cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
toshao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒʃaʊ/
Forms: form: toshaos
form: toshau
Etymology: From Guyanese Amerindian languages, possibly influenced by Portuguese tuxaua, meaning "village chief."
Senses: examples: text: Membership representation on the board has recently been changed to include 16 community leaders, one other elected community member from each village, a youth group leader, the toshao (village leader) for Annai District, an elder and one woman leader.
ref: 2006, Sharon Ousman, Duncan Macqueen, Grace Roberts, Stronger by Association: Lessons from Guyana's Forest-based Associations (IIED small and medium forest enterprise series; 16), International Institute for Environment and Development, page 64:
text: toshao – elected tribal leader of an Amerindian village or community (miscellaneous references)
ref: 2022, Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Adriana Maria Tenut, editors, Metaphorical Conceptualizations: (Inter)Cultural Perspectives (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics; 45), illustrated edition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, page 118:
text: I witnessed a similar concern in 2018 in Guyana, where the election of leaders has been introduced in the late 1950s (when they were called "captains") and formalized by the Amerindian Act of 2006 (under the name of toshaos): some villagers suggested that the village toshao had been elected only thanks to the votes of people who had recently arrived from Venezuela and whose legitimacy as Village residents was therefore questionable.
ref: 2024, Casey High, Luiz Costa, editors, The Lowland South American World (Routledge Worlds), illustrated edition, Taylor & Francis, page 786:
glosses: The elected leader or head of an Indigenous Amerindian community in Guyana, responsible for representing the village and managing its affairs, particularly in dealings with the government.
toshaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toshao
whitemanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whitemanizes
form: whitemanizing
form: whitemanized
form: whitemanized
Etymology: white man + -ize
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:whitemanize.
glosses: To make (a Native American) act culturally white, or act in a way desired by white authorities.
whitemanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whitemanize
whitemanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whitemanize
whitemanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whitemanize
toshau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒʃaʊ/
Forms: form: toshaus
Etymology: From the Wapishana language, referring to the elected leader or chief of an Indigenous community in Guyana.
Senses: examples: text: A month later, the first hournalists and TV cameras arrrive in Fairview, the Amerindian village where Mr. Allicock is the toshau (village captain).
ref: 2010, John Kline, Ethics for International Business: Decision-Making in a Global Political Economy, illustrated edition, Routledge, page 217:
text: It is expected that visitors should bring a gift of food for the Toshau (village leader and head of the village council).
ref: 2015, Philip Sloan, Willy Legrand, Clare Hindley, The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Food and Gastronomy, Routledge, page ???:
text: These arrangements can be made through Rainforest Tours (pages 63-4), the tourism committee of Morakabai (m 668 6249) or through the village captain or toshau as he is known by the villagers.
ref: 2018, Kirk Smock, Claire Antell, Guyana (Bradt Travel Guides), illustrated edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 226:
qualifier: Indigenous peoples
glosses: The elected leader or chief of an indigenous village in Guyana, responsible for governance, administration, and representing the community's interests.
toshaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toshau
Cantophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Canto + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: The term “Guangzhou film” cannot operate independently outside Hong Kong and its colonial dimension. Tracking “Guangzhou film,” Kenny K. K. Ng presents a compelling study on Cantophone cinema as a site of cultural and linguistic struggle.
ref: 2018 February 14, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Lunpeng Ma's chapter entitled “Between Orality and Visuality: Translating ‘Radio Stories’ into Popular Cantonese Films” visits a cross-regional and cross-media phenomenon of a less-known genre, tiankong xiaoshuo 天空小說, popular in the Cantophone area in the 1940s and 1950s.
ref: 2019 February 25, Yifeng Sun, Chris Song, Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Despite living in the southern Cantophone regions, it was the Hong Kong leftist cultural workers who took the position of the northern Han regime.
ref: 2024 August 19, David Melbye, Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Cantonese-speaking.
Cantophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cantophones
Etymology: From Canto + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: Akin to Shu-mei Shih's concept of the Sinophone, the Hong Kong Cantophone, too, defines itself in opposition to China's Mandarin culture by emphasizing linguistic difference rather than ethnic sameness, postcolonial hybridity rather than ethnonational solidarity.
ref: 2023 December 18, Belinda Kong, SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who speaks Cantonese.
Related terms: Sinophone
Cantophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cantophone
breccioconglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breccioconglomerates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of breccio-conglomerate.
halokinetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a halokinetic manner.
shaliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shaly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being shaly.
sulphidogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to sulphidogenesis.
sabka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sabkha.
sucrosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of saccharoidal.
synonyms: word: saccharoidal
glacioeustatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a glacioeustatic manner.
pelloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peloidal.
satsuma-imo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satsuma-imo
Senses: examples: text: Even among the lower orders, the vendors of satsuma-imo (sweet potatoes) and the hercules of the arena, the labourers or the dwellers by the riverside, is exhibited a highly-developed poetic instinct.
ref: 1905 April 1, J. C. Balet, L. Defrance, “Japanese Poetry”, in W[illiam] L[eonard] Courtney, editor, The Fortnightly Review, volume LXXVII, number CCCCLX, London: Chapman and Hall, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 640:
text: Deliciously defying categorization are caramelized pieces of miso-glazed pork loin ($16) with cute yellow cakes of starchy-sweet Japanese satsuma-imo (sweet potato) and cubes of cooked apple.
ref: 2013 February 2, Amy Pataki, “JaBistro lures us in”, in Saturday Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L8, column 5:
text: Riku loved satsuma-imo as soon as he tried it, so he and the boys would help the farmer, learning what they could about growing, taking care of the sweet potatoes, the best time to harvest, and how to cook them properly.
ref: 2024, N.K. Padua, “Epilogue”, in Sweet Memories (Tales from the Thousand-Year Capital; 1), Altona, Man.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: Alternative form of satsumaimo.
lycophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lycophylls
Senses: synonyms: microphyll
glosses: A leaf having a single unbranched vein.
reheats someone's nachos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reheat someone's nachos
reheating someone's nachos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reheat someone's nachos
reheated someone's nachos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reheat someone's nachos
pseudoyeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoyeasts
Etymology: pseudo- + yeast
Senses: glosses: Any yeast that does not produce fermentation.
pseudoyeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoyeast
pycnoconidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pycnoconidia
Senses: glosses: A conidium produced in a pycnidium.
pycnoconidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pycnoconidium
rain leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain leaves
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A leaf adapted to shed rain from its surface, generally acuminate in form.
Related terms: drip tip
rain leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain leaf
rejection nucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejection nuclei
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A nucleus that does not become part of the functional oosphere; a nucleus of an abortive oosphere.
rejection nuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejection nucleus
Sanio's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sanio's laws
Etymology: Published by Prussian botanist Karl Gustav Sanio (1832–1891).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of observations on a pattern in the size of xylem tracheids, increasing in size from the top of a tree to a certain height, after which they decrease again to the base of the tree. These laws generally hold true for coniferous woods.
wikipedia: Karl Gustav Sanio
Gasson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
monoethnicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being monoethnic.
FOLHC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The auctioneer donated the monument to FOLHC and they got to work restoring his plot.
ref: 2021 September 24, Lauren M. Johnson and Christina Zdanowicz, “A gravestone missing for almost 150 years was being used as a marble slab to make fudge”, in CNN:
text: “There are so many historical and significant people buried here,” said Loretta Stanaway, president of FOLHC.
ref: 2024 June 9, Karina Prieto, “June 9 marks 150 years of burials in Mt. Hope Cemetery”, in WLNS, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2024:
glosses: Initialism of Friends of Lansing's Historical Cemeteries.
spheroblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spheroblast
testule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testules
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of frustule.
synonyms: word: frustule
testules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of testule
tribuloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tribuloid
form: most tribuloid
Senses: glosses: Resembling the fruit of Tribulus; beset with sharp bristles; echinate.
