cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
octatonic scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octatonic scale
BSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of body substance isolation.
pentatonic scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentatonic scale
hemitonic pentatonic scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemitonic pentatonic scales
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pentatonic scale that contains half steps.
Coordinate terms: anhemitonic pentatonic scale
anhemitonic pentatonic scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhemitonic pentatonic scales
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pentatonic scale that does not contain half steps.
Coordinate terms: hemitonic pentatonic scale
augmented second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augmented seconds
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: an interval that is equivalent to a major second widened by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, this is equal to three half steps where the notes are in consecutive staff positions (compare minor third.)
augmented seconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of augmented second
test sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test site
C-spining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of C-spine
C-spined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of C-spine
nonversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonversations
Etymology: Blend of non- + conversation.
Senses: examples: text: There is always a bit of jovial nonversation at the newsstand.
ref: 1997, Andrew Field, Nabokov, His Life In Part, page 22:
text: Oh, God, thought Hadley. This "nonversation" can't go on much longer.
ref: 2004, Brian Dobbins, chapter 2, in Jasmine's Husband, Sam, page 14:
text: As Bruce was somewhat taken aback by this turn in the nonversation, as a witty friend used to term the appropriately uneven match of social skills, he simply asked why.
ref: 2008, Maxim Jakubowski, Paris Noir: Capital Crime Fiction, page 266:
glosses: A meaningless conversation.
environut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: environuts
Etymology: From enviro- + nut.
Senses: examples: text: Sarah is so obsessed with endangered species! She's a real environut.
glosses: A fanatical environmentalist.
Nissen huts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nissen hut
inocubate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of inoculate.
glosses: Misspelling of incubate.
cellar doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellar door
co-writes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-write
co-writing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-write
co-wrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of co-write
low seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low season
spife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spifes
form: spives
Etymology: Blend of spoon + knife
Senses: glosses: A hybrid utensil combining a spoon and a knife.
evenes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evene
sixty-fourth note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixty-fourth notes
form: 64th note
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a note with 1/64 the value of a whole note
Synonyms: hemidemisemiquaver
sixty-fourth notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixty-fourth note
œconomick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more œconomick
form: most œconomick
Senses: examples: text: Lord Bute ſucceeded his Grace, and we may preſume, by his œconomick plan, for leſſening the expences of his majeſty’s houſehold, such as retrenching ſeveral tables, introducing board wages, &c. no addition was made in his adminiſtration.
ref: 1777, The London Magazine, page 247:
glosses: Obsolete form of economic.
Tian'anmen Square
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Today Qianmen, the gate at the southern end of Tian'anmen Square ("Place of Heavenly Peace") marks the site of a boundary line drawn within the city by its cautious potentates. On one side is representative showiness: boulevards run in the traditional north-south direction, as well as newer avenues that cut through a sea of houses, broad streets like Dongchang'an Jie which Mao ordered built along an east-west axis.
ref: 1999, “Beijing”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition, Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367:
text: Analysts have linked the campaign to broader efforts to stifle dissent ahead of sensitive political dates this year, especially the 20th anniversary year of the government’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square in 1989.
ref: 2009 January 8, Ian Ransom, “Chinese Internet operators apologize for lewd content”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 25 May 2022, Internet News:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Tiananmen Square.
unaccusativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + accusative + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being unaccusative.
Cook Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cook Islander
stillatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillatories
Senses: glosses: A vessel used for distillation.
examples: text: For these are Nature's Stillatories, in whose hollow Caverns the ascending vapours are congealed to that universal Aqua vitæ, that good fresh-water, the liquor of life, that sustains all the living Creatures in the world […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 48
glosses: A place in which distillation is performed.
stillatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stillatory
fewel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls; […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 49
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fuel.
seacoal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea coal
form: sea-coal
Etymology: From sea + coal.
Senses: examples: text: October 9, 1677. "John Thompson of Setauket has a permit to go to Flushing and other parts of Long Island to search for sea-coal, of which he hath probable information."
ref: 1896, Martha Bockée Flint (1841-1900), Early Long Island, a colonial study, Liveright, page 22:
glosses: coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold.
examples: text: […] and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls; […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 49
text: And the change came fast. In 1570 there was still little sign of any major divergence from the traditional use of wood as fuel. Less than forty years later, in 1607, a case brought by the Crown in the Star Chamber stated as fact that ‘sea coal’ — a name for the coal that arrived in London by ship from Newcastle — was ‘the ordinary and usual fuel … almost everywhere in every man's house’. A single generation had made the switch.
ref: 2020, Ruth Goodman, The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal Into Victorian Homes Changed Everything, Liveright, →ISBN, page xvii:
glosses: coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
synonyms: steam coal
glosses: coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
synonyms: steam coal
glosses: coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.
