cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
don'ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With the coming of Monday arrived a new life for David—a curious life full of "don'ts" and "dos." David wondered sometimes why all the pleasant things were "don'ts" and all the unpleasant ones "dos."
ref: 1916, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter VIII, in Just David:
text: 1998, M.T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0312181825&id=Dp6qNakZB4wC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=don%27ts&sig=mtjEdxGprrddoWAZp8PypObyAng
I don’t like “don’ts.” I like “dos.” I think “don’ts” have a way of being self-defeating.
text: [...] many ad hoc dos and particularly don’ts may exist. More importantly, not all don’ts are publicized or even known. In fact, many unknown don’ts may exist.
ref: 2003, Jerry Zeyu Gao et al., Testing and Quality Assurance for Component-Based Software,:
text: 2003, T.J. Tomasi and Kathryn Maloney, The 30-Second Golf Swing, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0060520205&id=CqjlPNYFUqcC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=don%27ts&sig=gMGXx_AUO7zNrEv89P_pxkRIHRs
Don’t hit it left....
Don’t hit it in the water....
Playing by don’ts won’t get the job done.
glosses: plural of don't
Derived terms: dos and don'ts
do's and don'ts
curtsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtsies
Senses: examples: text: A Signora Rossinuola, with the face of a goddess, and the voice of an angel, made her first curtsy that evening to the Neapolitans. She was received with the most rapturous applause.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: Alternative spelling of curtsey.
curtsy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: curtsies
form: curtsying
form: curtsied
form: curtsied
Senses: examples: text: He made a salutation, or, to speak nearer the truth, an ill-defined, abortive attempt at curtsy.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of curtsey.
bondage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒn.dɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈbɔn.dɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈbɑn.dɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: bondages
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bondage (“serfdom”), from British Medieval Latin bondagium (“an inferior tenure held by a bond or husbandman”), from Middle English bond (“tenant farmer, serf”), from Old English bonda (“householder, husband, head of a family”), of Old Norse origin. Sense development influenced by the unrelated terms bond and bind.
Senses: examples: text: debt bondage
text: In Judeo-Christian tradition, the Israelites fled bondage at the hands of the Egyptians, only to wander in the wilderness for the next four decades.
text: "She was the Wicked Witch of the East, as I said," answered the little woman. "She has held all the Munchkins in bondage for many years, making them slave for her night and day. Now they are all set free, and are grateful to you for the favor."
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
antonyms: freedom
glosses: The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
examples: text: He lived in financial bondage to his cocaine habit; no matter how much he earned, it all seemed to disappear up his nose.
antonyms: freedom
glosses: The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
examples: text: Their marriage broke up when she discovered he had been engaging in bondage games with a local dominatrix while he was supposedly working out at the gym.
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: The practice of physically restraining people for sexual pleasure, such as by tying up or shackling.
examples: text: bondage trousers; bondage jeans; bondage pants
glosses: Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures.
Derived terms: bondager
bondage suit
bondagewear
debt bondage
embondage
predicament bondage
Related terms: BDSM
S&M
suavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suavities
Etymology: From Middle English suavite, suavitee, suavyte, from Middle French suavité and its etymon Latin suāvitās.
Senses: examples: text: suavity of manners
text: suavity of language, conversation, or address
text: [N]othing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach of the Riviera.
ref: 1874, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Ordered South”, in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1881, →OCLC, pages 142–143:
text: [T]he brothers’ gowns and broad straw hats were hanging up, each with his religious name upon a board,—names full of legendary suavity and interest, such as Basil, Hilarion, Raphael, or Pacifique; […]
ref: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “[Our Lady of the Snows.] The Monks.”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness
examples: text: Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
ref: 1939, T. S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats:
synonyms: suaveness
suavitude
glosses: The quality of being suave.
examples: text: Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.
ref: 1513, Henry Bradshaw, edited by Edward Hawkins, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge: Very Frutefull for All Christen People to Rede (Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester Published by The Chetham Society; volume XV), […] The Chetham Society, published 1848:
glosses: Sweetness or agreeableness to the senses, especially of taste and odour.
Related terms: blandness
twitchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɪtʃi
Forms: form: twitchier
form: twitchiest
Etymology: From twitch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For the most part, however, his hunched, twitchy, wide-eyed take doesn’t seem like a believable portrait of social awkwardness so much as just a forced, awkward performance.
ref: 2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:
glosses: susceptible to twitching a lot.
examples: text: Johnson's contract expires in November, and four weeks as memorable for scandals off the pitch as any achievements on it will do little to appease the notoriously twitchy committee-men at the Rugby Football Union.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:
text: Railways don't normally feature, but Conservative MPs are getting twitchy about this nationwide local issue.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: irritable, cranky, nervous, anxious, worried
starlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹlɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɑːlɪt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪt
Forms: form: starlets
Etymology: From star + -let.
