cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: frousier
form: frousiest
Senses: examples: text: Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal-stove, made of old bricks, was a gray-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung, upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 129:
text: With him they went the rounds of squalid tenements, hideous back alleys, and repulsive shanties, the tattered children gazing at them with faces in which curiosity was mingled with aversion, and their frousy parents giving them looks of enmity and mistrust, no doubt because they were so clean and well dressed.
ref: 1892, J[ames] Macdonald Oxley, Bert Lloyd's Boyhood: A Story From Nova Scotia, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 350:
text: Fate stood by that news-stall, with the blear-eyed, frousy woman that tended it looking vacantly on; Fate, veiled, too, and not even monosyllabic in his behalf.
ref: 1909, Ingraham Lovell [pseudonym; Josephine Daskam Bacon], Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty, New York, N.Y.; London: John Lane Company; The Bodley Head, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of frowsy.
frousier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And so the sale of war spoils went on, and the company became frousier, and the available prize money accumulated, and Jack went ashore a week or two later with more funds than he had ever hoped to possess, and dissipated it more quickly than he had helped his country to win it—as he fell in with Pretty Poll of Plymouth, and those crimps and sharks who had been her companions when Jack was engaged afloat, calling upon the enemy to heave to or be sent to Davy Jones.
ref: 1900, Henry Francis Whitfeld, Plymouth and Devonport: In Times of War and Peace, Plymouth, Devon; Devonport, Devon: E. Chapple; Hirons & Miller, page 260:
glosses: comparative form of frousy: more frousy
frousiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Usually," said Virginia, "a genius is a crank. There is a girl in my art class who is the frousiest, queerest crank in the world, and every one calls her a genius."
ref: 1910, Jessie E[thel] Sampter, The Seekers, New York, N.Y.: Mitchell Kennerley, page 104:
glosses: superlative form of frousy: most frousy
skreek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skreeks
form: skreeking
form: skreeked
form: skreeked
Senses: examples: text: [A] fortunate accident […] happened to me when I was a very little boy. A good-hearted old Irish nurse (whom I shall not forget in my will) took me up one day by the heels, when I was making more noise than was necessary, and, swinging me round two or three times, d——d my eyes for "a skreeking little spalpeen," and then knocked my head into a cocked hat against the bed-post. This, I say, decided my fate, and made my fortune.
ref: 1840 February, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, in William E[vans] Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, editors, Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and American Monthly Review, volume VI, number II, Philadelphia, Pa.: William E. Burton, […], →OCLC, page 87:
text: Stop till I shut the door of the shop. Ah! How it skreeks!
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 130:
text: From another room a door skreeked open, and Lucille returned with a rag and icky pillow.
ref: 2014, D. Foy, Made to Break: A Novel, Columbus, O.H.: Two Dollar Radio, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Alternative form of screak.
skreeks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skreek
skreeking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skreek
skreeked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skreek
orchidoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchidoids
Senses: glosses: Any orchid belonging to the subfamily Orchidoideae.
orchidoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchidoid
Newarthill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village north-east of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7859).
Slamannan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8573).
staphylinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylinoids
Senses: glosses: Any beetle of the insect superfamily Staphylinoidea.
re-earnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-earn
staphylinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphylinoid
Overtown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Burrow-with-Burrow parish, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6276).
glosses: A hamlet in Wroughton parish, Swindon borough, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1579).
glosses: A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8052).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Miami, Florida, United States.
Related terms: Overton
Urgench
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Урге́нч (Urgénč).
Senses: glosses: A city in Uzbekistan.
Burrow-with-Burrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The curious name is probably derived from the settlements of Nether Burrow and Over Burrow within the parish.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (without a council) in Lancaster district, Lancashire, England.
Pro-D
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of professional development.
masonry layout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masonry layouts
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
synonyms: waterfall layout
glosses: A tightly-packed columnar layout in which there are no identifiable rows, unlike a uniform grid.
come from below
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes from below
form: coming from below
form: came from below
form: come from below
Senses: glosses: To originate among ordinary people instead of the elite.
raw_tags: of a social movement or cultural change
glosses: to originate under the ocean.
raw_tags: of a monster
gender-inclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gender-inclusive
form: most gender-inclusive
Etymology: From gender + inclusive.
