cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disassociator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disassociators
Etymology: From disassociate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which disassociates.
disassociators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disassociator
bows and arrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow and arrow
Snarry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Snape + Harry.
Senses: examples: text: Best Excuse for a Wandering Mind: SNARRY!, Jason Isaacs, Alan Rickman
ref: 2004 December 31, barbarella [username], “Re: That Was The Year That Was 2004”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):
text: "Snarry is part of a subgenre of fan fiction called Slash," she says. "Snarry depicts romantic relationships between Harry Potter and Severus Snape, together - Snarry. […]
ref: 2009 July 17, David Templeton, “One geek over the line”, in Pacific Sun:
text: Snarry slash people (ie people who write fan fiction about Snape and Harry getting it on till the break o’dawn) are super-intense. Seriously that is one rich, rich subculture.
ref: 2009 July 22, Lev Grossman, “Notes from Azkatraz, a Harry Potter Convention”, in Time:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Harry Potter and Severus Snape of the Harry Potter series.
thingummabob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingummabobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thingamabob.
salsatheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salsatheques
Etymology: Blend of salsa + discotheque.
Senses: examples: text: Accustomed to more arduous tasks, the Montubios dance without the wild display seen in the salsatheques, with their heads held high, some without shoes.
ref: 1988, Pablo Cuvi, In the Eyes of My People: Stories and Photos of Journeys through Ecuador, Dinediciones, →ISBN, page 172:
text: 'Spanish was one of my languages at university, so I spent time in Ecuador. And they don't have discotheques, they have salsatheques, so I learned salsa from a little lady who was about the size of Ronnie Corbett - if Dirty Dancing comes calling, I'll be there.'
ref: 2006, Keith Watson, "Andrew strikes it lucky", London Evening Standard, 26 February 2008
text: After 30 years, Sese has earned the title as the oldest salsatheque in Quito, and continues to attract the best dancers in town, who come to this underground club to see and be seen.
ref: 2010, V!VA Travel Guides: Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Viva Publishing Network, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: A discotheque that only plays salsa music.
salsatheques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salsatheque
bio-break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bio-breaks
form: bio break
form: biobreak
Etymology: From bio- + break.
Senses: examples: text: We stopped once for a bio-break at a road side gas station. Most of us (including a few women) used the bushes because it took too long to get in the bathrooms.
ref: 2004 December 16, Trever Bushnell, “Pro Cycling News: Riding the Ruta de los Conquistadores”, in Daily Peloton, retrieved 07 Oct 2013:
text: "You are either going to stop for a gas break, meal break or a bio break. At these facilities you can do all three."
ref: 2006 December 24, Scott Jason, “Travel Center Slated to Open Early '07”, in Modesto Bee, retrieved 07 Oct 2013:
text: Bin-Laden says his hatred of flush toilets stems from an incident in his youth when he was visiting London with his family and faced with nature's urge to take a bio-break was shocked to see his first flush toilet.
ref: 2008 December 2, Victor Nicholas, “El Qaeda Targets Flush Toilets”, in The Spoof, retrieved 07 Oct 2013:
text: There is barely time for a bio break in between events.
ref: 2009 January 8, Rick Merritt, “Video: LG's Woo Paik on 3DTV”, in EE Times, retrieved 07 Oct 2013:
glosses: A visit to a bathroom or restroom in order to relieve oneself.
bio break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bio breaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bio-break.
biobreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biobreaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bio-break.
Destiel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Dean + Castiel.
Senses: examples: text: His overt revulsion is caused by the Wincest fan fiction — the Sam-slash-Dean pairing that also alarms Dean in the epigraph of this paper — and to a Dean-slash-Castiel (or Destiel) kink meme in which Castiel has a crab claw for a hand.
ref: 2011, Brigid Cherry, “Becky Rosen, Fan Identity, and Interactivity in Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press, →ISBN, page 204:
text: All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.
ref: 2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8
text: I'm always happy to write some sappy Destiel one shot (a one chapter story, often focused solely on fluff, or pure cuddles) when writer's block is making work on Phoenix difficult.
ref: 2013, Evangeline Warren, "Confessions of a Teenage Fangirl", INKredible!, Issue 4, Summer 2013, page 21
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.
Græco-Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Greco-Latin.
H/Hr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This news group certainly seemed to filled with a lot of R/Hr people. As I am a H/Hr person and I believe that Hermione and Harry have this subtle thing that's being^([sic]) built up since the very beginning, I will elaborate on my personal beliefs.
ref: 2002 May 4, Imran [username], “Re: Ron and hermoine”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: I can't help but suspect it's either some sort of passive-aggressive moralistic reaction or thinly disguised sour grapes on the part of die-hard H/Hr shippers.
ref: 2007 September 7, Bill Blakely, “Re: What happens next?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: For instance, those who write about or are interested in a relationship between Harry and Hermione are considered “H/Hr” shippers.
ref: 2007 Katie Greenway, "Dumbledore heats up overwhelming fanfic", The Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 25 October 2007
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.
