cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anti-social
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-social
form: most anti-social
Senses: examples: text: There must be some deep-rooted anti-social principle in every man's nature, so dearly does he love aught that separates him from his kind; or is it but one of the many shapes taken by that mental kaleidoscope, vanity, the varying and the glittering, the desire of distinction, sinking into that of notice?
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 66:
glosses: Alternative spelling of antisocial.
archerfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archerfish
canned heat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fuel made from denatured and jellied alcohol and contained in a canister with a removable top, designed to be burned directly from that canister.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: Pre-recorded cheering or booing played during a match.
Faliscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fəˈlɪskən/
Forms: form: Faliscans
Etymology: From Latin Faliscus + -an; see Falisci.
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient Italic people who lived in southern Etruria
Faliscan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fəˈlɪskən/
Etymology: From Latin Faliscus + -an; see Falisci.
Senses: glosses: The language of these people, related to Latin.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Faliscan terms
bedoven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bedove
Etymology: From Middle English bedoven, from Old English bedofen, past particle of Old English bedūfan (“to bedive, to put under, immerse, submerge, drown”), equivalent to be- + dive. Cognate with Middle Low German bedöven (“immersed”).
Senses: examples: text: Life of Saint Christina Mirabilis of Saint Trudons
Alle hir body […] semyd be dowen in blood. [All her body seemed bedoven in blood.]
text: The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dank deep was every sike.
ref: A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512
text: The words were unneeded as a woman, bedoven in blood and screaming, stumbl'd out from the back of the lead truck into the glaring lights.
ref: 2015, LT Wolf, The World King, ebook edition (fiction), →ISBN:
text: Gentlemen, before this is over, we'll be bedoven with mud but the swine will be dead. We shall swallow our foes.
ref: 2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning:
glosses: drenched.
glosses: drowned.
Heilong Jiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hei-lung Chiang
Etymology: From Chinese 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóng Jiāng).
Senses: examples: text: The planes were manufactured and assembled in Komsomolsk, which is located to the northeast of Khabarovsk, a Russian city in the lower valley of the Heilong Jiang (called the Amur River in Russia), at the confluence of the Heilong Jiang [...]
ref: 1997, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 209-217, page 10:
glosses: The Amur river.
Related terms: english: a Chinese province bordered by the river
translation: a Chinese province bordered by the river
word: Heilongjiang
womans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of woman
womans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman
examples: text: Whereupon our enemies, kindled with rage, and pricked forward with an ignominious indignity, leſt they ſhould be brought under the yoke of a womans government, with a strong power of choiſe youth, by force of armes invaded her kingdome, which was foreſeen by us: […]
ref: 1610, William Camden, “Romans in Britaine”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 48:
text: Galen ſaith, The Roots of Spignel are available to provoke Urine and Womans Courſes, but if too much thereof be taken it cauſeth Headach: […]
ref: 1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Spignel”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, page 222, column 1:
text: For that fair femal Troop thou ſawſt, that ſeemd
Of Goddeſſes, ſo blithe, ſo ſmooth, ſo gay,
Yet empty of good wherein conſiſts,
Womans domeſtic honour and chief praiſe; […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 610–613:
text: If a man Dreams his hair is long, like a Womans, that ſignifies cowardize and effœminacie, and that he that Dreams will be deceiv’d by a Woman.
ref: 1669, Marck de Vulson; Sieur de la Colombiere, translated by J. G, The Court of Curiositie. Wherein, by the Algebra and Lot, the Most Intricate Questions Are Resolved, and Nocturnal Dreams and Visions Explained, According to the Doctrine of the Antients. To Which Is Also Added, a Treatise of Physiognomy., London: […] J. C. for William Crooke, page 45:
text: Wherefore the Earl of Eſſex, if he had not been befated with a ſtrong Opinion of ſucceſs in all his actions, (though built on the weakeſt foundation,) would never have referred his life and future well-being to the ſole arbitration of Chance, and the unconſtant guidance of a Womans Affection; which being only skin-deep, could not but in a Court furniſh a perſon of far leſs magnitude than a Sovereign Power with choice enough; eſpecially after his enemies, for their own ſecurity, had ſo far Indulged his, as to furniſh him with an Army paid by the Q. and choſen by himſelf.
ref: 1689 [1683], Francis Osborn[e], “Some Traditional Memorials on the Reign of Q. Elizabeth”, in The Works of Francis Osborn, Esq; […], 9th edition, London: Printed, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, →OCLC, paragraph 10, page 606:
text: Upon this, by Conſent, the Doctors put a Good Armful of Warm Womans Fleſh into the Bed to him, [...]