Senses: examples: text: In May, they voted unanimously to stop using the word “women” when talking about people who get pregnant, so as not to exclude trans men. […] A Change.org petition asks naral and Planned Parenthood to adopt similarly gender-inclusive language.
ref: 2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Pertaining to or applicable to all genders; not restricted by gender; gender-neutral.
Related terms: gender inclusivity
opto-isolator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opto-isolators
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of optoisolator.
opto-interrupter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opto-interrupters
form: optointerrupter
Etymology: From opto- + interrupter.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A photointerrupter.
throws one's back out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw one's back out
throwing one's back out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw one's back out
threw one's back out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw one's back out
thrown one's back out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw one's back out
buy a ticket to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys a ticket to
form: buying a ticket to
form: bought a ticket to
form: bought a ticket to
Senses: examples: text: You know, some days I feel like just quitting my job and walking out of here.
text: I'll buy a ticket to that. Working here really sucks.
glosses: Used to indicate that someone is in agreement with an assertion, statement, or suggestion.
Related terms: subscribe
buys a ticket to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buy a ticket to
buying a ticket to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buy a ticket to
bought a ticket to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy a ticket to
holler at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hollers at
form: hollering at
form: hollered at
form: hollered at
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of holla at.
bear in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears in on
form: bearing in on
form: bore in on
form: borne in on
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bear in.
glosses: To veer too close to another horse.
raw_tags: of a horse
examples: text: These problems having been bearing in on my mind for years.
glosses: To be greatly affected by something potent.
glosses: To focus on; to concentrate on one factor.
bear in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears in
form: bearing in
form: bore in
form: borne in
Senses: examples: text: That horse always bears in on the turns.
glosses: To move quickly and sharply in an inward direction during a race; to veer in.
raw_tags: of a horse
examples: text: I flung out of his hut (he lived all alone in a clay hut with a sort of verandah) muttering to myself my opinion of him. He was a chattering idiot. Afterwards I took it back when it was borne in upon me startlingly with what extreme nicety he had estimated the time requisite for the ‘affair.’
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
text: He had them to himself, and proceeded to pace the circular path with his morning paper clasped behind him. He had scarcely made two revolutions, however, when it was borne in on him that, instead of going away in the fresh air, the feeling had increased.
ref: 1910, John Galsworthy, The Japanese Quince:
text: But as time went on, and as the war assumed its true proportions, as the tide swept on from Mons and was rolled back at the Marne, it began to be borne in on me – that I had a personal duty and an obligation of honour to discharge – that I had no right to demand from others a sacrifice it was well within my own power to make.
ref: 1918, Daniel Desmond Sheehan, Why I joined the Army:
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
upon
expansion: [with on or upon]
qualifier: usually passive voice
glosses: To induce (somebody) to realize something, to impress a realization (upon a person), usually in a gradual way.
Related terms: dawn on
lug in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lugs in
form: lugging in
form: lugged in
form: lugged in
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bear in.
synonyms: word: bear in
lug out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lugs out
form: lugging out
form: lugged out
form: lugged out
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bear out (for a horse to veer out)
synonyms: word: bear out
extra: for a horse to veer out
glosses: To draw a weapon or hand over money.
ambiodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: electrodic
text: Ambiodic inhibitors suppress both anodic and cathodic reactions.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to, functioning as, or occurring at either a cathode or an anode.
light aeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light aeon
Hadrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hadrats
form: Hadhrat
form: Hadrah
form: Hazrat
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَضْرَة (ḥaḍra, “presence”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A title used by Muslims to honor a person.
-kont
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós).
Senses: glosses: A flagellate of a given type.
SNI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sensitive nuclear information.
SNI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Server Name Indication (“TLS extension”).
Summerlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7265).
glosses: An unincorporated community and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Devreux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Devreuxes
Etymology: Variant of Devereux, a surname of Anglo-Norman origin. From d' + Evreux (meaning from Évreux, a city in Normandy).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Related terms: Deveraux
Devereaux
Devereux
Devereux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Devereuxes
Etymology: From Middle English Devereux, derived from Anglo-Norman. From d' + Evreux (meaning from Évreux, a city in Normandy).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Related terms: Deveraux
Devereaux
Devreux
St Devereux
Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We touch down beside Luigi’s oak, which is growing in a grassy woodland surrounded by palms, ginkgoes and magnolias, as well as chestnuts, oaks and beech; courtesy of climate change, the Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora is well on its way to re-establishing in Europe.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 312:
glosses: A hypothesized floral assemblage that once covered the Northern Hemisphere, from roughly the late Mesozoic to mid Cenozoic Eras.
cloud-native
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cloud native
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, at its most basic form, cloud native means to embrace cloud computing services to design the solution; however, that only covers part of what is required to become cloud native.
ref: 2018, Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, Piyum Zonooz, Cloud Native Architectures […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Automation: Cloud-native applications and their life cycles should be automated as much as possible.
ref: 2018, Onur Yılmaz, Cloud-Native Continuous Integration and Delivery […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to take full advantage of running on public, private, or hybrid cloud computing environments.
raw_tags: of a technology or architecture
Related terms: cloud-first
Arcto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Arctic.
