cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unwray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: to uncover
lock-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock-downs
Etymology: Deverbal from lock down.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lockdown.
loculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of loculose.
loculous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of loculus.
Coconino County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cohonino, a name applied to the Havasupai.
Senses: meronyms: Chavez Pass
Flagstaff
Happy Jack
Kaibito
LeChee
Leupp
Marble Canyon
Moenkopi
Page
Tuba City
Tonalea
Two Guns
glosses: One of 15 counties in Arizona, United States. County seat: Flagstaff. It is the largest county in Arizona, and the second-largest in the United States.
wikipedia: Havasupai
tickle-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the obsolete adjective tickle (“unsteady”).
Senses: examples: text: You were ever tickle-footed, and would not truss round.
ref: c. 1613–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Scornful Lady, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: tickle-footed wanton
ref: 1824, Gilmour, Or The Last Lockinge:
text: But what goes on
Between a flower
And tickle-footed
Honey bee Is still a mystery
ref: 1987, Margaret Paige, Ride My River with Me:
text: When the thunder stalks the sky,
When tickle-footed walks the fly,
When shirt is wet and throat is dry,
Look, my darling, thats July.
ref: a. 1942, Ogden Nash, Summer Serenade:
glosses: having unsure or slippery footing, or inconstant.
leaf metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: metal shaped into thin leaves
leaf notcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf notchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf-notcher.
leaf scar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf scars
Senses: glosses: A mark left on a branch or twig where a leaf has fallen off.
leaf sewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːf ˌsəʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: leaf sewers
Senses: glosses: The moth Ancylis nubeculana.
Synonyms: apple-leaf sewer
leaf tier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːfˌtaɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈliːfˌtaɪ.ɚ/
Forms: form: leaf tiers
form: leaftier
Etymology: From leaf + tier. So named for the larvae tying together leaves with silk strands.
Senses: glosses: Several moth species whose larvae live in a folded leaf held together by silk strands.
glosses: Any moth or larva that belongs to those species.
leaf wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf wasps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sawfly (Symphyta spp.)
synonyms: word: sawfly
extra: Symphyta spp.
Socorro County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Socorro.
Catron County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Thomas B. Catron.
Senses: glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Reserve.
wikipedia: Thomas B. Catron
bag of weasels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags of weasels
Senses: examples: text: When she entered the kitchen matters were going on as usual — her mother bustling in glorious style, and as cross (her husband muttered) "as a bag of weasels."
ref: 1831, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Sketches of Irish character, page 180:
text: Ciril Usage was jist about as crass a crayther as you could find in a bag of weasels; but Charley, to himself be tould it, was a funny rogue, an' could take his weight out of any body he met; an' may be he didn't keep “Civil Usage” an' the women in other's hair the whole road.
ref: 1842, The Citizen: Or, Dublin Monthly Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 257:
text: Skulduggery mainly, but not exclusively, in the front row, 1966 & 1990s 'Props are as crafty as a bag of weasels,' as Bill McLaren famously said.
ref: 2015, David Mortimer, Classic Rugby Clangers, →ISBN:
text: There was still time for Sergio Ramos, as devious as a bag of weasels, to help engineer Cuadrado’s second yellow card with a bout of pretend agony but Madrid’s second-half performance had a lot more good than bad.
ref: 2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: Something that has pronounced weaselly characteristics, such as pettiness, bad temper, and deviousness.
raw_tags: used in similes
Costilla County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Costilla River, or Rio Costilla.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: San Luis.
roughing fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roughing fluids
Senses: glosses: A fluid used to roughen the surface of certain playing cards so that they clump together, used as a preparatory stage for certain card tricks.
grisoutite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French grisou + -ite.
Senses: examples: 1889-90 https://mininginstitute.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/NEIMME%20Vol%2039.pdf
It will be seen that all the explosives stemmed with coal-dust, gas being absent, produced flame except grisoutite.
