cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Old Low Franconian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The West Germanic language that is the ancestor of modern Dutch and its varieties.
examples: text: The particular variety of Old Low Franconian spoken in the cultural centers of Flanders and Brabant is called Old West Low Franconian and is the ancestor ultimately of Dutch.
ref: 2010 (originally 2004), Benjamin W. Fortson IV, Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, 2nd ed., p. 371
glosses: The above, including also the ancestors of the languages of the eastern Netherlands (Limburgish) and the Low Franconian varieties spoken in Germany. (In this view, the ancestor of Dutch is considered to be Old West Low Franconian)
Synonyms: Old Low Frankish
Old Dutch
Meronyms: Old West Low Franconian
Old East Low Franconian
refrigeratorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more refrigeratorlike
form: most refrigeratorlike
Etymology: From refrigerator + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a refrigerator.
vigilantelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vigilantelike
form: most vigilantelike
Etymology: From vigilante + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Vigilantelike groups roamed the streets.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vigilante.
crosswordlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crosswordlike
form: most crosswordlike
Etymology: From crossword + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a crossword.
dictatorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dictatorlike
form: most dictatorlike
Etymology: From dictator + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dictator.
terms of art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of term of art
locklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more locklike
form: most locklike
Etymology: From lock + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lock (fastener opened by a key).
locknuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locknut
anginalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anginalike
form: most anginalike
Etymology: From angina + -like.
Senses: examples: anginalike chest pain
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of angina.
agatelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agatelike
form: most agatelike
Etymology: From agate + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of agate.
vehiclelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vehiclelike
form: most vehiclelike
Etymology: From vehicle + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vehicle.
suicidelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suicidelike
form: most suicidelike
Etymology: From suicide + -like.
Senses: examples: suicidelike behaviour
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of suicide; suicidal.
eyebrowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eyebrowlike
form: most eyebrowlike
Etymology: From eyebrow + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an eyebrow.
fluidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluid + -less.
Senses: examples: a fluidless coolant system
glosses: Without fluid.
paranoialike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paranoialike
form: most paranoialike
Etymology: From paranoia + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of paranoia.
preschooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preschool
preschooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Preschooled children performed better in certain tests.
glosses: Having been taught at preschool.
preschooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preschool
preschooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the early education that occurs at preschool
saponic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid obtained from saponin.
Synonyms: esculic acid
polygalic acid
trumpetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trumpeting
waterbased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: water-based
Etymology: From water + based.
Senses: examples: a waterbased paint
glosses: Based on water.
mullagatawny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mullagatawnies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulligatawny.
mullagatawnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mullagatawny
water-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waterbased.
theorizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theorizing
theorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theorizers
Etymology: From theorize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who forms a theory.
theorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theorizer
Bismarckian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bismarckian
form: most Bismarckian
Etymology: From Bismarck + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), German statesman associated with antisocialism, complex diplomacy, and the creation of the welfare state.
Related terms: Bismarckism
navbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navbars
Etymology: Clipping of navigation bar.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bar, usually at the top of a web page, offering a number of links to help the user to navigate.
navbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navbar
navelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more navelike
form: most navelike
Etymology: From nave + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nave.
nonoutliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonoutlier
dambonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.
Derived terms: dambose
Daltonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːlˈtəʊnɪən/
Forms: form: more Daltonian
form: most Daltonian
Etymology: From Dalton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to John Dalton (1766-1844), English chemist, physicist, and pioneer of modern atomic theory who also researched colour blindness.
Daltonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːlˈtəʊnɪən/
Forms: form: Daltonians
form: daltonian
Etymology: From Dalton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A color blind person.
unbetterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + better + -able.