Such coal used in foundry practice, intermixed with foundry sand or applied in a layer on its face, to modify the behavior of the molten metal.
sea-coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seacoal.
durty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For men in stead of those magnificent Buildings which are seen in the world, could have had no better kind of dwellings then a bigger sort of Bee-hives or Birds-nests, made of contemptible sticks, and straws, and durty morter.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 49
glosses: Archaic spelling of dirty.
brothers-in-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brother-in-arms
sweep something under the carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweeps something under the carpet
form: sweeping something under the carpet
form: swept something under the carpet
form: swept something under the carpet
Senses: examples: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I've been struggling with what I am now for 6 years—and it's time to stop sweeping the issue under the carpet
glosses: Synonym of sweep something under the rug.
synonyms: word: sweep something under the rug
death spiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death spirals
Senses: examples: text: “We call this getting yourself in a square corner, when you run out of ideas and experience at the same time,” said Mr. Barr, a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War. “[…] Even for a good pilot, that could produce a death spiral.”
ref: 1999 July 21, Mike Allen, Matthew L. Wald, “Maneuver by Kennedy's Plane Suggests He Was Disoriented”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: graveyard spiral
glosses: The downward, corkscrew-motion of a disabled aircraft which is unrecoverably headed for a crash.
examples: text: There are four types of death spirals, named for the edge on which the lady is skating—forward outside, forward inside, back outside, or back inside.
ref: 2002, Carole Shulman, The Complete Book of Figure Skating, →ISBN, page 194:
qualifier: pairs figure skating
glosses: A manoeuvre in which a male skater spins in place while holding one hand of his female skating partner as she circles around him with one skate on the ice and one leg extended outward parallel to the ice surface, all the while slowly lowering herself until her back almost touches the ice surface.
examples: text: But what followed for Lozano, his grieving family claims, was a death spiral into infantilism and madness.
ref: 1992 April 13, Anastasia Toufexis, Hannah Bloch, “Did His Doctor Love Him to Death?”, in Time, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2011:
text: The markets are in meltdown, intensifying the downward pirouette of what the international financier George Soros has called "Greece's death spiral".
ref: 2010 April 28, Malcolm Brabrant, “Greece's ‘death spiral’”, in BBC News, retrieved 14 Sep 2011:
text: When the price of Luna plummeted in May, TerraUSD fell in tandem — a “death spiral” that destabilized the broader market and plunged some investors into financial ruin.
ref: 2022 June 14, David Yaffe-Bellany, Erin Griffith, “‘The Music Has Stopped’: Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The situation or course of action of one who is on a path toward some sort of inevitable catastrophic failure.
glosses: Synonym of ant mill (“A phenomenon where a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle and eventually dying of exhaustion.”).
synonyms: word: ant mill
extra: (“A phenomenon where a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle and eventually dying of exhaustion.”).
Related terms: auger in
doom loop
tailspin
graveyard spiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graveyard spirals
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The downward, corkscrew-motion of a disabled aircraft which is unrecoverably headed for a crash.
Synonyms: death spiral
sex-text
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sex-texts
form: sex-texting
form: sex-texted
form: sex-texted
Senses: examples: text: It was reported [...] they had exchanged raunchy texts. Ms Uchitel denied all that yesterday, saying: "I have never sex-texted in my life."
ref: 2009 November 30, “I was at Crown but I never ran into Tiger Woods once, says nightclub hostess”, in News.com.au, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2009:
text: Eva Longoria splits from Tony Parker because he was allegedly sex-texting former team-mate's wife Erin Barry
ref: 2010 November 19, “Eva's hubby 'sex-texted mate's wife'”, in The Daily Mirror:
text: Some of Gary's mannerisms reminded her of her ex, the guy she caught sex-texting with the blonde next door.
ref: 2011, Diana Kirschner, Sealing the Deal: The Love Mentor's Guide to Lasting Love:
text: “And stop fondling that damn thing,” Seth snapped. “An army of mafiya thugs could be trooping through that woman’s door, and there you are out in la la land, sex-texting your girlfriend.”
ref: 2008, Shannon McKenna, Extreme Danger (The McCloud Brothers, Book 5):
glosses: To send (someone) a sexually suggestive text message.