Synonyms: H/H
Harmony
Oviedans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oviedan
pampathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpampəθi/
ipa: /ˈpæmpəθɪ/
Forms: form: panpathy
Etymology: Formed as pam- (“all”) + -pathy (“feeling”) after sympathy, empathy, etc.
Senses: examples: text: It is a “pampathy” or all-feeling which produces in every individual a deep-felt longing to be at one with the whole universe of which each is a part.
ref: 1918, Édouard Le Roy, translated by Lydia Gillingham Robinson, What Is a Dogma?, page 5:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The supposed faculty that causes its possessors to yearn to commune with the “All” of existence.
raw_tags: of religion
panpathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpanpəθi/
ipa: /ˈpænpəθɪ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pampathy.
broha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹoʊˈhɑ/
ipa: [ˈbɹoʊ̯ˈhɑ]
Etymology: Unknown, most likely a blend of bro and aloha, perhaps in association with brah or brotha.
Senses: glosses: Dude, bro. (Used to address another male, stereotypically used by surfers.)
Synonyms: bro
brah
bra
brosky
dude
man
Ailan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ailans
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.
zion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zions
Etymology: From Hebrew ז.
Senses: glosses: zayin, Hebrew letter ז.
apneumone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æpn(j)uːˈməʊni/
Forms: form: apneumones
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any substance produced by nonliving material that benefits a recipient species but is detrimental to a different species associated with the nonliving material.
Related terms: semiochemical
allomone
kairomone
synomone
boomerang effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boomerang effects
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A strong opposing response caused by attempts to restrict a person's freedom or change their attitudes.
Related terms: backfire effect
Epione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Ēpionē, from Ancient Greek Ἠπιόνη (Ēpiónē), from Ancient Greek ἤπῐος (ḗpĭos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Ancient Greek goddess of soothing of pain.
Related terms: english: Epione's husband
translation: Epione's husband
word: Asclepius
english: one of Epione's daughter
translation: one of Epione's daughter
word: Hygieia
english: one of Epione's daughter
translation: one of Epione's daughter
word: Hygiea
english: one of Epione's daughters
translation: one of Epione's daughters
word: Iaso
english: one of Epione's daughters
translation: one of Epione's daughters
word: Aceso
english: one of Epione's daughters
translation: one of Epione's daughters
word: Aglaea
english: one of Epione's daughters
translation: one of Epione's daughters
word: Panacea
english: one of Epione's daughters
translation: one of Epione's daughters
word: Meditrina
word: Machaon — one of Epione's son
english: one of Epione's sons
translation: one of Epione's sons
word: Podaleirios
english: one of Epione's sons
translation: one of Epione's sons
word: Telesphoros
english: Epione's stepson
translation: Epione's stepson
word: Aratus
Musubi-no-Kami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Musubi no Kami
Etymology: From Japanese 結びの神 (Musubi no Kami).
Senses: qualifier: pop culture
glosses: The Japanese god of matchmaking, love and marriage.
Tenjin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 天神 (Tenjin), from 天 (then, “Heaven”) + 神 (zyin, “deity”, “god”).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: A Japanese god of the heavens; also the Shinto kami of scholarship.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
head_nr: 1
glosses: A Japanese term for deva.
Raijin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 雷神 (Raijin), from Middle Chinese 雷 (lwoj, “thunder”) + 神 (zyin, “deity”, “spirit”).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: The Japanese god of lightning, thunder and storms, along with Fūjin and Susanoo.
Fūjin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 風神 (ふうじん Fūjin), from Middle Chinese 風 (MC pjuwng, “wind”) + 神 (zyin, “deity”, “spirit”).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The Japanese god of winds and storms, along with Raijin and Susanoo.
wikipedia: Sōtatsu
Kajin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 火神 (かじん, Kajin, literally “fire god”).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: Kagutsuchi, the Japanese god of fire.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Japanese translation for Agni.
Suijin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 水神 (Suijin).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A Japanese god of water; another name for Ryūjin.
Dojin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 土神 (Dojin).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A Japanese god of earth, land or soil.
gag reflexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gag reflex
puppyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppyships
Etymology: From puppy + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The puppy, a wee thing, rotund as a butter ball, wandered into the police station several days ago. His puppyship made himself at home immediately.
ref: 1905 November 27, “Police Are In Mourning”, in The Spokesman-Review:
text: About this time his master folds up his paper, tells his puppyship, "No, he can't come," and is gone to the office, wherever that is.
ref: 1917, C. Arthur Coan, The Fragrant Note Book: Romance and Legend of the Flower Garden and the Bye-Way, G. P. Putnam's Sons, published 1917, page 32:
text: He displaced a warm whimpering bundle of young dog from the fur robe and handed him to Minette.