Senses: examples: text: When a not-so-good software tool or a habit or an agency or a policy has too much inertia to be fixed, when it's unbetterable, you're better off without it.
ref: 2011, Seth Godin, Unbetterable:
glosses: That cannot be bettered or improved.
præceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præceptors
Senses: examples: text: Consequently we discard our præceptor—our first medical love—and seek a new.
ref: 1902, Frank Lehman, in a publication of The Hahnemannian Institute, volume IX, issue 2, page 33
glosses: Obsolete form of preceptor.
præceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præceptor
explicitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explicitations
Etymology: From explicit + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: [N]ot only are the two factors of reality [i.e., objective and subjective] exposures or explicitations of each other, each being always the other's inside made outside, implicit made explicit, but also in our thought of them as incidents of one process or activity it can certainly be no more true that they influence each other or act causally on each other or "interact," than that they are constantly realizing each other.
ref: 1927, Alfred H. Lloyd, “Also the Emergence of Matter”, in Journal of Philosophy, volume 24, number 12, page 326:
text: The further attributes of matter—e.g. motion, space, time, substantiality, and reflection—appear merely as explicitations and concretizations of the fundamental thesis on the priority of matter over consciousness.
ref: 1962, Helmut Fleischer, “The Materiality of Matter”, in Studies in Soviet Thought, volume 2, number 1, page 15:
text: This article is primarily directed at a clarification and explicitation of objectives and of their implementation in laboratory work at the Dutch Open University.
ref: 1988, P. A. Kirschner, M. A. M. Meester, “The laboratory in higher science education”, in Higher Education, volume 17, number 1, page 81:
text: Further, while Frege's judgment stroke has the merit of making this distinction fully explicit, and thereby available to do logical work, there are still, as Martin recognizes, real limits on explicitation here—at least within a Fregean context.
ref: 2007, R. Lanier Anderson, “Comments on Wayne Martin, Theories of Judgment”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 137, number 1, page 105:
text: The entire range of political theory for example is concerned with explicitation of this egalitarianism through the agency of the State.
ref: 2009, G. Aloysius, “Demystifying Modernity: Notes Not so Tentative”, in Social Scientist, vol. 37, no. 9/10, p. 54:
text: Beckett would have hated the fuss: too big, too noisy, too much explicitation; the City of the Plain welcoming back its prodigal son whose image (banners, pictures, books) was everywhere.
ref: 2009, Chris Ackerley, "Book Review: Beckett at 100: Revolving It All" (eds. Linda Ben Zvi and Angela Moorjani, Oxford, 2008), The Journal of British Studies, vol. 48, no. 2, p. 550
text: Professional translators incorporate explicitations to explain the missing context by considering cultural differences between source and target audiences.
ref: 2023 December 3, HyoJung Han, Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber, Marine Carpuat, “Bridging Background Knowledge Gaps in Translation with Automatic Explicitation”, in arXiv:
glosses: The process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.
Related terms: explicitness
phænologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phænology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: It is, however, proper to consider such phænologic observations as illustrations of climatic characteristics rather than as defining them.
ref: 1883, Cleveland Abbe, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, page 490:
glosses: Archaic form of phenologic.
somatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: somatises
form: somatising
form: somatised
form: somatised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of somatize.
drive-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drive-in
self-destructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-destruction
Turkish corsair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkish corsairs
Etymology: Named for their place of origin, Algeria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire.
Senses: glosses: A Barbary pirate.
glosses: The ship of a Barbary pirate.
self-medicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-medicator
muleses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mules
mulesing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mules
mulesed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mules
tin Lizzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin Lizzies
form: Tin Lizzie
form: tin lizzie
Etymology: Unknown, perhaps from the use of Lizzie as a generic name given to horses.
