cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Etymology: Borrowed from Yagara bang (“dead”).
Senses: examples: text: […] My right eye has gone bung, and my left one is pretty dicky.
ref: 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Karen Oslund (introduction), The Worst Journey in the World, 2004, page 365, The evening we reached the glacier Bowers wrote
text: ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I′ve just heard as how your washing-machine′s gone bung.’
ref: 1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206:
text: Happened to me the other day, I was there minding my own business when a trolley hit my bung foot at about Warp Nine speed.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 140:
text: It′s the signal box, the main switchboard, that′s gone bung!
ref: 1997, Lin Van Hek, The Ballad of Siddy Church, page 219:
text: Henry had said, “Half a million bloomin′ acres. A quarter of a million blanky sheep shorn a year, and they can′t keep on two blokes. It′s not because wer′e union, mate. It′s because we′re newchums. Something′s gone bung with this country.”
ref: 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 9:
glosses: Broken, not in working order; damaged; injured.
Derived terms: bung eye
bung-full
go bung
bung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: bungs
form: bong
form: bonge
form: boung
form: bounge
Etymology: From bouget (“wallet, purse or bag”), from Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”), from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-os (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).
Senses: examples: text: Oft thsi crew of mates met together, and said there was no hope of nipping the boung because he held open his gowne so wide, and walked in such an open place.
ref: 1592, Robert Green, The Thirde & Last Part of Conny-catching, Bodleian Library (Malone 575), London: John Lane. Reprinted in 1923, Harrison, G. B. (ed.), The Bodley Head Quartos III, Plainstow, Great Britain: Curwen Press, p. 22
text: Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
ref: 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A purse.
Derived terms: english: pickpocket
translation: pickpocket
word: bung-nipper
carbon tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon taxes
Senses: examples: text: Swedish politicians push for imposition of a punitive carbon tax to turn back a global climate warming that has not even been detected, even as a major political party vows to close down Sweden's nuclear power plants.
ref: 1995 November 1, S. Fred Singer, “Ozone Politics with a Nobel Imprimatur”, in Washington Times:
glosses: A tax levied on the carbon contents used by the burning fossil fuels, so as to discourage the production of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
fossil fuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fossil fuels
Senses: examples: text: Without renewables, we’ll still end up burning (albeit much more efficiently) the same coal and natural gas that we burn today in our power plants and the same fuel oil that we burn in our cars and trucks. And it is precisely these carbon-based fossil fuels that we must distance ourselves from if we really want to come to grips with our dependence on foreign oil and with global warming.
ref: 2006 October 11, Robert B. Semple Jr., “Beyond Fossil Fuels”, in New York Times:
text: The basic point is that we are entering uncharted territory. This toothless statement has been true at every point in history. But I believe that this century is the one in which we must confront the thorniest issue ever presented to the human race. This moment is special because we have dramatically built up our population, technology, science, medicine, and democratic institutions as a direct result of vast amounts of surplus energy stemming from a one-time resource. The fossil fuel experience has made us dangerously confident about our cleverness and dominance over nature. What makes this century special, then, is that we will have to cope with a diminishing supply rate of the resource that has been of paramount importance to our high-tech existence.
ref: 2011 October 5, Tom Murphy, “"Sustainable" Means Bunkty to Me”, in Do the Math:
coordinate_terms: renewable
glosses: Any fuel derived from hydrocarbon deposits such as coal, petroleum, natural gas and, to some extent, peat; these fuels are non-renewable, and their burning moves carbon from underground into the atmosphere via the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
Coordinate terms: english: likewise from biologic origins, but recent and renewable
translation: likewise from biologic origins, but recent and renewable
word: biofuel
cardboard city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardboard cities
Senses: glosses: An area of a town where the homeless gather at night to shelter under makeshift constructions of discarded boxes and packing material.
carjacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: car-jacking
form: car jacking
form: carnapping
Etymology: Blend of car + hijacking
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carjack
carjacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carjackings
form: car-jacking
form: car jacking
form: carnapping
Etymology: Blend of car + hijacking
Senses: glosses: The violent hijacking of a vehicle and sometimes its driver.
Related terms: grand theft auto
mutiny
piracy
skyjacking
cash-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashback
form: cash back
Senses: glosses: The retail facility whereby a customer may withdraw an amount of cash when making a purchase with a credit card or debit card, the amount being added to the bill.
cashback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cash-back.
chlorofluorocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorofluorocarbons
form: CFC
form: CFK
Etymology: From chloro- + fluorocarbon.