The girl gathered up his puppyship and held him close against her. He curled down contentedly absorbing the warmth of her arms and body.
ref: 1921, Mary Briarly, In His Own Image, The Macmillan Company, published 1921, page 60:
glosses: Informal title applied to a puppy.
ship war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship wars
Senses: examples: text: Oh, no, not another ship war between members of Team Edward and Team Jacob.
text: They seemed fascinated by my and Meg's absorption in the Harry Potter culture, so we told them stories of the ship wars […]
ref: 2008, Melissa Anelli, Harry, A History, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 236:
text: 'Ship wars' are discussions, usually between female fans, about who the best partner would be for their favourite character or artist, a classic example being the debates over whether Yoko Ono was good for John Lennon.
ref: 2013, Mark Duffet, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 248:
text: Habermas may not have imagined ship wars as a context for practical discourse, but fandom is in fact an excellent space in which to engage in the forms of contestation he describes.
ref: 2013, Emily Regan Wills, “Fannish discourse communities and the construction of gender in The X-Files”, in Transformative Works and Cultures, volume 14:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An intense and sometimes hostile disagreement between shippers of rival ships in a fandom.
ship wars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ship war
Team Jacob
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Of course, there are those two camps I mentioned earlier in this chapter: Team Edward and Team Jacob. Over time, Team Jacob has grown to the point where a lot of fans prefer Jacob to Edward.
ref: 2009, Lois H. Gresh, The Twilight Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series, St Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: However, Team Jacob members on the Anglophone boards were even more emphatic in their dismissal of Edward, and several posters argued that his behavior was abusive.
ref: 2010, Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Rebecca Williams, “Transnational Twilighters: A Twilight Fan Community in Norway”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 200:
text: Team Jacob argues that Jacob's warmth, support, and wolfy exuberance should have won Bella away from her vampire swain.
ref: 2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 192:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The faction of Twilight fandom which prefers Bella Swan in a romantic relationship with Jacob Black.
Related terms: Team Edward
Team Edward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: However, the continued conflict between Team Jacob and Team Edward shows that the series is sufficiently open to allow for the shipping of both Bella/Edward and Bella/Jacob.
ref: 2010, Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Rebecca Williams, “Transnational Twilighters: A Twilight Fan Community in Norway”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 202:
text: To Team Edward, the canon pairing with the stoic, troubled, immortal 17-year-old is unquestionable.
ref: 2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 192:
text: Although the tension between Team Edward and Team Jacob fans is usually expressed in playful banter, there is the possibility that this group conflict will erupt into hostility.
ref: 2011, Melissa Burkley, “Prejudice in Twilight”, in E. David Klonsky, Alexis Black, editors, The Psychology of Twilight, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The faction of Twilight fandom which prefers Bella Swan in a romantic relationship with Edward Cullen.
Related terms: Team Jacob
kink meme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kink memes
form: kinkmeme
Senses: examples: text: Kink memes are generally hosted on the blogging platforms Dreamwidth or LiveJournal, which have comment structures that allow for specific requests to be put up and responded to in a linked manner.
ref: 2018, Rukmini Pande, Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, page 166:
text: Noticeably, most of these kinkmeme prompts revolve around Sherlock and John's sexual/romantic relationship in one form or another.
ref: 2019, Christiana Gregoriou, "The Fandom Is Afoot: BBC Sherlock and Its Fanfiction at Play", in Retold Resold Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Global Era (Christiana Gregoriou, David Platten, & Gigliola Sulis), unnumbered page
text: It was originally published in late 2010 in response to a request on the Supernatural kinkmeme.
ref: 2021, Milena Popova, Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent, page 45:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An online space in which requests for fan fiction (generally involving a specific kink) are posted and fulfilled anonymously.
Hypernyms: anon meme
kink memes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kink meme
crackfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackfics
Etymology: From crack + fic.