1918 http://gluedideas.com/content-collection/encyclopedia-americana-10/Explosives_P6.html
Among the explosives designed to meet such conditions and styled abroad safety or flameless explosives are: Ammonite; amvis, aphosite; bellite; benedite; britainite; cambrite; car bonite; Casteau's explosives; dalunenite; Fa vier's explosive; fractorite; Geserick's powder; grisoutine; grisoutite; nitroferrite; progressite; roburite; securite; westphalite ; wetterdyna mite.
2007 https://zh.scribd.com/document/272097364/GBT1220-2007-Stainless-Steel-Bars
It is mainly used in the chemical facilities producing nitric acid and grisoutite.
glosses: A type of safety explosive, made from nitroglycerine mixed with magnesium sulfate and sawdust, that could be used where firedamp was present
San Luis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A statutory town, the county seat of Costilla County, Colorado, United States. The full name is San Luis de la Culebra.
glosses: A province in central Argentina.
Related terms: San Luis de la Reina
San Luis del Carmen
San Luis La Herradura
San Luis Talpa
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Potosí
Harding County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Mosquero. Named after President Warren G. Harding.
glosses: One of 66 counties in South Dakota, United States. County seat: Buffalo. Named after J. A. Harding.
STEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.
Mosquero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village, the county seat of Harding County, New Mexico, United States. Also partly in San Miguel County.
vitriolical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitriolical
form: most vitriolical
Etymology: From vitriol + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of vitriolic.
Santa Barbara County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: Santa Barbara.
specific rotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specific rotation
Rio Grande County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Rio Grande, which flows through the county.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Del Norte.
wikipedia: Rio Grande
slapfights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slapfight
slapfights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slapfight
slap fights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slap fight
slap fights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slap fight
uneuphonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneuphonious
form: most uneuphonious
Etymology: From un- + euphonious.
Senses: glosses: Not euphonious.
Del Norte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish del norte, as in Rio Grande del Norte.
Senses: glosses: A statutory town, the county seat of Rio Grande County, Colorado, United States.
wikipedia: Rio Grande
Related terms: Del Norte County
timeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timeships
Etymology: From time + ship.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A vehicle like a spaceship that travels through time.
timeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timeship
powerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more powerish
form: most powerish
Etymology: From power + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] to shun the way, and for an easefull life gathers together to make up a hill a mountain, which in the end turns to a Quagmire, which they that comes into, their feet doth flick fast, which is made up of beastical lust, earth, and of powerish ayre.
ref: 1659, An Answer to R. Crabs printed Paper to the Quakers:
text: For the child, as he grows, must live his own life and should not be troubled in doing so by the interference of wishful maternal thoughts which in such cases only serve powerish purposes.
ref: 1962, Analytical Psychology Club of New York, page 34:
text: It is perhaps inevitable and it is certainly a fact that at the moment letters from local authorities all become just as stilted and unhelpful and powerish as those from central government heretofore.
ref: 1972, The Child in Care - Volume 12, page 17:
text: Therefore whenever an individual is roused to an emotion of greater intensity than the threat of the circumstances would seem to warrant, concern for a supreme value probably lies behind the "powerish" reaction.
ref: 1973, Mary Esther Harding, Psychic Energy, page 234:
glosses: Characteristic of power or of those in authority
grisoutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A safety explosive composed of nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, sodium- and potassium nitrates; now largely replaced by grisoutite
fried rice syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: These bacteria are classically contracted from fried rice dishes that have been sitting at room temperature.
Senses: glosses: An illness caused by ingesting Bacillus cereus bacteria.
methemoglobinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From methemoglobinemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting, or relating to, methemoglobinemia.
methemoglobinaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of methemoglobinemic.
pleasurized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pleasurize
pleasurizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pleasurize
pleasurizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pleasurize
La Plata County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish la plata; named after the La Plata River and La Plata Mountains.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Durango.
wikipedia: La Plata Mountains
La Plata River (San Juan River)
Alamosa County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Alamosa.
wilders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wilder
miscounsellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscounselling
miscounselings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscounseling
Alamosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish alamosa (“of cottonwood”).