Senses: examples: text: The proposed replacement for CFC-11, a chlorofluorocarbon used to make plastic foam and in central air-conditioning systems, is a compound called HCFC-22. This is a chlorofluorocarbon already in use in home air-conditioners, but it is more expensive than CFC-11 and its potential applications are limited by its inferior characteristics.
ref: 1989 March 7, Malcolm W. Browne, “In Protecting the Atmosphere, Choices Are Costly and Complex”, in The New York Times:
text: The Renew is also free of polyvinyl chloride, asbestos, chlorofluorocarbons and halons.
ref: 2009 February 12, Azadeh Ensha, “A Cellphone That Is Made With the Environment in Mind”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon are replaced with those of chlorine and fluorine; formerly used as refrigerants and aerosol can propellants but withdrawn due to causing damage to the ozone layer.
Derived terms: hydrochlorofluorocarbon
nonchlorofluorocarbon
Related terms: Freon
creased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːst/
rhymes: -iːst
Forms: form: more creased
form: most creased
Senses: examples: text: You're not going out wearing that creased shirt, are you?
glosses: Having a crease or creases.
examples: text: Feller was creased like he lived under a camel.[…]'Inswinging free kick,' goes the creased geezer.
ref: 2016, Jeremy Cameron, Hell on Hoe Street: Volume 4:
text: The sight of McGregor, creased but still boyish, returning to an eerily fogbound Hundred Acre Wood is calculated to well up eyes, and it works.
ref: 2018 August 2, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Disney goes back to the Hundred Acre Wood in the wistful Christopher Robin”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2018:
glosses: Wrinkly.
examples: text: "Omfg I'm absolutely crying and laughing at Dean and Joe with this drinking challenge! It's disgusting but I'm creased!" one said.
ref: 2023 May 4, Zara Woodcock, “Eagle-eyed I'm A Celeb fans spot moment Joes Swash's fake tan DISSOLVES in grim trial”, in Mirror Online:
glosses: Amused.
Synonyms: sense: wrinkly
word: bewrinkled
word: rugose
word: wrinklesome
word: wrinkled
Derived terms: uncreased
creased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːst/
rhymes: -iːst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crease
divert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈvɜːt/
ipa: /daɪˈvɝt/
ipa: /dɪˈvɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: diverts
form: diverting
form: diverted
form: diverted
Etymology: From Middle English diverten, Old French divertir (“to turn or go different ways, part, separate, divert”), from Latin di- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
Senses: examples: text: The workers diverted the stream away from the road.
text: Many of the remaining trains have been retimed and where possible freight trains have also been diverted to alternative routes.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:
text: Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 224, about Hertingfordbury:
glosses: To turn aside from a course.
examples: text: Don't let him divert your attention; keep your eye on the ball.
text: that crude apple that diverted Eve
ref: [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:
glosses: To distract.
examples: text: We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy.
ref: 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated:
text: But somehow, despite wooden, unfunny dialogue, rigid characterization, and the dreadful mindless meaninglessness of it all, Good News manages to divert us for its three hours.
ref: 1973 December 29, Jonathan Cross, “The Fag In The Fifth Row”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 28, page 4:
glosses: To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
examples: text: I diverted to see one of the prince's palaces.
ref: 1641 September 7 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 28 August 1641]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: To turn aside; to digress.
Synonyms: sense: to lead away from a course
word: offlead
Derived terms: divertable
divertee
divertive
redivert
undivert
Related terms: diversion
diversity
diverse
challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæl.ənd͡ʒd/
Forms: form: more challenged
form: most challenged
Senses: examples: text: mentally challenged
glosses: Disabled; lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.
examples: text: He's not short; he's vertically challenged
glosses: Used following adverbs to make adjectives in imitation of and mocking adjectives of this kind.