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Abstemius, &c.] Fab[le] CCLXXXI. A Sick Hermit.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 245:
glosses: genitive of woman
put horns on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts horns on
form: putting horns on
form: put horns on
form: put horns on
form: put the horns on
Etymology: Compare Russian наста́вить рога́ (nastávitʹ rogá).
Senses: glosses: To cuckold, to be unfaithful to.
coanchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coanchors
Etymology: From co- + anchor.
Senses: glosses: One of a group of anchorpeople presenting together on television or radio.
coanchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coanchors
form: coanchoring
form: coanchored
form: coanchored
Etymology: From co- + anchor.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently, Chung coanchored ABC News' 20/20 and Connie Chung Tonight on CNN.
ref: 2009, Christopher H. Sterling, Encyclopedia of journalism, page 85:
glosses: To be a coanchor of
coanchors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coanchor
ijma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ijma'.
give someone the business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the business
form: giving someone the business
form: gave someone the business
form: given someone the business
Senses: examples: text: “I hope you're right, Mike. I hope you aren't giving me the business.”
I grinned at him. “The only one who can get shafted is me.”
ref: 1951, Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, Penguin, published 1980:
text: "They wouldn't waste the women. I'd guess they've got them up at the hotel, taking it in turn to give them the business. Four women only – they won't last till morning."
ref: 1965, Wilbur Smith, The Dark of the Sun, published 2008:
glosses: To treat someone harshly or in a wrongful manner, such as by abusing, deceiving, or manipulating.
examples: text: The Red Dean's utterances, as usual, got on some people's nerves. The irreverent New York Daily News gave him the business, in a full-column editorial, ending; "Nobody curbs these whizbangs in the United States or England, where they are free to be as nutty as their capacities will permit."
ref: 1945 November 26, “Religion: Canterbury Red”, in Time:
text: Then the kids at school started giving me the business about being a fairy, called me the African Queen.
ref: 1973, Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle (1977 Randlom House edition), p. 149
text: They'd switch frequencies and there she'd be like Tokyo Rose, giving them the business. “What you doing here, Marines? You come to kill us? Why? We haven't done nothing to you.”
ref: 1982, Elmore Leonard, Cat Chaser, →ISBN:
glosses: To harangue, criticize vigorously, berate, or ridicule someone.
Synonyms: sense: treat harshly or wrongfully
word: take advantage of
sense: harangue, criticize, ridicule
word: diss
sense: harangue, criticize, ridicule
word: dress down
sense: harangue, criticize, ridicule
word: make fun of
sense: harangue, criticize, ridicule
word: scold
guisarmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guisarme
waterzooi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɑː.tə.zɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈvɑ.tɚˌzɔɪ/
Forms: form: waterzoë
form: waterzoei
form: waterzoie
Etymology: From Dutch waterzooi.
Senses: glosses: A type of Flemish stew, traditionally made with fish.
dibbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibber
roselle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈzɛl/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈzɛl/
Forms: form: roselles
form: rosella
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps an alteration or misapprehension of French oseille denoting this plant, specific use of oseille sorrel; perhaps compare also sorrel.
Senses: examples: text: I planted some roselle in the garden so I can start making my own hibiscus tea instead of relying on processed agua de jaimaica powders.
text: Roselle has also been used as a source of plant fiber called roselle hemp.
ref: 1993, Y.P.S. Bajaj, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants V, page 218:
synonyms: word: bissap
word: jamaica
word: putwa
word: Guinea sorrel
word: red sorrel
word: sorrel
glosses: Hibiscus sabdariffa, an edible flower in the hibiscus family used to make hibiscus tea.
wikipedia: Arthur Coke Burnell
Henry Yule
Hobson-Jobson
John Murray (publishing house)
William Crooke
Related terms: sorrel
roselles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roselle
shamshir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃæmˈʃɪər/
Forms: form: shamshirs
form: shamsheer
Etymology: From Persian شمشیر (šamšir, “sword”). Doublet of scimitar.