Synonyms: sext
pozzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pozzies
Etymology: Diminutive of positive with -ie.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, any sexual encounter with a pozzie always contains some risk of transmission — however small.
ref: 2004 November 9, The Advocate, page 80:
glosses: An HIV positive person.
examples: text: She doesn't look at me; she looks out over the wet yard. Chooks fight for good pozzies in the roosts.
ref: 1986, Tim Winton, 'That Eye, the Sky', Penguin Books Australia Ltd 1988 edition (Chapter 18, at p.140)
glosses: Australian (slang) A place or position.
glosses: Australian (slang) A job.
Bong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bongs
Etymology: From Bengali বঙ্গ (boṅgo).
Senses: glosses: A Bengali (from West Bengal).
Boma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bomas
form: Boma
Senses: glosses: A member of a Bantu ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Boma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language.
anaplerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anapleroses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up”) + πλήρωσις (plḗrōsis), from πληρόω (plēróō, “to fill”) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Senses: glosses: The replenishment of a deficiency, or refilling of the space left by a destroyed part.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An intermediate enzyme reaction that replaces a depleted vital compound.
Related terms: anaplerotic
Bougie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bougies
Etymology: Probably of French origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: Former name of Béjaïa, Algeria.
inocubates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inocubate
inocubating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inocubate
inocubated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inocubate
nonversations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonversation
environuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of environut
backseat drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backseat driver
Brach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A commune in Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
Bethphage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛθ.fəˌd͡ʒi/
/ˈbɛθ.feɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From Aramaic בית־פגי (literally “house of unripe figs”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A place near Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.
Related terms: Bethpage
phoneticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phoneticizes
form: phoneticizing
form: phoneticized
form: phoneticized
Etymology: From phonetic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: He phoneticizes his given name, Ippolito, into Tibetan.
ref: 2017, Donald S. Lopez Jr., Dispelling the Darkness:
synonyms: phonetize
glosses: To spell by phonetic script.
glosses: To change (spelling) so that it is more phonetic (transparent; see Orthographic depth).
plushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plush
under the carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: to sweep (something) under the carpet
text: But in the 1970s the process went into reverse, as more and more 'bad' data went under the carpet.
ref: 1989, Walter Joyce, Hillel Ticktin, Stephen White, Gorbachev and Gorbachevism, page 58:
text: It seems as if it is happening and it is being washed under the carpet.
ref: 1999 June 30, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 1119:
text: The Bill is going to apply to a much wider group of people and I think it will sweep an awful lot of things under the carpet.
ref: 2006, Joint Committee on Human Rights, The UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT): Nineteenth Report of Session 2005-06: Volume II: Oral And Written Evidence, page 27:
text: Worldwide nuclear proliferation committed by a single nation to create an Islamic nuclear bomb has been swept under the carpet by the United States.
ref: 2009, B. Vithal Shetty, World as Seen Under the Lens of a Scientist, page 233:
text: Conflict is brushed under the carpet.
ref: 2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, page 139:
text: The official line is enduring commitment, and promises to move heaven and earth for those most in danger. But in practice Afghanistan is being swept under the carpet.
ref: 2023 March 9, Dan Jarvis, “Britain promised to move heaven and earth for all who helped us in Afghanistan. It wasn’t true”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: location
glosses: So as to be hidden from plain view (and thus easily ignored or overlooked).
examples: text: When the carpet layers came in and removed the carpet she said there were millions of black eggs and tiny worms crawling under the carpet.
ref: 2005, Devi S. Nambudripad, Freedom from Environmental Sensitivities, page 35:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see under, carpet.
Synonyms: under the rug
Related terms: paper over
upperparts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upperpart
made love
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make love
upperpart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upperparts
Etymology: From upper + part.