Derived terms: word: aurally challenged
word: cerebrally challenged
word: culinarily challenged
word: employmentally challenged
word: esthetically challenged
word: ethically-challenged
word: ethically challenged
word: ethnically challenged
word: follically challenged
word: follicly challenged
word: follicularly challenged
word: geographically challenged
word: gravitationally-challenged
word: gravitationally challenged
word: horizontally challenged
word: horizontally-challenged
word: humanly challenged
word: hymenally challenged
word: immunochallenged
word: intellectually challenged
word: melanin-challenged
word: mentally challenged
word: metabolically challenged
word: nonchallenged
word: parentally challenged
word: physically challenged
word: racially challenged
word: reality challenged
word: time-challenged
word: unchallenged
word: vehicularly challenged
word: vertically-challenged
word: vertically challenged
word: vitally challenged
challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæl.ənd͡ʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of challenge
eats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːts/
rhymes: -iːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat
eats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːts/
rhymes: -iːts
Senses: examples: text: When are we going to get some eats?
text: The shower made me feel better, but I was still hungry.
"I'm going to grab some eats."
"Dinner will be waiting for you at home."
"I'M GOING TO GRAB SOME EATS."
ref: 1978, John Linssen, Tabitha fffoulkes, Arbor House, page 109:
text: At most of these parties, no one knew who the host was, and you just heard from a friend that there was one, you got some eats and off you went.
ref: 2011, Chathuri Nugawela, Eastern Waves, Western Shores, Xlibris, page 81:
text: Buggs sighed. He would have preferred to go get some eats too, but Ermin was right.
ref: 2017, Derek T. Morgan, More Cats Tails, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., page 579:
glosses: Food.
antique brass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brownish yellow color, like that of brass, but darker.
antique brass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a brownish yellow color, like that of brass, but darker.
teenage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tēnʹāj
ipa: /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: teen-age
form: teen age
form: teenaged
Etymology: From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.
Senses: examples: text: Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
text: It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel.
ref: 2014, John Shirley, Her Hunger:
text: Coristine is one of a team of teenage and twentysomething software engineers, apparently conscripted by Musk in his largely unchecked war against bureaucracy.
ref: 2025 February 7, Josie Ensor, “Meet Elon Musk’s ‘baby-faced assassins’ leading Doge takeover”, in The Times:
glosses: Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
Derived terms: teenager
Related terms: teens
teenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tēnʹāj
ipa: /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/
enpr: tēnʹĭj
ipa: /ˈtiːnɪd͡ʒ/
enpr: tēnʹāj
ipa: /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) + -age (suffix forming abstract nouns). First attested circa 1700.
Senses: glosses: Brushwood for fences and hedges.
Synonyms: teenet
Stone Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: 'stōn āj"
ipa: /ˈstəʊn ˌeɪdʒ/
enpr: 'stōn āj"
ipa: /ˈstoʊn ˌeɪdʒ/
Forms: form: the Stone Age
form: stone-age
Senses: examples: Holonym: prehistory
Meronyms: Old Stone Age, Paleolithic; Mesolithic; New Stone Age, Neolithic; Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B; Chalcolithic, Cyprolithic, Copper Age
topics: archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
coordinate_terms: Iron Age
Bronze Age
glosses: A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.
examples: text: If they attack our country, we'll bomb them back to the Stone Age!
text: Welcome back to the Stone Age, vermin. Welcome home.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Five (Normal):
glosses: Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era.
glosses: The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development.
Derived terms: Middle Stone Age
Stone Age diet
stuck in the Stone Age
battleship grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battleship greys
form: battleship gray
form: battleship-gray
form: battleship-grey
Senses: glosses: A medium grey color tinged with blue, like that of a battleship.
battleship grey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: battleship gray
form: battleship-gray
form: battleship-grey
Senses: glosses: Of a medium grey color tinged with blue, like that of a battleship.
top dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top dogs
Senses: antonyms: bottom dog
glosses: The boss, the leader (of the pack).
synonyms: good bet
favorite
favourite
sure bet
safe bet
top cat
antonyms: underdog
glosses: In a competition, the one expected to win.
top banana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɑp bəˈnænə/
ipa: /ˌtɒp bəˈnɑːnə/
Forms: form: top bananas
Senses: examples: text: Only the top banana can make a decision of that magnitude.
synonyms: word: big cheese
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: The boss, the leader.
examples: text: He was hilarious, and remained the top banana on the tour for years.
antonyms: second banana
glosses: The principal comedian in a vaudeville or burlesque show.
Americophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Americo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: 1990: [Henry] James's internalised Americophobia led him to sound rather like Shaw's Professor Higgins as he lamented the indifference of the American people to the beauties of their language. — Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature, Mulvey, Christopher, Cambridge University Press, p133
glosses: A fear or dislike of the United States of America or its culture.