Lyth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
trianthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a trianthous peduncle
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three flowers.
tricussate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having whorls of three leaves each, the leaves of each whorl alternating with those above and below.
fauxlanthropists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauxlanthropist
trioicous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trioecious.
trichophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trichophyllous
form: most trichophyllous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having finely divided leaves that resemble hair.
uninerviate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uninervate.
wind-witch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind-witches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tumbleweed (“loose plant driven by the wind”).
synonyms: word: tumbleweed
extra: loose plant driven by the wind
steppe-witch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steppe-witches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tumbleweed (“loose plant driven by the wind”).
synonyms: word: tumbleweed
extra: loose plant driven by the wind
wind-witches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind-witch
steppe-witches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steppe-witch
mosquito party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosquito parties
Senses: qualifier: Singaporean politics
glosses: small opposition party
diastatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diastatides
Etymology: From di- + astatide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any astatide containing two astatine atoms in each molecule.
fumigatorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumigatoria
form: fumigatoriums
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fumatorium.
synonyms: word: fumatorium
Foll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
peppercress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peppercresses
Senses: glosses: Pepperwort, peppergrass.
TABOR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "I believe citizens of every community have the right to determine what's right for them," he said. "I don't think TABOR is a one-size fix. TABOR doesn't allow a community to determine where their future is going to go."
ref: 2006 October 8, Susan M. Cover, “TABOR: A problem, or the solution?”, in Kennebec Journal, archived from the original on 27 May 2008:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
neuroinfectiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnʊəɹoʊˌɪnfɛkʃiˈɒlədʒi/
Etymology: From neuro- + infectiology.
Senses: examples: text: This work was supported by the Max Planck Society, the Max Planck Förderstiftung, the DFG (CNMPB), EXTRABRAIN EU-FP7, and the Niedersachsen-Research Network on Neuroinfectiology (N-RENNT).
ref: 2017, Robert Weissert, Fabienne Brilot, editors, Induction of Central Nervous System Disease by the Adaptive Immune Response (Frontiers Research Topics), Frontiers Media SA, page 12:
text: Since 2018, she is junior professor for Alternatives and Complementary Methods to Animal Experiments at TiHo with her research focusing on development of stem cell-based in vitro assays on the field of neurotoxicology and neuroinfectionology.
ref: 2024, Pierre-Yves Lozach, editor, Rift Valley Fever Virus: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology; 2824), Pierre-Yves Lozach, page xxxi:
text: Asparouh Iliev, a Bulgarian specialist in molecular neuroinfectiology from the University of Bern, has praised the two RNA vaccines, characterizing them as extremely safe and also regarding them as very similar to each other.
ref: 2025 March 29, Wikipedia contributors, “COVID-19 vaccination in Bulgaria”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
qualifier: infectious diseases
glosses: An interdisciplinary field focusing on infections of the nervous system, encompassing the study of pathogen-host interactions, immune responses, and the resulting neurological consequences. It integrates aspects of neurology, infectious diseases, immunology, and molecular biology to understand and manage central nervous system (CNS) infections.
Ticinese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Lombard spoken in Ticino.
Ticinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ticino.
Bq.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Basque.
Srd.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Sardinian.
Tusc.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The [semantic] shift 'maple' > 'ash tree' needed to connect Srd. kòsti, OProv. agast 'maple' to Tusc. còstolo 'ash tree' is accepted under this criterion.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 30:
glosses: Abbreviation of Tuscan (language).
Nuor.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Nuorese.
Camp.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Campidanese.
Gaul.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Lyon (France) < Lat. Lugdūnum << Gaul. *Lugudūnon 'stronghold of Lug'
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 31:
glosses: Abbreviation of Gaulish.
Arab.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Arabic.
breakfast juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakfast juices
Senses: glosses: A blend of various fruit juices.
AIEF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Like other tax-exempt nonprofits, AIEF must file a Form 990 every year with the IRS, but donors are redacted from the version that is made accessible to the public.
ref: 2023 November 18, Murtaza Hussein, “Meet the Secret Donors Who Fund AIPAC’s Israel Trips for Congress”, in The Intercept:
glosses: Initialism of American Israel Education Foundation.