Senses: examples: text: Upperparts of back and tail and outerside of legs a reddish brown grey with a silvery tinge, turning towards the nape to a rich red;
ref: 1885, Hermann Schlegel, Fredericus Anna Jentink, Notes from the Royal Zoological Museum - Volumes 7-8, page 101:
glosses: Any of the upper parts of a bird, including the mantle, back, rump and upper part of the tail coverts
dæmoniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dæmoniacal
form: most dæmoniacal
Senses: examples: text: But if a man, who by nature is most generous, who employs the most temperate discipline, the most true philosophy, and the most auspicious fortune, should be thought worthy by divinity to associate with a dæmoniacal power, shall it appear wonderful and incredible that this man, so far as was sufficient for him, should deliver oracles ; not to the Athenians, by Jupiter, consulting about the Grecian evils ; nor to the Lacedæmonians interrogating about military expeditions ; nor to some one, who being about to contend in the Olympic games, should ask concerning victory ; nor to one enquiring in a court of justice if he should gain his cause ; nor to the lover of wealth, asking if he shall be rich ; nor to any other busily employed in enquiring about things of no worth, and for which men daily disturb the gods ?
ref: 1804, Thomas Taylor, The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, volume II, pages 64–65:
glosses: Obsolete form of demoniacal.
homœopathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homœopathists
Etymology: From homœopathy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homeopathist.
homœodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homoeodont.
homoeodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: homeodont
form: homœodont
form: homoiodont
Senses: glosses: Conical, without tubercles or crests.
pliés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plié
mad as a fish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Voluble, almost incomprehensible, mad as a fish and perpetually drunk.
ref: 2006, Damon Hammond, Totally Steaming: A Year on HMS Fearless, page 202:
text: The only one I'm scared of is that Eliza Cooper. Mad as a fish that one.
ref: 2006, Lou Bellamy, Haunting the Dead, page 38:
text: I've got a station chief who's as mad as a fish, an incomplete briefing, and a gambling-obsessed billionaire to out-bluff.
ref: 2007, Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue:
text: Sean, the older brother, was as mad as a fish, but he was also the one with the brains and together they were a very entrepreneurial family.
ref: 2008, Andy Taylor, Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran:
glosses: Demented, crazy.
spill out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spills out
form: spilling out
form: spilled out
form: spilled out
form: spilt out
form: spilt out
Senses: examples: text: People were spilling out of the stadium after the game.
glosses: to exit (outside) in large quantities
raw_tags: said of people
examples: text: Abuse spilled out of her mouth.
glosses: to be released without constraint
raw_tags: said of emotions or feelings
examples: text: Be careful with that jug! The water is spilling out.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spill, out.
chocogasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocogasms
Senses: glosses: A pleasurable sensation from eating chocolate.
Hypernyms: foodgasm
chocogasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocogasm
prime formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime formulas
form: prime formulae
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A well-formed formula which has not been made by combining simpler well-formed formulas by means of logical connectives.
logical connective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logical connectives
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A truth-valued function such as (the usual suspects): conjunction, disjunction, negation, and material implication.
Synonyms: sentence connective
Hypernyms: logical constant
Hyponyms: conjunction
disjunction
exclusive disjunction
if and only if
material implication
negation
Related terms: syncategorematic
nut out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌt aʊt/
ipa: /ˈnɐt ˌæɔt/
ipa: /-ˌæʊt/
Forms: form: nuts out
form: nutting out
form: nutted out
form: nutted out
Etymology: From nut (“(slang) the head”) + out, referring to thinking or working something out in one’s head.
Senses: examples: text: [A] chronic optimistic faith in pragmatic experiment to overcome deficiencies in the knowledge of these experts (rather than set up an expensive preparatory research program) was responsible for the difficulties that immediately occurred when the factory began to produce glass in July 1962. An Auckland newspaper reporter transmitted the parochial attitude of the technical management when he boasted that the finer points of glassmaking “had to be nutted out by Kiwis on the spot.”
ref: 1965, William J[ames] Cameron, “From Adversity to Diversity”, in New Zealand (A Spectrum Book), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, →OCLC, page 136:
text: On the Monday afternoon, at about four o'clock, Mervyn said, “Well, we’re doing a lot of sitting around gas, gas, gas, but it seems to me we’ve got everything there is to nut out, nutted out.[…]”
ref: 1974, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Predicament, London: Robert Hale, published 1982, →ISBN, page 89:
text: In ’86 Frank helped Ian [Roberts] nut out his first contract—$26,000 a year—[…]
ref: 1997, Paul Freeman, Ian Roberts: Finding Out, Milsons Point, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 70:
text: An inquiry takes place and more often than not all sides of politics—I should use ‘all’ rather than ‘both’ with the member for Cunningham sitting opposite—get together and nut out something, compromising a little bit here or there to come up with a final result.
ref: 2003 November 25, Gary Nairn, “Economics, Finance and Public Administration Committee: Report”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives (Australian House of Representatives), volume 259, Canberra: […] Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, →OCLC, page 22823:
text: Nutting out our own way of doing things may take some work, but we get there.
ref: 2010, Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, Eric Mooij, Being a Great Dad for Dummies (For Dummies), Australian & New Zealand edition, Milton, Qld.: Wiley Publishing Australia, →ISBN, page 273:
glosses: To find a solution (for something), especially in a group discussion; also, to work out the finer details (of something).
nut out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌt aʊt/
ipa: /ˈnɐt ˌæɔt/
ipa: /-ˌæʊt/
Forms: form: nuts out
form: nutting out
form: nutted out
form: nutted out
Etymology: From nut (“(slang) crazy person”) + out.