Synonyms: Americanophobia
cerebrally challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cerebrally challenged
form: most cerebrally challenged
Senses: glosses: Of low intelligence; stupid.
raw_tags: of a person
culinarily challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more culinarily challenged
form: most culinarily challenged
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.
Senses: glosses: Unable to cook.
raw_tags: of a person
divers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪvə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)z
Etymology: See diver.
Senses: glosses: plural of diver
divers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪvə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)z
ipa: /ˈdaɪvɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)z
ipa: /ˈdaɪvə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)z
Forms: form: more divers
form: most divers
form: diuers
Etymology: See diverse.
Senses: examples: text: Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
ref: 1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society., volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217:
text: And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:24:
text: But to-night, the third rainy evening of three rainy days, every flower in the divers china bowls, cups, vases, was withered; the harp was out of tune with the damp; and Emily betook herself to the leafy labyrinth of a muslin flounce, la belle alliance of uselessness and industry.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 8:
text: Divers plans and numerous devices were tried to stop the leakage.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112:
text: Shortly after this I had to go out of town. Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.
ref: 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
text: One of the most formidable of the heretical movements of the Middle Ages was Lollardy or Lollery. The Lollard movement was made up of divers elements, [...]
ref: 1949, William Dale Morris, The Christian Origins of Social Revolt, page 25:
text: Nevertheless, a good Turkish meal was enjoyed in the merry company of Customs men and divers gaily-caparisoned officials.
ref: 1951 December, “Notes and News: Overland to Iraq”, in Railway Magazine, page 854:
glosses: Archaic form of diverse, in the sense of various or assorted.
Derived terms: diversly
divers
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪvə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)z
ipa: /ˈdaɪvɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)z
ipa: /ˈdaɪvə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)z
Forms: form: diuers
Etymology: See diverse.
Senses: examples: text: Tubal: There came divers of Antonio’s creditors in my company to Venice that swear he cannot choose but break.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: An indefinite number (at least two).
follicly challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more follicly challenged
form: most follicly challenged
form: follically challenged
form: follicle-challenged
form: follicularly challenged
Etymology: From follicle + -ly, as if follicle were an adjective, and challenged.
Senses: glosses: Bald or going bald.
raw_tags: of a person
horizontally challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horizontally challenged
form: most horizontally challenged
form: horizontally-challenged
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.
Senses: glosses: Fat, obese.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: gravitationally challenged
Related terms: ethically challenged
vertically challenged
living impaired
hymenally challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hymenally challenged
form: most hymenally challenged
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.
Senses: glosses: Not in the desired state regarding virginity:
Not a virgin, unvirginal.
raw_tags: of a woman
glosses: Not in the desired state regarding virginity:
A virgin, virginal.
raw_tags: of a woman
mentally challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mentally challenged
form: most mentally challenged
Senses: synonyms: word: intellectually disabled
word: mentally retarded
word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: Having low intelligence.
glosses: Having a mental illness.
Derived terms: humanly challenged
metabolically challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metabolically challenged
form: most metabolically challenged
Etymology: The second sense is an ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like "mentally challenged".
Senses: examples: text: From this evaluation it was evidenced that metabolically challenged dairy cows (on the basis of concentrations of glucose, BHBA, and NEFA) show differences in liver transcripts, compared to metabolically unchallenged dairy cows [...]
ref: 2010, G. Matteo Crovetto, Energy and Protein Metabolism and Nutrition, →ISBN:
glosses: Having difficulty with metabolism.
glosses: Dead.
raw_tags: of a person
physically challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more physically challenged
form: most physically challenged
Senses: glosses: Having some physical disability; disabled.
reality challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.
Senses: glosses: Crazy, bonkers, insane.
raw_tags: of a person
vertically challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vertically challenged
form: most vertically challenged
form: vertically-challenged
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.
Senses: glosses: Short.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: ethically challenged
horizontally challenged
gravitationally challenged
living impaired
change management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: the controlled implementation of required changes to some system; includes version control and planned fallback
glosses: a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams and organizations from a current state to desired future state, aimed at employee empowerment for accepting change in the work environment.
charm offensive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charm offensives
Senses: examples: text: Putin’s speech was a culmination of the Kremlin’s two-day charm offensive with China, aimed at cementing ties between the two countries amid Russia’s growing isolation from the west.
ref: 2023 March 21, Pjotr Sauer, “Putin’s two-day charm offensive with Xi underlines who’s boss”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A campaign of deliberately using charm and flattery in order to achieve some goal, especially in a political or diplomatic field.
blood red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood reds
form: bloodred
form: blood-red
Etymology: From Middle English blodred, blodread, Old English blōdrēad (“bloodred”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdaraud, from Proto-Germanic *blōþaraudaz, equivalent to blood + red. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bloudrood (“bloodred”), West Frisian bloedread (“bloodred”), Dutch bloedrood (“bloodred”), Low German bloodrood (“bloodred”), German blutrot (“bloodred”), Swedish blodröd (“bloodred”), Icelandic blóðrauður (“bloodred”).
