cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
drinkwater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English drinkwater (attested as a nickname), equivalent to drink + water. Compare Saterland Frisian Drinkwoater (“drinkwater”), West Frisian drinkwetter (“drinkwater”), Dutch drinkwater (“drinkwater”), German Low German Drinkwater (“drinkwater”), German Trinkwasser (“drinkwater”).
Senses: examples: text: And for a moment it seemed that everything would be all right, that we were traveling back in time to that idyllic farm near a drinkwater town in Iowa, back to my boyhood, and that Mina would always smile up at me from her bed.
ref: 1972, Barry Brissman, Swing low, page 60:
text: I'm surprised they have that kind of thing in a drinkwater place like this.
ref: 2014, Richard Hoyt, Decoys: A John Denson Mystery, →ISBN, page 50:
text: “[...] Heard she killed two of them Jenson brothers in some drinkwater town in Kansas?”
ref: 2016, Michael Kahmann, A Contract For Ethan:
glosses: Small, rural, and insignificant.
raw_tags: of a place
Synonyms: sense: insignificant
word: backwater
sense: insignificant
word: podunk
sense: insignificant
word: jerkwater
duppying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of duppy
duppied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of duppy
lexicometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lexico- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to lexicometry.
Derived terms: lexicometrical
lexicometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lexicometric + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to lexicometry.
empanneled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empannel
actorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more actorlike
form: most actorlike
form: actor-like
Etymology: From actor + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Oedipus is actorlike in his taking upon himself words and deeds on the behalf of other characters.
ref: 2000, Mark Ringer, Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles, Univ of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 86:
text: They are thus more actorlike in some respects, but arguably less actors (than their forebears, or peasants) in other respects. In any case they are not plausibly the exaggerated actors marching around the metatheory of actor-centric social science.
ref: 2002, Joseph Berger, Morris Zelditch, New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 253:
text: Rodier answered the phone on its first ring, his normally deep, actorlike voice cracking with excitement.
ref: 2012, M. L. Longworth, Murder in the Rue Dumas: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Like or resembling an actor
Derived terms: unactorlike
Related terms: actorish
actorly
Chin State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state in western Myanmar. Capital: Hakha.
pin-tailed sandgrouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin-tailed sandgrouses
Senses: glosses: Pterocles alchata, a bird in the sandgrouse family.
nonvacuolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vacuolated.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the cortex was composed of fascicular cells which had nonvacuolated, nonhoneycombed eosinophilic cytoplasm.
ref: 1954, Contribution from the Pathological Laboratory, volume 22, University of Michigan Pathological Laboratory, page 1583:
glosses: Not vacuolated.
pornophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pornophiles
Etymology: From porno- + -phile.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pornophile.
glosses: A fervent consumer of pornography.
pornophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pornophilic
form: most pornophilic
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting pornophilia.
pornophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pornophile
mastologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastologist
desexualizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desexualizers
form: desexualiser
Etymology: From desexualize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, instead of functioning as a "fashion desexualizer", the Levis jeans inevitably reverses this by having a men's and ladies' fit.
ref: 1992, The Diliman Review, volumes 40-42, page 35:
glosses: That which desexualizes.
pre-announce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-announces
form: pre-announcing
form: pre-announced
form: pre-announced
Etymology: From pre- + announce.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preannounce.
question time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Question Time.
PMQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PMQs
Senses: glosses: singular of PMQs (“Prime Minister's Questions”)
tendie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛn.diː/
rhymes: -ɛndi
Forms: form: tendies
Etymology: From chicken tender + -ie. As Internet slang, it is popularized by a genre of post on 4chan that mocks the concept of childish basement dwellers who continue to eat chicken tenders well into adulthood.