Senses: glosses: A Persian curved blade without a pommel.
Hypernyms: scimitar
Related terms: scimitar
Akel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Akels
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish Akel and Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql, “wisdom, reason”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
man catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man catchers
form: mancatcher
Senses: glosses: A type of polearm used in 18th century Europe that consists of a long pole and a two-pronged circular head for snaring the enemy around the neck.
mancatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mancatchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man catcher.
Tamay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tamays
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tamay. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
khopesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊpɛʃ/
Forms: form: khopeshes
form: khepesh
form: kopesh
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian ḫpš.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient-Egyptian sickle-like sword.
shotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotels
Etymology: From Amharic ሽቶል (šətol).
Senses: examples: text: "The kilij has a slight taper down the straight part of the blade. In the bottom portion, it angles sharply and becomes deeper." "So," Thomas said, "you're suggesting there are different types of scimitars?" "Yeah, a bunch. There's the Afghani pulwar, the Ethiopian shotel, the Turkic aldaspan, and at least a dozen more." "You're the resident swordsman, considerate it yours."
ref: 2015 March 17, John Wayne Falbey, “Chapter 39 Dubai”, in Endangered Species: A Sleeping Dogs Thriller, volume 2, The Falbey Group, LLC, →ISBN, page 266:
glosses: An Abyssinian curved blade similar to the scimitar.
broad sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad swords
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of broadsword.
agua de jamaica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agua de jamaicas
Etymology: From Spanish agua de jamaica, literally "water of roselle".
Senses: examples: text: Our study in California among low-income immigrants from Mexico and first-generation Mexican Americans showed that 68 ... Tacos (-11%) "Agua de Jamaica" (-40%) "Fideos" (-22%) Meat/Vegetables (-10%) "Atole" (-40%) "Chilaquiles" (-21%)
ref: 1994. Nicolás Kanellos, Claudio Esteva Fabregat, Thomas Weaver, "Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology: Volume 4", Page 346
text: agua de Jamaica is a popular drink made by steeping the red flower of the Jamaica plant in warm ^H water and then serving it chilled
ref: 2000. Bruce Geddes, "Mexico", Page 66
text: while agua de jamaica is made with dried hibiscus leaves.
ref: 2010. John Noble, Kate Armstrong, Greg Benchwick, "Lonely Planet Mexico", Page 83
text: flavoured cold drinks, of which the most common are horchata (rice milk flavoured with cinnamon) and agua de arroz (like an iced rice-pudding drink – delicious), agua de jamaica (hibiscus) or de tamarindo (tamarind).
ref: 2010. Daniel Jacobs, John Fisher, "The Rough Guide to Mexico", Page 51
text: I really like Jarritos' agua de jamaica because they make it with real sugar and the home made agua is nasty.
glosses: A beverage made from the roselle plant's sepals, usually an infusion or a soda.
short sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short swords
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shortsword.
PTCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
ventricular tachycardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventricular tachycardias
Etymology: ventricular + tachycardia
Senses: examples: text: If your patient has a ventricular tachycardia then defibrillation may not work.
glosses: A heart attack involving a heightened heart rate in a ventricle of the heart.
Synonyms: word: VT
word: v-tach
Derived terms: catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
Related terms: atrial tachycardia
auricular tachycardia
ventricular fibrillation
ventricular tachycardias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventricular tachycardia
v-tach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: v-tachs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ventricular tachycardia.
Related terms: v-fib
v-tach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: v-tachs
form: v-taching
form: v-tached
form: v-tached
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To undergo ventricular tachycardia.
v-fibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of v-fib
v-taching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of v-tach
veniole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venioles
Senses: glosses: Any of the smaller veins in the heart, especially those connecting with capillaries.
Related terms: venule
arteriole
venioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veniole
Kenan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * Borrowed from Hebrew קֵינָן (qēnå̄n).
* Alternatively, possibly a variant of Keenan, from Irish Cianán, a diminutive of Cian.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A descendant of Seth, son of Enos.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Derived terms: Kenansville
antique shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antique shops
form: antiques shop
Etymology: From antique (“noun”) + shop.