Senses: examples: text: Fate, in the guise of a rural free delivery carrier and a Ford, passed by the front gate. . . . "I don' see why he don't carry a whip," mused Jeb Case. "A-gidappin' to that there tin lizzie," he muttered disgustedly, "jes' like it was as good as a hoss."
ref: 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 6, in The Oakdale Affair:
text: The Model T became a legend. . . . The Tin Lizzie rattled and banged across the country.
ref: 1947 April 21, “Michigan: Detroit Dynast”, in Time:
glosses: The Ford Motor Company's Model T automobile.
examples: text: "It's a ottomobile. . . . It's a second-hand tin Lizzie," said Walter. "D'you know what that means? It means a flivver."
ref: 1921, Booth Tarkington, chapter 6, in Alice Adams:
text: "The car he was driving was a shit-box, a real Tin Lizzie, older than Christ."
ref: 2003, Thomas Rendell Curran, Undertow, →ISBN, page 160:
synonyms: word: flivver
word: jalopy
word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
glosses: A small, unpretentious, vintage automobile, especially one that is in run-down condition.
Tin Lizzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tin Lizzies
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of tin Lizzie.
tin lizzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin lizzies
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of tin Lizzie.
goal celebration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goal celebrations
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A choreography that is acted after scoring a goal.
palone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈləʊni/
ipa: /pəˈləʊn/
rhymes: -əʊni
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: palones
form: polony
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from Italian paglione, by analogy with palliasse and so with hay bag.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I don't need a razor with a polony. If you want to know what it is, it's a bottle.’
ref: 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock:
text: To nomads the road is the ‘drag,’ a man a ‘homey,’ a woman a ‘palone,’ a fair a ‘gaff,’ and a shop a ‘lolly’ (curtailed rhyming slang: lollipop = shop), but English Gypsies still use drom, mush, manushi, weggorus, and budiga.
ref: 1944, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, volumes 23-4:
text: Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.
ref: 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:
qualifier: Polari and other slang
glosses: A young woman; a girl.
Derived terms: omi-palone
palone-omi
Related terms: word: eau de Cologne
palones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palone
critical paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of critical path
coadministrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coadministration
Carlsson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carlssons
form: Carlston
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Carlsson.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
trimerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimerization
Matts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mattses
Etymology: Patronymic surname from a hypocoristic form of Matthew.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Samuelsson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Samuelssons
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Samuelsen
Samuelsohn
Samuelson
Jonasson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jonassons
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Jonasson.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cute-hoorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cute hoorism.
postgeniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + geniture.
Senses: examples: text: A person of high spirit and honour, naturally a King, though fatally prevented by the harmlesse chance of post'''-geniture […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: The fact of being born after someone else of the same bloodline.
harm's way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He kept his family out of harm's way.
text: They put themselves in harm's way.
text: For in the hurry of a Fray / ’Tis hard to keep out of harm’s way
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Canto 1, p. 27:
text: "If it gets crowded and dangerous, we want station closures. And if that doesn't happen, we'll be telling our members to move out of harm's way and into a safe place, which will lead to station closures. [...]"
ref: 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: More trains... but advice is not to use public transport”, in Rail, page 8:
glosses: A place or course of danger.
CanCon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cancon
Etymology: Abbreviation of Canadian content.
Senses: examples: text: In the early part of the Cancon era, CKLW demonstrated considerable reluctance in programming legitimately locally-made singles. Rather, the station searched out U.S. records with dubious Canadian connections (many a song written by Paul Anka, who left Canada 15 years ago, have found their way into ’LW playlists) to avoid taking a chance on unknown Canadian artists.
ref: 1973 May 19, Ritchie York, “Artist Claims CKLW’s Keen Interest Affects U.S. Hits”, in Billboard, volume 85, number 21, Los Angeles: Billboard Publications, page 58:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Canadian content, in the context of Canadian regulations setting minimum quotas of Canadian content for Canadian radio and television broadcasters.