Senses: examples: text: There were other flapper-era starlets, of course—Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo—but they were poseurs by comparison.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 25:
glosses: A young actress with a promising career ahead of her.
examples: text: As Mourinho also entered the press room while most journalists were still watching the players’ lap of honour, nothing could be confirmed about the condition of Pogba, who scored United’s second goal and the Portuguese declined a chance to praise some fine performances from his starlets, with Josh Harrop scoring on his debut.
ref: 2017 May 20, Jamie Jackson, “Josh Harrop sets Manchester United on way to win over Crystal Palace”, in the Guardian:
glosses: An accomplished and important supporting player in a sports team.
examples: text: It e'en the semblance of sound's softest echo Were to compare the faintest starlet's beam, Struggling through angry clouds its misty Ray, With the all-powerful Sun's meridian ray, Dazzling the gaze of nature — doth pervade The atmosphere, as 'twere a whisper's shadow Or breathing soft disembodied souls;
ref: 1854, The Ladies' Companion, page 246:
text: As I saw the love-light beam From her radiant eyes, more glorious far Than the starlet's nightly gleam :
ref: 1859, The Knickerbocker - Volume 54, page 385:
text: The shimmering, shivering, trembling, twinkling starlet white, Dancy rays darteth down, showering blossoms of silvern light ;
ref: 1874, FRASER'S MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. VOL.X. JULY TO DECEMBER 1874:
text: I have a little golden dream That haunts me night and day, And like a starlet's golden beam Lights up my darksome way.
ref: 1922, Social Progress - Volumes 6-7, page 207:
glosses: A small star.
Derived terms: starlet sea anemone
starlet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹlɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɑːlɪt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪt
Forms: form: more starlet
form: most starlet
Senses: examples: text: Through the starlet night, under the moon, they dreamed and loved.
ref: 1972, The Pembroke Magazine - Issues 1-4, page 11:
text: King's single file column made good time as they took turns riding their horses in the crisp starlet night and leading their mounts by the reins while they walked over extremely rough terrain.
ref: 1998, John W. Bailey, The Life and Works of General Charles King, 1844-1933: Martial Spirit:
text: The Fortune Teller gazed his wondering green eye in the orb of clouded mist. Over looking their movements from above the starlet night.
ref: 2010, Richard Serna, The Empress of Darkness, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of starlit.
scrunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: scrunches
form: scrunching
form: scrunched
form: scrunched
Etymology: Attested since about 1800. Probably an intensive form of crunch; ultimately derived from the onomatopoeia of a crumpling sound; or perhaps a blend of squeeze + crunch.
Senses: examples: text: He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.
text: […] and the scrunching of ashes under our feet I have often observed to be disagreeable to many.
ref: 1793–1799, Robert Townson, Tracts and Observations in Natural History and Physiology, page 154:
text: Then I put them under my heel, and scrunched them up, every one.
ref: 1800, Walter Besant, James Rice, With Harp and Crown, page 828:
glosses: To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
examples: text: He scrunched his eyebrows in confused frustration.
glosses: To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
To contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, etc.
raw_tags: with object "one's face"
glosses: Alternative form of scranch.
Related terms: scrunchie
scrunch up
scrunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: scrunches
Etymology: Attested since about 1800. Probably an intensive form of crunch; ultimately derived from the onomatopoeia of a crumpling sound; or perhaps a blend of squeeze + crunch.
Senses: glosses: A crunching noise.
primetime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prime + time.
Senses: examples: text: Even mainstream, primetime narratives in the domestic sphere, for instance, now provide unremarkable reflections on the now naive and overly optimistic promises of cybertech, the high-techs, and dotcoms.
ref: 2003, Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell, New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality:
glosses: Alternative form of prime time.
novitiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈvɪʃi.ət/
Forms: form: novitiates
Etymology: First attested in 1517; either borrowed from Middle French noviciat, novitiat or from Medieval Latin noviciātus, novitiātus (“a novitiate”), from Latin novicius, novitius + -ātus (see -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank or office)), from novus (“new”). Sense 1 is not attested in cognates.