Senses: examples: text: Grade "A" tendies and mozz sticks.
ref: 2013 April 19, rachel.ka.smith [username], “Uhh...They reopened Manchu Wok”, in paginalife (Usenet):
text: Favorite Food: Chicken Tendies
ref: 2015, Cynthia Rozzo, East Cobber Magazine, (May 2015 issue), pg. 38
text: It's an attitude that's certainly reflected during our interview at DOZA's house, where chicken tenders and Courvoisier (our dinner for the night) are referred to as "dank tendies and drank" […]
ref: 2015, Charlie Hickerson, Native magazine (issue 36), pg. 77
text: "The life of crime just pulls you in," says Gnineerg, "you think it's just one cheese stick then then [sic] you're dealing three or four bags of tendies a day. It's a dark road."
ref: 2015, Devon Mann, Islands' Sounder (December 26, 2015 issue), pg. 5
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: A chicken tender.
examples: text: In recent weeks, the only way to get up to speed with WallStreetBets would have been through full immersion, absorbing comments about “tendies” and “diamond hands” and “holding the line” until you worked up the nerve to post the group’s most beloved slogan for yourself: “We like the stock.”
ref: 2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times:
text: There are members who say they made enough to pay off student debt, afford an operation for a family member, and even buy a yacht, all thanks to their fresh delivery of “tendies” – WSB jargon for money (it’s an allusion to tender fried chicken).
ref: 2021 January 29, Desmund Delaney, “A year ago on Reddit I suggested investing in GameStop. But I never expected this”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The money or financial instruments gained by independent currency or securities traders following a successful wager or risk.
tendies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tendie
patanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patana
business practice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business practices
Senses: examples: 1997, European Free Trade Association Court, Annual Report
The respondent Aker emphasises that it is common business practice for a principal to conclude a contract for the supply of goods or services with a new provider upon expiry or termination of a contract.
glosses: the usual procedure followed in business, or a particular business.
leptospiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptospira
dudh-wallah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dudh-wallahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dudhwallah.
my condom broke
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the condom of the speaker broke.
Croatocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * Croato- + -centrism
Senses: glosses: The practice of viewing the world from a Croatian perspective, with an implied belief, either conscious or subconscious, in the preeminence of Croatian culture.
Related terms: Eurocentric
Croato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Croatia or Croat + -o-; compare Afro-, Sino-, Turko-.
Senses: examples: text: Тhe juxtaposition of the Croato-Glagolitic material with that of manuscripts written in more easterly areas shows that […]
ref: 1998, Byzantinoslavica, volume 59, number 2, page 384:
glosses: Pertaining to Croatia, Croatian or the Croats.
Balkanocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * Balkano- + -centrism
Senses: examples: text: 'Balkanocentrism' implying a certain opposition to Europe is an idea of the past.
ref: 2002, Rada Šarlandžieva, The Economic Revival of Southeastern Europe:
glosses: The practice of viewing the world from a Balkans perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of Balkans culture.
Related terms: Croatocentrism
Balkano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Balkan + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Balkans.
Jugo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yugo-.
Yugo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Yugoslavia; compare Afro-, Sino-, Turko-.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Yugoslavia or the Yugoslavs.
bankerage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankerages
Etymology: From banker + -age.
Senses: examples: text: They have their stored booths in every bazaar, occupy all the principal caravanseries with their merchandize, and entirely control the business of bankerage and monopolies.
ref: 1854, Henry A. Stern, Dawnings of Light in the East, page 46:
text: […] merely because bankerage beats blacksmithing?
ref: 1906, John MacVicar, Frank G. Pierce, American Municipalities, page 19:
text: We believe that the 2 or 3 percentage point increase that this is likely to generate will not make any significant difference in market price and in our ability—with our bankerage—to adjust supply and demand.
ref: 1991, Reforming the Federal Crop Insurance Program: Hearings ... before the United States House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development, page 228
glosses: Banking.
bankerage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankerages
Etymology: Blend of bank + brokerage
Senses: examples: text: You receive a monthly statement that reflects all the activities of your bankerage accounts (which can even include an equity line of credit with your bankerage). Banking with your brokerage has many advantages.