Senses: examples: text: My grandmother Rosemary never cared much for antique shops, she preferred modern goods as opposed to the things of yore.
text: New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress. The name - which means 'ford by the alders' - is pronounced 'Allsford'; and no one ever uses 'New', though they do call the adjoining village Old Alresford.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144:
ref: 2007, US Census Bureau, Last week, Sarah cleaned and painted the back room of her house in preparation for setting up an antique shop there.:
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: A business dedicated to storing, selling, restoring, and trading in items from previous eras for their superficial and historical value, especially furniture and trinkets.
Synonyms: antiques store
antique store
Related terms: antiquarian
antiquary
antique collector
antique dealer
antiques market
laser pointers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laser pointer
betimber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betimbers
form: betimbering
form: betimbered
form: betimbered
Etymology: From Middle English *betimbren, from Old English betimbran, betimbrian (“to construct, build”), equivalent to be- + timber.
Senses: examples: text: Wrought there and fashion'd the folk of the Weders A howe on the lithe, that high was and broad, Unto the wave-farers wide to be seen: Then it they betimber'd in time often days, The battle-strong's beacon; [...]
ref: 1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:
glosses: To build.
glosses: To furnish with timber; timber.
bethump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bethumps
form: bethumping
form: bethumped
form: bethumped
Etymology: From be- + thump.
Senses: glosses: To thump soundly.
bethumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bethumbs
form: bethumbing
form: bethumbed
form: bethumbed
Etymology: From be- + thumb.
Senses: glosses: To take hold of or mark with the thumbs; soil or mark with frequent thumbing.
finocchios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finocchio
antiques shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antique shop.
bethrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bethrows
form: bethrowing
form: bethrew
form: bethrown
Etymology: From Middle English bethrowen, from Old English beþrāwan (“to twist”), equivalent to be- + throw. Cognate with West Frisian bedraaie (“to cheat, deceive”), Dutch bedraaien (“to involve”), German bedrehen (“to heave to, come to”).
Senses: examples: text: Gioseso, hauing prouided a good Holly-wand, went into the Chamber, where his wife sate railing, and despitefully grumbling, where taking her by the haire of her head, bethrew her at his feete, beating her entreamely with the wand.
ref: 1620, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleasant Nouels:
text: Were I a flower what would I do, […]
I would be growing to be
Be made into a garland to
To bethrow
two people in a
A bond of marriage or
Or adorn,
the neck of someone honoured
at a drop of a hat.
ref: 2013, Amritpal Singh, Journies of Fledging Steps, page 34:
text: O master heare you, you have made a fresh hand now, I thought you would bethrow you: what will you doe now?
ref: 2014, Paul A. Scanlon, Adrian Roscoe, The Common Touch: Popular Literature from the Elizabethans to the Restoration, →ISBN:
glosses: To throw or twist about; throw off; torture.
roided out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roided out
form: most roided out
form: 'roided out
Etymology: From roid + -ed + out. See steroid.
Senses: examples: 2010. "Odd Man Out"
He's so roided out it's ridiculous.
2010. "Undateable: 311 things guys do that guarantee they won't be dating"
At a Major League Baseball game, three obviously 'roided-out men made their way to their seats in the middle of the section.
2011. "Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse"
Her boyfriend, tall, 'roided out, and fake-tanned, tells her to “be cool, slut.”
glosses: Having a very muscular physique, especially one obtained from the actual or apparent use of anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
'roided out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roided out.
bethwack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bethwacks
form: bethwacking
form: bethwacked
form: bethwacked
Etymology: From be- + thwack.
Senses: glosses: To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.
betie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beties
form: betying
form: betied
form: betied
Etymology: From be- + tie.
Senses: glosses: To tie round; bind fast.
bethrall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bethralls
form: bethralling
form: bethralled
form: bethralled
form: bethral
Etymology: From be- + thrall.
Senses: examples: text: Ne let that wicked woman scape away ; For she it is , that did my lord bethrall
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To enthrall; enslave.
betongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betongues
form: betonguing
form: betongued
form: betongued
Etymology: From be- + tongue.