Cancon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of CanCon.
genderlects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genderlect
Dari Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dari (variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan)
synonyms: word: Dari
extra: variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan
in ballast
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in ballast condition
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having only ballast and no cargo as load.
raw_tags: of a ship
in ballast condition
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In ballast.
out-of-work
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He is an out-of-work actor, seeking a part-time job.
glosses: Unemployed; not employed in one's preferred field.
escapability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From escapable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: As we sank, I tried to tell myself this story and it worked, to a certain extent – I thought of the way deep things move upwards, of the ocean’s escapability, even despite its depths.
ref: 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 49:
glosses: The degree to which something is escapable.
synæsthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synæsthetic
form: most synæsthetic
Senses: examples: text: But, if, as Titchener suspects, ⁷⁷ synæsthetic experiences are not to be traced back to associations formed in childhood, but are due to some anatomical or functional peculiarity of the individual’s nervous system, they are to be noticed as a distinct factor in the determination of mental habits.
ref: 1917, John Edgar Coover, Experiments in Psychical Research, Stanford University, page 284:
glosses: Archaic form of synesthetic.
Larry Dooley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larry-dooley
Etymology: After Larry Dooley, an otherwise forgotten early boxer, or possibly the better remembered Larry Foley. Popularised by cricket commentator Richie Benaud when describing aggressive batsmen.
Senses: examples: text: Meggsie and his crew gave the Japs some ‘Larry Dooley’ with a group of Brigade sigs who, galloping back and forth from the armourer′s position carried the bombs after they had been checked.
ref: 1972, Ken Clift, The Saga of a Sig: The Wartime Memories of Six Years Service in the Second A.I.F., page 150:
text: She could hear her now, using her grannie′s voice, “You lose ninety per cent of your body heat through your head, young lady, so get that hat on before I give you Larry Dooley.”
ref: 2001, Alison Lester, The Snow Pony, page 128:
glosses: A beating, a hiding, a ticking-off; aggro.
examples: text: As they came down the home straight, the jockey gave his horse Larry Dooley.
text: As Ian Harvey came in, my carefully considered words of advice were something like: ‘Have a look, get settled and then let′s give ′em a bit of Larry Dooley!’
ref: 2006, Andrew Symonds, Steven Gray, Roy: Going for Broke, page 135:
qualifier: sports or other competitive activity
glosses: Extra effort; extra impetus; enthusiastic aggression.
examples: text: “Don't be euphemistic. I′m getting drunk. I intend to get drunker. My sciatica′s giving me Larry Dooley. From now on I′ll pour my own, thank you very much.″
ref: 1978, Hal Porter, Mary Lord, Hal Porter, Portable Australian Authors, published 1980, page 316:
text: And, taking off her shoes new filmed with the dust of roads and adventure, “My corn is giving me Larry Dooley!”
ref: 1988, Alexandra Towle, Mothers: A Celebration in Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of Mothers and Motherhood, page 178:
glosses: Pain, gyp.
Derived terms: play Larry Dooley
Related terms: give it some welly
№ 2 pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: № 2 pencils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of number 2 pencil.
eye banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye bank
puppet army
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppet armies
Etymology: From puppet + army, a calque from Mandarin 傀儡軍／傀儡军 (kuǐlěijūn, “puppet army”).
Senses: glosses: An army that an invading country forms by recruiting people from already-occupied areas of the country being invaded.
glosses: Such an army in China during the Sino-Japanese War.
supply depot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supply depots
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A facility used by armies to store battlefield supplies temporarily on or near the front lines until they can be distributed to army units.
Related terms: ammunition dump
webify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: webifies
form: webifying
form: webified
form: webified
Etymology: From Web + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: We need to webify this legacy application and bring it to the 21st century. It needs a Web interface.
text: The origins of our Webified age were hardly auspicious.
ref: 2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: To convert (content or information) into a format capable of being displayed on the World Wide Web.