Senses: glosses: A novice.
examples: text: Three weeks after the departure of the Mandevilles, all Naples flocked to witness the profession of a young Englishwoman, a dispensation having been obtained for the novitiate.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 214:
glosses: The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training.
glosses: The place where a novice lives and studies.
Derived terms: novitiateship
novitiation
Related terms: novel
novelization
novelize
novella
novelty
novice
overreaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overreactions
Etymology: From over- + reaction.
Senses: examples: text: She had every right to dump you, but cutting up all your clothes after she did so was an overreaction.
text: This whole fear over swine flu was unfounded; it was clearly an overreaction.
text: The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.
ref: 2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 3:
text: In most cases, this overreaction to terrorism poses a far greater threat to our security than the terrorists themselves.
ref: 2018, Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century:
glosses: A reaction that is excessive.
crackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cracker + -ers. The South African sense derive their name from their sound and their status as a plurale tantum by association with "trousers". The adjectival sense derives from British naval expressions referring to firecrackers in one's head, originally as "he's got the crackers" and then "he's gone crackers" before the present "he is crackers".
Senses: glosses: plural of cracker
examples: text: Sheepskin trousers—which, from the sound they make at every movement of the wearer, are called ‘crackers’.
ref: 1849, E.E. Napier, Excursions in Southern Africa, volume II, page 13:
glosses: A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
glosses: Testicles.
crackers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crackers
form: most crackers
Etymology: From cracker + -ers. The South African sense derive their name from their sound and their status as a plurale tantum by association with "trousers". The adjectival sense derives from British naval expressions referring to firecrackers in one's head, originally as "he's got the crackers" and then "he's gone crackers" before the present "he is crackers".
Senses: examples: text: He acknowledges that it must seem "a crackers thing to say", but given the substantial progress which has been made in other areas of the business, his optimism isn't without foundation.
ref: 2021 May 5, Graeme Pickering, “Managing Metro's morphosis”, in RAIL, number 930, page 52:
text: Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, told the online magazine UnHerd in May that Truss was “as close to properly crackers as anybody I have met in parliament” and would be an “even worse” prime minister than Johnson.
ref: 2022 July 30, Dominic Cummings, quotee, “‘Ambition greater than ability’: Liz Truss’s rise from teen Lib Dem to would-be PM”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: 5150
word: bananas
word: barking
word: barking mad
word: buggish
word: buggy
word: bughouse
word: barmy
word: batchy
word: batpoop
word: bats
word: batty
word: bonkers
word: bread baskets
word: cracked
word: crackers
word: cra-cra
word: cray
word: cray-cray
word: crazed
word: crazy
word: crazy as a bedbug
word: crazy as a cootie
word: crazy as a cootie bug
word: crazy as a pet coon
word: cuckoo
word: daffy
word: daft
word: demented
word: deranged
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: doolally
word: dotty
word: eccentric
word: fruit loops
word: gaga
word: hatstand
word: harebrained
word: insane
word: kooky
word: loon
word: loco
word: loony
word: loony tunes
word: loopy
word: lunatic
word: mad
word: mental
word: mentally ill
word: meshigener
word: meshugge
word: moonsick
word: non compos mentis
word: nonsane
word: nucking futs
word: nut job
word: nutballs
word: nut
word: nuts
word: nutso
word: nutty
word: nutter
word: off the beam
word: off the chain
word: over the edge
word: potty
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: psychotic
word: sicko
word: screwy
word: squirrelly
word: starkers
word: tonto
word: unbalanced
word: unsane
word: wackadoodle
word: weird
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: whacky
word: wode
word: yampy
word: zany
word: apeshit
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bat-shit
word: fucked in the head
word: fucked up
word: ripshit
glosses: Crazy, insane.
judge advocate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judge advocates
Senses: glosses: A commissioned officer acting as a lawyer to advise a court martial on points of law or to act as prosecutor.
bendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bendable
form: most bendable
Etymology: From bend + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It was quite a shock to find when one stroked her that the China Cat, though alive, was still china, hard, cold, and smooth to the touch, and yet perfectly brisk and absolutely bendable as any flesh and blood cat.
ref: 1912, E. Nesbit, chapter 6, in The Magic World:
text: The father scorned stooping. Neither his body nor his mind was bendable.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Snow”, in The House of All Sorts:
text: When necessity dictates, our laws are as bendable as licorice to our presidents, and if their private conversations had been taped an awful lot of history would be different now.
ref: 1974, Arthur Miller, “The Limited Hang-Out: The Dialogues of Richard Nixon as a Drama of the Antihero”, in Steven R. Centola, editor, Echoes Down the Corridor, Viking, published 2000, page 145:
glosses: Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
Synonyms: flexible
pliable
pliant
Derived terms: unbendable
Related terms: bendability
lock and load
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Attested since at least 1793, when a document describes flintlock weapons that are ready to fire as "well locked and loaded". The variant "load(ed) and lock(ed)" is found since at least 1815. The phrase may have originated from the use of gunlocks on naval artillery (in use by the Royal Navy since 1745); as gunlocks were not required for firing (a lintstock could be used) it may have been necessary to specify cannon was "locked" as well as loaded.