ref: 2005, Kathleen Sindell, Investing Online For Dummies, page 77:
text: […] for the Web to provide a complete range of "bankerage" services. In two new studies, Corporate Insight senior analyst David Rosenberg claims that only 40 percent of the 18 brokerages that the firm monitors can be considered a full bankerage, defined as a broker that offers traditional banking products.
ref: 2008, Wall Street & Technology, volume 26:
glosses: A brokerage institution that also offers banking services.
musicography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From music + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: The unanimous testimony of scores and of musicography is to this effect, and establishes, as an inviolable rule, the close on the inferior dominant.
ref: 1919, Phillips Barry, “Greek Music”, in The Musical quarterly, volume 5, page 611:
text: Other now standard histories of music in Latin American nations that skirt developments after 1820, 1901, or 1950 emphasize an ever-present problem in Latin American musicography. The only histories of music in their nations with which reigning Latin American composers are pleased are those narrated by themselves.
ref: 1991, Carleton Sprague Smith, editor, Libraries, History, Diplomacy, and the Performing Arts: Essays in Honor of Carleton Sprague Smith:
text: We may jump a century and a quarter in English musicography but will find that with a very few exceptions the romantic effusion deepened while scholarship lessened, both of them considerably.
ref: 1997, Paul Henry Lang, Musicology and Performance, page 60:
glosses: Writing on the subject of music.
examples: text: The short-hand of musicography alone, separated from the material accompanying it, might, we think, be found useful in no ordinary degree to the musical world.
ref: 1842 October 24, The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 35:
text: This work is divided into two parts, logography, or universal writing of speech, and musicography, or symbolical writing in music; the first of which offers a new set of phonetic characters as a substitute for our degenerated logographic system, and the second a reformation of our musical notation; a short-hand form of each system being joined to it.
ref: 1843 March 24, V. D. De Stains, “Phonography: or the writing of sounds”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 19, page 292:
text: There are continually springing up, however, advocates of new systems of musicography the adoption of which would reduce all our musical heir-looms to the level of waste paper, and most existing musical science and skill to the level of those of these advocates; for it is remarkable that no scheme for the reformation of musicography has ever been proposed by any person of acknowledged musical science or skill.
ref: 1867 March 29, Journal of the Society of Arts, page 292:
glosses: The art or science of writing music and of musical notation.
Derived terms: musicographical
musicographic
Related terms: musicology
musicographer
Yoko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ようこ (Yōko), a female given name with many variant kanji spellings.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Yuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ゆうこ (Yūko), a female given name with many variant kanji spellings.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Asako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Azumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Yurina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Yurika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Yurie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Yumika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Yukina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Yukari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
foreign secretary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign secretaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Foreign Secretary.
Defra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: For Defra, funding for flood defences and disease prevention are likely to be protected.
ref: 2015 November 11, Emma Howard, “Defra hit by largest budget cuts of any UK government department, analysis shows”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: DAERA
glosses: Initialism of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
DECC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department of Energy and Climate Change.
OLHC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
OLHL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Office of the Leader of the House of Lords
DCMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
DfE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Department for Education.
DfID
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After lunch […] we toured the village with the woman from DfID, whose task it was to point out ‘areas of particular deprivation’.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of DFID.
DfT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department for Transport.
DCLG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department for Communities and Local Government.
Wight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: white
whyte
Etymology: From Old English Wiht, from Latin Vēctis (“Isle of Wight”).
Senses: glosses: The Isle of Wight.
glosses: A sea area comprising part of the English Channel, from the southern English coast down to Normandy.