Higher Heysham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Heysham, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4160).
Related terms: Lower Heysham
Sixth Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: But perhaps the biggest reason a Sixth Republic may not be imminent is that in the current fractured state of French politics, there is no majority for it among MPs – even if it makes parliament stronger.
ref: 2023 May 6, Jon Henley, “Vive la révolution! But is France ready to establish a Sixth Republic?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: A hypothetical successor to France's current Fifth Republic.
glosses: Ellipsis of Sixth Republic of Korea (“political regime of South Korea since 1987”).
Coordinate terms: First Republic
Second Republic
Third Republic
Fourth Republic
Fifth Republic
Zub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zubs
Etymology: From Slavic.
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Slavic languages
wikipedia: + (surname)
Arzolar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arzolars
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
light fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light field
lights o' love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light o' love
light therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light therapy
wokify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wokifies
form: wokifying
form: wokified
form: wokified
Etymology: From woke + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: They’ll also note that the main thing separating those regimes from today’s Wokified institutions is the element of government coercion. Yes, there can be immense pressure to conform in places like Yale Law School, where no microaggression is too small not to invite the wrath of censorious administrators.
ref: 2021 November 9, Bret Stephens, “Why Wokeness Will Fail”, in The New York Times:
text: So much for pandemic frustration. Or tax fatigue. Or government backlash. Or all the controversies du jour about masks or wokified curricula or anything else that’s been in the news. Seattle voters set all that aside, en masse.
ref: 2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times:
text: "President Biden has ‘wokified’ the State Department and is misusing taxpayer money to implement a radical and unpopular agenda abroad," said Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
ref: 2022 October 27, Haris Alic, Jessica Chasmar, “US-funded drag shows in Ecuador draw GOP scrutiny: 'Wokified' State Department”, in Fox News:
synonyms: woken
antonyms: dewokify
glosses: To make (something or someone) woke (politically correct; holding progressive views or attitudes).
jBPM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
informatics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Java Business Process Model.
cheese fries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: cheesy chips
glosses: French fries covered or cooked in cheese (especially when grated or melted) or cheese sauce and sometimes loaded with other ingredients.
bcus
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of because.
Le Breton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, alternative form of Lebreton.
Helies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Helieses
Etymology: Borrowed from French Héliès, ultimately from Breton.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Breton.
Claymation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Claymations
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of claymation.
Galderise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galderises
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bring radical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bring radicals
Etymology: Named after Swedish mathematician Erland Samuel Bring (1736–1798).
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ultraradical (“root of the polynomial x⁵ + x + a, where a is a complex number”).
synonyms: word: ultraradical
extra: root of the polynomial x⁵ + x + a, where a is a complex number
Bring radicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bring radical
Tancharoen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tancharoens
Etymology: Transliteration from Thai ตันเจริญ (dtan-jà-rəən).
Senses: examples: Maurissa Tancharoen, b. 1975
glosses: A surname from Thai.
Maurissa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maurissas
Senses: examples: Maurissa Tancharoen, b. 1975
glosses: A female given name.
bear against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears against
form: bearing against
form: bore against
form: borne against
Senses: examples: text: I caught some good shots of a wolf bearing against a caribou.
glosses: To approach someone or something as for an attack
examples: text: The top side of that has been bearing against the wall for years.
glosses: To be forced to strike upon; to bang against; to wear away at (especially in theology).
raw_tags: of a surface or item
work away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works away
form: working away
form: worked away
form: worked away
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fire away.
synonyms: word: fire away
info_templates: extra_data: words: at
expansion: [with at]
glosses: To persist in working diligently at a subject or target.
work back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works back
form: working back
form: worked back
form: worked back
Senses: glosses: to work overtime; to make up time off by working overtime; to work beyond a specific shift.