Senses: glosses: A city and home rule municipality, the county seat of Alamosa County, Colorado, United States.
Derived terms: Alamosa County
Guadalupe County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Santa Rosa. Named after either Our Lady of Guadalupe or the Guadalupe Plain.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Seguin. Named after the Guadalupe River.
Valley Girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Valley Girl
sympoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sympoietic
form: most sympoietic
Etymology: From sym- + -poietic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or created by sympoiesis
Dolores County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Dolores River.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Dove Creek.
wikipedia: Dolores River
moderatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moderatism
wig-wag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wig-wags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wigwag.
wig-wag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wig-wags
form: wig-wagging
form: wig-wagged
form: wig-wagged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wigwag.
wig-wag
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wigwag.
wig-wags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wig-wag (alternative form of wigwags).
wig-wags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wig-wag (alternative form of wigwags)
wig-wagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wig-wag (alternative form of wigwagging).
wig-wagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wig-wag (alternative form of wigwagged).
sympoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύν (sún, “together”) and ποίησις (poíēsis, “creation, production”), coined c. 1998 by M. Beth Dempster.
Senses: glosses: collective creation or organization
Related terms: autopoiesis
sympoietic
Dove Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A statutory town, the county seat of Dolores County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: A stream in Colorado after which the town is named, a tributary of the San Juan River.
Saguache County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Saguache.
Saguache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈwɑːt͡ʃ/
Etymology: From the Ute language via Spanish. Doublet of Sawatch.
Senses: glosses: A statutory town, the county seat of Saguache County, Colorado, United States.
Derived terms: Saguache County
Huerfano County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish huérfano; named after Huerfano Butte.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Walsenburg.
wikipedia: Huerfano Butte
Qiang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 羌 (Qiāng).
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group in China, living mainly in a mountainous region in the northwestern part of Sichuan on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
glosses: Any of various groups of people at different periods in ancient China, generally thought to have been of Tibetan-Burmese origin.
Derived terms: Qiangic
writings on walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writing on the wall
Walsenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Walsen + -burg, named after Fred Walsen, an early settler.
Senses: glosses: A small statutory city, the county seat of Huerfano County, Colorado, United States.
Ludic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An endangered Finnic language spoken in Russia on the southwestern shores of the lake Onega.
Synonyms: Ludian
Walsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Walsenburg
laudeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: laud + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laud
wage scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wage scale
Las Animas County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish las ánimas, taken from the Mexican Spanish name for the Purgatoire River, El Río de las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Trinidad.
wikipedia: Purgatoire River
Related terms: Las Animas
Las Animas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Presumably from Spanish las ánimas
Senses: glosses: A statutory city, the county seat of Bent County, Colorado, United States.
Related terms: Las Animas County
fly in the buttermilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flies in the buttermilk
Senses: examples: text: You can do the same in parts of Ward Three and see black folks sprinkled like “flies in the buttermilk.” Two Districts of Columbia, two different realities.
ref: 2008, Bernestine Singley, When Race Becomes Real, page 108:
text: Once on-island, the black colony did not want to be reminded by whites or blacks of the racial divisions that existed “off-island.” Visitors did not want to be flies in the buttermilk […]
ref: 2012, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Dorothy West's Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color, page 38:
glosses: A black person in a predominantly white group of people.
examples: text: Discovery of this document was a fly in the buttermilk of Tattenai.
ref: 2013, Lewis P. Hussell, A Commentary on Amos, Ezra, Esther, Haggai, Nehemiah, page 246:
text: As life has a way of doing sometimes, just when things are going well, something comes along and puts a fly in the buttermilk. Two things happened in 1905 that changed things a lot for me. First off, the hotel burned down.
ref: 2016, John Green, The Wind in the Junipers:
glosses: Synonym of fly in the ointment (“something that spoils something else”).
synonyms: word: fly in the ointment
extra: something that spoils something else
flies in the buttermilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly in the buttermilk
Bent County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William Bent
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Las Animas.
wikipedia: William Bent
bags of weasels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag of weasels
Quay County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Matthew Quay.
