries
Etymology: From serpent + -ry.
Senses: glosses: A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
glosses: All serpents and serpent-like creatures, as a collective body
redecorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redecorate
booker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookers
Etymology: From Middle English bokere, from Old English bōcere (“scribe”), equivalent to book + -er. Modern sense influenced by the verb to book.
Senses: examples: text: With independent movie theaters closing and larger conglomerates taking over smaller conglomerates, many people were worried that Boston may have seen the end of the small, alternative film festival. But this year USA Cinemas, and the premiere booker George Mansour, have done it again with the fourth annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
ref: 1988 May 7, Michael Bronski, “Out Of The Celluloid Closet”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
glosses: One who makes a reservation.
glosses: One who records transactions, such as reservations.
examples: text: What Booker doth prognosticate Concerning Kings or Kingdoms State […]
ref: 1711, Martin Parker, William Wagstaffe (M.D.), The king enjoyes his own again:
glosses: A scholar; a scribe.
Related terms: book
bookie
booking
arr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arr.
Etymology: By abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of arrival.
arr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrs
form: arr.
Etymology: By abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of arrondissement.
arr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: är
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: ar
Etymology: Possibly from aye.
The pirate-imitation form was derived from the West Country dialect after its use by West Country-born actor Robert Newton (1905–1956) in the films Treasure Island (1950) and Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)—and the former’s spin-off media—in which he played, respectively, the fictional pirate Long John Silver and the historical pirate Edward “Blackbeard” Teach (c. 1680 – 1718; also a West Country native).
Senses: glosses: Yes.
examples: text: Arr, matey! Tis a dangerous life, the sea – full of giant beasts, raging storms and wayward ships bobbing around like steel icebergs.
ref: 2004, Peter Walsh, How to Organize (Just About) Everything: More than 500 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything from Organizing Your Closets to Planning a Wedding to Creating a Flawless Filing System, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, instruction 480:
text: He did an imitation of a pirate: "Arr, Arr, Arr, me buckos."
ref: 2007, Howard [A.] Norman, Devotion, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Suddenly a pirate voice said, "Arr, Arr, Arr. Are you looking for me gold?" Josh looked startled and Will began to laugh.
ref: 2008, Gwen Lepkowski, “Tornado”, in Cross-country Treasure Hunt (and the Mystery that Followed), Longwood, Fla.: Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Used stereotypically in imitation of pirates.
Derived terms: oo arr
arr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: är
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: arrs
form: arring
form: arred
form: arred
form: ar
Etymology: Possibly from aye.
The pirate-imitation form was derived from the West Country dialect after its use by West Country-born actor Robert Newton (1905–1956) in the films Treasure Island (1950) and Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)—and the former’s spin-off media—in which he played, respectively, the fictional pirate Long John Silver and the historical pirate Edward “Blackbeard” Teach (c. 1680 – 1718; also a West Country native).
Senses: examples: text: How do you know someone's a pirate? Because they arr.
text: This distances the audience from the ripping yam element of the story, and for all the sails and stockades which decorate the stage, there are times when the pace drops and the inevitable oo-arring gets a bit coarse. One small pirate in the audience commented that it got a bit boring when they all stood around talking—and he was not entirely wrong.
ref: 2005, “Treasure Island: A New Adaptation by Grace Barnes”, in Theatre Record: The Chronicle of the British Stage, London: Shuttleworth, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 968:
text: Pirates become a running joke between us. When she was a sophomore, I once served her artichokes, arugula, and arroz con pollo for dinner, and we "arred" our way through the entire meal.
ref: 2011, Sarah Bird, The Gap Year: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-59279-8; 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-7876-5, page 9
glosses: To say “arr” like a pirate.