fall back into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls back into
form: falling back into
form: fell back into
form: fallen back into
Senses: examples: text: He fell back into his old habits.
glosses: To return to old habits; to return to an unhealthy or unhappy situation.
pozzolanicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pozzolanic + -ity
Senses: examples: text: However, there is a test for the assessment of the pozzolanicity of pozzolanic cements.
qualifier: materials science
glosses: The degree of being pozzolanic.
rap back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rap backs
Senses: glosses: A notification that someone who previously passed a fingerprinting or background check has since been arrested or otherwise done something that may have or would have changed the results of the earlier check.
rap back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raps back
form: rapping back
form: rapped back
form: rapped back
Senses: glosses: To return by rappelling.
operating-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operating-rooms
Senses: examples: text: On its being announced that about 25l. was ſtill wanting to complete the new operating-room, (the expence of which is defrayed by a ſubſcription independent of the funds of the hoſpital,) W. C. Trevelyan, eſq; preſented 5l. and Col. Pinney, in the name of the officers of his regt. (the Somerton and Langport local militia) gave 20l. being the ſecond donation of the ſame amount benevolently contributed by this highly reſpectable corps to the uſe of the Hoſpital.
ref: 1813 November 3, The Bath Chronicle:
text: When it is used for medical clinics, glass doors close it off from the passageway on either side, but along either of these passageways surgical cases can be brought from the etherizing-room to an operating-room on either side, under the amphitheater. These operating-rooms have a northern light, a side light and also a skylight, the latter being shown on the plan of the third story. These operating-rooms are under the amphitheater, but with a double ceiling and deadening all objectionable sound can be cut off. There is also a sterilizing-room centrally situated for all the operating-rooms, a room for the doctors and one for the nurses to make their antiseptic toilets, and cases for instruments, bandages, supplies, etc.
ref: 1897, Henry Hun, “A Study of a Hospital Plan”, in Andrew Mac Farlane, J. Montgomery Mosher, editors, Albany Medical Annals. Journal of the Alumni Association of the Albany Medical College., volume XVIII, Albany, N.Y.: Weed-Parsons Printing Co., […], page 440:
text: It seems to be admitted that prompt, quick and careful transportation of patients even over considerable distances, as, for instance, from one building to another, is not trying on the patients and is not hazardous, as a rule, and in some places recovery-rooms are employed to hold patients until they are in a condition to be moved back safely from the operating-rooms to their own beds.
ref: 1914, Journal of the American Medical Association, page 278:
glosses: Alternative form of operating room.
operating-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operating-room
operating-room table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operating-room tables
Senses: examples: text: The laboratory material of all kinds includes glassware of pre-war quality, a number of microscopes, operating-room tables, instruments, cabinets, rubber and waterproof goods.
ref: 1921 May 31, “Surplus Medical Stores. Opportunity for Hospitals.”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 20,628, London, page 8:
text: For by draping wet towels over the legs of operating-room tables, accumulation of static electricity is prevented and sparks thus can’t be generated to set off hospital explosions.
ref: 1952 February 7, “Ways Told to Prevent Explosions In Hospital Operating Rooms”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 68, number 226, page 14:
text: Enough for a large well-trained hospital with everything, but here – almost nothing: electricity, water, disposables, drugs, operating-room tables, instruments, monitors – all rusted and as if taken from museums of yesterday’s hospitals.
ref: 2014 July 21, Mads Gilbert, “In an open letter, Dr Mads Gilbert recounts conditions in a Gaza hospital”, in The Independent, number 8,668, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of operating room table.
operating-room tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operating-room table
South Hamgyong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Korean 함경남도(咸鏡南道) (hamgyeongnamdo).
Senses: examples: text: The course of the Yalu river traverses a track of country ranging from 124 20' to 128 40' E. Long. and from 39 50' to 42 15, N. Lat., the course of its main stream affording a boundary line on the south-western side of Changpai Mountain (長白山), dividing the southern parts of Liaoning Province from the Korean provinces Kankyo Nando (咸鏡南道) and Hsian Hokudo (平安北道).
ref: [1931, Wu Lien-teh, editor, Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports 1929-1930, volume VII, pages 208–209:
text: Kim Jae Ru, a 67-year-old member of the Korean Workers' Party, worked for decades at the vast mine in Kumdug in South Hamgyong province. As the only major mine operating in North Korea, it received a healthy ration of donated food, a mixture of 80 percent corn and 20 percent rice.