Senses: glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Tucumcari.
wikipedia: Matthew Quay
Tucumcari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Quay County, New Mexico, United States.
Quay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Quay County
Ventura County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Mission San Buenaventura.
Senses: examples: text: The California counties include Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Bernardino, Ventura and others. Cities include Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Long Beach, Malibu, Culver City and Huntington Beach (see the full list below).
ref: 2025 May 30, Mark Sternfield, “Trump administration targets California ‘sanctuary’ cities, counties”, in KTLA:
glosses: One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: Ventura.
wikipedia: Mission San Buenaventura
inciding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incide
rejoying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rejoy
respuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of respuate
oblectating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oblectate
enheriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enherit
glosses: present participle and gerund of enherite
reguarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reguarde
defecalgesiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From defec(ate) + algesi(a) + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Defecalgesiophobia, it has been called. Anusol Suppositories promptly remove the strain. And, with it, this most aggravating complication.
ref: 1920, The Medical Pickwick: A Monthly Literary Magazine of Wit and Wisdom:
text: […] It is further neglected by a mental dependence upon cathartics or enemata to produce the stimulation. Defecalgesiophobia is a common cause for neglecting the act.
ref: 1934, George Morris Piersol, Edward LeRoy Bortz, The Cyclopedia of Medicine, volume 10, F. A. Davis Company:
text: Defecalgesiophobia―The dread of defecation because of pain is the starting point in the vicious circle of hemorrhoids. It results in constipation, and constipation favors hemorrhoid formation.
ref: 1936, The Canadian Medical Association Journal:
text: I guess a merinthophobic sadist / Would be unable to get satisfaction, / Unless he conquered his defecaloesiophobia ^([sic]), / And focused down there for his action.
ref: 2004, Natalie Kristina Goldstraw, “Phobos”, in Superlative: Echoes of the Postmodern Condition, page 103:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Fear of painful bowel movements.
misdispense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsdɪsˈpɛns/
ipa: /ˈmɪsdɪspɛns/
Forms: form: misdispenses
form: misdispensing
form: misdispensed
form: misdispensed
Etymology: From mis- + dispense.
Senses: examples: text: Even in a case where the doctor and the pharmacist somehow misprescribed and misdispensed, it seems obvious that the consumer would see that the product was for weight loss and would not accept it in place of an allergy relief medication.
ref: 1981, The United States Patents Quarterly - Volume 209, page 74:
text: In America, local radio stations shaped the pop environment; in Britain, everything was obstructed, diluted, mishandled and misdispensed by BBC Radio, which had no idea what pop music was, didn't know how long it would last, didn't like or approve of it, and so hardly bothered to adapt to its demands.
ref: 2000, Michael Gray, Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan, page 88:
text: This meant that painkilling drugs being dripped into her system by a thin tube inserted into her back had somehow gone from being effectively delivered to the correct area, to getting misdispensed into some anatomical no-man's-land where they gave her no relief at all.
ref: 2001, David L. Ulin, Another City: Writing from Los Angeles, page 40:
text: A claims-made basis means the accident (i.e., misdispensed prescription order) must occur during the policy period (or extended policy periods during which the insurance is renewed) and the claim must be made, or reported, during the same period.
ref: 2012, Albert I Wertheimer, Delbert Konnor, Pharmacy Law Desk Reference, page 119:
glosses: To dispense incorrectly or amiss.
misdispense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsdɪsˈpɛns/
ipa: /ˈmɪsdɪspɛns/
Forms: form: misdispenses
Etymology: From mis- + dispense.