Synonyms: sense: yes
word: ay
word: aye
word: ya
word: yea
word: yeah
word: yep
word: yes
sense: pirate
word: yarr
arr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: är
ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: arrs
Senses: examples: text: Why against printers all this noise? This summoning of blackguard boys? Why so sagacious in your guesses? Your effs, and tees, and arrs, and eſſes? Take my advice; to make you safe, I know a shorter way be half.
ref: a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “On the Irish Club”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VIII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of ar; the name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Related terms: word: ahoy
word: avast
word: ay
word: be
word: booty
word: doubloon
word: hearty
word: Jolly Roger
word: matey
alt: Etymology 2
word: me
word: parlay
word: peg-leg
word: piece of eight
word: shiver
word: them
blindsided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: blindsighted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blindside
ragging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rag
ragging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raggings
Senses: examples: text: But she was openly nice to me after that day under the trailer, and her acceptance of me (probably combined with her father's position in the military hierarchy) led to a gradual end to the raggings I received […]
ref: 2008, Andrew Wells, Never Quite Depraved:
glosses: The act of one who rags or teases.
examples: text: “ragging” means any disorderly conduct, whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any other student indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a Junior student or asking the student to do any act or perform something which such student will not do in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment or adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a Junior student;
ref: 2008, The Goa Prohibition of Ragging Act, 2008 (Act 9 of 2009) section 2(e)
synonyms: word: hazing
glosses: An initiation in educational institutions (e.g. universities) usually involving harassment by seniors.
dissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diss
dissing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪsɪŋ/
Forms: form: dissings
Senses: examples: text: One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.
ref: 2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82:
glosses: Synonym of diss (“an insult or put-down”).
synonyms: word: diss
extra: an insult or put-down
bombings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombing
roadblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadblock
roadblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roadblock
obstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obstruct
rehearsals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehearsal
jailhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪlˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: jailhouses
Etymology: From jail + house.
Senses: examples: text: “SBF may serve as little as 12.5 years, if he gets all of the jailhouse credit available to him,” Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN.
ref: 2024 March 28, Lauren del Valle and Allison Morrow, “Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in federal prison”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A building containing a prison.
Derived terms: jailhouse lawyer
Related terms: prison
penitentiary
nicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Etymology: From nick + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nick
nicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: more nicked
form: most nicked
Etymology: From nick + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having one or more nicks; notched.
glosses: Stolen.
examples: text: Get yer trousers on, you're nicked.
ref: 1974, Ian Kennedy Martin, Regan, spoken by Jack Regan (John Thaw):
text: "Mr Punch," I said. "You're nicked."
ref: 2011, Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Gollancz, published 2011, page 324:
glosses: Captured (by police); arrested.
Synonyms: sense: having one or more nicks
word: jagged
word: notchy
word: notched
sense: stolen
word: lifted
word: stolen
sense: arrested
word: apprehended
sense: arrested
word: busted
sense: arrested
word: collared
Derived terms: unnicked
nicked up
felons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felon
breached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -iːtʃt
homophone: breeched
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breach
scammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scam
hyenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyena
funhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌnˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: funhouses
form: fun house
Etymology: From fun + house.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s not good stewardship. If the guests wanted to walk through a funhouse with guys jumping out of the shadows saying ‘booga-booga,’ they’d go to one of the Halloween Houses in their hometowns. The Mansion’s better than that. I can’t be a part of this plan.”
ref: 2003, Cory Doctorow, chapter 6, in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom:
glosses: A structure, usually at a circus or amusement park, enclosing several interactive attractions such as distorting mirrors, ramps, slides, stairs, rotating barrel slides, etc., that usually do not involve performers.
Derived terms: funhouse mirror
impends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impend
weirded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weird
impended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impend
weirding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weird
weirding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The weirding of English has been an ongoing phenomenon throughout history.
ref: 2004, Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien, Weird English, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
text: The Anthropocene is about global weirding—the weirding of a natural world that can no longer be separated from human interference, but also the weirding of human existence that has become a “geological force,” beyond control and intention.
ref: 2020, Gabriele Dürbeck, Philip Hüpkes, editors, The Anthropocenic Turn: The Interplay between Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Responses to a New Age, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: There is no better example of such a phenomenon as the infamous moment when Bob Dylan was proclaimed a ‘judas’ for going electric. Such an invasion might be read as a weirding of dominant culture.
ref: 2023, Richard Perks, John McGrath, editors, 21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: The process of becoming weird.