Lang.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Languedocian.
writemask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writemasks
Etymology: Compound of write + mask.
Senses: examples: text: A destination element is not updated with the result of the operation if the corresponding writemask bit is not set. Instead, the destination element value must be preserved (merging-masking) or it must be zeroed out (zeroing-masking).
ref: 2025 March, Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, volume 1, page 15-9:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A bitmask which controls which bits are written to a memory location during some operation.
writemasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writemask
Campan.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: FEW's and Hubschmid's comparison between Srd. kaðúmbu(lu) 'great mullein' < *katúmbu- and Campan. kwátenə, kwātanə 'id.' is only possible if both Srd. -úmbu and Campan. -enə are analyzed as suffixes to a root *k(w)at-.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 36:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Campanian (dialect).
cherries and berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An allusion to emergency vehicle lighting.
Senses: glosses: The police.
wikipedia: emergency vehicle lighting
global panini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the global panini
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of global pandemic, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic
handcam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handcams
Etymology: From hand + cam.
Senses: examples: text: handcam gameplay
glosses: A video or livestream that films one's hands.
william-nilliam
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more william-nilliam
form: most william-nilliam
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of willy-nilly.
DCCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The warehouse that caught fire contained 99% trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) – used to make chlorinated tablets to control bacteria and algae – and 99% dichloroisocyanuric acid (DCCA), which is used to make swimming pool shock – a treatment used to help break down contaminants.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dichloroisocyanuric acid.
dichloroisocyanuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The warehouse that caught fire contained 99% trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) – used to make chlorinated tablets to control bacteria and algae – and 99% dichloroisocyanuric acid (DCCA), which is used to make swimming pool shock – a treatment used to help break down contaminants.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: DCCA
glosses: A colorless solid used as an oxidizer.
dichloroisocyanuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + chloro- + isocyanuric.
Senses: examples: text: The warehouse that caught fire contained 99% trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) – used to make chlorinated tablets to control bacteria and algae – and 99% dichloroisocyanuric acid (DCCA), which is used to make swimming pool shock – a treatment used to help break down contaminants.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to dichloroisocyanuric acid.
Derived terms: dichloroisocyanuric acid
trichloroisocyanuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + chloro- + isocyanuric.
Senses: examples: text: The warehouse that caught fire contained 99% trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) – used to make chlorinated tablets to control bacteria and algae – and 99% dichloroisocyanuric acid (DCCA), which is used to make swimming pool shock – a treatment used to help break down contaminants.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to trichloroisocyanuric acid.
Derived terms: trichloroisocyanuric acid
IMLS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Earlier this month, the president also signed an order directing the Institution of Museum and Library Services, among several other government entities, to be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” The IMLS supports museums and libraries in all 50 states.
ref: 2025 March 28, Michael Williams, “Trump targets ‘improper ideology’ at the Smithsonian in latest effort to reshape the arts and history”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Institute of Museum and Library Services.
troughers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trougher
bat hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bat hawks
Senses: glosses: A slender, long-winged raptor of species Macheiramphus alcinus, found in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia to New Guinea, and having a diet of mainly bats.
whimmy diddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimmy diddles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gee haw whimmy diddle.
synonyms: word: gee haw whimmy diddle
whimmy diddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whimmy diddle
haw trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haw tree
headline inflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headline inflations
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A measure of the total inflation within an economy, including commercial products such as food and energy prices (e.g. oil and gas), which are often prone to fluctuations and inflationary spikes.
headline inflations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headline inflation
health span
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: health spans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of healthspan.
call of the wild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An urge to leave civilization and live in isolation in the wilderness.
antisemetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of antisemitic.
hedge cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge cacti
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Peruvian apple cactus.
synonyms: word: Peruvian apple cactus
Peruvian apple cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peruvian apple cacti
Senses: synonyms: giant club cactus
hedge cactus
glosses: Cereus repandus, a large, erect, spiny columnar cactus of South America.