Senses: examples: text: There was also the Black political pimp syndrome where a few middle-class and bourgeois negroes got big off the people’s struggles, and then nutted out completely, joining forces with our enemies, as agents, messengers, sophisticated stool pigeons, professional confusers.
ref: 1981, Amiri Baraka, “Black America and the Afro-American Nation: The Urban Voice”, in Michael C. Jaye, Ann Chalmers Watts, editors, Literature & the American Urban Experience: Essays on the City and Literature, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 156:
text: The day we found out George Jackson was murdered he nutted out. I was there, at Shirley Sutherland′s house in Beverly Hills, the afternoon we heard George Jackson was murdered, and he nutted out at this meeting, right there.
ref: 1994, Eric Cummins, “The Force of Imprisoned Words”, in The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 254:
text: I tried not to think about clients who were in prison without appellate hopes or anything else left but years of time in front of them to nut out. I do what I can with each case but sometimes there is nothing that can be done.
ref: 2005, Michael Connelly, chapter 9, in The Lincoln Lawyer, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 88:
synonyms: word: craze
word: have a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock
word: have a screw loose
word: have bats in one's belfry
word: have bats in the belfry
word: have squirrels in one's attic
word: have toys in the attic
word: nut out
word: rave
glosses: To become crazy, especially with rage.
Related terms: do one's nut
pack off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: packs off
form: packing off
form: packed off
form: packed off
Senses: examples: text: I was packed off to boarding school for three months and only saw my parents during the holidays.
glosses: To send away, with belongings, for a long time.
pack out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: packs out
form: packing out
form: packed out
form: packed out
Senses: examples: text: The stadium was packed out.
text: Here [at Grantham], the train has three minutes to reverse, during which time it is suddenly packed out with shoppers heading to Nottingham. It's standing room only for those who arrive last.
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 57:
text: Millwall were allocated 3,781 tickets for this six-mile trip down the south London train tracks. The away end was duly packed out and ringed, sternly, by a gaggle of widely jeered Metropolitan police.
ref: 2025 January 3, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To fill with spectators, passengers etc.
raw_tags: used in the passive
examples: text: Be sure to bring enough bags to pack out all your trash.
glosses: To bring something (often waste) away when one leaves a natural environment like a campground.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: To become quite compacted; to become tightly-packed.
raw_tags: of snow
rapeseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapeseed
pair off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pairs off
form: pairing off
form: paired off
form: paired off
Senses: glosses: To separate into groups of two.
glosses: To join two people into a relationship.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To agree with one of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on specified questions or issues.
paper over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: papers over
form: papering over
form: papered over
form: papered over
Etymology: Suggesting the use of wallpaper to cover defects on a wall.
Senses: examples: text: Runaway lending continues, bad debts mount even higher, and the need for more cash to paper over losses becomes that much more acute.
ref: 2014, Patric Chovanec, at Bloomberg, China's Runaway Train is Running Out of Track:
text: While Volcker briefly submitted his resignation to Treasury Secretary Baker, a new vote would paper over immediate tensions – though Volcker's time as chair was numbered, going forward.
ref: 2016, Wesley Widmaier, Economic Ideas in Political Time, →ISBN, page 151:
synonyms: cover up
gloss over#English:_cover up, figuratively
whitewash
glosses: To superficially hide or disguise (a problem or a defect) without addressing it; to provide a veneer of normality or success.
Related terms: under the carpet
under the rug
pat down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pats down
form: patting down
form: patted down
form: patted down
Senses: glosses: To frisk; to check someone's body for concealed items, especially weapons.
Derived terms: pat-down
peg away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pegs away
form: pegging away
form: pegged away
form: pegged away
Senses: examples: text: ‘Art's the only thing I care for, I'm willing to give my whole life to it. It's only a question of sticking to it and pegging away.’