As an imperative, used since at least 1940, in the U.S. Army Field Manual for the M1 Rifle. Compare e.g. German "laden und sichern" ("load and secure"). Popularized in culture after being used by John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949).
Senses: examples: 1949 — John Wayne in the film Sands of Iwo Jima
Lock and load, boy, lock and load.
glosses: A command to prepare a weapon for battle.
glosses: Prepare for an imminent event.
lock and load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: locks and loads
form: locking and loading
form: locked and loaded
form: locked and loaded
Etymology: Attested since at least 1793, when a document describes flintlock weapons that are ready to fire as "well locked and loaded". The variant "load(ed) and lock(ed)" is found since at least 1815. The phrase may have originated from the use of gunlocks on naval artillery (in use by the Royal Navy since 1745); as gunlocks were not required for firing (a lintstock could be used) it may have been necessary to specify cannon was "locked" as well as loaded.
As an imperative, used since at least 1940, in the U.S. Army Field Manual for the M1 Rifle. Compare e.g. German "laden und sichern" ("load and secure"). Popularized in culture after being used by John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949).
Senses: glosses: To prepare one's weapon.
examples: text: It's great to know that city and town governments, all up and down the East Coast, were ready, locked and loaded, to provide bailouts, and this time it was the literal kind.
ref: 2015, Fay Jacobs, Time Fries!: Aging Gracelessly in Rehoboth Beach, page 67:
glosses: To prepare for an imminent event.
Related terms: loaded for bear
bewilderment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwɪldəmənt/
ipa: /bɪˈwɪldəɹmənt/
Forms: form: bewilderments
Etymology: From bewilder + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: She looked around in bewilderment.
glosses: The state of being bewildered.
glosses: A confusing or perplexing situation.
firelog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firelogs
Etymology: From fire + log.
Senses: glosses: A log that is burned in the fireplace or log-burner (woodstove).
death row
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθ ɹoʊ/
homophone: death throe
Forms: form: death rows
Senses: examples: text: Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.
ref: 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The section of a prison which houses those inmates who are sentenced to death.
Planck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɑ(ː)ŋk/
rhymes: -ɑ(ː)ŋk
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: planckon
Planck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɑ(ː)ŋk/
rhymes: -ɑ(ː)ŋk
Forms: form: Plancks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Used attributively in the names of various units, formulae etc. first devised or worked on by the German physicist Max Planck (1858–1947), chiefly in the realm of quantum theory.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A Planck unit.
Derived terms: Planck acceleration
Planck action
Planck angular frequency
Planck area
Planck charge
Planck current
Planck density
Planck energy
Planck entropy
Planck epoch
Planck force
Planck frequency
Planckian
Planck impedance
Planck length
Planck mass
Planck momentum
Planck particle
Planck postulate
Planck power
Planck pressure
Planck relic
Planck scale
Planck's constant
Planck's law
Planck speed
Planck's principle
Planck star
Planck temperature
Planck time
Planck unification
Planck unit
Planck velocity
Planck viscosity
Planck voltage
Planck volume
grunt work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌ̃nʔwɝk/
Etymology: From the verb grunt.
Senses: examples: text: He plans to hire somebody to do the grunt work of digging the trenches for the pipes.
text: She has not only participated in the left as a star, even though she came into the role quite young. When Holly was between entertainment jobs, she volunteered for grunt work in anti-war organizations.
ref: 1990 December 9, Maida Tilchen, “Closer To Near”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 14:
glosses: Work (especially that which is heavy, repetitive or mindless) that is considered undesirable and therefore delegated to underlings.
Related terms: donkey work
God's work
muskellunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌskəlʌnd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: muskellunges
form: muskellunge
form: maskinonge
form: muskelunge
form: muscallonge
form: milliganong
Etymology: From French masque allongé (literally “long mask”), a corruption of Ojibwe maashkinoozhe (literally “ugly pike”) or Algonquin maskinunga. Not related to German Muskel (“muscle”) or Lunge (“lung”).