hedge cacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge cactus
Pynchonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pynchonian
hedge apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge apple
hedgehog tenrec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedgehog tenrecs
Senses: glosses: Short for lesser hedgehog tenrec (“Echinops telfairi”)
glosses: Short for greater hedgehog tenrec (“Setifer setosus”)
hedgehog tenrecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedgehog tenrec
hell ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hell ships
Senses: glosses: A ship (sailing vessel) with extremely inhumane living conditions or with a reputation for cruelty among the crew, especially one of those used by the Japanese to transport Allied prisoners of war and Asian slave labourers out of the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, and Singapore in World War II.
hell ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hell ship
helmet crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helmet crabs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of masked crab.
synonyms: word: masked crab
helmet crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmet crab
helmet orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helmet orchids
Senses: glosses: Any of various orchids with helmet-shaped flowers, of genera Coryanthes, Corybas, Cranichis, Nematoceras, and Pterostylis.
helmet orchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmet orchid
hemimellitic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound with chemical formula C₆H₃(СО₂Н)₃, prepared by oxidation of 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene.
hen clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen clams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Atlantic surf clam.
synonyms: word: Atlantic surf clam
Atlantic surf clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantic surf clams
Senses: synonyms: bar clam
hen clam
sea clam
skimmer
glosses: Spisula solidissima, a very large, edible saltwater clam that is common in the western Atlantic Ocean.
bar clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar clams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Atlantic surf clam.
synonyms: word: Atlantic surf clam
hide and coop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hide and seek (“game of seeking hidden players”).
synonyms: word: hide and seek
extra: game of seeking hidden players
hickory wattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hickory wattles
Senses: synonyms: lightwood
glosses: Acacia implexa, a fast-growing Australian tree whose timber is used to make furniture.
WOPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of white ordinary Portland cement.
hillul Hashem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chillul Hashem.
hissing adder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hissing adders
Senses: glosses: A hognose snake of genus Heterodon.
ho ho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ho, ho, ho (“deep laugh or chuckle”).
Hol Hamoed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chol HaMoed.
Home Guardsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Home Guardsmen
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Home Guard.
synonyms: word: Home Guard
do the work
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the work
form: doing the work
form: did the work
form: done the work
Senses: glosses: To take part in social justice activism; to fight against racism, oppression, etc.
OPIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The wind-down of OPIC is also consistent with the President’s commitment to focus less overseas and more domestically, and will achieve savings in OPIC’s administrative and subsidy expenses.
ref: 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
honey bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honeybird.
Gould's hooded snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gould's hooded snakes
Etymology: Named after English ornithologist John Gould.
Senses: synonyms: black-headed snake
Gould's black-headed snake
glosses: Suta gouldii, a venomous elapid snake, endemic to Western Australia.
hooded violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooded violets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue violet (“Viola sororia”).
synonyms: word: blue violet
extra: Viola sororia
hooded violets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooded violet
ferrerets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferreret
horn poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horn poppies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horned poppy.
hortus conclusus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin [Term?]
Senses: glosses: An enclosed private garden, in medieval times usually divided into quadrants by four paths, with a well or fountain in the centre.
hot buttered rum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot buttered rums
Senses: glosses: A hot drink containing rum, butter, hot water or cider, a sweetener, and spices (usually cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves), associated with fall and winter holidays.
hot buttered rums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot buttered rum
house god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house gods
Senses: glosses: Synonym of household deity.
synonyms: word: household deity
house of mercy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houses of mercy
Senses: glosses: An Anglican institution from the mid-19th to mid-20th century serving as a refuge for prostitutes, unmarried mothers, etc.
houses of mercy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house of mercy
house snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house snakes
Senses: glosses: Any of various snakes of the genera Elaphe, Lampropeltis, Lamprophis, Dryophylax, and Mesotes.
how dare someone
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: How dare she accuse me like that?
glosses: Used to express indignation and shock at someone's actions.