Derived terms: global weirding
peddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peddle
peddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peddlings
Senses: examples: text: Boats shuttled to and fro, and the hawkings and peddlings of all sorts of wares helped to create an amazing scene of activity and prosperity.
ref: 1982, Chinese Literature:
glosses: The act of one who peddles.
Derived terms: antipeddling
influence peddling
peddling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: insignificant; unimportant; piddling
bozos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bozo
truffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truffle
suckered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sucker
suckered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The joystick had a suckered base to keep it on the table.
text: On September 19, six mature stalks, each from a separate hill, were taken from a suckered row and eleven from an unsuckered row alongside.
ref: 1889, Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin, numbers 1-12, page 157:
glosses: Equipped with a sucker or suckers.
paternity leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɜːnɪti ˌliːv/
ipa: /pəˈtɜ(ɹ)nəti ˌliv/
ipa: [-ɾi]
Forms: form: paternity leaves
Etymology: From paternity + leave, modelled after maternity leave.
Senses: examples: text: My husband is on a three-month paternity leave while he looks after our newborn baby and I’m working abroad.
hypernyms: parental leave
coordinate_terms: maternity leave
glosses: A leave of absence from a job for a father to care of a baby.
Derived terms: pawternity leave
reconsidered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconsider
partied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of party
poolhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpulˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: poolhouses
Etymology: From pool + house.
Senses: glosses: A structure containing equipment used for a swimming pool.
uncalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + called.
Senses: examples: text: an uncalled foul
antonyms: called#Adjective
glosses: Not called.
Related terms: uncalled-for
pends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛndz/
rhymes: -ɛndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pend
screwup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwups
form: screw-up
Etymology: Deverbal from screw up.
Senses: examples: text: The Ford administration emerged in better shape than it deserved from the fantastic screw-up that preceded the release of the Rockefeller...
ref: 1977, John Osborne, White House watch: the Ford years, page 147:
synonyms: word: fuckup
english: obscene
translation: obscene
word: aberration
word: barbarism
word: bloomer
word: blooper
word: blunder
word: boner
word: boo-boo
word: break
word: clanger
word: cock-up
word: error
word: fault
word: faux pas
word: floater
word: flub
word: fluff
word: fuckup
word: gaffe
word: goof
word: howler
word: inaccuracy
word: lapse
word: lapsus
word: mess-up
word: misstep
word: mistake
word: oopsy
word: screwup
word: slip
word: slip-up
word: slipup
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: wrength
word: solecism
word: erroneity
glosses: A substantial mistake, usually causing problems for more people than just the person or group who made it.
synonyms: word: fuckup
english: obscene
translation: obscene
word: alcatote
word: auf
word: botcher
word: bumbler
word: bungler
word: blunderer
word: blunderhead
word: butterfingers
word: chucklehead
word: clodhopper
word: dauber
word: duffer
word: dumbshit
word: fuckup
word: fumblefingers
word: fumbler
word: galoot
word: gaum
word: gawk
word: gobaloon
word: goon
word: gype
word: trapes
word: klutz
word: lomperd
word: looby
word: lubber
word: lummox
word: lumpkin
word: maladroit
word: mess-up
word: messup
word: muff
word: oaf
word: palooka
word: peabrain
word: pisher
word: sad sack
word: schlemiel
word: schmuck
word: screwup
word: shit bird
word: slangrill
word: spaz
word: stumblebum
word: turkey
word: weapon
word: yutz
glosses: A person who often makes substantial mistakes; a bungler.
synonyms: word: fuckup
english: obscene
translation: obscene
glosses: A person who is mentally or emotionally damaged.
memos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memo
memos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of memo
mailroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mailrooms
Etymology: From mail + room.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, Pete. This is not the gym. — That’s right, Anna. This is the mailroom.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: A room used for receiving and (usually) sending mail.
Synonyms: porter's lodge
filmmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filmmakings
form: film making
Etymology: From film + making.
Senses: glosses: The activity of preparing edited video works, formerly principally films, whether for entertainment or other purposes.
glosses: The manufacture of physical film.