Senses: examples: text: As for machine-made mistakes — the "misdispense rate" — it is lower with Citibank's system than "any automated dispensing device that we know of," Judd said.
ref: 1979 October 15, Marguerite Zientara, “Citibank Starts 273-Branch 'Universal Teller'”, in Computerworld, volume 13, number 42, page 11:
text: If a loss occurs as a result of a problem or "misdispense" at an ATM, adjustment policies and procedures are in place which provide for a return of funds, if appropriate.
ref: 1996, United States, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Electronic Benefit Transfer Systems and Regulation E, page 158:
text: Up to $1,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be transferred to the general fund state purposes account of the office of temporary and disability assistance for costs of implementing an electronic benefit transfer system, including, but not limited to, an EBT misdispense claims unit.
ref: 2000, Laws of the State of New York - Volume 1, Parts 1-53, page 890:
glosses: An act of misdispensing.
neg-raising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NEG-raising
form: Neg-Raising
form: negative raising
Etymology: From neg, clipping of negative + raising.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon by which certain negated predicates (e.g. think, believe, expect) can give rise to a reading where the negation seems to take scope from an embedded clause.
NEG-raising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neg-raising.
Neg-Raising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neg-raising.
Bloggins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A generic name placeholder
SNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of spherical nucleic acid.
examples: text: Schools will retain their existing allocation of 18,000 special needs assistants (SNAs) for mainstream classes in the coming academic year, while an extra 1,100 posts will be allocated for special classes, special schools and developing schools. […] Mr Pike said education authorities must find a different way of managing SNA allocations to provide certainty and job security.
ref: 2022 May 31, Carl O'Brien, “Number of special needs assistants in mainstream classes to be maintained”, in The Irish Times:
text: “From day one it was all wrong. They wouldn’t use his PECS book which had been his way to communicate. The Special Needs Assistants (SNA) were holding their hands. But that wasn’t in their assessment of need. They were fully capable of walking around themselves.” […] Gemma said it was especially difficult as the SNA had a close relationship with a member of the board.
ref: 2022 September 12, Jennifer Morgan, “An autism class opens. What happens then?”, in Irish Examiner:
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of special needs assistant.
Related terms: sense: spherical nucleic acid
english: deoxyribonucleic acid
translation: deoxyribonucleic acid
word: DNA
sense: spherical nucleic acid
english: glycol nucleic acid
translation: glycol nucleic acid
word: GNA
sense: spherical nucleic acid
english: peptide nucleic acid
translation: peptide nucleic acid
word: PNA
sense: spherical nucleic acid
english: ribonucleic acid
translation: ribonucleic acid
word: RNA
sense: spherical nucleic acid
english: threonucleic acid
translation: threonucleic acid
word: TNA
sense: spherical nucleic acid
english: xeno-nucleic acid
translation: xeno-nucleic acid
word: XNA
tubog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubogs
Etymology: From Cebuano tubog.
Senses: glosses: Ficus nota; a small tree endemic to the Philippines.
intertainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertainments
Senses: examples: text: Wherevpon the king began very louingly to intreate both our Captaine and vs. And after these gentle intertainments, we went our selues into the woods, hoping there to discouer some singularities […]
ref: 1587, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, “The description of the West Indies in generall, but chiefly and particularly of Florida”, in Richard Hakluyt, transl., A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certayne French Captaynes unto Florida, London:
text: […] he was the man that gaue intertainment vnto mee & my brother Alipius, not being Clergy-men as yet, but onley lay christians, and wee dwelt as then in his house […]
ref: 1610, John Healey, transl., St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London, Book 22, Chapter 8, p. 883:
text: 1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotation upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, paraphrase of Luke 14:12, p. 238,
Let not thy intertainments be of those which can, or are likely to entertain thee again, or to whom thou hast obligations of asfinity, &c. for this is but a worthlesse way of hospitality, in which there is nothing commendable or thank-worthy.
glosses: Alternative form of entertainment.
intertainments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intertainment
badmitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of badminton.
tried and trusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tried and trusted
form: most tried and trusted
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tried and true.
synonyms: word: tried and true
Phthiotis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(f)θiˈoʊtɪs/
rhymes: -əʊtɪs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Φθιῶτις (Phthiôtis).
Senses: glosses: A regional unit of Greece.
Phthia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(f)θaɪə/
ipa: /ˈ(f)θiːə/
ipa: /ˈpɪθiə/
rhymes: -aɪə
rhymes: -iːə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Φθία (Phthía).