Derived terms: Back of the Wight
Wight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: white
whyte
Etymology: Scottish and English surname, from the noun wight.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
caulkhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caulkheads
Senses: examples: text: 'If you come across caulkheads they'd soon tell you' according to a middle-aged male respondent (2001: 34) who, presumably, was an 'overner' that is, not from the island.
ref: 2007, Meryl Aldridge, Understanding The Local Media, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Even a bad bastard like Pelly can't hide.' He grinned, looking up at Faraday. 'One happy family, that's us caulkheads.'
ref: 2010, Graham Hurley, Blood And Honey, →ISBN:
text: 'Maybe you could qualify there. But you're definitely not a caulkhead.' 'Caulkhead? You're having me on. Nobody has ever called me a caulkhead before. I hope it ain't insulting.' Foxy was in his element: 'A caulkhead is someone who was born on the island, into a well-established family here.'
ref: 2017, Bobby Cummines, The Parkhurst Years, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone from the Isle of Wight
caulkheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caulkhead
Ryde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: homophone: ride
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: examples: text: Once a Regency seaside resort, visitor numbers in Ryde were up and down historically, then down for good 1970s onwards (cheap Mediterranean charter flights).
ref: 2019, Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Originals, page 33:
glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council on the northeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
glosses: A suburb and local government area (the City of Ryde) in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named after Ryde, IoW.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Sacramento County, California, United States, named after Ryde, IoW.
Shanklin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5881).
Sandown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A ‘slum zoo’ in Sandown and a nation in decline, but here we go. What a life.
ref: 2019, Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Originals, page 101:
glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5984).
glosses: A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States, named after Sandown, IoW.
glosses: A suburb of Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Cowes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: cows
Senses: glosses: A town on the north coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
Ventnor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛntnəɹ/
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5677).
glosses: A rural locality in North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A small town on Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.
Gale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A unisex given name.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Center Township, Hendricks County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Gale-Shapley algorithm
Gee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
/ˈɡiː/
Etymology: Northern English surname of debated meaning.
Senses: examples: text: Prosecutors allege that Gee posted several videos online following Biden’s visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, in April for a campaign event.
ref: 2024 May 16, Casey Gannon, “Pennsylvania man charged with threatening Biden in online video”, in CNN, archived from the original on 23 May 2025:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States.
Gee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
/ˈɡiː/
Forms: form: Gees
Etymology: Northern English surname of debated meaning.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of gee.
Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: The Vale
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Port Vale FC.
Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Avery County, North Carolina.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A small area of Catawba County, North Carolina.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Malheur County, Oregon.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place and township in Butte County, South Dakota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
glosses: A small settlement near Cornholme, Todmorden parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9126).
Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vales
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Swann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swanns
Etymology: Variant of Swan.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cabell County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: word: Swann's Quarter
english: see there
translation: see there
word: Swan Quarter
Coniston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse konungr (“king's”) + Old English tūn (“town, manor”), after the model of other settlements known as Cinges tūn or Cynges tūn (“king's town”). Doublet of Coniston Cold. Cf. also Conington, Conisbrough, Coningsby, Kingston, Kingstown, Kingstone, Kingsburg, and Kingsville.
Senses: glosses: A cattle station in the Northern Territory, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A town in Derwent Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A community in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada; formerly in former town of Nickel Centre.
glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1535).
glosses: A village and civil parish next to Coniston Water in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD3097).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Yolo County, California, United States.
Derived terms: Coniston Cold
Coniston Water
Old Man of Coniston
Lilliputianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Lilliputianly
form: most Lilliputianly
Etymology: From Lilliputian + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nastasha shrilled and went into her and Walter's room, just off the living room, and slammed the door as hard as she Lilliputianly could.
ref: 2013, John Fredrick, The King of Good Intentions:
text: The Sociologists suggest with measured tones, the surveys collect the unthought minds for minds unthinking so that theology may be bound Lilliputianly to the sterile turf.
ref: 2014, William P. Flewelling, Directions of a Pastoral Lifetime, page 285:
text: But if we turn to a full-parliament and senate... First of all, will be lilliputianly small... and since we already see that we lack of ministers... how can we have two chanbers?