Synonyms: word: cinematography
word: film-craft
word: moviemaking
word: the seventh art
Related terms: filmmaker
ems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of em
yakking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yak
teaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of team
teaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teamings
Senses: examples: text: The father-son byplay is occasionally overdone and tedious, but there is a genuine warmth in both the Oland-Luke and the Toler-Sen Yung teamings.
ref: 1983, Frank Northen Magill, Magill's American film guide, volume 1, page 647:
glosses: An instance of teamwork.
Derived terms: forced teaming
shoveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shovelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shovel
shoveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shovelings
form: shovelling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shovelling.
rescheduled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reschedule
lowlifes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowlife
fantasized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fantasize
dissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diss
creeped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːpt/
rhymes: -iːpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creep
tucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tuck
tucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuckings
Senses: examples: text: White embroidery, lace, delicate tuckings, and elaborate ribbings rioted across the white of his short doubtlet, breech, and tight stockings.
ref: 2006, Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A tuck.
swapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swappings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is swapped; an exchange.
Derived terms: cum swapping
genderswapping
swapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swap
swapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: large; whopping
setbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setback
paychecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paycheck
maxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of max
harts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hart
envisioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of envision
docked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dock
hold all the aces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds all the aces
form: holding all the aces
form: held all the aces
form: held all the aces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hold the cards.
hang by a thread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs by a thread
form: hanging by a thread
form: hung by a thread
form: hung by a thread
form: hang on by a thread
Etymology: An allusion to the anecdotal sword of Damocles, which was suspended by a hair.
Senses: examples: text: A giant section of an Antarctic ice shelf is hanging by a thread and could break off at any moment, researchers have revealed.
ref: 2017 June 2, Nicola Davis, “Giant Antarctic iceberg 'hanging by a thread', say scientists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Life in the SCP universe continually hangs by a thread, threatened constantly by the existence of a number of dangerous and apocalyptic anomalies. These threats are countered and contained by the existence of organizations such as the SCP Foundation or the Global Occult Coalition.
ref: 2019 January 14, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-2935 - O, Death” (0:07 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023:
text: Do you ever get a little bit tired of life / Like you're not really happy, but you don't wanna die / Like you're hanging by a thread, but you gotta survive / 'Cause you gotta survive
ref: 2022 January 28, Em Beihold, Nick Lopez, Dru DeCaro, “Numb Little Bug”, in Egg in the Backseat, performed by Em Beihold:
synonyms: hang by a hair
glosses: To be in danger, calling for precise caution; to be in a precarious situation.
hanging by a thread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang by a thread
peepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peeper
holding all the aces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold all the aces
software package
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: software packages
Senses: examples: text: The office software package includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and a database.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A suite of programs that function as a single entity to accomplish a task, or group of related tasks.
Related terms: distro
poikilocarynosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poikilocarynoses
Senses: glosses: The formation of cells, having variably shaped nuclei, that occurs in Bowen's disease.
Busse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the German surname, spelling variant of Buss, itself a pet form of Burkhard. Also from a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box, firelock”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
polygonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more polygonically
form: most polygonically
Etymology: From polygonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: polygonally
polygonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygonizations
Etymology: From polygon + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The subdivision of a plane into polygons
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of subgrains within the grains of a metal when worked
Related terms: polygonize
polygonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polygonizes
form: polygonizing
form: polygonized
form: polygonized
Etymology: From polygon + -ize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To subdivide a plane into polygons.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To form subgrains within the grains of a metal when worked.