Senses: glosses: A city in ancient Thessaly, Greece.
San Luis Obispo County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Saint Louis of Toulouse.
Senses: glosses: One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: San Luis Obispo.
wikipedia: Louis of Toulouse
San Luis Obispo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish San Luis obispo; named after Saint Louis of Toulouse.
Senses: examples: text: He found them on the road just north of San Luis Obispo.
ref: 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 372:
glosses: A city, the county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
wikipedia: Louis of Toulouse
Derived terms: San Luis Obispo County
Montrose County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Montrose.
quarron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here's Pannum and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, / To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.
ref: 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew, or, The Merry Beggars, published 1652, act 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of quarrons.
SDWT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SDWTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of self-directed work team.
SDWTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SDWT
Grand County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Hot Sulphur Springs. Named after Grand Lake and Grand River, the old name of the Colorado River.
glosses: One of 29 counties in Utah, United States. County seat: Moab. Named after the Grand River (now the Colorado River).
Hot Sulphur Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A statutory town, the county seat of Grand County, Colorado, United States.
peenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peening
Chaffee County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jerome B. Chaffee.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Salida.
wikipedia: Jerome B. Chaffee
native steels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of native steel
Whit Monday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /(h)wɪt ˈmʌn.deɪ/
Forms: form: Whitmonday
Etymology: Contraction of white Monday; compare Whitsunday
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The Monday that immediately follows Pentecost; the second day of Whitsuntide.
Synonyms: Monday of the Holy Spirit
Pentecost Monday
hobhouchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobhouchin
Spanish reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish red
Salida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
glosses: A statutory city, the county seat of Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.
subsyndicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsyndicates
Etymology: From sub- + syndicate.
Senses: glosses: A syndicate forming part of a larger syndicate.
subsyndicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsyndicate
Weitzman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weitzmans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Weitzmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weitzman
hold my beer
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊld maɪ bɪə/
ipa: /hoʊld maɪ bɪɹ/
Etymology: Suggesting that the speaker is interrupting their consumption of beer in order to engage in an act of alcohol-induced bravado.
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: I am about to start a fight.
examples: text: 98% of Americans say 'oh shit' before going into the ditch on a slippery road. The other 2% are from Minnesota and they say, ‘hold my beer and watch this.’
ref: 2008, Kiven Hopper, One Hundred and One Dirty Nasty Disgusting Jokes You'll Love Reading, page 227:
text: When he says “Hold my beer and watch this” What he means is “I'm a crazy Redneck and love to show off.”
ref: 2010, Virginia Alene, Catch And Release, page 18:
glosses: I am about to attempt something dangerous and/or stupid.
examples: text: [[https://twitter.com/bpedaci/status/796205042802065409] BRITAIN: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake.
USA: Hold my beer].
ref: 2016, Tom Phillips et al., “18 Tweets About How America Has Out-Brexited Brexit”, in BuzzFeed:
glosses: I will outperform someone who did something foolish by doing something even more foolish.
Derived terms: hold my milk
yoake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoakes
Senses: examples: text: Their mothers bed-chamber ſhould not be ſafe, / For theſe baſe bond-men to the yoake of Rome.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signature G, verso:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of yoke.
yoakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoake
drag-along right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag-along rights
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The right of a majority shareholder, when selling his/her stake, to force minority shareholders to join the deal and sell their stakes according to the same terms and conditions.
Related terms: tag-along right
palaeotempestology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleotempestology.
palaeotempestological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleotempestological.
Gunnison County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John Williams Gunnison.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Gunnison.
wikipedia: John Williams Gunnison
multiturret
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + turret.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one turret.
hierologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hierologic
form: most hierologic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hierological.
Gunnison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: A town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A city in Sanpete County, Utah, United States.
Derived terms: Gunnison County
Gunnison River
Gunnison's prairie dog
tidley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidleys
Senses: glosses: wren
Spanish whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish white
Prowers County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after a pioneer, John W. Prowers.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Lamar.