ref: 2015, Marscida, NationStates: The Commonwealth of Crowns:
glosses: In a Lilliputian way, to a small or insignificant degree.
antecedaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From antecedaneous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We will therefore suppose that those unto whom the word is declared, have antecedaneously thereunto, all the help which the light of nature will afford.
ref: 1826, John Owen, The Works of John Owen, volume 2, page 352:
text: –– Is that which we affirm to be antecedaneously necessary unto justifying faith.
ref: 1816, John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith:
text: There is, as was said, no certain measure or degree of these accidents or consequents of conviction to be prescribed unto any as antecedaneously necessary to sincere conversion and sound believing.
ref: 1841, John Owen, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit:
glosses: In an antecedaneous way: precedingly.
sharebait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛɹ.beɪt/
Forms: form: share-bait
form: share bait
Etymology: From share + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).
Senses: examples: text: Forget click-bait. We’re living in the world of share-bait now.
ref: 2014, Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post:
text: Among the many phenomena we’d tentatively attribute, in large part, to the trend: the rise of sharebait (nee clickbait) and the general BuzzFeedification of traditional media; the Internet hoax-industrial complex, which only seems to be growing stronger; and the utter lack of intelligent online discourse around any remotely complicated, controversial topic.
ref: 2016, Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post:
glosses: Website content that exists only to be shared, aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs.
weather day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather days
Senses: glosses: A day set aside on a school calendar in certain climates, assuming a closure will occur during a given time period because of extreme weather conditions.
Hyponyms: snow day
Nutbush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnʌtbʊʃ/
Etymology: From nut + bush. Origin unknown.
Senses: examples: text: [...] On highway number nineteen [...] They call it Nutbush city [...] Little old town in Tennessee [...] a quiet, little old community; A one-horse town.
ref: 1973, Tina Turner, “Nutbush City Limits”:
glosses: Nutbush, TN: An unincorporated town in Southwest Tennessee, about which Tina Turner wrote the 1973 song Nutbush City Limits.
glosses: Nutbush, Memphis: A neighborhood in Northeast Memphis, TN, originally settled by migrants from the town.
examples: text: [A]fter spilling a coke [...] all down my front when some idiot doing the Nutbush elbowed my can.
ref: 2015, Catherine Therese, The Weight of Silence: A Memoir, →ISBN:
glosses: the Nutbush: A line dance popular in Australia that is danced to the song.
April Fools' Days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of April Fools' Day
lubeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lube + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without lube.
condomlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From condomless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being condomless.
tutulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutuli
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tutulus.
Senses: glosses: A conical Etruscan headdress for women.
gurukula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurukulas
form: gurukul
Etymology: From Sanskrit गुरुकुल (gurukula).
Senses: glosses: A residential school in India with pupils living near the guru, often in the same house.
gurukulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurukula
weather days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather day
desexualizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desexualizer
as the fella says
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as the fella said
Senses: glosses: As the saying goes; as someone once said, invoking the wisdom of the common man on the street.
as the fella said
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of as the fella says.
diagrammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagrammer
dog's-eared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dog's-eared
form: most dog's-eared
Senses: examples: text: There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog's-eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of peg-tops, balls, kites, fishing-lines, marbles, half-eaten apples, and other confiscated property of idle urchins.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Old Curiosity Shop:
text: He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog’s-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.
ref: 1879, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula, London: Archibald Constable & Co., page 267:
text: 1931, Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, XLI, in Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 131,
[…] The carpet there, the table
On which the dog's-eared Euclid with fixed stars,
The cardboard battleship, the tops, the jackstones,
And the long window lustred with changing rain,
And the long day, profound and termless.
glosses: Obsolete form of dog-eared.
dog's-ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog's-ears
Etymology: See dog-ear.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dog-ear.
dog's-ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dog's-ears
form: dog's-earing
form: dog's-eared
form: dog's-eared
Etymology: See dog-ear.