Senses: glosses: To assail with the tongue; flout; rally.
betoss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betosses
form: betossing
form: betossed
form: betossed
Etymology: From be- (“around, about”) + toss.
Senses: glosses: To toss about.
non-consensual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-consensual
form: most non-consensual
Etymology: From non- + consensual.
Senses: examples: text: 2001. "Briefcase on Medical Law"
MB's needle phobia rendered her temporarily incompetent and a non-consensual caesarean section would be lawful.
text: 2004. "Legal interaction between decisions of international organizations"
Non-consensual decision-making process within organs of IOs The third interesting result of this research relates to the method of adoption of decisions of IOs as compared to international treaties.
text: 2011. "Clinical Forensic Medicine: A Physician's Guide"
Nonconsensual Cunnilingus is alleged to have occurred in only 3–9% of reported sexual assaults
text: My testimony was non-consensual as I was forced to rat on my husband since our same-sex marriage is not recognized.
glosses: Without permission, without consensus or consent, with coercion, especially said of sexual relations.
Related terms: consensuality
date rapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: date rapists
form: date-rapist
Etymology: From date + rapist.
Senses: examples: text: 1994. "Date Rape"
T. here is no such thing as the typical date rapist.
text: 2009. "Sex and Society Volume 1"
The date rapist often plans a date intending to have sex with the woman.
text: 2011. "Sex, Love, and Friendship"
Since dating behaviors are derived from the prostitution model, date rape, instead of being a crime of violence, ... The date rapist is confused.
text: It is very easy to fall prey to a date rapist if you are attractive and alone in a bar in a new city.
glosses: A person that commits date rape, typically a male perpetrator that commits a form of sexual assault or coercion upon a new acquaintance during what is usually a first date, either by force or with the assistance of a date rape drug.
Related terms: roofies
Rufalin
GHB
Rohypnol
date-rapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: date-rapists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of date rapist.
acquaintance rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquaintance rapes
Etymology: From acquaintance + rape.
Senses: examples: text: 1990. Maine Department of Public Safety,
Acquaintance rape: he's your friend--and he could rape you
text: Acquaintance rape has become prevalent partly because these attitudes are so pervasive.
ref: 1991, Andrea Parrot, Laurie Bechhofer, Acquaintance Rape: The Hidden Crime:
text: 1993. "Rape: The Misunderstood Crime"
Unique Qualities of Acquaintance Rape Compared to rapes by strangers
text: 1999. Andrea Parrot,
Coping with date rape and acquaintance rape
glosses: Rape by someone known to the victim, such as date rape, marital rape, or rape by a teacher or supervisor.
Macolyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækəlaɪt/
Forms: form: Macolytes
Etymology: Blend of Mac + acolyte.
Senses: examples: text: So long as Macolytes keep paying Apple's high prices, its 28% gross margins should far exceed PC rivals — especially if it keeps expanding its portfolio with non-PC products such as the iPod MP3 music player.
ref: 2002, Business Week, numbers 3814-3826, page 288:
text: Will anyone beyond deep-pocketed Macolytes fork over $499-599 (4GB and 8GB models, respectively) and embrace Cingular service, with its sluggish data network, for a two-year contract?
ref: 2007 May 5, Steve Morgenstern, “Ring In The New”, in Billboard, page 27:
text: […] and Macolytes are well served, but the Chenies Street branch specialises in Apple products and sells many Mac-compatible accessories.
ref: 2010, Time Out, London's Best Shops, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: A loyal user of Apple products, such as Macintosh computers, iPads, and iPhones.
Synonyms: Machead
Macolytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Macolyte
reality distortion fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reality distortion field
Pond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ponds
Etymology: * As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound.
* As a German and north/Low German surname, Americanized from Pfund and Pund respectively, both related to the above.
Senses: examples: text: "How do you know?" asked Mr Pond rather snappishly and in unusual irritation.
ref: 1929, G. K. Chesterton, The Poet and the Lunatics:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Greenspond
hoboglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoboglyphs
form: hobo glyph
Etymology: From hobo + glyph.