Senses: examples: text: I have to disagree with you here, however; the content of the episode in question is the sort of thing I'd expect to find in a crackfic - written because it's too insane an idea to just be left alone, enjoyable in its own way but not remotely on the level of something actually *intended* to be good - and it isn't improved significantly IMO by having been animated.
ref: 2005 November 19, The Wanderer [username], “Re: Naruto -- so, are we having fun, boys and girls?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: Some crackfic scenarios include characters transforming into animals, swapping bodies, swapping gender, swapping consciousnesses with inanimate objects, becoming inanimate objects, de-aging rapidly (from twenty-six to six in the space of seconds), and traveling through time (to name just a small handful).
ref: 2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), page 159
text: […] and what a tragedy it was that I'd never finish my epic, multi-fandom, crossover crackfic saga (though there were not, in my opinion, nearly enough comments expressing this latter regret).
ref: 2012, Helen Keeble, Fang Girl, HarperTeen, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of crack fic.
crackfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackfic
Nova Gorica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Slovene Nôva Goríca (“New Gorizia”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Slovenia that lies next to Gorizia in Italy.
chanslash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese ちゃん (chan), a familiar suffix commonly affixed to the names of children, and slash.
Senses: examples: text: Are you going to leave chanslash and shotakon for another discussion?
ref: 2002 December 23, Stacey, “Re: The little things (CoS movie--spoilers!)”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: Hm, from where I originally heard, it struck a Harry Potter list-owner first. Her entire account was deleted. Some say it's because one of the groups she owned was an HP chanslash one.
ref: 2003 August 23, Dina Lerret, “Re: Yahoo TOSing slash lists -- Cause for concern”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
text: Slash is subdivided into subcategories, a partial list of which might include yaoi (slash involving manga and anime characters), chanslash (explicit slash involving minor characters, such as Harry/Draco or Snape/Harry (also known as Drarry and Snarry, respectively) from the Harry Potter universe), […]
ref: 2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate, →ISBN, pages 10–11:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Slash fan fiction involving minor characters.
sandwichable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sandwichable
form: most sandwichable
Etymology: From sandwich + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Arrange them on a large or platter along with sliced pickles and tomatoes, luncheon meats, lettuce and other "sandwichable" items.
ref: 1956 August 17, “Americans Are Notorious For Their Informality”, in Meriden Record:
text: In my personal opinion, the kind of bagels we're used to in this area are not very sandwichable.
ref: 2000 January 7, “Bruegger's retreats in bagel wars”, in Courier Post, Cherry Hill, New Jersey:
text: […] and in these days of soaring prices and shrinking hours, usually we would rather make sure the loaves we lavish our time and money on are going to be light as well as tasty, edible as well as incredible, free from holes and goo, and sliceable, even toasterable and sandwichable […]
ref: 2003, Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders Bronwen Godfrey, The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking, Random House, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Capable of being used to make a sandwich.
yuppity
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈjʌpɨɾi]
Etymology: Alteration of yup.
Senses: examples: text: >and she's got it to work properly now,
Yuppity! =)
ref: 2000 May 27, Adeline, “Re: Matthew Perry in car accident?”, in alt.tv.friends (Usenet):
text: >The rule you quote here would match any From: line that had something
>after From: and outside the angle brackets. According to the Turnpike
>Help File - which you really ought to read if you intend to embark upon
>this sort of exercise:
Yuppity!
ref: 2003 October 20, Wm… [username], “Re: What is a "reverse path"”, in demon.ip.support.turnpike (Usenet):
text: >Bob Dylan.
Yuppity. Dat's de guy.
ref: 2004 August 31, John Hatpin, “Re: Biography quiz III”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
glosses: Yes.
yuppity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈjʌpɨɾi]
Forms: form: more yuppity
form: most yuppity
Etymology: Possibly a blend of yuppie and uppity.
Senses: examples: text: The Bodeguita del Medio takes its name from Ernest Hemingway's favorite bar in downtown Havana, and in honor of the Cuban connection it has a cigar-smoking "divan" at the back of the house. The earth may not move for him any more, but Hemingway is all over this yuppity little California Avenue joint — along with Bill Clinton.
ref: 2003, Elgy Gillespie, The Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 432:
text: “Yeah, that yuppity one up the street is where all the FBI guys go, but they wouldn't be caught dead in this place. […]
ref: 2010, Steve Westover, Defensive Tactics, Bonneville Books, →ISBN, page 53:
text: She was dressed to the nines. Not in an all-black, yuppity, Coach handbag kind of way, but in a distinctly Mercyx way.
ref: 2011, James Bernard Frost, A Very Minor Prophet, Hawthorne Books, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Posh, snooty.
yeppity
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈjɛpɨɾi]
Etymology: From yep + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Bingo, I thought. Hoho haha, yep yeppity yes.
ref: 2003, Cathy Hopkins, Mates, Dates, and Sequin Smiles, Simon Pulse, published 2004, →ISBN, page 160:
text: Yeppity, sir. You're exactly the kind of lucky guy who does OK by this plan.
ref: 2007 November 2, Mark Lane, “Another tax plan, more FAQ”, in The Daytona Beach News-Journal:
text: “But it says five—whoa. You mean five hundred thousand?“
“Yeppity."
ref: 2011, Caprice Crane, With a Little Luck, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: Yes.
cellular telephones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellular telephone
measuring rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measuring rods
Senses: glosses: A graduated staff, typically having alternate black and white sections, used (along with a theodolite) in surveying
sugar thermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar thermometers
Senses: synonyms: candy thermometer
glosses: A thermometer used to measure the temperature of heated sugar syrup during the preparation of caramel and similar products.
carbozoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a trade name.