Prowers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aʊə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Prowers County
sinistroversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sinistro- + version.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A turning to the left.
priestings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priesting
hypercontrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercontrolling
form: most hypercontrolling
Etymology: From hyper- + controlling.
Senses: glosses: Extremely controlling.
girled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of girl
girling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of girl
Baca County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Felipe Baca.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Springfield.
wikipedia: Felipe Baca
equiluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equilux
equilux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equiluxes
Etymology: From equi- + Latin lux (“light”).
Senses: glosses: An isophot.
glosses: A day in which the durations of light and darkness are equal, contrasted with an equinox, where they may differ slightly due to the angular diameter of the sun and atmospheric refraction.
Otero County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both counties are named after Miguel Antonio Otero.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: La Junta.
glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Alamogordo.
Otero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Otero, from otero (“hillock”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Otero County
electroplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + play.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: sexual activity involving electric shock
La Junta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish la junta.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality, the county seat of Otero County, Colorado, United States.
faqeerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From faqeer + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fakirism.
queerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From queer + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs and practices of queer people, i.e. those with unconventional sexuality.
retainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retaining
kotekan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of playing fast, complex, interlocking parts, in most varieties of Balinese gamelan music.
autocuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocuers
Etymology: From auto- + cuer, introduced in the 1970s.
Senses: glosses: A device for the deaf, consisting of a pair of eyeglasses with LEDs attached, used to convert speech into visual patterns for the wearer.
Related terms: autocue
autocuers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocuer
De Baca County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca.
Senses: glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Fort Sumner.
wikipedia: Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca
self-review
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-reviews
Etymology: From self- + review.
Senses: glosses: A review of one's own work or progress.
self-reviews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-review
epiglottopharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Being or involving a type of pharyngeal articulation in which the aryepiglottic folds and epiglottis are brought together and retracted against the pharyngeal wall.
Fort Sumner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village, the county seat of De Baca County, New Mexico, United States, named after the historic fort.
treacle tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treacle tarts
Senses: glosses: A traditional British dessert of shortcrust pastry with a thick filling of golden syrup, breadcrumbs (or sometimes almonds), and lemon juice or zest.
glosses: Sweetheart.
treacle tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treacle tart
De Baca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: De Bacas
form: de Baca
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish De Baca.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: De Baca County
buying powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buying power
tiropita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiropitas
form: tiropites
form: tyropita
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek τυρόπιτα (tyrópita, “cheese pie”).
Senses: examples: text: Bake the tiropites on a baking sheet until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Tiropites can be assembled in advance, frozen, and baked just before serving.
ref: 1997, JeanMarie Brownson, Betty Fussell, Nao Hauser, Deborah Madison, “Spinach and Cheese Tiropites”, in Joy of Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, “Vegetables” section, page 418, column 1:
text: But for her, it was her mother’s cooking that brought her to Yallingup. Cheesy filo tiropites, her famous chicken soup – avgolemono – and nutty, cinnamon-spiced baklava drizzled in syrup.
ref: 2015, Loretta Hill, chapter 5, in The Maxwell Sisters, Sydney, N.S.W.: Bantam, →ISBN, page 57:
text: Bowls of melitzanosalata and tzatziki had been laid out, platters of spanakopita, meatballs, tiropitas, and two bottles of wine.
ref: 2017, Lynn Freed, The Last Laugh: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Sarah Crichton Books, →ISBN, page 94:
text: I really missed tiropites when I cut out gluten and I am delighted to welcome these pastry pillows oozing with warm feta and ricotta back into my life. Tiropites freeze well so they are great for morning teas and lunchboxes – just remember to extend the cooking time by about 10 minutes if baking from frozen.
ref: 2020, Helen Tzouganatos, “Tiropites (Rough Puff Cheese Pies)”, in Easy Gluten Free: 100+ Delicious Gluten-Free Recipes the Whole Family Will Love!, Sydney, N.S.W.: Plum, →ISBN, “Breakfast & Bakery” section, page 35:
glosses: A Greek pastry with layers of buttered phyllo, filled with a cheese-egg mixture.