Related terms: webification
postical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin postīcus (“posterior, hinder”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Oriented towards the base.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the surface of a prostrate thallus that is oriented towards the substrate.
antical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin antīcus (“anterior”) + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
antonyms: postical
glosses: Oriented towards the apex.
examples: text: The antical margin is entire, the apex is usually tipped with a single acuminate tooth, although a second smaller tooth is sometimes present at the antical base of the apical tooth, or the apex may even be subequally bispinose.
ref: 1914, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, page 593:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
antonyms: postical
glosses: Of or pertaining to the surface of a prostrate thallus that is oriented away from the substrate.
stop cocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stop cock
knock someone's block off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks someone's block off
form: knocking someone's block off
form: knocked someone's block off
form: knocked someone's block off
form: knock off someone's block
Senses: examples: text: "I can't stand the sight of him," he would say, "and I'd be glad if somebody would come along and knock his block off—when he was not in the ring."
ref: 1895 February 12, “Ring Gossip”, in Providence News, USA, retrieved 06 Jul 2011, page 6:
text: An airport cab starter threatened to knock Fiorello H. LaGuardia's block off when the New York Mayor parked his car across the taxi line.
ref: 1941 June 23, “People”, in Time:
text: "If anyone wants to call a guardsman a draft dodger, tell him to stand in front of me and say it and I'll knock his block off," Gen. Fluck said.
ref: 1957 January 25, “Guard Chief Irked”, in Rock Hill Herald, USA, retrieved 06 Jul 2011, page 4:
text: Mr. Gottfried said Miller announced, “I'm going to knock your block off”— and punched Mr. Jones, who was thrown against a buffet table.
ref: 2008 February 23, James Barron, “Man Departs a Life Lived on the Fringes of Fame”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Jul 2011:
synonyms: knock someone's head off
glosses: To strike a person in the head, causing them to fall to the ground, especially in an unconscious condition; to beat up a person.
Related terms: knock someone off his perch
knock someone's socks off
knock off someone's block
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks off someone's block
form: knocking off someone's block
form: knocked off someone's block
form: knocked off someone's block
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knock someone's block off.
etrog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etrogs
form: etrogim
form: esrog
form: ethrog
Etymology: From Hebrew אֶתְרוֹג (etróg).
Senses: glosses: The yellow citron (Citrus medica) used in Sukkot ritual.
Russian sturgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russian sturgeons
form: Russian sturgeon
Senses: glosses: A Eurasian species of sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii).
Synonyms: sense: Acipenser gueldenstaedtii
word: Danube sturgeon
sense: Acipenser gueldenstaedtii
word: diamond sturgeon
sense: Acipenser gueldenstaedtii
word: osseter
starry sturgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starry sturgeons
Senses: glosses: sevruga (Acipenser stellatus)
mythicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythicisms
Etymology: From myth + -icism. In occasional use since the 1840s.
The earliest use of the term was in Christian theology, in reference to the "Mythic Theory" of D. F. Strauss (1835). The more general sense appears from the 1870s.
Senses: examples: 1845: "Truly, if the caput mortuum of Christianity which mythicism leaves us, be all that is true of our religion, our feelings would tempt us to forgive the Evangelists who have so beautifully deceived, rather than the critics who so coldly disenchant us." (The Christian examiner, vol. 39, p. 160)
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data.
examples: 1911 "The Californias were an inaccessible and mysterious Occident, invested in the imagination of most mankind with almost Babylonian mythicism." (R. G. Badger, Don Sagasto's daughter)
glosses: The habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism.
examples: 1971 "Individual works are all potential myths, but it is their collective adoption that actualises - if such should be the case - their 'mythicism'." (Levi-Strauss)
1998 "the playful animal familiars of the heroine [in Disney's Pocahontas] are real animals, because this is real mythicism, not pure imagination." (Ziauddin Sardar, Postmodernism and the other: the new imperialism of Western culture, p. 89)
glosses: The creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia.
glosses: The view that a certain figure or event is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship.
glosses: The view that a certain figure or event is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship.