Senses: examples: text: […] Lady Slattern Lounger, vvho had juſt ſent it home, had ſo ſoiled and dog's-ear'd it, it vva'n't fit for a chriſtian to read.
ref: 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 5:
glosses: Obsolete form of dog-ear.
actory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktəɹi
Forms: form: more actory
form: most actory
Etymology: From actor + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A couple of his friends had gotten married in huge church ceremonies with morning coats and spats and one even with top hats, and it was all so actory, he thought, as though they were reenacting some ritual that their parents, or more likely their grandparents, had done for real.
ref: 1995, Michael Kernan, The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals:
glosses: Like, characteristic, or typical of an actor
Synonyms: actorish
actorlike
actorly
transpilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of translation + compilation
Senses: glosses: transcompilation
Related terms: transpiler
buys out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buy out
buying out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buy out
bought out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy out
YL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: YLs
Etymology: In radio sense: short for young lady.
Senses: examples: text: Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.
ref: 1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 23, numbers 7-12, page 140:
glosses: A female radio amateur.
glosses: Initialism of young learner.
YLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YL
Lidington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
midrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: midnight rations
Liddell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liddells
Etymology: Variant of Liddel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A locality in Singleton council area, New South Wales, Australia.
who's whos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of who's who
bra-burning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: stridently feminist
Related terms: bra burner
fighting irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The leading recruit is pausing briefly while receiving his dinner plate in his left hand and then is resuming his forward movement towards the serving area, but first picking up a dark green plastic cup and a set of fighting irons (knife, fork, and spoon) from the leading edge of the bay marines.
ref: 2012, DF Ryschka, Too Young to Vote but Old Enough to Kill:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A set of cutlery.
Synonyms: eating irons
foreign secretaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreign secretary
Krock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krocks
Etymology: Borrowed from German Krock.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Bross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a shortened form of the Latin given name Ambrosius, or from Middle High German brossen (“to sprout, bud”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
marless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mar + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without mars; unspoiled.
pleonectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more pleonectic
form: most pleonectic
Etymology: 19th century borrowing from Ancient Greek πλεονεκτικός (pleonektikós, “greedy”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + κτάομαι (ktáomai, “to get, acquire”).
Senses: glosses: Greedy; covetous.
Related terms: pleonexia
high adventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Culture has not emasculated me. I am quite unaffected. It was in the day's work, and my kind have always been day-workers, doing the day's work, whatever it might be, in high adventure or dull ploddingness, and always doing it.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:
glosses: Exciting or strenuous outdoor recreational activities such as backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, and whitewater kayaking.
glosses: A style of literature involving danger and excitement in remote or lawless places.
precedaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more precedaneously
form: most precedaneously
Etymology: From precedaneous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Aristotle however says, that the soul moves itself as with a lever not precedaneously, but according to accident : for it precedaneously moves the body...
ref: 1806, Aristotle, Works - Volume 1, page 478:
text: For it is necessary that he who is adorned by the cathartic virtues, should abstain from doing any thing precedaneously in conjunction with body.
ref: 1823, Porphyrius (the philosopher), Select Works of Porphyry, page 217
text: Hence we have shown in our treatise On Families, that a life accompanied by wedlock is to be precedaneously chosen by the wise man; but a single life is not to...
ref: 2015, Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Hierocles Marcus Aurelius, Stoic Six Pack 2, page 155:
glosses: In a precedaneous manner; precedingly; antecedently.
Clutterbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Templer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Templers
Senses: glosses: A member of a German pietist sect that emerged in the mid-19th century.
Templer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
secernate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: secernates
form: secernating
form: secernated
form: secernated
Etymology: From Latin secerno (“to sever”).