Senses: glosses: An anthrax vaccine containing saponin as an adjuvant.
addle-brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more addle-brained
form: most addle-brained
Senses: examples: text: She could tell him about Rusty, about the rush wedding, but then she'd have to admit what an addle-brained twit she'd been, running off without a thought or a prayer to marry a man for no reason other than that he'd asked her to.
ref: 2003, Loree Lough, An Accidental Hero, Steeple Hill Books, →ISBN:
text: “You know,” Collier said, “this is exactly the sort of fuzzy, addle-brained thinking that gives birth to conspiracy theories. […]
ref: 2005, Mike Lawson, The Inside Ring, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 236:
text: The woman must be addle-brained from lack of sleep.
ref: 2013, Patty Smith Hall, The Doctor's Bride, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: Muddled in thought or mind; foolish; stupid.
Foxification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Fox + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: The real cost of media consolidation and Foxification in our time is not, as many of my supporters believe, censorship, although that sometimes happens (witness the removal of the popular band the Dixie Chicks from 250 Cumulus-owned radio stations after the lead singer criticized President Bush over Iraq).
ref: 2004, Howard Dean, You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 141:
text: The “Foxification” of America's mass media was evident in the war's coverage. Most print and electronic stories described operations instead of analyzing the war's broader international context and consequences.
ref: 2012, William Nester, Haunted Victory: The American Crusade to Destroy Saddam and Impose Democracy on Iraq, Potomac Books, →ISBN, page 62:
text: As opposed to striving for balance or objectivity, Foxification pushes journalism towards more comment, speculation and politicisation.
ref: 2012, Stephen Cushion, Television Journalism, SAGE Publications Ltd, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: The process of mass media, particularly television news, adopting the format, practices, and perceived political leanings of Fox News.
pygophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪɡəfaɪl/
Forms: form: pygophiles
Etymology: From pygo- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: […] Pompeian wall-painting and a terracotta from Hadra display the heroine half-naked, as does a mosaic from Praeneste, whose back view is a pygophile's delight; […]
ref: 1985, Barry Balwdin, Studies on Greek and Roman History and Literature, J.C. Gieben, →ISBN, page 357:
text: "And so is this," nuzzling down her buxom body and lustily gnawing these sleek, melonous swells.
"Such a pygophile y'are."
ref: 2008, Dick Wimmer, The Wildly Irish Sextet, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 129:
text: For example, my first exposure to an erotic outlier was with a hebephilic pygophile who also had a touch of frotteurism.
ref: 2013, Jesse Bering, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
synonyms: butt lover
glosses: A person with an intense desire and/or sexual preference for the human buttocks.
Related terms: pygophilia
pygophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pygophile
lesbophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesbophiles
Etymology: From lesbo- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: In a recent interview with Playboy, Chris Rock clinched our attention, though we've been spying since his appearances on Saturday Night Live and in lesbophile Kevin (Chasing Amy) Smith's Dogma.
ref: 1999, Girlfriends: The Magazine of Lesbian Enjoyment, volume 6, page 31:
text: Sean laughed, "It's bizarre, all those holograms of celebrities."
"And you can pair them up however you want so long as it's not a man and a lady."
Pulling his shirt off, Sean said, "Very most lewdest for lesbophiles."
ref: 1999 July 17, Matthias, “Hotel Alpha 15 - dinos15.txt [1/1]”, in alt.sex.stories.gay (Usenet):
text: A note for the lesbophiles among us: that is the only time you're going to see Willow's mouth and Buffy's tit in the same place, so enjoy it.
ref: 2002 October 11, David Chapman, “Thoughts on Buffy 7X03 "Same Time, Same Place" - S7 SPOILERS”, in uk.media.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
glosses: A person (typically not a lesbian) with a fondness for lesbians or erotic contact between women.