Derived terms: how very dare you
ffooks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ffoulkes
Senses: examples: text: […] but she was a real lady though, and I would ten times rather have had her sharp words than Mrs. ffooks' fadding.
ref: 1861, Anna Jane Buckland, The Little Warringtons, page 166:
glosses: A surname
Related terms: fforde
ffrench
ffoulkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ffooks
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: fforde
ffrench
fairy lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy lanterns
Senses: glosses: Thismia rodwayi, a non-chlorophyllous plant of the family Burmanniaceae with a reddish-orange flower, found in parts of Australia and New Zealand.
fairy lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy lantern
fairy wand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy wands
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of species Chamaelirium luteum.
fairy wands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy wand
false cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false cypresses
Senses: glosses: Any conifer of the genus Chamaecyparis.
false dandelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false dandelions
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants resembling the dandelion.
Hypochaeris, especially Hypochaeris radicata.
glosses: Any of various plants resembling the dandelion.
Agoseris.
glosses: Any of various plants resembling the dandelion.
Crepis.
glosses: Any of various plants resembling the dandelion.
Hieracium.
glosses: Any of various plants resembling the dandelion.
Leontodon.
glosses: Any of various plants resembling the dandelion.
Nothocalais.
glosses: Any of various plants resembling the dandelion.
Pyrrhopappus.
glosses: Any of various plants resembling the dandelion.
Scorzoneroides.
glosses: Any of various plants resembling the dandelion.
Tussilago farfara
Related terms: mock dandelion
Bolander's mock dandelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bolander's mock dandelions
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of species Phalacroseris bolanderi.
family-style
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Designating an informal kind of sit-down restaurant suitable for family outings.
fat-rumped sheep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat-rumped sheep
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fat-tailed sheep.
synonyms: word: fat-tailed sheep
feather tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feather trees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of feather Christmas tree.
synonyms: word: feather Christmas tree
feather Christmas tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feather Christmas trees
Senses: synonyms: feather tree
glosses: An artificial Christmas tree made from feathers attached to wire branches.
feather trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feather tree
feline distemper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of panleukopenia.
synonyms: word: panleukopenia
field garlic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Allium oleraceum.
glosses: The plant Allium vineale.
fire-tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-tubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of firetube.
Turnip Winter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Turnip Winter
Etymology: Calque of German Steckrübenwinter
Senses: glosses: The winter of 1916 to 1917, a period of profound civilian hardship in Germany during World War I, due to the Allied blockade, the German focus on supplying the military, and a poor harvest.
see and be seen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees and is seen
form: seeing and being seen
form: saw and was seen
form: seen and been seen
Senses: glosses: To spend time in public or at an event in order to mingle with important or glamorous people and to appear important or glamorous oneself.
upper-division
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a college or university: requiring applicants to have already completed two years of undergraduate study at another institution.
Mbomou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bomu
Senses: glosses: A river forming part of the boundary between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Chaleur Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An arm of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence located between Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A natural bay on the island of Newfoundland.
khirbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khirbats
Etymology: Arabic خربة
Senses: glosses: A ruin, in the Arab world.
khirbats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khirbat
Kizil Irmak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Turkish Kızılırmak
Senses: glosses: The longest river flowing entirely within Turkey.
sisters in Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sister in Christ
Keewatin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former district of the Northwest Territories, in use as an administrative and statistical division until the creation of Nunavut in 1999.
glosses: A former territory of Canada and later an administrative district of the Northwest Territories, having some territorial overlap with the above.
glosses: A city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States.
Kittatinny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Unami kitahtëne (“big mountain”).
Senses: glosses: A long mountain ridge traversing primarily Sussex County in northwestern New Jersey.
glosses: A dolomitic limestone formation in New Jersey.
Manitoulin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Short for Manitoulin Island
Derived terms: Central Manitoulin
Manitoulin District
Manitoulin Island
South Portland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, opposite Portland itself.
glosses: A neighbourhood and historic district in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Southern Uplands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Southern Uplands
Senses: glosses: The southernmost and least populous of mainland Scotland's three major geographic areas (the others being the Central Lowlands and the Highlands).