Senses: synonyms: muskie
musky
glosses: A large freshwater gamefish of the pike family, native to the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America; Esox masquinongy.
Forro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe.
camomile tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camomile teas
form: chamomile tea
Senses: glosses: A beverage made by infusing the leaves of the camomile plant (either Matricaria recutita or Chamaemelum nobile) in hot water.
unflagging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflagging
form: most unflagging
Etymology: From un- + flagging.
Senses: examples: text: His unflagging efforts have not gone unnoticed.
text: He went on kissing her with unflagging industry, while she remained limply in his arms, in a species of satisfied trance.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 122:
text: He writes of locomotive design, maintenance, passenger timetables, the structure of freight services, supervision and organisation, with unflagging enthusiasm, which comes across to us in a most readable book.
ref: 1959 May, “New Reading on Railways: British Railways Today and Tomorrow. By G. Freeman Allen. Ian Allan. 25s.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 271:
text: The 2001 photo was strangely and powerfully similar to the World War II flag raising because both photos captured a heroic deed of courage, grit, teamwork, and unflagging patriotism at a historic moment marked by the darkness of the threat against us.
ref: 2008, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell with Susan Schultz Huxman, The Rhetorical Act: Thinking, Speaking and Writing Critically, page 265:
text: His words mattered. He pledged “our unwavering and unflagging commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.”
ref: 2023 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Just Destroyed Putin’s Last Hope”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Never tiring or lacking energy; without rest; without slowing.
Synonyms: inexhaustible
tireless
untiring
unwearying
indefatigable
freedom of religion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiː.dəm əv ɹɪˈlɪ.dʒən/
Senses: synonyms: religious freedom
religious liberty
glosses: The right of people to hold any religious beliefs, or none, and to carry out any practices in accordance with those beliefs or with that absence of belief, so long as these practices do not interfere with other people's legal or civil rights, or any reasonable laws, without fear of harm or prosecution.
Coordinate terms: freedom of movement
freedom of contract
freedom of conscience
freedom of speech
freedom of the press
freedom of assembly
freedom of association
right to keep and bear arms
pizzaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizzamen
form: pizza man
form: pizza-man
Senses: glosses: A man who delivers pizzas.
marionberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marionberries
Etymology: Named for Marion County, Oregon, where it was developed, + berry.
Senses: glosses: A member of the blackberry family, a cross between the Chehalem berry and olallieberry blackberries.
dullsville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dullsvilles
Etymology: From dull + -s- + -ville, evoking a fictional town.
Senses: glosses: A fictional or generic location that is boring or dull.
examples: text: With his monotonous routine, he lives in dullsville.
text: Before we began our weekend shapeup, the car looked like this: scratches and dents, broken trim, and a finish that was strictly dullsville.
ref: 1979, Bodywork & Painting, page 15:
glosses: A state or condition of boredom or disinterest.
Synonyms: remote place
about to
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He's standing at the edge, and I think he's about to jump.
text: She seemed about to say something.
text: And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
ref: 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Acts of the Apostles, xviii, 14
text: I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: I had travelled one morning down to Aylesbury, and had left my train, and was about to cross the footbridge, when I heard the imperious whistle of a "B1." I paused, and round the bend came the "Master Cutler" with its engine working absolutely flat out.
ref: 1955 April, W. J. Alcock, “Unforgettable Moments”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:
glosses: Indicates something that will happen very soon; indicates action that is imminent; ready to; went to
examples: text: I'm not about to let the lockdown stop me from going to the beach every day.
text: I'm not about to wander around at night to find it.
glosses: Indicates that one has no intention of doing the stated thing at any time in the future.
raw_tags: as negative 'not about to'
glosses: Indicates that one is preparing or planning to do the stated thing at some time in the future, not necessarily imminently.
raw_tags: in affirmative
Synonyms: bound to
fixing to
on the point of
belly-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of belly up.
belly up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: belly-up
Senses: examples: text: After several financial failures, the organization went belly up.
glosses: Dead or defunct.
Related terms: go belly-up
tits up
belly up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bellies up
form: bellying up
form: bellied up
form: bellied up
form: belly-up
Senses: examples: text: He bellied up to the bar as soon as he saw a free stool.
text: Belly-up to the bar boys and have a drink with me, […]
ref: 1926, Cecil Villiers, “Don Juan and the Plaza-Miners”, in The Wails and Tales of a Tropical Tramp, Iquitos: Imp. «La hormiga» […], →OCLC, page 99:
glosses: To gather close, or approach eagerly or assertively, as a bar for ordering alcoholic drinks.
glosses: To die; to fail or go out of business.
glosses: To lay on the back with its belly up.
raw_tags: of a dog
Derived terms: belly up to the bar
go belly-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes belly-up
form: going belly-up
form: went belly-up
form: gone belly-up
Etymology: From the tendency of fish to float upside down when they die.