Related terms: lesbophilia
lesbophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesbophile
lesbophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lesbo- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: It is his lesbophilia that sets Proust's narrator apart from the author, that marks the novel as a novel rather than a perverse exercise in selective autobiography.
ref: 1999, Elisabeth Ladenson, Proust's Lesbianism, Cornell University Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 133:
text: More broadly, we might ask to what extent French literature, with its twin associations of high culture and lesbophilia, came to be an oblique but acceptable signifier for lesbianism in the popular imagination of the twentieth century.
ref: 2001, Gretchen Schultz, “Daughters of Bilitis: Literary Genealogy and Lesbian Authenticity”, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 7, number 3:
text: Sweel Charity, like other backstage musicals, finds women in dressing rooms, sharing stockings and make-up, stories and sympathy in a setting that ideologically conveys rampant lesbophilia in the history of sexuality and offers spectatorial pleasures for feminist audiences.
ref: 2004, Stacy Wolf, "'Something Better than This': Sweet Charity and the Feminist Utopia of Broadway Musicals", Modern Drama, Volume 47, Number 2, Summer 2004
glosses: A fetishistic fascination (typically in non-lesbians) with lesbians and erotic contact between women.
pygophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpaɪɡəˈfiː.li.ə/
Etymology: From pygo- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Pygophilia may be, in Mr Melville's phrase, 'an infantile condition', but it is by several months less infantile than the curious obsession with breasts that plays so dominant a role in modern machismo.
ref: 1975, Kenneth Tynan, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 194:
text: Pygophilia is sexual excitement caused by seeing, touching, or fondling a woman's derrière.
ref: 2010, Christi Smith Scofield, Ted Scofield, Sexy Slang's Bedroom Challenges: 69 Ways to Spice Up Your Sex Life, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 16:
text: A hebephile (from “Hebe,” the Greek goddess of youth) prefers pubescents between the ages of roughly eleven and fourteen, and as for pygophilia, it's all about the buttocks.
ref: 2013, Jesse Bering, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: A paraphilia involving sexual attraction to buttocks.
Related terms: pygophile
fag marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fag marriages
Senses: examples: text: “There is the push for fag marriage in this country,” she said. “You’re a freak if you’re not fornicating by the time you’re 14.”
ref: 2010 September 28, Becky Young, “Community Rejects 'Message of Hate' at Weaver Memorial”, in Williamsburg Yorktown Daily:
text: He also suggested a “final solution to the problem of fag marriage” that involved replacing rice/birdseed with bullets/hand grenades at gay weddings (this book may not have gotten the details there quite right).
ref: 2011, Roland Boyle, Tea Party Guide to Being a Real American: Arming Yourself Against Godless Liberals, Dirty Socialists, and Sexy Ideas, Sourcebooks, →ISBN:
text: “I hear they are letting queers get married now. They voted yes on that fag marriage idea, so you should be happy Andy!”
ref: 2012, Zack W. Van, Inanimate Heroes, →ISBN:
glosses: Same-sex marriage.
nee'n't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /niːnt/
Senses: glosses: Contraction of need not.
big name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big names
Senses: examples: text: Solly had carried on the old business, and was making a big name for himself.
ref: 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England:
text: He made a big name in the war. And since he's been in the ranger service he's done wonders.
ref: 1915, Zane Grey, chapter 11, in The Lone Star Ranger:
text: Do you want to go out there and do the right things or do you want to make that big hit to gain a big name?
ref: 2013 January 29, Benjamin Hoffman, “At Media Day, Spotlight on Head Injuries Grows”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Oct 2013:
synonyms: fame
recognition
renown
glosses: A widely-known reputation, especially one that is favorable.
examples: text: All the big Hollywood names were present.
text: "You don't want me, you want a big name. They're all set to hang you over there. . . . It's a job for the biggest and best criminal lawyer in town."
ref: 1917, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 4, in Marching Men:
text: With the big names of Europe assembled in Washington for the signing of the Atlantic Pact, the pact itself and its implications continue to be the world's biggest story.
ref: 1949 April 10, Owen Lattimore, "Big Problem is to Make UN Work, Too," Sunday Herald (Connecticut USA), p. 12 (retrieved 10 Oct 2013)
text: [J]ust before Christmas 1983 . . . our editors were alerted that the surrealist painter Joan Miro had died. (A big name almost always dies around Christmas.)
ref: 2004 Mach 26, Richard Corliss, "That Old Feeling at 100," Time (retrieved 10 Oct 2013)
synonyms: word: celebrity
word: luminary
word: notable
word: baron
word: big cheese
word: big enchilada
word: big gun
word: big kahuna
word: big man
word: big name
word: big noise
word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: big wheel
word: boss
word: grand poobah
word: head honcho
word: heavy hitter
word: heavyweight
word: high muckamuck
word: high muckety-muck
word: king of all one surveys
word: king of the castle
word: king of the hill
word: kingpin
word: macher
word: mayor
word: muckamuck
word: muckety muck
word: mugwump
word: numero uno
word: poobah
word: rooster
word: somebody
word: top banana
word: top cat
word: top dog
word: top gun
word: very important person
word: VIP
word: wheel
glosses: A prominent individual, especially one who is favorably regarded.