Vestavia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Short for Vestavia Hills
Vestavia Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Jefferson and Shelby counties in Alabama, United States.
Saint-Mihiel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France.
Buddha-field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buddha-fields
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Synonym of pure land.
synonyms: word: pure land
Buddha-fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Buddha-field
dutoitspanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Former name of bultfonteinite
BSWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BSW
blackwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackwalls
Etymology: From black + wall.
Senses: coordinate_terms: skinwall
tanwall
whitewall
glosses: A tyre/tire with black sidewalls.
blackwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackwall
tanwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanwalls
Etymology: From tan + wall.
Senses: coordinate_terms: blackwall
skinwall
whitewall
glosses: A tyre/tire with tan-coloured sidewalls.
tanwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanwall
Castner cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Castner cells
Senses: glosses: The electrolytic cell used in the Castner process.
Castner cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Castner cell
prademagene zamikeracel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gene therapy used to treat recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
demanganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demanganizes
form: demanganizing
form: demanganized
form: demanganized
Etymology: From de- + manganize.
Senses: glosses: To remove manganese from.
demanganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demanganize
demanganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demanganize
demanganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demanganize
yookay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: the yookay
Etymology: Eye dialect for UK. Originally coined on the /pol/ and /int/ boards of 4chan before being popularised by X user @kunley_drukpa in 2023. Compare Ukay, coined by journalist Peter Hitchens in 2010.
Senses: examples: text: Rucksacked Deliveroo cyclists in convoy, swarming along road and pavement. Tattered, pockmarked high streets, enlivened only by phone shops, chicken shops and random outbursts of violence. And, most prominently, black and South Asian men, the former threateningly ski-masked and communicating exclusively through drill rap, the latter combining an aggressively masculine form of Islam with inner-city gang culture. Welcome to “the yookay”, the verbal and social corruption of “the UK” that so much of the political right believes it sees in modern Britain.
ref: 2025 April 23, Nicholas Harris, “Anarchy in the ‘yookay’”, in The New Statesman, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2025:
text: The multicultural Britain of today, or “yookay” as it has come to be disparagingly called, has since taken on a character all of its own, a long way from the “narrow, English-dominated” society derided by the Parekh Report.
ref: 2025 May 5, Luca Watson, “Nobody likes the yookay aesthetic”, in The Critic, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The United Kingdom, as having been impacted by perceived failures in multicultural policy.
wikipedia: 4chan
facestalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: facestalks
form: facestalking
form: facestalked
form: facestalked
form: face-stalk
Etymology: Blend of Facebook + stalk.
Senses: examples: text: Who's facestalking my favs on Facebook?
ref: 2014, Joseph Maverick Nyambu, Sparkling Mortal Passions, →ISBN, page 31:
text: There's no need to feel naughty about facestalking would-be dates on social media before agreeing to meet up, new research says nine in 10 NZ women do it.
ref: 2014 May 24, “Facestalking' would-be dates on social media is normal, research says”, in TVNZ OneNews:
text: He didn't realize she was facestalking him until she saw that he had a new girlfriend from his postings.
ref: 2015 April 30, Virginia Sullivan, “Ahhh Facebook, You Are a Cruel Mistress”, in Huffington Post:
glosses: To obtain (information about someone) without their knowledge (by using Facebook or other social media).
Hypernyms: cyberstalk
Derived terms: facestalking
facestalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of facestalk
facestalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of facestalk
face-stalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: face-stalks
form: face-stalking
form: face-stalked
form: face-stalked
Senses: examples: text: I was Face-stalking so hard, I suddenly knew everyone's business like nobody's business.
ref: 2010 November 18, Myf Warhurst, “Facebook addiction can be a sickening waste of time”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: Sadly for you, Cara gets just as much of a kick out face-stalking them as you do.
ref: 2014, Holly Marie Tong, Chick Flicks Lie: Sugar-free Accounts of a Positive Pessimist, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Alternative form of facestalk.
face-stalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of face-stalk
face-stalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of face-stalk
urbech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urbeches
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian урбе́ч (urbéč), ultimately from Kumyk гьюрбеч (hürbeç).