Senses: glosses: To secern.
rain dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain dance
allenerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: In the first place, tolerating the moderate presbyterians to meet in their private houses, and these to hear all such ministers, as either have or are willing to accept of the indulgence allenerly, and none other […]
ref: 1687, Alexander Shields, A Hind Let Loose, or an Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland:
text: […] together also with the sum of 10 marks money foresaid, at the entry of every heir to the said lands, in name of doubling the few farm duty, by and autout the same few farm duty allenerly, and the said A.B. and his foresaids […]
ref: 1790, John Nichols, Antiquities in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Scotland, and Wales, page 71:
text: For cause his faith was constantly / In Christes blude allenerly.
ref: 1867, Alexander Ferrier Mitchell, “Burial of the Dead”, in The Wedderburns and Their Work: Or, The Sacred Poetry of the Scottish Reformation in Its Historical Relation to that of Germany, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of allenarly.
High Bailiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: High Bailiffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of high bailiff.
MTYEWTK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of more than you ever wanted to know.
YWMV
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Modelled on earlier YMMV.
Senses: examples: text: I can't justify spending that much money on a meal, but YWMV since your recent inheritance has replenished your checking account.
glosses: Initialism of your wallet may vary: you may have more or less money to spend, or different financial priorities.
WAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Waterford.
TIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Tipperary.
examples: text: […] is based on a far too general assessment of the social position of TIP and Late Period priesthood. Further, it overlooks the actual historical context in which the trend of archaism emerged.
ref: 2015 November 2, László Török, The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization, BRILL, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: Initialism of Third Intermediate Period.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Technological Institute of the Philippines.
Coordinate terms: BMP
SIP
SMP
SPUA-A
SPUA-B
SSP
TIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TIPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of trans-identified person.
Hyponyms: TIF
TIM
black-bellied sandgrouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-bellied sandgrouses
Senses: glosses: Pterocles orientalis, a bird in the sandgrouse family.
irrecondite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrecondite
form: most irrecondite
Etymology: From ir- + recondite.
Senses: examples: text: […] Socrates […] was rather a moral and political, than a physical or metaphysical philosopher; and hence his creed was either deficient upon the subject of cosmology, or too simple and irrecondite to satisfy the curiosity of his pupils.
ref: 1805, John Mason Good, “Appendix”, in Titus Lucretius Carus, translated by John Mason Good, The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem. […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page cvi:
text: ..than institutions of another class were found wanting: — a something that might fill up the space between the cloistered scholar and the irrecondite citizen ; the...
ref: 1834, John Mason Good, Nature of the Animate World, page 336:
text: Let me see nothing too trim, nothing too irrecondite. Equal solicitude is not to be exerted on all ideas alike: some are brought into the fullness of light, some are […]
ref: 1840, Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, page 236
glosses: Not recondite; well-known.
electric eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric eye
mind's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mind's eye
omnisubjugant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more omnisubjugant
form: most omnisubjugant
Etymology: From omni- + Latin subiugāns.
Senses: examples: text: But would she ever meet whom, looking up to him, she could love—she, the omnisubjugant?
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
text: Fantastic though the situation was, there were no grounds for hoping that the omnisubjugant German armies across the Channel would prove to be some kind of an hallucination […]
ref: 1957, Peter Fleming, Operation Sea Lion, Tauris Parke, published 2011, page 83:
text: But if to be omnisubjugant, all-controlling, was the neo-feminist dream, so far, it was largely lily-white.
ref: 1978, Natalie Gittelson, Dominus: A Woman Looks at Men's Lives, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: Subjugating all others.
currente calamo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛnteɪ ˈkæləməʊ/
ipa: /kəˈɹɛnteɪ ˈkæləmoʊ/
Etymology: From New Latin currente calamō (“with the pen running on”).
Senses: examples: text: His letter […] was written, currente calamo, with very little trouble.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
text: And these things he had achieved currente calamo, “wielding his pen,” as Scott said of Byron, “with the easy negligence of a nobleman.”