The opinion that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist.
raw_tags: in particular
Related terms: mythicist
buttholes
dubstepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubsteppers
Etymology: From dubstep + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Which just leaves us time to recommend Dalek's new set Abandoned Language', Roll Deep's comeback mix CD, dubstepper Distance's My Demons' platter and Worcester based hip hop loving electronica masher Mad EP […]
ref: 2007, Hip-hop Connection, numbers 210-211, page 107:
text: Other highlights include Junior Boys live and DJ sets from dubstepper Skream and Glasgow's Optimo.
ref: 2008, The Wire, volumes 293-298, page 108:
text: There are quite a few others, but any true dubstepper knows these tunes and will consider them classics later.
ref: 2010, Christine Neilson, ViVACE: 2, page 19:
glosses: Someone involved with dubstep music, as a performer, fan etc.
headstripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headstripes
Etymology: From head + stripe.
Senses: glosses: A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
springhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springheads
Etymology: From spring + head.
Senses: examples: text: But now we had reached our opening ground, the boy with the pony and the second brace of dogs was ordered to the rear, with instructions to meet us by the side of a certain gray rock, and spring-head, on the northern edge of Kettletang, a huge, bluff-headed hill, overtopping all his neighbors, at noon, when we should be there to refresh the inner man, and take up the fresh dogs for the afternoon.
ref: 1882, Henry William Herbert, “The Yorkshire Moors”, in David Wright Judd, editor, Life and Writings of Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert.), page 35:
glosses: The source of a natural spring.
glosses: A source.
glosses: A head or end-piece for a carriage-spring.
Synonyms: fountainhead
elegise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elegises
form: elegising
form: elegised
form: elegised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of elegize.
Vilamovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wilamowice, from Vilamovian.
Senses: glosses: A West Germanic language spoken in the Polish town of Wilamowice.
Synonyms: Wymysorys
Wilamowicean
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Vilamovian terms
gaons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaon
hymenæal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hymenæal
form: most hymenæal
Senses: examples: text: The separate odes require little notice here, as they were not frequent ; they generally consist of hymns to the gods or hymenæal songs based upon the tragic models as to metre and diction.
ref: 1880, John Pentland Mahaffy, chapter XX, in A History of Classical Greek Literature, volume I, Harper & Brothers, page 434:
glosses: Archaic form of hymeneal.
hymenæal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymenæals
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hymeneal.
cement mixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cement mixers
Senses: synonyms: concrete mixer
glosses: A device used in construction in which cement, aggregate and water are slowly mixed together in a revolving drum to form concrete.
glosses: A truck mounted with a rotating drum for mixing, transporting, and pouring concrete.
glosses: A cocktail made of Irish cream and lime juice or lemon juice.
diœcesan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In 1670, diœcesan affairs called Bishop de Laval, again to Paris, where his stay was considerably prolonged.
ref: 1878, Congregation of Notre‐Dame, The Pearl of Troyes, Canada Printing Company; Chapter 11, page #112
glosses: Archaic form of diocesan.
concrete mixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concrete mixers
Senses: synonyms: cement mixer
glosses: A device used in construction in which cement, aggregate and water are slowly mixed together in a revolving drum to form concrete.
routering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of router
routered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of router
Francoism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Franco + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The period of history in Spain under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, from 1936/1939 to 1975.
Related terms: Francoist
Francoist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Franco + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Francoism.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Francisco Franco, especially his political views or beliefs.
Francoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Francoists
Etymology: From Franco + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Francoism.
spook out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spooks out
form: spooking out
form: spooked out
form: spooked out
Senses: examples: text: The strange man with the large head spooked me out so much until I realized it was only a picture.
glosses: to scare, to frighten
trot off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trots off
form: trotting off
form: trotted off
form: trotted off
Senses: glosses: to leave, depart
queer up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: queers up
form: queering up
form: queered up
form: queered up
Senses: glosses: to ruin, mess up.
Related terms: queer it up
queer someone's pitch
dash down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dashes down
form: dashing down
form: dashed down
form: dashed down
Senses: glosses: to write (something) quickly
Synonyms: jot down
cost up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: costs up
form: costing up
form: costed up
form: costed up
form: cost up
form: cost up
Senses: glosses: to calculate the costs of something.
buckle under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buckles under
form: buckling under
form: buckled under
form: buckled under
Senses: glosses: To reluctantly accept something (due to a source of social pressure).