Related terms: word: big-name
word: brand name
word: brand-name
word: brandname
word: make a name for oneself
word: name brand
tempest-tossed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tempest-tossed
form: most tempest-tossed
Senses: examples: text: When the dark storm and the howling blast sweep with their wintry pinions over its troubled bosom, I shall think of the rocking ship and the tempest-tossed sailor, whose home is on the faithless sea.
ref: 1842, George French Angas, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily, in the Autumn of 1841, Cambridge University Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 168:
text: Like a battle-scarred, tempest-tossed warship, with her sails in tatters, her masts broken, and bilges awash, T. Mellon & Sons was, incredibly, still afloat.
ref: 2011, James Mellon, The Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of Fortune, Yale University Press, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: Shipwrecks on tempest-tossed seas are featured in a number of other ballets and operas.
ref: 2011, Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 404:
glosses: Battered by a storm or storms.
examples: text: Divorced from Allan Wayne after a tempest-tossed marriage notable for locking each other out and scares over alleged kidnapings^([sic]) of their daughter, she married Arnold Grant in 1962.
ref: 1963, Cleveland Amory, Earl Blackwell, Celebrity Register: An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables, Harper & Row, published 1963, page 454:
text: There is little calm in their marriage, and it is almost always tempest-tossed.
ref: 1999, Shmuley Boteach, Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy, Broadway, published 1999, →ISBN, page 75:
text: And now, when any tempest-tossed soul fails to see that God is enough, I feel like saying, not with scorn, but with infinite pity, “Ah, dear friend, you do not know God! Did you know Him, you could not help seeing that He is the remedy for every need of your soul, and that He is an all-sufficient remedy. […]
ref: 2011, Hannah Whitall Smith, God of All Comfort, Anamchara Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 282:
glosses: Beset by adversity or fraught with dissension.
cultural ecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.
ENOTUITS
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Mimics the form of C error codes: for example, on Linux, a library call may return the error code ENOMEM to indicate that it has run out of memory. TUITS comes from round tuit.
Senses: examples: text: ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed
ref: 2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fictitious error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being discussed).
biggety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biggety
form: most biggety
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biggity.
infant mortality rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infant mortality rates
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society.
mehalek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mehaleks
Senses: glosses: A former currency of Abyssinia.
zeren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dzeren
Etymology: From Russian дзерен (dzeren), from Mongolian зээр (zeer).
Senses: examples: text: Only one is strictly Asiatic, Procapra (2), of which one species, P. gutturosa, the zeren, is the type host of Pallas' (1777) Lipoptena antilopes, a ked not seen again for the past 150 years.
ref: 1953, Brooklyn Entomological Society, Entomologica Americana, volumes 32-33, page 291:
text: 1993, Lauren S. Bahr, Bernard Johnston, Goat Gazelle, entry in Collier's Encyclopedia, Volume 2, page 285,
There are two species of goat gazelles: the goa, or Tibetan, gazelle, Procapra picticandata, and the zeren, or Mongolian, gazelle, P. gutturosa.
text: Saigas share part of their home range with the zeren (Procapra gutturosa). These Mongolian antelopes lack the distended nose that characterizes the saiga, but males do develop a similarly curious enlarged throat sac during the mating season.
ref: 2010, Paula Hammond, The Atlas of Endangered Animals: Wildlife Under Threat Around the World, page 195:
glosses: The Mongolian gazelle, Procapra gutturosa.
NAFLD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Altogether about a third of us are thought to have early stages of NAFLD.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 176:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: MAFLD
english: metabolic (dysfunction)-associated fatty liver disease
translation: metabolic (dysfunction)-associated fatty liver disease
glosses: Initialism of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a spectrum of disorders characterized by predominantly macrovesicular hepatic steatosis occurring in individuals in the absence of significant alcohol consumption.
bug zapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug zappers
Etymology: From bug + zapper.
Senses: glosses: An electrical-discharge insect-control device that attracts flying insects with ultraviolet light and electrocutes ("zaps") them with a high voltage.
bug zappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bug zapper
maintenance-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maintenance + -free.
Senses: examples: text: A maintenance-free car battery.
text: Presumably, God could have created a maintenance-free world but decided that it would be better for us to take responsibility for the world we live in.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 15:
glosses: Not requiring any maintenance.
gwerzioù
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gwerz
Portugual
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Portugal.
tradigital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɹəˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/
Etymology: Blend of traditional + digital, coined by Judith Moncrieff.