Senses: glosses: A sign, usually chalked on a wall or walkway, left by a hobo (tramp) to advise others of local conditions
classic rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Above all though, our poll seems to indicate one thing - in 2009 classic rock still rules."
ref: 2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC:
glosses: A radio programming format that includes hard rock music from the mid-1960s through 1980 or later.
bone-crunching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bone-crunching
form: most bone-crunching
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says.
ref: 2009 May 28, Penelope Green, “Jersey Girls, Nesting”, in New York Times:
text: The bone-crunching AC/DC classic Back In Black landed at number six, followed by Metallica's Enter Sandman and the chiming riff of The Beatles' Day Tripper at eight.
ref: 2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC:
text: Back in August, the Toon ace was kicked from pillar to post by Karl Henry in a bone-crunching midfield battle at Molineux.
ref: 2011 April 2, Steve Brenner, “Joey will defy pack of Wolves”, in The Sun:
glosses: Very violent or hard, as an impact.
castelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castelets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of castlet.
pinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinters
Etymology: From pint + -er.
Senses: glosses: The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer
raw_tags: in combinations
examples: text: “Anyway, I'd best get a shuffle on. Got to pick some milk up, you see.” “I've just been too.” Sure enough he showed the hedgehog a four-pinter.
ref: 2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red, page 262:
glosses: A container that holds a certain number of pints.
raw_tags: in combinations
examples: text: She's so ugly, an eight-pinter, I'd say.
glosses: Something that takes a certain number of pints of beer to appreciate.
raw_tags: in combinations
princeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prince + -less.
Senses: examples: 1873?, Cora's Delusion
Notwithstanding the round of pleasures in which she every summer took prominent part, she could not stifle her inward and continuous yearning for the music of a princely voice, the glance of devotion from princely eyes, the touch of a princely hand in the dance, and the sweet envy of all maidens who had to go princeless through life.
glosses: Without a prince.
bacmids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacmid
kloofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kloof + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A recreational activity involving descent into a deep ravine or watercourse.
Synonyms: canyoning
Josephism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Joseph + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The policies and reforms of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741–1790) of Austria.
Josephina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latinate variant of Josephine.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
nephelometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nephelometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of nephelometry.
Derived terms: immunonephelometrically
immunoturbidimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + turbidimetry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to immunoturbidimetry.
idiotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiotisms
Etymology: From idiot + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
text: Idiotism had long been accepted as hopeless: ‘Absolute idiocy admits of no cure,’ noted the nineteenth-century psychiatrist George Man Burrows (1771–1846).
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 488:
glosses: Very severe mental retardation.
examples: text: […] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A foolish utterance.
idiotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiotisms
Etymology: From Latin idiotismus.
Senses: glosses: Idiom.
glosses: An overly literal translation of an idiom.
idiotisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiotism
intis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inti
raise borer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raise borers
Senses: glosses: A machine used to excavate a circular hole between two levels of an underground mine without the use of explosives.
decreolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkɹɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: decreolizations
Etymology: From de- + creolization.
Senses: examples: text: At some point in the decreolization process, however, xenolectal structures become masked by surface-structure mimicry of the matrilect, so that the apparent degree of xenolecticity of the evolving mimolect drops below the real level, as represented by the crossover of A-B and C-D.
ref: 1989, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy, English across cultures, cultures across English, →ISBN, page 277:
text: In the process, as substantial numbers of black speakers underwent decreolization, their decreolized speech, although technically a mimolect, would have much of the surface form and therefore social status of a true matrilect, and would itself then serve as an additional model for those speakers further behind in the decreolization process.
ref: 1990, Edward Herman Bendix, The Uses of Linguistics - Volume 583, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process of decreolizing.
Related terms: depidginization
decreolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decreolization
ritualic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ritualic
form: most ritualic
Etymology: Compare French rituélique.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ritual.