Related terms: polygonization
rasterize
mudda fucka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudda fuckas
Senses: glosses: mother fucker.
water break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water breaks
Senses: glosses: A rest period during the business day (usually of about 10 or 15 minutes), allowing people to fetch a drink.
glosses: Alternative form of waterbreak (in various senses)
Related terms: coffee break
gate crash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gate crashes
form: gate crashing
form: gate crashed
form: gate crashed
Senses: examples: text: A total stranger, cannot as a rule, gate crash a purely private party, though cases do exist when this has been done.
ref: 1968, Omar Kureishi, “Out to Lunch”, in Publications, Vision, page 21:
text: One of the women in my group was staying at the same hotel, but she had plans to be with friends that first night and I did not want to “gate crash” her time.
ref: 1996, Sheila Walsh, Honestly, Zondervan, published 1997, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Out on the “strip”, it was party night, so we gate crashed the evening.
ref: 2007, Tony Bell, Life in the Bus Lane, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu, →ISBN, page 264:
text: It was 1936 when the twenty-year-old "Ruffles" Johns announced to the press that he was going to attempt the biggest gate crash of his young career.
ref: 1970, Miles Wolff, Lunch at the five and ten: the Greensboro sit-ins: a contemporary history, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of gatecrash.
Derived terms: gate crasher
symmetric matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmetric matrixes
form: symmetric matrices
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A square matrix that is its own transpose, and is thereby symmetric about the main diagonal
hogreeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogreeves
form: hog-reeve
form: hog reeve
Etymology: From hog + reeve.
Senses: synonyms: hog constable
glosses: A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large.
polyamorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyamorists
Etymology: From polyamory + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This lack of interest in multi-party marriage among polyamorists is particularly interesting given the fact that, as mentioned above, there is often a legal marriage between at least two of the partners in a polyfidelitous group.
ref: 2005, Kelsi Brown Corkran, “Exclusion and Expression in Marriage”, in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, volume 6, number 1, page 61:
glosses: An advocate or practitioner of polyamory.
polyamorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + amorphism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The existence of multiple amorphous forms of a substance
Related terms: polyamorphic
polymorphism
polyadenopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyadenopathies
Etymology: From poly- + adenopathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: polyadenosis
hypernyms: adenopathy
lymphadenopathy
glosses: A disease that affects multiple lymph nodes.
polyadenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyadenoses
Etymology: From poly- + adenosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: polyadenopathy
glosses: A disease that affects multiple lymph nodes
polyadenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒliˈædɪnəs/
ipa: /ˌpɑliˈædɪnəs/
Forms: form: more polyadenous
form: most polyadenous
Etymology: From New Latin polyadenus.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having many glands.
polygonoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygonoscopes
Etymology: From polygon + -o- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of hinged mirrors for the production of multiple images of an object.
clued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clue
amphiphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphiphilic
form: most amphiphilic
Etymology: From amphi- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: Sequential living polymerizations of hydrophilic and hydrophobic vinyl ethers from these trifunctional initiators give amphiphilic triarmed block copolymers where the hydrophilic segments may be placed either inner or outer layer of the three arms.
ref: 1997, Hatada, Macromolecular Design of Polymeric Materials, →ISBN, page 45:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Being a detergent: having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic (or lipophilic) groups.
raw_tags: of a molecule
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having one surface consisting of hydrophilic amino acids and the opposite surface consisting of hydrophobic (or lipophilic) ones.
raw_tags: of a protein
Derived terms: amphiphilically
amphiphilicity
nonamphiphilic
Related terms: amphipathic
amphiphobic
amphiprotic
amphoteric
surfactant
broncos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronco
boatwright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatwrights
Etymology: From Middle English botwright, botwrythe, equivalent to boat + wright.
Senses: examples: text: From the early fourteenth century onwards, the hospital employed a cook and his assistant, along with an assortment of hired hands, including a laundress, a palfreyman, a boatwright, a smith and a swineherd.
ref: 1999, Carole Rawcliffe, Medicine for the Soul:
glosses: A maker of boats, especially of traditional wooden construction.
thx
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of thanks.
stooges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stooge
billings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪlɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of billing
talkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talkie
examples: text: “We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”
ref: 2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (0:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):
glosses: Talking movies.
minutemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minute-men
form: minute men
Senses: glosses: plural of minuteman
maximum break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maximum breaks
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: The highest score possible in one visit to the table in a frame of snooker, 147 in normal circumstances (excluding the case where the break starts with a free ball), achieved by potting all fifteen reds with fifteen blacks and then the six colours in order.