Senses: glosses: To die.
examples: text: I was sorry to hear that my favorite little restaurant went belly-up.
glosses: To fail or fold; especially, to be closed or shut down, or go out of business.
Synonyms: go bankrupt
shut down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shuts down
form: shutting down
form: shut down
form: shut down
Senses: examples: text: They are planning to shut down the entire building at the end of the month.
text: The time is now, the place the grim industrial city of Shaoyang, China, which has just been informed that its No. 2 Space Rocket Factory is going to shut down.
ref: 2001 November 2, Justin Hill, Carolyn See, “The Once and Future China / The Drink and Dream Teahouse”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2024:
text: Alex quickly shut down her argument. 'But I'm the male. They lead in dancing, why shouldn't I be the lead here too? And besides, I was picked, you applied, which basically means I'm the lead anyway. […]
ref: 2010, Jonathan Ashcroft, Scavengers, page 41:
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 close, terminate, or end.
examples: text: It's a good idea to shut down the machine before you leave.
text: My computer is shutting down as we speak.
text: Safety devices ensure that the engines are automatically shut down in the event of overspeed, low pressure in the lubricating oil system, low cooling-water pressure, or high cooling-water temperature.
ref: 1955 October, “Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 718:
text: On the morning of Thursday, November 3, flood water rose over the conductor rails in platforms 1 to 3 of Lewes station and the electric service to London had to be shut down.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
glosses: To turn off or stop.
examples: text: I can't talk to him about the accident; he just shuts down anytime I try.
glosses: To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors.
examples: text: She made a proposal to reorganize the department, but management shut her down.
text: And I learned a lot, and, um, some of it seemed a little bit too interesting? It felt a bit like I uncovered a part of myself that I've been purposefully just shutting down for as long as I can remember and never questioned why.
ref: 2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 1:12 from the start, in Coming Out, archived from the original on 14 May 2024:
glosses: To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity).
examples: text: I opened that throttle and shut him down.
text: Tach it up, tach it up / Buddy gonna shut you down
ref: 1963, Brian Wilson, Roger Christian, “Shut Down”, performed by The Beach Boys:
qualifier: auto racing; car culture; auto racing; car culture
glosses: To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.
Synonyms: close down
power down
power off
shut off
turn off
wind down
Derived terms: shutdown
hissyfit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hissyfits
Etymology: Clipping of histrionics.
Senses: examples: text: I told him I would be late and he had a hissyfit.
glosses: Alternative form of hissy fit.
Related terms: conniption
conniption fit
speak up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspiːk ˈʌp/
enpr: spēk' ŭpʹ
ipa: /ˌspik ˈʌp/
ipa: /ˌspiːk ˈʌp/
Forms: form: speaks up
form: speaking up
form: spoke up
form: spoken up
Senses: examples: text: Could you speak up? I can't hear you.
coordinate_terms: enunciate#Verb
glosses: To talk more loudly or clearly.
examples: text: I feel that somebody has to speak up for those oppressed by the system.
text: Speak up if I'm bothering you.
coordinate_terms: pipe up#Verb
speak out#Verb
glosses: To make oneself or one's opinions known; to advocate or assert oneself.
speak out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speaks out
form: speaking out
form: spoke out
form: spoken out
Senses: examples: text: You should learn to speak out in meetings with your boss.
coordinate_terms: speak up#Verb
glosses: To assert or promote one's opinion; to make one's thoughts known.
Derived terms: word: speakout
Related terms: shout down
talk over
keep someone on their toes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps someone on their toes
form: keeping someone on their toes
form: kept someone on their toes
form: kept someone on their toes
Senses: examples: text: Four-year-old twins will certainly keep you on your toes!
glosses: To keep someone attentive, active, busy or alert.
on one's toes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I keep my students on their toes with pop quizzes.
glosses: Attentive, active, busy or alert.
Derived terms: keep someone on their toes
carry on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/
Forms: form: carries on
form: carrying on
form: carried on
form: carried on
Etymology: Equivalent to carry onward.