Senses: glosses: A dark red color.
blood red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blood red
form: most blood red
form: bloodred
form: blood-red
Etymology: From Middle English blodred, blodread, Old English blōdrēad (“bloodred”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdaraud, from Proto-Germanic *blōþaraudaz, equivalent to blood + red. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bloudrood (“bloodred”), West Frisian bloedread (“bloodred”), Dutch bloedrood (“bloodred”), Low German bloodrood (“bloodred”), German blutrot (“bloodred”), Swedish blodröd (“bloodred”), Icelandic blóðrauður (“bloodred”).
Senses: glosses: Of a deep vivid red color.
Derived terms: blood-red ant
blood-red slave-maker
blue green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue greens
Etymology: * blue + green
* (politics): from blue representing conservatism and green representing environmentalism
Senses: glosses: A bluish green colour.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An ecocapitalist; a person concerned with ecocapitalism.
examples: text: Blue-greens were the principal primary producers throughout the Proterozoic eon from 2.5 billion to 543 million years ago.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 287:
glosses: A blue-green alga.
blue green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * blue + green
* (politics): from blue representing conservatism and green representing environmentalism
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blue-green.
Of a bluish green colour.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative form of blue-green.
Synonym of ecocapitalist; Pertaining to ecocapitalism
synonyms: word: ecocapitalist
extra: Pertaining to ecocapitalism
Derived terms: blue-green algae
Related terms: blue-green deployment
blue violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue violets
Senses: glosses: A bluish violet colour.
synonyms: Ontario violet
glosses: The plant Viola sororia.
Synonyms: sense: Viola sororia
word: common blue violet
sense: Viola sororia
word: common meadow violet
sense: Viola sororia
word: purple violet
sense: Viola sororia
word: woolly blue violet
sense: Viola sororia
word: hooded violet
sense: Viola sororia
word: wood violet
blue violet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a bluish violet colour.
Aristotelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɹɪstəˈtiːliən/
Forms: form: Aristotelians
form: Aristotlean
form: Aristotelean
Etymology: From Latin Aristotelī(us) or Aristotelē(us) + -an. By surface analysis, Aristotle + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of the philosophical or logical theories of Aristotle.
Derived terms: Aristotelian unity
Aristotelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɹɪstəˈtiːliən/
Forms: form: Aristotlean
form: Aristotelean
Etymology: From Latin Aristotelī(us) or Aristotelē(us) + -an. By surface analysis, Aristotle + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Having noted that, it should be kept in mind that such scholars (i.e. those who reject that Cusanus is trivialist) should not cite as evidence for denying he was a trivialist the fact that Cusanus was an advocate of Aristotelian logic and the Law of Non-Contradiction. This is because an advocacy of both Aristotelian logic and the law of Non-Contradiction are quite compatible with being a trivialist – the trivialist accepts the truth of all propositions, including the Law of Non-Contradiction and other laws of Aristotelian logic.
ref: 2008, Paul Kabay, A Defense of Trivialism, page 36:
antonyms: non-Aristotelian
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or advocating the philosophical or logical theories of Aristotle.
Derived terms: Aristotelianly
Related terms: Aristotelianism
brick red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brick reds
form: brick-red
Senses: examples: text: Covered wagons and containers, with the exception of insulated and ventilated meat wagons and containers, will be painted a dark brick-red.
ref: 1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106:
glosses: A warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks.
brick red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: brick-red
Senses: glosses: Of a warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks.
bronze yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronze yellows
Senses: glosses: A yellowish brown colour, like that of bronze.
bronze yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bronze yellow
form: most bronze yellow
Senses: glosses: Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of bronze.
follicularly challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of follicly challenged.
buckskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckskins
Etymology: From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.