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: To collapse.
raw_tags: of a person's knees or a structure
Related terms: buckle over
inviters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inviter
urge on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: urges on
form: urging on
form: urged on
form: urged on
Senses: glosses: to encourage; motivate; to offer encouragement to.
typa
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Type of.
catslide roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catslide roofs
Senses: glosses: A steep roof that ends near the ground
monkeykind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monkey + -kind.
Senses: examples: text: Mankind at the lowest point where monkey-kind is at its highest.
ref: 1850, Robert Southey, Southey's Common-place Book - Volume 3, page 809:
text: There is no instance on record where a baboon ever evolved into a human being, and science in attempting to unearth a "missing link" which it is claimed will connect mankind with monkeykind, is like a blind man hunting through a haystack to find a needle which isn't there.
ref: 1882, F.D. Richards (publisher), The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star - Volume 44, page 298:
text: What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind.
ref: 2005, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt, Monkey Business:
glosses: All monkeys, collectively.
ægritude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of egritude.
egritude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egritudes
form: ægritude
Etymology: From Latin aegritudo (“illness, sorrow”).
Senses: glosses: Distress or sorrow.
glosses: Physical sickness.
armor-piercing shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armor-piercing shots
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An armor-piercing solid metal projectile having no bursting charge, in use mainly during World War II, abbreviated AP, or simply "shot".
honey pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey pot
such-and-suches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of such-and-such
prosector's wart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosector's warts
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: a rash, verruca necrogenica, of small, red papular nodules in the skin caused by inoculation with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a previously infected and immunocompetent person.
Synonyms: butchers' tubercle
powerfullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of powerful: most powerful
ever and ever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Always.
manuduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manuductions
Etymology: From Late Latin manuductio, from (ablative singular form of) Latin manus (“hand”) + ductiō (“leading”).
Senses: examples: text: We hope it will not be unconsidered, that we finde no open tract, or constant manuduction in this Labyrinth; but are oft-times fain to wander in the America and untravelled parts of Truth.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “To the Reader”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650:
text: That the Aristotelian Physiology cannot boast it self the proper Author of any one Invention; is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency: And ’twould puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable discovery, made by the direct, sole manuduction of Peripatetick Principles.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 21, in John Owen, editor, Scepsis Scientifica, London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., published 1885, page 154:
glosses: The act of guiding or a means of guidance; direction, guidance, instruction.
Related terms: manuductive
manuductory
manuductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manuduction
pibble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pibbles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pebble.
pibble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pibbles
Etymology: Contraction of pit bull.
Senses: examples: text: In many ways, one-year-old Posey is just an average "pibble."
ref: 2015 October 7, Elizabeth Medora, “Posey: The Little Pibble That Can”, in The Foothills Focus, page 10:
text: Meet Jax! He is a sweet, wiggly pibble.
ref: 2017 November 23, “Adopt me!”, in Inlander, page 93:
text: Our Liz jumps with all her feet off the floor when we spell w- a- l- k, now with that pibble smile ear to ear.
ref: 2019, Suzanne Allard, "Liz Makes a Comeback," 4 Legs & a Tail, Winter 2019, pages 8-9
glosses: A pit bull terrier.
Synonyms: word: pit
word: pit bull
word: pittie
word: shitbull
word: velvet hippo
pibbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pibble
cost centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cost center
cost centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cost centre
Farve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Farves
Etymology: Perhaps a metathesized form of Favre.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
wideawakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wideawake
tulipmania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tulip + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tulipomania.