Senses: examples: text: I’ll be gone for a few days, but I hope you will carry on in my absence.
glosses: To continue or proceed as before.
examples: text: to carry on commerce in a market
text: Carry on the good work.
text: It is difficult to carry on a conversation with so many distractions.
glosses: To continue, maintain or pursue (an activity or enterprise).
examples: text: Near-synonyms: keep on, hang in, hang on, keep on keeping on
text: keep calm and carry on
text: He carried on a long conversation with the dragoman in Turkish, the upshot of which was that he would give me a "buyuruldu" or special order to go to Sivas, and would provide an escort if the British Consul would send a written guarantee that I was a bona fide traveller.
ref: 1897, Charles Clive Bigham Mersey, A ride through western Asia, London, New York: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 18:
text: The Schynige Platte Railway carries on its traffic with no more than four electric locomotives (with one steam locomotive in reserve).
ref: 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 755:
text: In his favour, Beeching declared that he supported carrying on with the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
glosses: To persist, persevere.
examples: text: Near-synonym: go on
text: He’s always carrying on about his stupid aquarium.
glosses: To talk continuously or prolongedly (about something), often in an excessively excited way.
examples: text: I really wish you wouldn't carry on like that in public!
text: I could hear some protestors hollering, but I wasn't close enough to make out what was happening. What were they carrying on about?
synonyms: see misbehave § Synonyms
glosses: To act or behave; especially, to misbehave so as to attract attention; to make a fuss; to behave ostentatiously.
examples: text: I thought he was my friend, but all the time he was carrying on with my wife!
glosses: To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship.
Derived terms: carry on like a pork chop
carrying-on
Related terms: sense: talk prolongedly
word: on about
sense: talk prolongedly
word: on and on
carry on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/
Forms: form: carries on
form: carrying on
form: carried on
form: carried on
Etymology: Equivalent to carry onto.
Senses: examples: text: You may only carry on items that are smaller than a certain size.
text: You may carry them on if they fit within the limits.
text: Will you be checking any bags, or just carrying on?
glosses: To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.
Derived terms: word: carry-on
word: carryon
carry on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/
Forms: form: carry ons
Etymology: Equivalent to carry onto.
Senses: glosses: alternative spelling of carry-on
carry-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: carryon
Etymology: Deverbal from carry on.
Senses: examples: text: It's a compact suitcase, but it makes a good carry-on bag.
synonyms: word: hand
raw_tags: before “luggage”/“baggage”/“bag”
word: personal
word: cabin
word: flight
antonyms: checked
glosses: Taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.
carry-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carry-ons
form: carryon
Etymology: Deverbal from carry on.
Senses: examples: text: Do you think they'll accept my ski poles as carry-on?
synonyms: hand luggage
handcarry
glosses: That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.
examples: text: "THAT'S NOT MY CARRY-ON, THOSE WOULD NEVER GET THROUGH SECURITY. ALSO YOU'RE GROUNDED"
ref: 2022, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4900 TeenSA:
synonyms: hand luggage
handcarry
glosses: That luggage or baggage which is taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.
A bag, suitcase, etc., used to carry this luggage or baggage.
examples: text: Sometimes all this carry-on about race, religion and sex seems so petty and silly that I cannot take it seriously.
ref: 1978 December 9, Nancy Walker, “Sexism and Racism at GCN?”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 10:
text: "I love salad",she dared when it came to the next course, and then inwardly cringed when it seemed that that was actually a special order and there was such a carry-on about what kind of salad she wanted.
ref: 2002, Lynne Graham, The Italian's Wife:
text: The stopping, restarting, swearing and routine self-deprecation ("I'm in trouble with the vicar – eternal trouble," quips Martin) is the kind of carry-on that has fans purring with pleasure.
ref: 2011 November 27, Kitty Empire, The Observer:
glosses: A palaver; a disorderly or absurd situation.
Related terms: rollaboard
trolley suitcase
placeholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪsˌhoʊldɚ/
Forms: form: placeholders
form: place holder
Etymology: From place + holder.
Senses: examples: text: This data is a placeholder, so you'll want to include the real numbers as soon as you have them.
text: As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
ref: 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013:
text: "I'm on vacation," [Bruce] Willis grumbles several times throughout A Good Day To Die Hard, in what counts as the film's sole running joke, a lame placeholder until he arrives at the big "yippee-ki-yay" punchline.
ref: 2013 February 14, Scott Tobias, “A Good Day To Die Hard [film review]”, in The AV Club, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2016:
glosses: Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A non-editable caption initially displayed in a blank text box to indicate its function.