Synonyms: 147
Related terms: century break
147
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 147s
Senses: examples: text: The first player to make a 147 in a World Championship match was Cliff Thorburn.
text: 2005, Dec 16. Clive Everton, writing about Ding Jun Hui in The Guardian
Unfortunately, his two 147s have been in events offering no bonus prize.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
synonyms: maximum break
maximum
glosses: The highest score possible in one visit to the table in snooker in normal circumstances (excluding the case where the break begins with a free ball).
grissini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪˈsiːnɪ/
ipa: /ɡɹəˈsini/
rhymes: -iːni
Senses: glosses: plural of grissino
relevel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relevels
form: releveling
form: relevelling
form: releveled
form: releveled
form: relevelled
form: relevelled
Etymology: From re- + level.
Senses: glosses: To level again; to restore an even surface or distribution to.
releveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relevel
releveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relevel
relevels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relevel
pomate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊmət/
ipa: /ˈpəʊmət/
Forms: form: pomates
Etymology: From Medieval Latin pomatum (“cider, ointment”) either directly or via slightly earlier English pomatum, from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”) + -ātum (“-ate: forming nouns”). Doublet of pomatum, pomade, and pomace.
Senses: examples: text: Shee with no Pomate paints her Face...
ref: 1625, Alexander Garden, Characters and Essays, page 47:
glosses: Synonym of ointment, particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair.
synonyms: word: ointment
word: particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair
examples: text: Patient he sits, while Master Puff, with pomate, tongs, and powder-pluff... gives each hair its proper station...
ref: 1774, Archibald Bruce, The Kirkiad..., Canto I, 18:
glosses: Synonym of pomade, a kind of thick waxy hair product used as a styling gel.
synonyms: word: pomade
extra: a kind of thick waxy hair product used as a styling gel
pomate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊmət/
ipa: /ˈpəʊmət/
Forms: form: pomates
form: pomating
form: pomated
form: pomated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin pomatum (“cider, ointment”) either directly or via slightly earlier English pomatum, from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”) + -ātum (“-ate: forming nouns”). Doublet of pomatum, pomade, and pomace.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anoint: to apply ointment.
synonyms: word: anoint
extra: to apply ointment
glosses: Synonym of pomade: to apply pomade.
synonyms: word: pomade
extra: to apply pomade
glosses: Synonym of mash: to crush into a paste.
synonyms: word: mash
extra: to crush into a paste
technophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technophobias
Etymology: From techno- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: cyberphobia
text: But on one major point, neo-Luddites agree: They would loathe computerization even if hordes of unwitting neo-Luddites hadn't suddenly made technophobia so trendy.
ref: 1995 July, Bob Ickes, “Die, Computer, Die!”, in New York, →ISSN, page 24:
text: I learned that, as Jane approached discharge, I would attend pump class, to learn how to program pumps in our apartment and infuse Jane with water, food, and drugs. My technophobia covered its eyes.
ref: 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 121:
antonyms: technophilia#Noun
technophoria#Noun
techno-utopianism#Noun
techno-optimism#Noun
coordinate_terms: technopessimism#Noun
technodeterminism#Noun
techno-futurism#Noun
glosses: A fear of new technologies.
Related terms: technophobe
technophobic
neo-Luddism
baulk colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baulk colours
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: Any one of the three colours normally spotted on the baulk line in snooker. Namely the yellow, green, and brown balls.
in baulk
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: In the area behind the baulk line in cue sports.
kidnappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kidnapping
deactivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deactivate
Related terms: disactivated
inactivated
unactivated
check side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check sides
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: A sidespin of the cue ball which makes it bounce off the cush, or off another ball, at a shallower angle than normal.
cellblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellblocks
form: cell block
Etymology: From cell + block.
Senses: examples: text: The cellblock where the men were held was close enough to the holding tank, where the women were all kept together, for us to hear much of what happened there.
ref: 1983 December 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Cops Bust 70 Anti-Nuke Demonstrators”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 6:
glosses: A wing of a prison containing cells for the inmates.
Related terms: jail cell
prison cell