Euston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.stən/
Senses: examples: text: It was replaced by a New Euston, "bold in design and layout and in keeping with a new railway era". Betjeman was unmoved, describing it tersely as "no masterpiece" and noting that its lack of platform seating made it an "inhuman structure" which seemed to ignore passengers.
ref: 2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 45:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A large railway station in central London (OS grid ref TQ2982).
glosses: A village and civil parish (without a council) in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8979).
glosses: A small town in Balranald Shire, southern New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A surname.
vicinality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vicinal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: adjacency
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The presence of vicinal substituents in a molecule
denaturize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denaturizes
form: denaturizing
form: denaturized
form: denaturized
Etymology: From denature + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To denature.
stylometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: stylometry
be out for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is out for
form: being out for
form: was out for
form: been out for
Senses: examples: text: He is out for all he can get.
text: The king was out for revenge.
glosses: To seek or pursue, especially to determinedly pursue something to one's own benefit.
comes into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come into
coming into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come into
came into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come into
lord it over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lords it over
form: lording it over
form: lorded it over
form: lorded it over
Etymology: From lord over.
Senses: examples: text: They were in a manner absolute despots in their little domains, lording it, if so disposed, over both law and gospel, and accountable to none but the mother-country.
ref: 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], chapter XVI, in A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:
text: Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 53, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted to lord it over them his triumph was at hand.
ref: 1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, chapter 4, in Peter and Wendy, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: The Delhi Durbar of 1911 saw King George V and Queen Mary bedecked in sapphires and rubies lording it over half a million Indian subjects.
ref: 2011 April 28, Tristram Hunt, “How the Monarchy Allows Britannia to Make Waves”, in Time:
text: It’s people who are really lost and don’t have anything, so they’re desperately trying to make themselves feel better by acquiring, by lording it over people, by being powerful and wealthy. They’re damaged people doing so much damage.
ref: 2025 September 12, Ryan Gilbey, quoting Charlie Kaufman, “‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine – and toothache”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To behave as if one is in control of; to make a display of having an advantage over or superiority to.
Related terms: put on airs
monopsonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopsonists
Etymology: From monopsony + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The case of a monopsonist buying from a monopolist (usually called “bi-lateral monopoly”) is not discussed in this book.
ref: 1933, Joan Robinson, The Economics of Imperfect Competition, page 218:
text: Amazon isn't the only monopsonist to take advantage of anticircumvention law to cement its dominance; Google and Facebook and Apple do the same thing.
ref: 2022, Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow, Chokepoint Capitalism […] , Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A single buyer who dominates a market.
Manaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
omnisciency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒmˈnɪsɪənsi/
ipa: /ɑmˈnɪʃənsi/
Etymology: From Late Latin omniscientia, or from omniscient + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: For thinking by this retirement to obscure himself from God, he infringed the omnisciency and essential Ubiquity of his Maker.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:
glosses: Omniscience.
lowlihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English lowlyhede, equivalent to lowly + -head.
Senses: examples: text: The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead.
ref: 1888, Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Early poems:
text: But through a perfect gentleness, instead. For from the lamp of her meek lowlihead Such an exceeding glory went up hence [...]
ref: 2001, Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Vita Nuova:
glosses: The state of being lowly; meekness; humility.
Related terms: lowlihood
comfort station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comfort stations
Senses: examples: text: From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
synonyms: word: public convenience
word: public toilet
word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: A public lavatory.
excusation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛkskjuˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: excusations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French excusation, from Latin excūsātiō, from excūsō (“I excuse”).
Senses: examples: text: And his goodness is to be admired, that it refuted not his argument in the punishment of his excusation, and only pursued the first transgression without a penalty of this the second.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:
glosses: The act of offering an excuse or apology, or the fact of being excused; an excuse, a defence.
Related terms: excuse
excusations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excusation
minoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌɪnəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: minorations
Etymology: From Late Latin minoratio, from the participle stem of Latin minōrāre.
Senses: examples: text: […] we now do hope the mercies of God will consider our degenerated integrities unto some minoration of our offences […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:
glosses: Reduction; lessening.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Minorization.
Related terms: minorate