Senses: glosses: The skin of a male deer, a buck.
examples: text: As she spoke, we perceived two lines of figures, one male and the other female, to the number of about a hundred, each advancing round the human bonfire, arrayed only in the usual leopard and buck skins.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Clothing made from buckskin.
examples: text: I have alluded to his buckskins.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Breeches made of buckskin.
glosses: A grayish yellow in colour.
glosses: A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
examples: text: Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.
ref: 1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War:
glosses: A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
glosses: A horse with a light yellowish-brown coat.
Hyponyms: skin
Derived terms: buckskinned
buckskin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.
Senses: glosses: Of a grayish yellow in colour.
client-server
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: client/server
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: describes computer software usually comprising a number of client modules, and a server module to which they are connected in some way. The clients make requests of the server; the server processes the requests and returns the results to the appropriate client.
commonhold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commonholds
Etymology: From common + hold.
Senses: topics: law
property
glosses: The freehold tenure of part of a multioccupancy building (typically a flat) with shared responsibility for common services.
Related terms: condominium
bauxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːksaɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɔːksʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɔːksaɪt/
ipa: /ˈbaksaɪt/
Forms: form: bauxites
Etymology: Derived from the name of Les Baux in France, plus + -ite. The /ks/ in the English pronunciation is from a spelling pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: A thin red stream poured down one of the rises, snaking its way around trees; a river turned red with bauxite?
ref: 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 152:
glosses: The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.
wikipedia: Les Baux
Derived terms: bauxitic
nonbauxite
Related terms: alumina
boehmite
diaspore
gibbsite
laterite
comper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpə/
ipa: /ˈkɑmpɚ/
rhymes: -ɒmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: compers
Etymology: From comp + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who enters many competitions in order to win as many prizes as possible.
Related terms: comping
shit-for-brains
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪt fɚ ˌbɹeɪnz/
Etymology: Canadian, from the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: That shit-for-brains assistant of mine lost my files again.
text: Who are you crying about, the predatory prick or the shit-for-brains tramp? Because neither one deserves your tears.
ref: 2005, In Her Shoes (film)
synonyms: word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: Extremely stupid.
shit-for-brains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪt fɚ ˌbɹeɪnz/
Forms: form: shit-for-brains
Etymology: Canadian, from the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: That new assistant of yours is a real shit-for-brains.
text: He's another one of those shit-for-brains.
text: Call your press conferences. Organize boycotts. Sue the shit out of me. You're gonna do for free what I would have paid you for, shit-for-brains.
ref: 2013, Stephen Humphrey Bogart, The Remake: As Time Goes By, Untreed Reads, →ISBN:
glosses: An extremely stupid person.
cut and paste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts and pastes
form: cutting and pasting
form: cut and pasted
form: cut and pasted
Senses: glosses: To compose a document by piecing together components of other documents.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.
Derived terms: cut-and-paste
Related terms: copy and paste
clipboard
copyright
plagiarism
cut-and-paste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cut-and-paste
form: most cut-and-paste
Etymology: See cut and paste.
Senses: glosses: Pieced together from several sources.
Synonyms: scissors-and-paste
follically challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of follicly challenged.
asthenospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæs.θə.nəʊˈspɜː(ɹ).mɪk/
ipa: /ˌæsθənoʊˈspɝmɪk/
Etymology: From English asthenospermia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterised by or pertaining to asthenospermia, hence infertile
Related terms: asthenic
asthenospermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæsθənəʊˈspɜː(ɹ)mi.ə/
ipa: /ˌæsθənoʊˈspɝmi.ə/
Etymology: From astheno- + sperm + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Loss or reduction in the strength or energy of sperm cells, hence infertility or subfertility.
Derived terms: asthenospermic
Related terms: asthenia
photon belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photon belts
Senses: examples: text: According to many ancient Mayan esoteric beliefs, Alcyone is the central star of the Pleiadian star system, and our sun is the outermost star of this system. The Mayan Great Cycle is a calendar that delineates the [26,000]-year-long orbit of our sun and solar system around Alycone. According to the latest discoveries in astronomy, our sun is moving into a "photon belt," or belt of light particles. As we move deeper and deeper into this photon belt, it would seem that we are moving into the Age of Light described in many ancient prophecies as well as by the Mayans. My latest theory about the photon belt, which combines science, astrology, esoteric sources, and secret information given to me by indigenous people, is that we cyclically travel through this belt of light for [2000] years and then travel outside of it for about [11,000] years.