Related terms: ritualistic
trokosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trokosis
form: trokosi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Trokosi.
trokosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trokosi
Alfvén
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alfvéns
form: Alfven
Etymology: From Swedish Alfvén.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Derived terms: Alfvén number
Alfvén speed
Alfven surface
Alfvén time
Alfvén velocity
Alfvén wave
round-heeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more round-heeled
form: most round-heeled
Senses: examples: text: Do we really need — or want — round-heeled labor unions? Or round-heeled government regulators? Or protectionism? We have done rather well with our open and adversarial way.
ref: 1985, Ben J. Wattenberg, The good news is the bad news is wrong, page 254:
glosses: Easily defeated; a pushover.
examples: text: At first she had wondered what he wanted of her, when (so she had heard) plenty of round-heeled Washington girls were his at a push.
ref: 1978, Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance:
text: Okay, so she [Sandra Fluke]'s not a slut. She's "round heeled". I take it back.
ref: 2012, Rush Limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy)
glosses: Sexually promiscuous; sluttish.
Related terms: roundheels
reedgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reedgrasses
form: reed grass
Etymology: From reed + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of the grasses in the genus Calamagrostis.
reedgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reedgrass
rockist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockists
Etymology: From rock + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The basic thesis of the book is that generations of British rockists attended art school and that this explains the distinction and domination of Britpop.
ref: 1987, New Society, volume 82:
text: Rockists would maintain that their music has progressed since 1956, but there is so little musical difference between rock and pop that many of the artists would be impossible to place in one camp or the other.
ref: 1995, Donald Clarke, The rise and fall of popular music: part 2:
text: The rockism debate began in earnest in the early 1980's, but over the past few years it has heated up, and today, in certain impassioned circles, there is simply nothing worse than a rockist.
ref: 2004 October 31, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Rap Against Rockism”, in The New York Times:
text: If the idea of rockism confused you, and you lazily thought Pink Floyd were automatically better than Gang of Four, and that good music had stopped with punk, you were a rockist and you were wrong.
ref: 2006 May 25, Paul Morley, “Rockism—it's the new rockism”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who subscribes to rockism.
rockist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rockist
form: most rockist
Etymology: From rock + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Reframe that argument for dance music specifically, and things get weird. Techno and house end up in the “rockist” category — despite their origins in queer culture and radical Blackness — because of their relative emphasis on tradition, craft and underground legitimacy.
ref: 2022 December 1, Chal Ravens, “We like to party: how pop became the sound of the underground”, in DJ Mag:
glosses: Related to rockism.
rockists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockist
rockism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rock + -ism. See rock music.
Senses: examples: text: Near as a body could tell from here, rockism wasn’t just liking Yes and the Allman Brothers — it was liking London Calling.
ref: 1990 January 2, Robert Christgau, “1980–1989: Rockism Faces the World”, in The Village Voice:
text: The rockism debate began in earnest in the early 1980's, but over the past few years it has heated up, and today, in certain impassioned circles, there is simply nothing worse than a rockist.
ref: 2004 October 31, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Rap Against Rockism”, in The New York Times:
text: You literally can't fight rockism, because the language of righteous struggle is the language of rockism itself.
ref: 2005, J. T. LeRoy, Paul Bresnick, Da Capo best music writing 2005, page 133:
text: If the idea of rockism confused you, and you lazily thought Pink Floyd were automatically better than Gang of Four, and that good music had stopped with punk, you were a rockist and you were wrong.
ref: 2006 May 25, Paul Morley, “Rockism - it's the new rockism”, in The Guardian:
text: Broadly speaking, rockism is the belief that rock is the most important form of popular music[…]
ref: 2008, Philip Auslander, Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture, page 126:
text: By the mid-00s, rockism seemed suffocating. To move beyond it, [Kelefa] Sanneh suggested we envisage a world where “it’s impossible to separate classics from guilty pleasures” and try “to acknowledge that music videos and reality shows and glamorous layouts can be as interesting – and as influential – as an old-fashioned album”.
ref: 2025 September 28, Rachel Aroesti, “In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: popism
poptimism
glosses: A kind of music snobbery that views rock music as superior or normative and values music with "authentic" production values over modern "manufactured" and electronic forms.
Derived terms: rockist
retinula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinulas
form: retinulae
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin rētinula, diminutive of Medieval Latin rētina. By surface analysis, retin(a) + -ula.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the group of pigmented cells that surround the retinophorae of invertebrates.
retinulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinula
retinulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinula
retinaculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌrɛtɪˈnækjʊləm/
Forms: form: retinacula
Etymology: From Latin retināculum, from retinēre (“hold back”).