ref: 2000 February 19, John Pomfret, “N. Korean Refugees Insecure In China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2024, page A01:
text: A child nutrition survey in 2012 carried out by North Korea with U.N. assistance showed results in North Hamgyong province, which abuts Jilin, that appeared better in some cases than in South Hamgyong, next to Pyongyang. The usual assumption is that North Koreans live better the closer they are to Pyongyang.
ref: 2013 April 15, John Ruwitch, Charlie Zhu, “China's freeway to North Korea: A road to nowhere”, in Dean Yates, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2024, World:
text: The projectiles were launched from Sondok, in South Hamgyong Province on the North’s east coast, and flew northeast before falling in waters between the North and Japan, South Korean defense officials said.
ref: 2020 March 8, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Launches Multiple Projectiles in Weapons Test, South Korea Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2020, Asia Pacific:
text: As North Korea's premier toured South Hamgyong, as much as 300 millimeters (11.8 inches) of new rain fell in some areas of North Hamgyong province on Wednesday, state broadcaster KRT reported.
ref: 2021 August 12, “North Korea: Heavy flooding destroys homes, farmland”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2021, News:
text: Sinpo, in South Hamgyong, is the site of North Korea’s main submarine development center.
ref: 2023 March 13, “Pyongyang launches missiles from submarine ahead of US-Seoul drills”, in EFE, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2023:
glosses: A province of North Korea. Capital: Hamhung.
looks down on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look down on.
cut away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts away
form: cutting away
form: cut away
form: cut away
Senses: examples: text: The camera cut away before we could see the reveal.
text: The movie cuts away too much and too quickly without letting scenes breathe.
qualifier: recorded media
glosses: To fail to show something; to stop before showing something; to leave a scene; to switch to a different scene quickly.
examples: text: One womb, one shame, one resolve
Liberate this will to release us all
Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this umbilical residue
Keeping me from killing you
ref: 2000, “Orestes”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
glosses: to cut out something; to remove all or portions of a damaged or diseased area by cutting
ticktocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ticktock
ticktocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ticktock
bag pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bag puddings
Senses: glosses: Any of various types of dessert pudding that are cooked in a bag.
bag puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag pudding
particel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: particels
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of particle.
South Slavia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija.
Senses: examples: text: Negotiations have been resumed between Italy and South Slavia in regard to the Adriatic question, at which it is hoped that some agreement will be reached.
ref: 1920, The World’s Work, volume 36, page 538:
text: The Italian competition, on the other hand, is not feared, as the way the goods will have to be shipped, via South Slavia and German Austria, will render trade too expensive.
ref: 1920 July 10, Frederick Simpich, “Germany’s Trade with Czechoslovakia”, in Commerce Reports, number 161, page 179:
text: He took that course when he really could believe that Communism would make Carniola and South Slavia a leading country; a country to show Russia and America which way they have to go to give mankind a new dimension of prosperity without capitalism and imperialism.
ref: 1982, The South Slav Journal, volume 5, page 30:
glosses: Synonym of Yugoslavia.
synonyms: word: Yugoslavia
Related terms: South Slavic
peek-a-boos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peek-a-boo
peek-a-booing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peek-a-boo
peek-a-booed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peek-a-boo
Hoeryong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hûʹrēǔngʹ
Forms: form: Hoeryŏng
Etymology: From Korean 회령(會寧) (Hoeryeong).
Senses: examples: text: Every year on the tenth lunar month, a trade expedition was sent to Hoi Ryong (Hui-ning in Chinese), a Korean border town, located on the bank of the Tumen River, southeast of Ninguta, where salt, rice, iron, cloth, paper, cattle, and horses were obtained.
ref: [1970, Robert H. G. Lee, “The Geographic and Cultural Foundation of the Chʼing Manchurian Frontier Policy”, in The Manchurian frontier in Chʼing history, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 10–11:
text: Choi Hyok and his sister lost their parents in the 1990s, when more than 1m died of famine under Kim Jong-il's dictatorship. They were reduced to begging in the streets of Hoeryong in one of the poorest parts of North Korea, on the border with China.