ref: 1993, Foster Perry, When Lightning Strikes a Hummingbird: The Awakening of a Healer, →ISBN, page 78:
text: This photon belt — a huge mass of light — will be the vehicle for your restoration to full consciousness and for the complete transformation of your DNA and chakra systems.
ref: 1994, Virginia Essene, Sheldon Nidel, You are Becoming a Galactic Human, →ISBN:
text: What happens as we approach the end of each cycle of 26,000 years is that our solar system enters a very high frequency area known as a Photon Belt. We first began to penetrate the Photon Belt in 1972, though we were only touching the edges.
ref: 2001, Ron Baker, Revelations for a Healing World, Book One:
glosses: A mythical dangerous belt of photons emanating from the Pleiades that will collide with the Earth in the near future according to New Age mystics.
torroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of toroid.
start over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starts over
form: starting over
form: started over
form: started over
Senses: examples: text: I forgot to save my work, and I had to start over.
text: He had to start the game over because he lost his memory card.
text: If every man in the heat falls down the first ten yards, don't stop your watch under the impression that they will "start over." They won't.
ref: 1885, “On Timing Races”, in Outing, volume 5, page 44:
text: I have often heard of God referred to as the potter who gently and carefully shapes our character, but I am also aware that there are times when the potter mashes the clay and starts over.
ref: 2010, Kathy O'Keefe, Over His Rainbow: A Single Woman's Journey to God's Promise:
text: The first step in my process of healing was to choose to let go and leave behind any encumbrances that would prevent me from starting over and moving ahead.
ref: 2012, Susan Miller, After the Boxes Are Unpacked:
text: The typical business model relies on a line operating intensively from March or April through to September or October, before shutting down during the winter months - at which point essential repairs and maintenance can take place using income accrued during the busy summer months, ahead of the cycle starting over again.
ref: 2020 July 1, Daniel Puddicombe, “How can heritage lines recover from enforced closures?”, in Rail, page 30:
glosses: to begin again; to return to the beginning
difficulties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪfɪkəltiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of difficulty
difficulties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪfɪkəltiz/
Senses: glosses: a series of frustrations
Derived terms: in difficulties
bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
homophone: basses
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of base
bases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
homophone: basses
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of base
bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
homophone: basses
ipa: /ˈbeɪsiːz/
ipa: /ˈbeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
homophone: basses
Forms: form: baseis
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin basēs pl. See basis.
Senses: glosses: plural of basis
senryu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senryu
form: senryus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of senryū.
shazbot
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Popularised by the character Mork (played by Robin Williams) on the American television sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978).
Senses: examples: text: Shazbot, I missed!
ref: 1978 February 28, “My Favorite Orkan”, in Happy Days, season 5, episode 22, spoken by Mork (Robin Williams):
text: I spent the next frantic seconds (felt like a year, actually) trying to disentangle myself from the pole while the crowd and the contestants guffawed. Shazbot!
ref: 2005 December 29, Diablo Cody, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, Gotham, →ISBN, →OL, page 26:
text: When I lurch back toward where I can make out what CNN is saying, CNN has broken for commercial. Shazbot!
ref: 2011 May 10, Roy Blount Jr., Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OL, page 149:
glosses: An excited utterance used to convey disappointment, particularly as a euphemism for shit.
aloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.luː/
ipa: /ˈɑː.luː/
enpr: ăʹlo͞o
enpr: äʹlo͞o
Forms: form: aloos
form: alu
Etymology: From Hindustani آلو (ālo) / आलू (ālū), ultimately from Sanskrit आलु (ālu), said to mean the edible root of a variety of Amorphophallus paeoniifolius.
Senses: qualifier: Indian cooking
glosses: potato
Related terms: aloo bokhara
aloo chaat
aloo gobi
aloo gosht
aloo pie
aloo saag
saag aloo
aloo tikki
Ansatz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ansatzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ansatz.
antidopaminergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + dopaminergic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: preventing or counteracting the effects of dopamine
antidopaminergic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidopaminergics
Etymology: From anti- + dopaminergic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any drug that prevents or counteracts the effects of dopamine.
anniversaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænɪˈvɜːs(ə)ɹiz/
ipa: /ˌænɪˈvɝs(ə)ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of anniversary
recommended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛkəˈmɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Forms: form: more recommended
form: most recommended
recommended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛkəˈmɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recommend