Senses: examples: text: the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A connecting band.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: jaculator
glosses: A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
retinacula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinaculum
ileocolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ileo- + colic.
Senses: examples: text: The ileocolic artery is the lowest branch arising from the concavity of the superior mesenteric artery.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ileum and colon
Related terms: ileocecocolonic
roffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roffles
form: roffling
form: roffled
form: roffled
Etymology: From ROFL, Internet abbreviation for "rolling on the floor laughing".
Senses: examples: text: I roffled at this.
ref: 2002, Tim Byron, “i dedicate this to the sheepsticks.”, in alt.music.radiohead (Usenet):
text: Just finished roffling at today's 'oh lucky you'.....mirth aplenty!
ref: 2004, Witchy, “monday's show”, in uk.media.radio.radcliffe (Usenet):
text: I wondered if someone watching might consider that a 'plan' and feel compelled to, well, build a fence. My own reaction was to roffle and say, "Now ain't that a woman".
ref: 2006, Gayle, “Westboro Baptist Church”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):
glosses: To laugh uproariously; to be greatly amused.
bank-and-turn indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank-and-turn indicators
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turn-and-bank indicator.
rollneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollnecks
form: roll-neck
Etymology: From roll + neck.
Senses: examples: text: There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.
ref: 2003, James Burr, “Blue”, in L. H. Maynard, M. P. N. Sims, editors, Darkness Rising 2003, Canton, Oh.: Prime Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: A turtleneck sweater.
rollnecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollneck
praxeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more praxeological
form: most praxeological
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to praxeology.
praxeologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From praxeological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of praxeology.
Yerkish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjɜːrkɪʃ/
Etymology: From Yerkes + -ish, after Robert M. Yerkes, the founder of the laboratory within which the lexigrams were first used.
Senses: examples: text: Kanzi's ability to ‘speak’ in Yerkish and understand English is impressive.
ref: 2022, Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater, chapter 8, in The Language Game […] , →ISBN:
glosses: An artificial language of lexigrams developed for use by non-human primates.
wikipedia: Robert Yerkes
birationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From birational + -ity or bi- + rationality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being birational.
rotodome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotodomes
Etymology: From roto- + dome.
Senses: examples: text: […]air-target surveillance and cueing radars mounted in rotodomes[…]
ref: 2008, Jacek F. Gieras, Advancements in electric machines, page 98:
glosses: A rotating radome.
rotodomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotodome
rotorcrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotorcraft
rotavated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rotavate
rotavating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rotavate
rotavates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rotavate
shrogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrog
Turing jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turing jumps
Etymology: Named after Alan Turing.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In computability theory, an operation that assigns to each decision problem X a successively harder decision problem X′ with the property that X′ is not decidable by an oracle machine with an oracle for X.
wikipedia: Alan Turing
Turing jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turing jump
oracle machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oracle machines
Senses: examples: text: Thus, an oracle machine (which enacts an oracle algorithm) would be like an ordinary Turing machine, except that adjoined to its ordinary computational operations would be another operation: ‘Call in the oracle and ask it whether C_q(n) stops; […]
ref: 1994, Roger Penrose, “Quantum theory and the brain”, in Shadows of the Mind, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 380:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In computability theory, a form of theoretical Turing machine, able to solve even undecidable decision problems in a single operation.
oracle machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oracle machine
hyperarithmetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + arithmetical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hyperarithmetic.
thoughted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thought + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Light-thoughted Mirth grew serious, and wept
ref: 1828, Robert Pollok, The Course of Time:
glosses: Having thoughts of a specified kind.
Derived terms: low-thoughted
resedimenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resediment
resediments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resediment
Airy function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Airy functions
Etymology: Named after George Biddell Airy.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A function, denoted by Ai(x), that is a solution to the Airy equation.
wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: Airy stress function
Related terms: Airy beam
Airy equation
Airy integral
Airy equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Airy equations
Etymology: Named after George Biddell Airy.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (d²ʸ)/(dx²)-xy=0,,!, the simplest second-order linear differential equation with a turning point (a point where the character of the solutions changes from oscillatory to exponential).
wikipedia: George Biddell Airy
Synonyms: Stokes equation
Related terms: Airy beam
Airy function
Airy integral