ref: 2007 April 22, “At bay: the children who ran from Kim”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021:
text: Keep going west and you’re ultimately in the Tuman River Area, and Hoeryong border city, opposite its Chinese counterpart, Jilin. Hoeryong is known for its white apricots and as the centre of this province’s metallurgical and coal industries. Hoeryong is the base for many monuments to Kim Jong Suk, revolutionary anti-Japanese fighter[…]
ref: 2008, Robert Willoughby, “Northernmost Corner”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 192:
text: Mr. Ahn Myong-Chol was a prison guard at Camp 22 in Hoeryong and a driver at the camps. He was there between 1990 and 1994. He is the one who reported that prisoners had been used for human experimentation inside the camps.
ref: 2013 June 18, Esther Felden, “Hell on earth”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2015:
text: When Jeon Geum-ju was a girl in Hoeryong, a depressing mining town at the very northern reaches of North Korea, she used to sing at school about the country’s supreme leader.
ref: 2015 January 16, Anna Fifield, “North Korea begins brainwashing children in cult of the Kims as early as kindergarten”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2015, Asia & Pacific:
text: In 1996, Mr. Ji was 13, his parents’ eldest son, living in a mining village near the city of Hoeryong in northern North Korea.
ref: 2018 January 31, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korean Defector, Honored by Trump, Has a Remarkable Escape Story”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2018, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, across the Tumen River from Longjing, Yanbian, Jilin, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Japanese
word: Kainei
sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Huining
word: Hui-ning
chocolately
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chocolately
form: most chocolately
Etymology: From chocolate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ethiopian coffee is strongly flavored and often described as winey. It has a full body and excellent aroma. The best known is Harrar, which has replaced the Mocha from the Yemen. It is known as Ethiopian Mocha, or even just Mocha, although it lacks the really rich chocolately taste of the original Yemen bean.
ref: 1989, Lesley Mackley, A Gourmet’s Guide to Coffee & Tea, Los Angeles, Calif.: HPBooks, Price Stern Sloan, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The house soon filled with a wonderful chocolately smell.
ref: 2002, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Starting with Alice, New York, N.Y.: Aladdin Paperbacks, published 2004, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Sugar-coated chocolate beans inside a scrumptious chocolate cupcake… is that a yes? Then these are the perfect cupcakes for you. They’re packed with chocolately goodness and are designed to please the serious chocolate lover.
ref: 2015, Marsha Phipps, “Chocolate Bean Cupcakes”, in Surprise Cakes: 35 Delicious Cakes to Delight and Amaze, New York, N.Y.: Race Point Publishing, Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., →ISBN, section “Loaves, Rolls, and Cupcakes”, page 35:
glosses: Synonym of chocolaty.
synonyms: word: chocolaty
PRUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PRU
hittile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hittiles
Etymology: A play on missile with miss changed to hit.
Senses: examples: text: The U.S. anti-satellite programme is currently based on a three-stage non-exploding rocket or 'hittile' launched from an F-15 fighter.
ref: 1983, Andrew Wilson, The Disarmer's Handbook of Military Technology and Organization, page 83:
text: Rapier is a hittile and so has a simple blast warhead of under 1 kg weight.
ref: 1998, R. Geoffrey Lee, Guided Weapons, page 222:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An anti-aircraft or anti-satellite missile that is designed to hit its target, distinguished from a missile that is designed to explode near its target.
walking dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The term I've typically seen used for the latter is "walking dead" -- meaning you can still wander around, but no progress can be made, and therefore you have effectively lost the game -- ie "died" -- and just don't know it.
ref: 2005 March 4, M. Damian Dollahite, “Re: Boundlessness & IF”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet):
text: There are numerous ways to instantly get killed, as well as walking dead situations, which were practically banned across all other adventure games when this game was released in 1996.
ref: 2018 October 3, Kurt Kalata, “Dragon Lore II: Heart of the Dragon Man”, in Hardcore Gaming 101:
text: [I]t’s inevitable that we’d have some walking dead scenarios. Regretfully, I hit one. [...] I left my Boysenberry computer at my house when I headed off to the airport. [...] I [...] jumped into a cannibal-infested jungle before discovering that I lose immediately if I parachute in without the computer.
ref: 2021 February 23, Joe Pranevich, “Missed Classic: Bureaucracy - Won! And Final Rating”, in The Adventurers Guild:
topics: video-games
synonyms: unwinnable
glosses: Corresponding to an unwinnable game state, where the player can still act in the game world but victory is impossible; a softlock.
walking dead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Zombies.
side hug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side hugs
Senses: glosses: A hug with limited contact, where one person stands beside the other and puts an arm around their shoulder or waist.
side hugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side hug
alternative provision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The arranging of full-time education for a pupil who has been excluded from their school.
doom rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: More industrial rhythms and gothic, doom rock combined with suitably mocking voice to express the dark matters afoot in the songs, which this time dwell on the subject of suicide, making Manson the latest in a long line of heavy metal artists to do so.
ref: 2006, Steve Taylor, The A to X of Alternative Music, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 144:
text: They're not death metal; they're calling it doom rock. It's essentially an updated version of early 70s Sabbath.
ref: [2007 March 16, Paul Lester, quoting Elijah Wood, “Frodo gets funky”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: By the 1990s goth had given rise to more broadly popular subgenres like ‘death rock’ and ‘doom rock’, whose stars, people like Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor, used self-harm as a significant motif within their lives and lyrics.
ref: 2015, Peter Steggals, Making Sense of Self-harm: The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Nonsuicidal Self-injury, Springer, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of rock music influenced by hard rock, protometal, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, and blues, commonly incorporating lyrics about the occult or referencing horror movies and books.
Synonyms: occult rock
witch rock
Related terms: doom folk
doom metal
Sunni Islamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sunni Islam + -ic.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to Sunni Islam.
toastie-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toastie-makers
Senses: examples: text: TEFAL TOASTIE-MAKER £16.99
ref: 1984 December 19, “Foreys Christmas Selection”, in Coventry Evening Telegraph, number 28,962, page 3:
text: If jamming your head repeatedly in a Breville toastie-maker then switching on is preferable, there’s hope yet.
ref: 2001 April 7, The Guardian:
text: The best invention ever is … Penicillin, I guess, though the toastie-maker comes a close second.
ref: 2003 November 1, India Knight, “My Secret Life”, in The Independent Magazine, page 5:
text: It has a one-litre capacity, ideal for single-person use, is easy to clean and has neat cord storage so it won’t get tangled with toastie-makers.
ref: 2009 January 4, “Five of the Best… Juicers”, in Maria Fitzpatrick, compiler, The Sunday Telegraph, number 2,482, page L 16:
text: The bun itself is pimped with salted caramel, topped with cheddar and brie and then whacked in a toastie-maker until the cheese is golden and bubbling.
ref: 2018 March 28, Samuel Fishwick, “Hot Cross Fun”, in Evening Standard, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of toastie maker.
toastie-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toastie-maker
whiptail disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: whiptail disorder
glosses: A disease of cauliflower and related plants, caused by molybdenum deficiency and leading to chlorosis and impaired development.
whiptail disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of whiptail disease.
synonyms: word: whiptail disease
impossible pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impossible pies
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of custard pie that forms its own hardened "crust" during baking.
impossible pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impossible pie
grim reaper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: grim reapers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Grim Reaper.
Shibuya-kei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 渋谷系(しぶやけい) (shibuyakei, “Shibuya style”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Japanese pop music subgenre and fashion aesthetic of the mid- to late 1990s, inspired by 1960s culture and Western pop music.
milk-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk-makers
Senses: examples: text: She had them called everything: ‘the twins’, ‘skin-pillows’, her ‘rack’, her ‘set’, her ‘mounds’, her ‘missiles’, her ‘melons’, her ‘milk-makers’.
ref: [2001, Clive Barker, Coldheart Canyon, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 207:
text: He felt her legs open wider each time he switched between sucking her right and left milk-makers.
ref: 2006, Curtis L Alcutt, Bullets & Ballads, Alcutt Enterprises, LLC, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Brazen was the only word that seemed to fit this “lady” with her thrusting breasts and low cut gown of pure white cloth, all mysterious and frightening in the fog. But it was not her mouth-watering milk-makers that kept his attention.
ref: 2007, Derek Armstrong, The Last Troubadour, Kunati, →ISBN, page 25:
text: “In all fairness to her disciples, it must have been impossible to concentrate with a couple of cannons like those in your face,” McCormick said. “Especially in that desert heat, with nothing but a thin linen vestment between you and two of the most succulent milk-makers you’ve ever laid eyes on, beads of sweat slowly making their way down from her throat and running along the swells before descending into that perfect cleft between…oh my Lord.”
ref: 2010 September 23, “New Evidence Suggests God Also Had Incredibly Busty Daughter”, in The Onion, volume 46, number 38, page 5:
text: I hope sharing my experience has brought more encouragement for women to feel comfortable and proud in your skin and help men gain more understanding about what it’s like to have a pair of milk-makers.