Senses: glosses: A thick, sticky paste made from ground raw or dried seeds (such as flax, hemp, sunflower, pumpkin), apricot kernels or nuts, traditionally used in Dagestani cuisine.
nuculane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuculanes
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of nuculanium.
synonyms: word: nuculanium
nuculanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuculane
leptoxylem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: lepto- + xylem
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The water-conducting tissue of the sporophyte of mosses.
cooken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cook + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Scott says Dr. Ayers treated them very nicely; he exhibited his fish, showed them how he fed them, caught a couple of fine ones and had them cooken for their dinner, and altogether entertained them in a very hospitable and courteous manner.
ref: 1886 November 12, “Home News”, in The Larned Eagle-Optic, volume VIII, number 49, Larned, Kan., →OCLC, page 3, column 2:
text: After they had cooken and eaten the fish, they noticed the dog doing strange things. They came to the conclusion that he had hydrophobia.
ref: 1930 August 2, “Being Treated Because They Ate Fish That Had Been Bitten by Mad Dog”, in The Roanoke World-News, volume 56, number 29, Roanoke, Va., →OCLC, page 3, column 8:
text: Re-fried beans, that oh-so-Mexican-sounding dish, is really beans re-cooked by frying. “You just take regular pinto beans that have been cooken with ham fat and mash them in the frying pan with a little oil until they are about the consistency of mashed potatoes,” she [Eleanor Irigaray] explained.
ref: 1969 March 16, Barbara W. Short, “A Taste of Mexico”, in Durham Morning Herald, 75th year, Durham, N.C., →OCLC, page 1B, column 3:
glosses: past participle of cook
cooken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I was a-thinken, Sary, I’d hev to go to town an’ git a pile uv things—cups an’ sassers, an’ a broom, an’ a washbasin, an’ an ile lamp an’ some ile, an’ some cooken doens, an’ shirten, an’ a stone jug to carry water up to the clearen when I’m to work thar, an’ some hoss powders, an’ gardenen seeds, an’ a nice big stove with tin fixens, and cooken tricks; […]
ref: 1887 October, Tobe Hodge, “The Twins of Weasel Branch”, in The American Magazine, volume VI, number 6, New York, N.Y.: The American Magazine Co., →OCLC, page 726, column 2:
text: “Y’ ain’t got no washen, ner nuffin fur me, hab y’?” said Souri, suddenly appearing before her. / “No! git out o’ hyar.” / “Any cooken?” / “Cooken. Can yer cook? […] I wish I had some un ter cook fur.” / “I’ll cook fur ’em.” […] “Hyar’s a gal,” said his wife, “ez hankers ter do some cooken fur me.”
ref: 1891, F[rederic] A[ugustus] Mitchel, “A Willing Servant”, in Chattanooga: A Romance of the American Civil War, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: The American News Company, →OCLC, pages 113–114:
text: “Mom, they ain’t no dressers, an no looken glass, but I bet they’s twenty chairs, all alike. An jist one table fer all our cooken an eaten.” […] “Here’s some corn bread to go with them beans. […] I had a little bacon grease, an put in a dab a cooken oil.”
ref: 1954, Harriette Arnow, chapter 12, in The Dollmaker, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 152 and 162:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cooking.
haplocaulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a simple unbranched stem.
goodyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goodyish
form: most goodyish
Senses: examples: text: "O, I don't mind those things as much as I used to," said Jean, with a bright smile, "and I really enjoy being with the children. There I have had my lessons and music, you know."
"Dear me, what a goodyish sound that has!" exclaimed Clem, in a tone of light mockery.
ref: 1874, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volumes 39-40, page 33:
glosses: Synonym of goody-goody.
synonyms: word: goody-goody
goodyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lope K. Santos, the "grand old man" of Tagalog letters, had long ago deplored the mechanical goodyism of the reading material […]
ref: 1974, Epifanio San Juan, Introduction to Modern Pilipino Literature, page 94:
glosses: Synonym of goody-goodyism.
synonyms: word: goody-goodyism