Synonyms: thingy
whatshisname
Related terms: word: greek
word: greeking
word: lorem ipsum
denotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈnoʊts/
ipa: /dɪˈnəʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denote
reserves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɝvz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɜːvz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vz
Senses: glosses: plural of reserve
reserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɝvz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɜːvz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reserve
problem child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: problem children
Senses: examples: text: Of recent times very much has been said regarding the problem child, but as Lady Stradbroke pointed out last week but little is being done to cope with the menace that child is to itself and to the community.
ref: 1926 March 30, “General Topic: The Problem Child”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 11 Jun 2009:
text: Hill was a problem child who was sent to Woodlands because his parents couldn't handle him at home.
ref: 2006 October 21, Alan Fryer, “The Children of Woodlands”, in ctv.ca, retrieved 11 Jun 2009:
text: An’ here I am. Your dream problem child. A facety ghetto rude gyal grateful for your remarkable lack of judgeyness, an’ ready to be dazzled and inspired by your penetrating insight.
ref: 2022, Tom Wright, “Scene Two: Classroom”, in I Ain’t Dumb (Modern Plays), London; New York, N.Y.; Dublin: Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A child who is particularly difficult to raise or educate, especially due to a lack of self-control and disruptive and antisocial behavior.
examples: text: [A]n ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon . . . proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine (in itself a problem child), and turned into a $265 million fiasco.
ref: 1959 January 26, “Payoff for Pioneers”, in Time:
text: Locally and across the nation, middle schools have generally been regarded as the problem child for school systems.
ref: 2009 April 16, Theresa Vargas, “Superintendent Thinks Small in Plan to Revamp Middle Grades”, in Washington Post, retrieved 11 Jun 2009:
antonyms: problem-solver
glosses: Someone or something persistently difficult or vexing; a frequent source of trouble or annoyance.
Related terms: poster child
poster child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poster children
form: posterchild
Etymology: From the usage of appealing young people and children in charitable advertisements.
Senses: examples: text: He's a poster child for militant vegetarianism.
text: I think he smile could have opened the door by itself. It seemed to have a life of it’s^([sic]) own with snow-white teeth below sparkling blue eyes. Its owner could be the poster child for the expression “grinning from ear to ear.”
ref: 2005, Susan Cunningham, “Poster Child”, in Unwrapping the Sandwich Generation. Life Vignettes about Seniors & Their Adult Boomer Children, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 175:
text: “He’s not exactly a poster child for the average well-adjusted American kid. He’s only been in-country for a few days.”
ref: 2006, Ted Dekker, Bill Bright, Blessed Child, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 77:
text: A visit to Adventure Island–an after-school program developed by Robert Slavin and Nancy Madden, professors at Johns Hospkins University and creators of Success for All, a comprehensive school reform program practiced in hundreds of schools across the country–could be the poster child for what some might call the academic approach.
ref: 2008, Susan B. Neuman, “Changing the Odds though After-School Programs”, in Changing the Odds for Children at Risk: Seven Essential Principles of Educations Programs that Break the Cycle of Poverty, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 169:
text: But it isn’t difficult to see why Lawrence, who has since become the poster child for healthy body image, elicits such strong reactions — particularly in GIF form, where differences between the original and Photoshopped images are clear.
ref: 2013 December 16, Caitlin Dewey, “Two-year-old Photoshopped Jennifer Lawrence magazine cover draws criticism”, in The Washington Post:
coordinate_terms: pin-up
glosses: One who is a prototypical or quintessential example of something.
wikipedia: Mental Floss
Hypernyms: exemplar
Hyponyms: poster boy
poster girl
poster boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poster boys
form: posterboy
Senses: glosses: A male exemplar of some trait.
Hypernyms: word: exemplar
english: concerning children
translation: concerning children
word: poster child
Coordinate terms: poster girl
poster girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poster girls
form: postergirl
Senses: glosses: A female exemplar of some trait.
Hypernyms: word: exemplar
english: concerning children
translation: concerning children
word: poster child
Coordinate terms: poster boy
the pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Theorized to be a shortened form of armpits, i.e., somewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable. First use appears c. 1953. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: This whole experience has been the pits.
text: A bad exam experience would be ‘I'm wasted’ at Howard,..‘It was the pits’ at Vassar.
ref: 1953, Joseph Becker Phillips, Malcolm Muir, Raymond Moley, Rex Smith, Samuel Thurston Williamson (contributors), Newsweek, volume 42, page 54:
text: Ain't that the pits... I'm actually gonna have to wait for another customer in this crazy heat? That's harsh...
ref: 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
synonyms: the dumps
glosses: Something miserable or unpleasant.