ref: 2016 March 23, Emily Fisher, “Editor goes braless, lets tatas fly free”, in Dixie Sun News, volume XLV, number 24, page 9:
text: She needed to pull back and stop him or decide if she wanted to let him touch her oversensitive and achy chest. A part of her screamed, “Hands off the milk-makers!” but the part of her that had no willpower against him urged her forward.
ref: 2021, Laura Brown, About That Night, Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of milk maker.
milk-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk-maker
neo-Sovietism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + Sovietism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A political approach resembling that of the former Soviet Union.
jigglies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.əˌliz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.liz/
Etymology: From jiggly.
Senses: examples: text: He pulled her again and her dress tore, the jigglies were right in front of him. He squeezed the jigglies, squeezed himself, got his trousers down as the two of them crashed backward through the palm trees into the middle of the room.
ref: 1974, Edward Whittemore, Quin’s Shanghai Circus, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; San Francisco, Calif.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 173:
text: And she oiled everything, including her jigglies.
ref: 1989, Desmond Lowden, The Shadow Run, London: André Deutsch Limited, →ISBN, page 84:
text: But it did go some way to explaining the curious passages of starry flesh and bone she kept seeing: Garbo’s throat on the woman, Victor Mature in this breast-obsessed male. / ‘Udders,’ he said. / ‘Jigglies,’ she countered. ‘Chi-chis. Kazooms –’ / Oh, she had a million.
ref: 2001, Clive Barker, Coldheart Canyon, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 207:
text: She tried posing on her hands and knees facing the door, in case he was a tit man and was turned on by the jigglies.
ref: 2006, Jaide Fox, Ashley Ladd, Shizuko Lee, Sky Pirates, Lake Park, Ga.: New Concepts Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 185:
text: RUSTOM: (standing at the MODEL’s feet, staring down at her) All right, Miss Birthday Suit! Time to sing us a few party songs now – / TARUN: Don’t speak to her like that! / SWARUP: Don’t frighten her – / RUSTOM: (to the others) Ooof – a woman who’s willing to air her jigglies isn’t going to be frightened of a few questions!
ref: 2020, Manjula Padmanabhan, Blood and Laughter, Hachette India, →ISBN:
glosses: Breasts.
VLOP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VLOPs
Senses: examples: text: Tech platforms must reach at least 45 million monthly active users in the EU in order to be designated VLOPs or VLSEs.
ref: 2023 April 25, Dan Milmo, “‘Unprepared’ Twitter among tech firms to face tough new EU digital rules”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: VLOSE
glosses: Initialism of very large online platform.
VLOSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VLOSEs
Senses: topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: VLOP
glosses: Initialism of very large online search engine.
VLOPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VLOP
VLOSEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VLOSE
distraction osteogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Distraction osteogenesis has demonstrated a remarkable potential for skeletal tissues to respond to a surgical and mechanical process with the formation of bone in a reliable and controllable fashion.
ref: 1995, Nicholas A. Waanders, A Distraction Osteogenesis Model to Investigate the Influence of the Mechanical Environment on Bone Formation, page 55:
text: There is no saving of operating time at present, but as surgeons become more accustomed to the technique and 'teething' problems are overcome it is to be expected that the operation time for distraction osteogenesis will shorten.
ref: 2001, Eric Arnaud, P. A. Diner, editors, 3rd International Congress on Cranial and Facial Bone Distraction Processes, page 586:
text: Distraction osteogenesis only became a mainstay of maxillofacial surgery in the early 1990s, which illustrates just how far ahead of his time Valadier was.
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 52:
glosses: Synonym of osteodistraction.
synonyms: word: osteodistraction
pro nav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of proportional navigation.
proportional navigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: pro nav
word: PN
glosses: A form of navigation used by homing missiles, based on the fact that two vehicles are on a collision course when their direct line of sight does not change direction as the range closes.
governless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From govern + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Oh! the heart is a free and a governless thing! / Hence strangely and madly it often will cling / To a glance of the eye, and a smile of the cheek, […]
ref: 1854, Mary Bayard Clarke, Wood-notes; Or, Carolina Carols, page 86:
text: Though the majority of your community's members have no intention of acting up, to host a governless society is to truly tempt fate.
ref: 2011, Deborah Ng, Online Community Management For Dummies (page 75)
glosses: Without government; ungoverned; anarchic.