Senses: examples: text: What has happened since the formulation of The Technological Sublime has not proved me wrong: ASCII art, digital art, glitch art, digital poetry, tradigital art, software art, telematic art, system art, generative art, virtual art, computing art, viral art, […]
ref: 2017, Silvia Benso, Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers, page 132:
text: The resulting “tradigital” media practice has become a focus of my creative efforts over the past several years. […] it seems that there is no end to the variety one might find in what could ultimately be labeled as tradigital art practice.
ref: 2018, Anna Ursyn, Visual Approaches to Cognitive Education With Technology Integration:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Produced through, or using, a combination of traditional and computer-based techniques.
wikipedia: Judith Moncrieff
carbon nanotubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbon nanotube
silicyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicynes
Etymology: Blend of silicon + carbyne
Senses: glosses: an allotrope of silicon, consisting of a long chain of silicon atoms linked together with either (1) disilene units [ ...=Si=Si=Si=...] or (2) disilyne units
Coordinate terms: atomic silicon
amorphous silicon
crystalline silicon
Related terms: carbyne
silicon
silene
silyne
disilene
disilyne
cumulene
polyyne
silicynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicyne
rereviewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːɹɪˈvjuːə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: rereviewers
Etymology: From rereview + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who reviews something a second time.
conversationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conversational + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The adoption of an informal, chatty tone, so as to appear to create an interpersonal relationship with listeners or readers.
fisher-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fisher-boats
Senses: glosses: A boat used for fishing.
Synonyms: fishing boat
bemadam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemadams
form: bemadaming
form: bemadamed
form: bemadamed
Etymology: From be- + madam.
Senses: glosses: To call by the title of madam.
bred-in-the-bone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bred-in-the-bone
form: most bred-in-the-bone
Etymology: From the past participle of breed in the bone.
Senses: examples: text: They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.
ref: 1998, Judith Krantz, The Jewels of Tessa Kent, Bantam, published 1999, →ISBN, page 129:
text: But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image.
ref: 2008, Erna Paris, The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice, Seven Stories Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Her navy had barely broken off its pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards, in fact, when Elizabeth exposed her bred-in-the-bone selfishness, her cold indifference to the well-being of the subjects whose supposed love for her she and the royal propagandists endlessly celebrated as one of the wonders of the age.
ref: 2010, G. J. Meyer, The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty, Bantam Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 522:
qualifier: trait; belief; trait; belief
glosses: Firmly established or instilled; deep-seated.
raw_tags: of a habit
examples: text: Antrim, bred-in-the-bone Republican conservative, has a proud patriotic tradition.
ref: 1982 March 17, Mary McGrory, “Arms Issue Joined At Grass Roots”, in Toledo Blade:
text: Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism. He was also a bred-in-the-bone Tory, and as the youthful leader of the Oxford Movement that sought a bulwark against Parliamentary manipulation of Anglicanism in its ancient Catholic roots, he could be savagely polemical.
ref: 2001 February 24, Peter Steinfels, “Beliefs; A 19th-century theologian whose questions remain pertinent to the Roman Catholic Church”, in The New York Times:
text: The point of this political genealogy is not only that Lawrence Cannon was a bred-in-the-bone Liberal, […]
ref: 2005, William Johnson, Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada, McClelland & Stewart, published 2006, →ISBN, page 433:
glosses: Inveterate or habitual; long-standing.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: sense: firmly established
word: deep-rooted
sense: firmly established
word: deep-seated
sense: firmly established
word: dyed-in-the-wool
Related terms: breed in the bone
what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh
Letterist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Letterists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lettrist.
Letterism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lettrism.
Letterists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Letterist
Lettrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lettrists
form: Letterist
form: lettrist
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Lettrism.
Lettrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lettrist
Isouian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Isouian
form: most Isouian
Etymology: From Isou + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Isidore Isou (1925–2007; born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein), Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist, and founder of Lettrism.
Lettrism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Letterism
form: lettrism
Etymology: From French Lettrisme, ultimately from lettre (“letter”).
Senses: examples: text: So if lettrism, like Dada, came out of a reaction against a world war, Lettrism did not remain a protest . . . [but became] an exaltation of permanently renewed arts, philosophy, scientific knowledge, technology; […]
ref: 1983, Tom McDonough, quoting Jean-Paul Curtay, Lettrism: A Neo-Dadaism?, quoted in Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents, MIT Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 442:
text: Isou's lettrism was the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk in the grip of decomposition, a project for the total destruction of art, that is, a project of total art, another avatar of what Mallarmé ironically referred to as the Book, […]
ref: 2006, Vincent Kaufmann, translated by Robert Bononno, Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: situationism
glosses: A French avant-garde art and literary movement established in the mid-1940s, owing inspiration to Dada and surrealism.