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: Without deliberation or hesitation: extempore, off-the-cuff.
give the go-by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the go-by
form: giving the go-by
form: gave the go-by
form: given the go-by
Senses: examples: text: Sliding Cube was taken on in front at Randwick and a couple of runners gave her the ‘go by’ when the field straightened.
ref: 2007 August 5, Sunday Mail:
glosses: To leave behind, outdistance.
examples: text: [T]hey express sweetly enough some natural sentiments,—and what more would you have in a song? You have had far more in some songs to which we have given the go-by […]
ref: 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:
text: To those other, those so august, accomplishments she no more pretended. She gave them the go-by.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: To avoid dealing with; to disregard, ignore.
examples: text: "If you mean to give him the go-by, you ought to do it cleanly […] and not string the fellow along."
ref: 2012, Christina Brooke, Mad About the Earl:
glosses: To snub (someone); to end a relationship.
virguncule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virguncules
Etymology: From Latin virguncula, diminutive of virgō (“virgin”).
Senses: examples: text: There are the virguncules of Somerville and Lady Margaret's Hall; but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
text: To the regret of the assembled virguncules he broke in upon her.
ref: 1930, Christopher Morley, Rudolph and Amina, page 78:
glosses: A young virgin.
virguncules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virguncule
locus standi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin; short for locus standi in iudicio ‘standing position in court’. Latin Locus denotes a location, while standi is the gerund form of the verb stare, meaning to stand.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A right to appear in a court of law; legal standing.
examples: text: The other young man, because his host, Sir John Marraby, was not yet on the scene, had no locus standi, and […] had to be ignored.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: Acknowledged position or status.
ruffed lemurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruffed lemur
Jumaytepeque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Xincan language from Honduras.
Bonaventure
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bonaventures
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A regional county municipality and city therein, in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region, Quebec, Canada.
BiH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An abbreviation of Serbo-Croatian Bosna i Hercegovina.
Senses: glosses: Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Pallas's sandgrouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pallas's sandgrouses
Etymology: Named after Peter Simon Pallas.
Senses: glosses: Syrrhaptes paradoxus, a bird in the sandgrouse family.
wikipedia: Peter Simon Pallas
Tuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tuffnell + -ers.
Senses: glosses: Phil Tufnell (born 1966), English cricketer and television personality.
one-nationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From one nation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of one-nation conservatism.
synonyms: word: one-nation conservatism
multilog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multilogs
Etymology: Blend of multi- + dialog
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multilogue.
multilogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multilog
atmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atmarks
Etymology: From at + mark.
Senses: glosses: The at sign (@).
atmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atmark
unportentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unportentous
form: most unportentous
Etymology: From un- + portentous.
Senses: glosses: Not portentous.
unominous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unominous
form: most unominous
Etymology: From un- + ominous.
Senses: glosses: Not ominous.
unomened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + omened.
Senses: glosses: Not omened; unforeseen.
Cooper vane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cooper vanes
Etymology: After Dan Cooper, the false name used by an unidentified hijacker who used the rear stairway to exit a Boeing 727 in flight and escape using a parachute.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mechanical aerodynamic wedge that prevents the ventral airstair of an aircraft from being lowered during flight.
wikipedia: D. B. Cooper
Cooper vanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cooper vane
Cooper tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cooper test
Victor airway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Victor airways
Etymology: From Victor (“the letter V in the ICAO spelling alphabet”), short for VOR (“VHF omnidirectional range”).
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a set of low-altitude airways defined as line segments, each based on a straight line between either two VOR (VHF omnidirectional range) stations, or a VOR and a VOR intersection.
Victor airways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Victor airway
MMEL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MMELs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: MEL
glosses: Initialism of Master minimum equipment list.
MMELs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MMEL
CASS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of cockpit access security system.
jumpseating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jump seat + -ing.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The situation where off-duty airline staff are permitted to travel for free, occupying unbooked seats in an aircraft.
deadheadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadheading