cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Aunt Flo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: änt flō
ipa: /ɑːnt fləʊ/
Forms: form: Aunt Flow
Etymology: Pun on flow and Flo (nickname for Florence, Flora, etc).
Senses: examples: text: Aunt Flo came to visit last night: that's why I was so ratty.
glosses: A personification of the menstrual period or menstruation.
super-rich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of superrich.
super-rich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of superrich.
superrich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: super-rich
Etymology: From super- + rich.
Senses: glosses: Extremely rich.
superrich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-rich
Etymology: From super- + rich.
Senses: examples: text: The trickle-down benefit of spending by the super-rich is insignificant in comparison to the insidious damage.
ref: 2018 September, Martin Vander Weyer, “Cheques & Imbalances”, in Literary Review:
text: In the ballroom of the five star Savoy hotel on the Strand in central London, the super-rich and their advisers were this week advised that they may soon need to watch out for people with “pitchforks and torches” unless they do more to use their fortunes to help the millions struggling with the cost of living crisis.
ref: 2023 June 30, Rupert Neate, “Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Very wealthy people, considered as a class.
turboshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turboshafts
Etymology: From turbo- + shaft.
Senses: glosses: A gas-turbine engine designed to transmit power by means of a geared shaft, used in helicopters and for land and marine vehicular and stationary applications.
Related terms: turbine
turbofan
turbojet
turboprop
solubilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of solubilise
Christoffel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Christoffel symbol
Christoffel-Darboux formula
Schwarz-Christoffel mapping
go off on one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes off on one
form: going off on one
form: went off on one
form: gone off on one
Senses: examples: text: I barely mentioned the band's name before he went off on one about how commercial the top forty is these days.
text: As far as I was concerned, we had a deal – she never went off on one about 'that's not a skirt it's a belt,' and I never went out dressed like a stripper.
ref: 2021, Andreina Cordani, The Girl Who...:
glosses: To launch into an animated diatribe, or passionate description or explanation of something.
Related terms: go off on a tangent
saviour sibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saviour siblings
Senses: examples: text: MPs pushed back the boundaries of science last night when they voted to allow the creation of hybrid embryos, which have a combination of human and animal DNA, as well as "saviour siblings" to save sick children.
ref: 2008 May 20, Nicholas Watt, The Guardian:
glosses: A child, conceived by selected IVF treatment, so as to have compatible tissue that could be used to treat an existing sick sibling
sub-prime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of subprime.
struth
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strewth.
'struth
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strewth.
tantivy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /tænˈtɪvi/
Etymology: A fox-hunting term, said to be from the note of a hunting horn.
Senses: examples: text: Fryar John began to paw, neigh and whinny at the Snout's end, as one ready to leap, or at least to play the Ass, and get up and ride tantivy to the Devil like a Beggar on Horseback.
ref: 1737, John Ozell, ed., The Works of Francis Rabelais, M.D., fourth book, J. Brindley and C. Corbett, page 213
glosses: At full tilt
tantivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tænˈtɪvi/
Forms: form: tantivies
Etymology: A fox-hunting term, said to be from the note of a hunting horn.
Senses: examples: a. 1658, John Cleveland, letter to a Parliament Officer at Grantham
Sir , I expected to hear from you in the Language of the lost Groat , and the Prodigal Son , and not in such a Tantivy of Language
glosses: A rapid gallop
examples: text: Jack then placed himself on the opposite side of the pit, farthest from the giant’s lodging, and, just at the break of day, he put the horn to his mouth, and blew, Tantivy, Tantivy. This noise roused the giant.
ref: 1898, Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales, David Nutt:
glosses: The sound of a hunting horn in imitation of a galloping horse
tantivy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /tænˈtɪvi/
Forms: form: tantivies
form: tantivying
form: tantivied
form: tantivied
Etymology: A fox-hunting term, said to be from the note of a hunting horn.
Senses: glosses: To hurry off.
tarradiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæ.ɹə.dɪ.dəl/
Forms: form: tarradiddles
form: taradiddle
Etymology: Perhaps derived from diddle (“to cheat”).
Senses: examples: text: "I dare say my nephew told you a good many tarradiddles in his time. Oh, yes, a good many, eh? He was always a liar. What, now, did he say of me? Tell me, now."
ref: 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
glosses: A trivial lie, a fib.
examples: text: Of course, that's all taradiddle; he lies like a horse, for I know this Dushkin, he is a pawnbroker and a receiver of stolen goods […]
ref: 1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment:
text: ‘We haven’t got time to listen to more taradiddles, I’m afraid, Dumbledore. I want this dealt with quickly –’
ref: 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, London: Bloomsbury, page 161):
glosses: Silly talk or writing; humbug.
teleonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛliˈɒnəmi/
rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: teleonomies
Etymology: From teleo- + -nomy. Coined by biologist Colin Pittendrigh in 1958, who wanted to limit the much older term "teleology" to actions planned by an agent who can internally model alternative futures with intention, purpose and foresight.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The quality of living organisms of seeming to be organized towards the attainment of an end.
wikipedia: Colin Pittendrigh
Derived terms: teleonomic
Related terms: teleonomist
teleonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teleonomic
form: most teleonomic
Etymology: From teleonomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to teleonomy
quiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪdəl/
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: quiddles
form: quiddling
form: quiddled
form: quiddled
Etymology: From Latin quid (“what”). Cognate with Dutch kwedelen.
Senses: examples: text: He couldn't stop quiddling about the weather.
glosses: To talk nonsense or speak vaguely, to waffle
glosses: To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling superficial manner.
doited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doited
form: most doited
Etymology: From Middle English doten (“to behave foolishly”).
Senses: examples: text: One man only worked on the place, a doited lad who had long been a charge to the parish, and who had not the sense to fear danger or the wit to understand it.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Afflicted with weak-mindedness, usually caused by senility
Synonyms: senile
Related terms: doitrified
nanocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocides
Etymology: From nano- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Any pesticide created using nanotechnology
nanofood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + food.
Senses: glosses: Any food created with the help of nanotechnology
saviour siblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saviour sibling
hybrid embryo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid embryos
Senses: examples: text: True hybrid embryos are the result of fertilising an egg with the sperm of another closely related species; for example, a mule is the hybrid offspring of a donkey and a horse.
ref: 2008 May 19, David Batty, The Guardian:
glosses: An embryo resulting from the sperm of one species fertilising the egg of another.
examples: text: MPs pushed back the boundaries of science last night when they voted to allow the creation of hybrid embryos, which have a combination of human and animal DNA, as well as "saviour siblings" to save sick children.
ref: 2008 May 20, Nicholas Watt, The Guardian:
glosses: Specifically, an embryo created artificially which combines human and animal DNA, in various proportions, for the purposes of medical research.
do the dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the dishes
form: doing the dishes
form: did the dishes
form: done the dishes
Senses: examples: text: I make my children do the dishes if they are impolite during dinner.
synonyms: do the washing-up
glosses: To wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons).
Chimera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪˈmɪɹə/
ipa: /kəˈmɪɹə/
ipa: /kʌɪˈmɪəɹə/
ipa: /kɪˈmɪəɹə/
Forms: form: Chimaera
form: chimera
form: chimaera
Etymology: As the mythological beast, a variant case form of chimera, q.v. As an ancient mountain, directly from Latin mons Chimaera (“Mount Chimera”), from Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira), attested in Strabo.
Senses: examples: text: CHIMERA, a fabulous monſter...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
examples: text: CHIMERA... The foundation of the fable was, that in Lycia there was a burning mountain, or vulcano, of this name; that the top of this mountain was ſeldom without lions, nor the middle, which had very good graſs, without goats; that ſerpents bred at the bottom, which was marſhy; and that Bellerophon rendered the mountain habitable.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184
topics: geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A fire-spewing mountain in Lycia or Cilicia, presumed to be an ancient name for the Yanartaş region of Turkey's Antalya Province.
examples: text: CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184
glosses: Former name of Himara, a port town in southern Albania.
glosses: Former name of Ceraunian Mountains, the Albanian mountain range near Himara.
Coordinate terms: sense: Greek myth
word: Cerberus
sense: Greek myth
word: Hydra
sense: Greek myth
word: Typhon
sense: Greek myth
word: Echidna
silicatein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicateins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme used by sponges to capture silicate and build silica nanostructures
ironist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪɹənɪst/
Forms: form: ironists
Etymology: From irony + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The great ironists do not merely use irony: they live ironically.
glosses: Someone who uses irony in humor.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A supporter of ironism.
Related terms: ironism
telephone card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone cards
Senses: glosses: A plastic card used to pay for telephone services.
Synonyms: calling card
phone card
telecard
Noe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Nōē, from Ancient Greek Νῶε (Nôe), from Hebrew נֹחַ (Nōaḥ).
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Noah.
he-goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: he-goats
Etymology: From he- + goat.
Senses: synonyms: billy goat
billy
buck
coordinate_terms: she-goat
nanny goat
nanny
doe
kid
glosses: A male goat.
he-goats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of he-goat
Scoville scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for American chemist Wilbur Scoville, who devised it in 1912.
Senses: glosses: A measure for the piquancy (“heat, burn, spiciness”) of various chili peppers, indicating the level of capsaicin.
wikipedia: en:Wilbur Scoville
Related terms: Scoville heat unit
SHU
Scoville unit
sit in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits in
form: sitting in
form: sat in
form: sat in
Senses: glosses: To attend a class, educational presentation, meeting, etc. for one time, as a visitor.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To take part in a group musical performance, especially a jazz session, as a temporary guest.
examples: text: Over 200 homeless women and children sat-in over night at the state house to protest inadequate state funding for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).
ref: 1987 April 4, Kim Westheimer, “Homeless Women & Children Sit-In”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: To participate in a sit-in protest.
Related terms: opt in
the sky's the limit
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the sky is the limit.
Barbra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Barbra Streisand isn’t afraid to tell the truth, even to a potential romantic suitor.
ref: 2023 November 5, Alli Rosenbloom, “The surprising way Barbra Streisand won over James Brolin”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Latin, a nonstandard spelling of Barbara. Associated with Barbra Streisand, who changed the spelling of her name from Barbara.
TESSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TESSAs
Senses: topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: TFSA
glosses: Acronym of Tax-exempt special savings account.
capful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæpfʊl/
Forms: form: capfuls
form: capsful
Etymology: From cap + -ful.
Senses: glosses: The amount that will fit into a cap.
examples: text: "I warrant you were frighted, wer'n't you, last night, when it blew but a capful of wind?"
ref: 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 9:
text: " Last night, at sunset, there were plenty of the most respectable wind-clouds, but now there isn't a capful."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A light puff of wind.
Sierra Leonean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sierra Leonean
form: most Sierra Leonean
form: Sierra Leonian
Etymology: From Sierra Leone + -an.
Senses: glosses: From or of Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leonean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sierra Leoneans
form: Sierra Leonian
Etymology: From Sierra Leone + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Sierra Leone.
Hypernyms: sub-Saharan
African
Eveleen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn.
jetpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetpacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jet pack.
jetpack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jetpacks
form: jetpacking
form: jetpacked
form: jetpacked
Senses: examples: text: the first person to jetpack around the world
text: He shrugs, too, when commandos zipline or jetpack into his line of vision, trading fire across busy intersections.
ref: 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: To travel with a jet pack.
Derived terms: jetpacker
neighbourliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neighbourly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of neighborliness.
one-start
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 1-start
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a simple spiral that starts at a point at the origin and does not divide the plane
raw_tags: in two dimensions
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a section of a simple helix
raw_tags: in three dimensions
Related terms: multi-start
two-start
two-start
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 2-start
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a double spiral that starts at the origin and divides the plane into two
raw_tags: in two dimensions
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a construction of two helices that wrap around the same cylinder; if infinite, would divide the surface of the cylinder into two
raw_tags: in three dimensions
Related terms: multi-start
one-start
keep away from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps away from
form: keeping away from
form: kept away from
form: kept away from
Senses: examples: text: He tried to keep away from danger.
text: He tried to keep away from alcohol.
glosses: To avoid or eschew.
examples: text: He tried to keep Jack away from his daughter.
glosses: To deny (someone or something) access to, to maintain distance between.
multi-start
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: n-start
Etymology: From multi- + start.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a multiple spiral that starts at the origin and divides the plane into multiple regions
raw_tags: in two dimensions
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a construction of multiple helices that wrap around the same cylinder; if infinite, would divide the surface of the cylinder into multiple regions
raw_tags: in three dimensions
Related terms: one-start
two-start
tonsil-hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tonsil hockey.
friggin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more friggin
form: most friggin
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frigging.
behabitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more behabitive
form: most behabitive
Senses: examples: text: 'God is good' is behabitive and commissive said by someone brought up in the Christian tradition, but may not be said by an animist of his high god.
ref: 1969, Robert W. Jenson, The Knowledge of Things Hoped For, page 117:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: Adopting an attitude, by making an utterance.
behabitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behabitives
Senses: examples: text: As a behabitive, unsuccessful forgiveness is also connected to sincerity — in this case, a sincere willingness to work on oneself and eliminate resentment.
ref: 2001, Peter Digeser, Political Forgiveness, →ISBN, page 30:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: A speech act by which an attitude is adopted.
Coordinate terms: sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: commissive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: exercitive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: expositive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: verdictive
upbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From up- + bound or up + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: He took an upbound escalator.
glosses: Directed or moving up or in a direction conventionally considered up; upstream
upbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more upbound
form: most upbound
Etymology: From up- + bound or up + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: The ore boat sailed upbound through the locks last week.
glosses: Up or in a direction conventionally considered up; upstream
Clapham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæp.əm/
ipa: /ˈklap.əm/
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0253).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village in Kenn parish, Teignbridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8987).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb of London, mostly in the borough of Lambeth, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2975).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Clapham cum Newby parish, Craven district, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref SD7469).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0906).
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham, South Australia, named after Clapham, London.
glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English derived from these places.
Derived terms: Clapham Common
Clapham cum Newby
Clapham Junction
man on the Clapham omnibus
Clarion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Wright County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A borough, the county seat of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Sanpete County, Utah, United States.
glosses: A river in Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Allegheny River.
man on the Clapham omnibus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men on the Clapham omnibus
Etymology: First put to legal use in a reported judgement by Sir Richard Henn Collins MR in the 1903 English Court of Appeal libel case, McQuire v. Western Morning News, who attributed it to Lord Bowen.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: man on the Bondi tram, man on the Shau Kei Wan tram, reasonable person
topics: law
coordinate_terms: moron in a hurry
;
person having ordinary skill in the art
glosses: Any hypothetical reasonable person used by the Courts in considering questions of reasonableness; an everyman.
synonyms: man on the street
coordinate_terms: woman on the street
Mrs Miggins
glosses: Any ordinary person; everyman.
tramontana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramontanas
form: tramontane
Etymology: From Italian tramontana.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather
glosses: A dry, cold north wind in Italy and adjacent Mediterranean areas.
Related terms: cismontane
transmontane
cisalpine
transalpine
inattentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inattention
doryphore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doryphores
form: doriphore
Etymology: A modification of doriphore, borrowed from French doryphore (“Colorado beetle”) by Harold Nicolson in 1952, presumably under the influence of the various senses of pest. The French term was a translation of the New Latin genus Doryphora, itself from Ancient Greek δορυφόρος (doruphóros, “lance-bearing; lance-bearer”).
Senses: examples: text: Often have I tried to supplement my vocabulary by inventing words, such as ‘couth’, or ‘doriphore’, or ‘hypoulic’, feeling that it is the duty as well as the pastime of a professional writer to make two words bloom where only one bloomed before.
ref: 1952 August 22, Harold Nicolson, Spectator, page 238:
text: The idiomatic implications of such a word as doryphore in his own text is left for the ignorant to guess. (It means a Colorado beetle and, hence, a pest.)
ref: 1960 December 9, Daily Telegraph, page 19:
glosses: A petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes.
wikipedia: Harold Nicolson
dipthong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of diphthong.
glosses: Misspelling of diphthong.
radeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radeaus
form: radeaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French radeau.
Senses: examples: text: Then three vessels under sail, and one at anchor, above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau Thunderer, noted in the last year's naval fight.
ref: 1859, Washington Irving, Life of Washington:
glosses: A float; a raft.
cloudland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudlands
Etymology: From cloud + land.
Senses: examples: text: Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter XXX, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:
text: Wide awake, all at once, he was at the same time plunged even deeper into a cloudland of symbols to which he had no key.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 29, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
text: Nothing can be more like a ride in cloudland than the drive from Pierrefitte to Luz and from Luz to Gavarnie.
ref: 2007, Matilda Betham-Edwards, In the Heart of the Vosges, BiblioBazaar, LLC, page 102:
glosses: Dreamland, fantasy land.
as though
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əzˈðəʊ/
Senses: examples: text: I felt sick, as though I'd just eaten a dozen bad oysters.
text: She reached out, as though to touch my face.
text: It always seemed as though we'd get married.
text: You spend as though you were filthy rich, when you hardly make ends meet.
text: But the tall tower, with its four- faced clock, rose as majestically and uncompromisingly as though the land had never been subjugated.
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
text: "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day.[…]A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: By that stage Townsend, playing again as though immune to any form of nerves, had curled a lovely, left-footed effort against the crossbar and Welbeck had slashed a shot wide from a position when he really should have done better.
ref: 15 October 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian:
glosses: As to suggest the idea that; as if, as would be true if.
Synonyms: like
newspaperwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newspaperwoman
nonconductors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonconductor
nippier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of nippy: more nippy
nippiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of nippy: most nippy
novelettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novelette
lengthsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛŋθsmn̩/
ipa: /ˈlɛŋθsˌm(ə)n/
Forms: form: lengthsmen
Etymology: From length + -s- + -man (suffix denoting a man or person who is an expert in an area or who takes part in an activity).
Senses: examples: text: I started working on the canal when I was only 14. I was a lengths man on the Shrewsbury, the canal. It was my job to cut hedges and to keep the toe path^([sic – meaning towpath]) clear.
ref: 2006 October, Mal Edwards, “Money for Old Rope”, in BBC Wales, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2021:
text: It became common practice for day-to-day maintenance to be undertaken by a number of roadmen, each appointed to maintain a length of road. This gave rise to the term, ‘the lengthsman’. Over time, greater mechanisation and centralisation replaced lengthsmen with area-based work teams, controlled from County offices and depots. […] In 2000 Herefordshire Council launched a local initiative, the ‘Lengthsman Scheme,’ to devolve some minor highway works to Parish Councils. […] Parishes are permitted to use the delegated budget to employ a local contractor to undertake the works – the lengthsman. […] Works carried out by lengthsmen can range from clearing minor storm debris discharged onto the highway, cutting back overgrown hedges encroaching on footways and verge cutting as required by the parish.
ref: 2021, “Lengthsman Scheme”, in Herefordshire Association of Local Councils, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of lengthman.
Roget's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roget's
Etymology: From Roget's Thesaurus, published in 1852.
Senses: examples: text: I like my old Roget's for much the same reason as I like my old dictionary.
ref: 2004, Barbara Wallraff, Your Own Words, page 185:
glosses: A thesaurus published with the Roget's name as part of the title.
examples: text: They use words like appraisal, evaluation, assessment, their Roget's litany, to avoid the constrained "test" connotation.
ref: 1987, Robert Mills Gagné, Instructional Technology: Foundations, page 364:
glosses: Any source of synonyms.
Doppler shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doppler shifts
Senses: glosses: The Doppler effect.
Tom Thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A fairy-tale character who is the size of a person's thumb; the protagonist and hero of the fairy tale The History of Tom Thumb.
Derived terms: Tom Thumb golf
Related terms: hop-o'-my-thumb
Thumbelina
Tom Thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tom Thumbs
Senses: glosses: A type of diminutive simple firecracker that explodes to give a loud noise.
copy cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy cats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of copycat.
copy boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy boys
Senses: topics: media
publishing
glosses: A boy employed to carry copy and run errands.
copy desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy desks
form: copydesk
Senses: glosses: The desk in a newspaper office where copyreading takes place.
glosses: The staff responsible for editing copy.
copy writer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy writers
Senses: glosses: a writer of advertising copy.
conflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confluxes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnflūxus.
Senses: examples: text: It stands on the conflux of two rivers—the Chelmer, whence the town is called, and the Cann.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England:
glosses: A merger of rivers, or the place where rivers merge.
examples: text: Thence to the gates caſt round thine eye, and ſee / What conflux iſſuing forth, or entring in: / Pretors, Proconſuls to thir Provinces / Haſting or on return, in robes of State; / Lictors and rods the enſigns of thir power; / Legions and Cohorts, turmes of horſe and wings: […]
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 81, lines 61–66:
text: There was a conflux of emotions and thoughts in him that would not let him either give thorough way to his anger or persevere with simple rigidity of resolve.
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXIV, in Middlemarch […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VII, page 42:
text: So great was the conflux of torches, the flash and gleam of weapons, and the babel of sounds that it wrought on the mind the impression of a fire blazing up in the night.
ref: 1903, Stanley J. Weyman, chapter 24, in The Long Night:
glosses: A convergence or moving gathering of forces, people, or things.
Synonyms: confluence
peacemonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peacemongers
Etymology: From peace + monger, modelled after warmonger.
Senses: glosses: Someone who opposes war even when it is impractical to do so; a strict pacifist.
Coordinate terms: conscientious objector
peacemaker
double-header
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-headers
form: double header
form: doubleheader
Senses: examples: text: This afternoon we will have a double-header between the Bears and the Wolves, games at 3pm and 7:30pm.
text: The ′40s and ′50s were in advance of the day of the twilight double-header, and most certainly before the more common twilight or “twinight” double-headers, in which the fans must leave so as to empty their seats for a new crowd which is to see the second game at a separately scheduled time.
ref: 2011, William B. Gould, IV, Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil, page 43:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.
examples: text: The NRL season opener at the Olympic stadium will be a double-header: Dragons vs Eels and Souths vs Wests.
text: The next jazz double-header at The Sound Lounge will feature the Leonie Cohen Trio and the Sam Hawkins Quartet
text: It must have seemed a good idea at the time. The holders of two different versions of the world welterweight title were to top the bill against carefully selected opponents in a double header.
ref: 1991, Graeme Kent, Double Header: Atlantic City, August 1988: Boxing′s Strangest Fights, published 2000, page 227:
glosses: A pair of sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.
glosses: A pair of sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A double-headed coin.
examples: text: If this pipe is broken while running as the second engine of a double-header nothing will be lost as the operation of the distributing valve is then similar to that of a triple valve,[…].
ref: 1929, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen′s Magazine, volumes 86-87, page 132:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train pulled by two locomotives.
examples: text: According to feminist writer and adult film producer Tristan Taormino, similar instances of sexual contact between men in heterosexual pornography, such as the "double header," circumvent queer meaning, given their location within heterosexual sex.
ref: 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: Double penetration
Related terms: sense: rail
word: double-heading
word: double-head
death house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death houses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of death row.
synonyms: word: death row
Podunk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊdʌŋk/
Forms: form: podunk
Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian, likely Loup A, word or words. Similar names were applied to various small and generally unknown places. By the late 19th century the word came to mean an obscure small town, a use possibly popularized by Mark Twain (see quotation). Carlton and Reed survey similar place names and note a transformation from Potaecke to Potunke to Podunk. Carlton suggests a derivation from the adjective petukque ("round"). Tooker compares Ojibwe petobeg (“bog”) (as Chippewa) and Abenaki poteba (“to sink in the mire”) and divides the word into pot- ("to sink") and -unk (locative). Algonquian expert Ives Goddard says "We have no idea what the word means. You'll be able to find guesses in the sources if you look around. Don't believe any of it."
Senses: glosses: A Native American people who spoke an Algonquian Quiripi language and lived primarily in modern-day Hartford County, Connecticut.
examples: text: They even know it in Podunk, wherever that may be.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain, Mr. Beecher and the Clergy:
text: Podunk. A term applied to an imaginary place in burlesque writing or speaking.
ref: [1877, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, 4th edition, page 791:
text: Podunk, like Atlantis, has no locus. Sought often, it is unfound and apparently unfindable.
ref: 1933 February 2, F. W. Buxton, Boston Herald:
text: This isn't some Podunk charge in some Podunk court. Charged with four counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, Bonds, if convicted, could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in prison.
ref: 2007 November 15, Scott Miller, “This verdict's already in: Bonds won't hit No. 763”, in CBS Sports:
glosses: A mythical small town of no importance.
Synonyms: sense: mythical small town of no importance
word: backwater
sense: mythical small town of no importance
word: hog waller
sense: mythical small town of no importance
word: hog island
sense: mythical small town of no importance
word: hog town
sense: mythical small town of no importance
word: jerkwater town
sense: mythical small town of no importance
word: one-horse town
Related terms: word: remote place
english: Wikipedia
translation: Wikipedia
word: Placeholder name § Geographical locations
sexagenerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sexagenarian.
sexagenerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexagenerians
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sexagenarian.
brachybasidiole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachybasidioles
Etymology: From brachy- + basidiole.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell that resembles a basidiole but is larger and more inflated.
vertuus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vertuus
form: most vertuus
Senses: examples: text: HE that made this hous for contemplacion / Myndyde specially excercyse of lernynge and vertuus occupation.
ref: c. 1520, William Peeris, “The prouerbis in the rouf of my lorde percy closett at lekyngfelde”, in Chronicle of the Family of Percy, published 1843, page 482:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of virtuous.
vertuus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For withowt ther goode gydaunce / Yough shuld fall in grett myschaunce; / For yough ys frayle and prompt to doo, / As well vices as vertuus to ensew;
ref: 16th century, Henry VIII, “Lusty youth should us ensue”, in John E. Stevens, editor, Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court, published 1961, page 417:
glosses: plural of vertuu, an obsolete spelling of virtue.
clean copy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean copies
Senses: examples: text: Print everyone a clean copy so they can read it over the weekend.
glosses: A copy of a draft of a document without editing notations.
gate house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gate houses
form: gatehouse
Senses: glosses: A structure located at an entrance to a large property, especially a dwelling.
disengagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
Forms: form: disengagements
Etymology: From dis- + engage + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: “Miss Vernon,” I said, “Mr Rashleigh, has recommended me to return my thanks to you for my speedy disengagement from the ridiculous accusation of Morris;[…]”
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 238–239:
glosses: Release or detachment from a physical situation or other involvement.
examples: text: The Indians of the Orellanna, also, tell of horrible noises heard occasionally in the Paraguaxo, […] Others have endeavored to account for these discharges of "mountain artillery" on humbler principles; attributing them […] to the disengagement of hydrogen, produced by subterraneous beds of coal in a state of ignition.
ref: 1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XXVI, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 254:
glosses: The release or separation of a chemical.
glosses: Leisure; relief from responsibilities or onerous activities.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Withdrawal from combat, confrontation, or the assertion of influence.
glosses: Termination of an agreement to be married.
examples: text: There was a quick flash, a disengagement, a feint, a lunge that was like a man's, and as her long left arm shot out like lightning, her foil bent nearly double.
ref: 1895, Francis Marion Crawford, chapter 23, in Taquisara:
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A circular movement of the blade that blocks an opponent's parry.
topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: The emergence of the fetus from the birth canal.
Related terms: disengage
engagement
engage
blinker fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Holonym: fool's errand
Near-synonyms: muffler bearing, left-handed monkey wrench, left-handed smoke shifter, relative bearing grease, skyhook, key to the midway, pigeon's milk
glosses: A mythical automotive material used either in jokes or to gauge how inept someone is in basic auto mechanics.
Related terms: ID10T
snark
muffler bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muffler bearings
Senses: examples: Holonym: fool's errand
Near-synonyms: blinker fluid, left-handed monkey wrench, left-handed smoke shifter, relative bearing grease, skyhook, key to the midway, pigeon's milk
glosses: A mythical automotive part used either in jokes or to gauge how inept someone is in basic auto mechanics.
Related terms: ID10T
snark
Winterpeg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of winter + Winnipeg, referring to the city's harsh winters.
Senses: glosses: Winnipeg.
take a number
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a number
form: taking a number
form: took a number
form: taken a number
Senses: glosses: To queue; to wait to be served by being assigned a number and waiting for that number to be called after all previous numbers have been served in order of assignment.
examples: text: Wanna buy a television network? Take a number. A few years ago you would have had the field to yourself.
ref: 1994 September 12, Stryker McGuire et al., “Sale Of The Century?”, in Newsweek:
text: Even if they did decide to prosecute, the Justice Department would have to take a number and stand in a very long line.
ref: 2000 August 8, Tony Karon, “Chile Exorcises the Specter of Pinochet”, in Time:
glosses: To recognize that many others are in the same situation; recognize that one's concerns are not of high priority; be prepared to wait.
Related terms: take a back seat
take a seat
Ukrainian Easter egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ukrainian Easter eggs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pysanka.
synonyms: word: pysanka
strings attached
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Likely by analogy with no strings attached.
Senses: glosses: plural of string attached
behabitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of behabitive
illocutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From illocution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: "I pronounce you man and wife" is a descriptive statement, but also has illocutionary force.
text: Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.
ref: 2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: word: illocutional
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or deriving from illocution, the performance of acts by speaking.
Derived terms: illocutionarily
illocutionarity
illocutionary act
nonillocutionary
Related terms: locutionary
perlocutionary
automobilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ask any automobilia collector what the most popular field of auto-related antiques is and you'll invariably be told license plates.
ref: 1980 July, Yankee, volume 44, Yankee, →OCLC, page 237:
text: I once found and brought home a Mercedes Benz hubcap. For years it sat in my garage. One day an automobilia collector happened to see it and told me it was worth $40 because it came from a popular sports model Mercedes.
ref: 1984, Stephen Hughes, Pop Culture Mania: Collecting 20th Century Americana for Fun and Profit, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 100:
text: The other [classified section] is general automobilia. Here you can find items such as go-karts, hot rod memorabilia, license plates, literature, books and many others.
ref: 1999, Todd A. Jensen, Automotive Web Sites, McFarland, →ISBN, page 83:
text: There's something for everyone at an automobilia auction, from lots of sales literature and boxes of brochures to milk crates full of license plates and signs galore, all at more attainable price points, so many more of us can participate.
ref: 2021, Steven Rossi, West Peterson, Gearhead at Large: A Backroad Tour of Automotive History and the Old Car Hobby, McFarland, →ISBN, page 304:
synonyms: automobiliana
glosses: Everything pertaining to automobiles, especially collectibles.
Related terms: petroliana
reimport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: reimports
Etymology: From re- + import.
Senses: examples: text: It was these texts, translated yet again into Latin, which were the source of the reimport of swathes of lost Classical knowledge into Latin Europe in later centuries.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 266:
glosses: The act or practice of importing again, or back to a place of origin; reimportation.
examples: text: The low price of reimports has placed competitive pressure on local producers.
glosses: A product which has been reimported.
Synonyms: reimportation
reimport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: reimports
form: reimporting
form: reimported
form: reimported
Etymology: From re- + import.
Senses: examples: text: We reimported the data in a different format.
glosses: To import again.
examples: text: Reimported drugs may not be as safe as domestic products.
glosses: To import goods which have previously been exported, particularly pharmaceutical products, back into the country of origin.
Derived terms: reimportation
reimporter
illocutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illocution
bus stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bus stop
faqirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faqir
resiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resile
how can you sleep at night
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A rhetorical question, used to tell someone that they should feel guilty about something.
cutesily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cutesily
form: most cutesily
Etymology: From cutesy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cutesy manner.