Roosevelt County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both counties are named after Theodore Roosevelt.
Senses: glosses: One of 56 counties in Montana, United States. County seat: Wolf Point.
glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Portales.
tyropita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyropitas
form: tyropites
Senses: examples: text: The cook comes out to join us after we’ve been served with large quantities of keftedes, tyropites, cheese, salad, fish, steak, melon and probably other plates which slipped by me unnoticed.
ref: 1982, George Galt, “A Benefactor”, in Trailing Pythagoras, Dunvegan, Ont.: Quadrant Editions, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Try the tyropites (flaky pastry puffs filled with melting cheese) as a starter.
ref: 1987, Egon Ronay, “Kalamaras (Mega)”, in Egon Ronay’s Cellnet Guide: Hotels & Restaurants, 1988: Hotels, Restaurants and Inns, Great Britain and Ireland, London: Egon Ronay’s Guides, →ISBN, “London” section, page 262, column 2:
text: Then came Molyvos, where I ate dolmades and tyropites and grilled fish, remembering what it was like to sit on a hillside in Crete with the oregano-scented breezes blowing across your face as you looked at the wine-dark sea down below.
ref: 2005, Ruth Reichl, “The Missionary of the Delicious”, in Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Large Print edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House Large Print, →ISBN, pages 406–407:
glosses: Alternative form of tiropita.
Chuahit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The borehole of Chuahit, located 3 km SE of Chuahit town revealed the existence of 3 m thick clay layers within the basalt.
ref: 2017, Krystyna Stave, Goraw Goshu, Shimelis Aynalem, Social and Ecological System Dynamics, →ISBN:
glosses: A town in Dembia, Ethiopia.
reinvents the wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinvent the wheel
reinvented the wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinvent the wheel.
bicast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + cast.
Senses: glosses: Being a less durable form of leather made with a split leather backing covered with a layer of polyurethane that is applied to the surface and then embossed.
ectohormonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecto- + hormonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ectohormones.
sexual tensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual tension
Wolf Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Roosevelt County, Montana, United States.
unegged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + egged.
Senses: examples: text: Put a layer of grated ham or tongue on the unegged side of 1 piece, and lay on that the unegged side of another, joining the 2 pieces, and brown these sandwiches in the oven. Serve on spinach with roast fowl.
ref: 1909, Lady Charlotte Coltman Clark, Catherine Frances Frere, The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie, page 210:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Prepared without egg.
examples: text: Yeah, she's suspicious. She left when none of her work was destroyed—why? And why was her stuff left unegged at all?
ref: 2017, Jessica Payseur, Yolks on You Box Set:
glosses: Not pelted with eggs.
tyromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tyro- + -mancy; ultimately from Ancient Greek τυρός (turós, “cheese”).
Senses: glosses: divination by studying the coagulation of cheese
Related terms: read the tea leaves
gunpowder teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunpowder tea
Deaf Smith County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Erastus "Deaf" Smith.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Hereford.
wikipedia: Deaf Smith
Pnuelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Amir Pnueli (Hebrew: אמיר פנואלי; 1941–2009), Israeli computer scientist known for his work on temporal logic.
Oslerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Oslerizes
form: Oslerizing
form: Oslerized
form: Oslerized
Etymology: From Osler + -ize, after Dr. William Osler.
Senses: glosses: To euthanize a person as a consequence of their having reached old age.
Related terms: Oslerization
Oslerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Oslerize
Oslerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Oslerize
Oslerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Oslerize
Oslerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Osler + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of Oslerizing; euthanasia given to a person as a consequence of their having reached old age.
Craxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Craxis
Etymology: From the Italian surname Craxi, adapted from the Sicilian surname Craxì, a surname derived from craxì (“wine”), itself borrowed from Italiot Greek crasì.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Sicilian.
devic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deva + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a deva.
angelistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angel + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to angelism.
blubbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blubbing