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, in Of Human Bondage:
text: You are tired now and you find it hard, but you peg away.
ref: 1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:
text: In very rare cases, when the matrix just goes on pegging away automatically, the doctor can take advantage of that and ease out the second brat who then can be considered to be, say, three minutes younger [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 296:
glosses: To keep working (at something).
glosses: To depart hastily; peg it; scram.
pick through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks through
form: picking through
form: picked through
form: picked through
Senses: glosses: To look through a group or list in order to select what one desires.
pin up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pins up
form: pinning up
form: pinned up
form: pinned up
Senses: hypernyms: hang up
put up
coordinate_terms: paste up
tack up
glosses: To put (e.g. a sheet of paper) on display, using a pin.
Derived terms: word: pin-up
word: pinup
Related terms: pin down
pushpin
pit out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pits out
form: pitting out
form: pitted out
form: pitted out
Senses: qualifier: car racing
glosses: To leave the pits and go out onto the race track
glosses: To stop working
raw_tags: of a machine
examples: text: It was so hot, I was starting to pit out by mid-morning.
glosses: To show sweat on one's clothes, especially around the armpits.
examples: text: At this rate, he was going to pit out his dress shirt, and he didn't have anything to change into before the meeting.
glosses: To make sweaty (of clothes).
plant out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plants out
form: planting out
form: planted out
form: planted out
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To put (a plant) into the ground outside, from a greenhouse or a plant pot.
play away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays away
form: playing away
form: played away
form: played away
Senses: glosses: To be sexually unfaithful out of one's home
formation rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formation rules
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of a set of rules used to construct well-formed formulas of a formal language.
homoeogeneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: homeogeneous
form: homœogeneous
form: homoiogeneous
Senses: glosses: Of a similar kind.
homœogeneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homoeogeneous.
cut bait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts bait
form: cutting bait
form: cut bait
form: cut bait
Senses: examples: text: Jenny knew it was time to cut bait, since her relationship with Joe was never going to progress beyond the current level of commitment.
glosses: To give up on something in order to pursue something else.
glosses: To chop up fish bait for use.
Related terms: fish or cut bait
time to cut bait
cuts bait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut bait
cutting bait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut bait
formation rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formation rule
plug up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plugs up
form: plugging up
form: plugged up
form: plugged up
Senses: examples: text: People often flush paper towels down toilets, plugging them up; […]
ref: 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To put a plug or bung into something; to interrupt the flow of.
glosses: To reinforce something weak.
manœuverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manœuverable
form: most manœuverable
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of maneuverable.
manœuvreable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manœuvreable
form: most manœuvreable
Etymology: From manœuvre + -able.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of maneuverable.
Derived terms: unmanœuvreable
make a mockery of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a mockery of
form: making a mockery of
form: made a mockery of
form: made a mockery of
form: make mockery of
Senses: examples: text: After Gervinho had been brilliantly denied an early shot on goal by Mats Hummels' outstretched boot, the German champions made a mockery of their fourth-seeding in this season's group-stage draw.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: To mock; to ridicule or imitate, often to express contempt.
examples: text: The Begin regime has made a mockery of the slogan "Never Again," which to me means a determination to work against another Holocaust occurring against the Jews or any other people.
ref: 1982 December 11, Ann Gluck, “Common Struggle”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 4:
text: This is also a TransPennine Express service which makes a mockery of the word 'express'.
ref: 2023 November 1, Philip Haigh, “TPE must choose the right route to a brighter future”, in RAIL, number 995, page 56:
glosses: To give a bad name, to act in such a way as to bring ridicule upon that which one represents.
examples: text: The burglars made a mockery of the museum's security system.
text: […]and this squadron would include various steamships that made further mockery of the sail-powered slave ships' attempts to evade them.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 7:51 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
text: England played with style and superiority, showing the levels Tuchel insisted they would, making a mockery of the threat most observers thought Serbia would provide.
ref: 2025 September 9, Phil McNulty, “Serbia 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To defeat easily, so as to show up as inadequate.
homœopathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homœopathist
goalline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goallines
Senses: examples: text: Kevin Grosskreutz fired over when well-placed in the box, Kagawa did similarly after being put through on goal and then Lewandowski, having rounded Szczesny, was denied by Bacary Sagna's goalline clearance.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of goal line.
inference rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inference rules
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: proof theory
glosses: A rule for combining (or modifying) well-formed formulas of a formal language in a truth-preserving manner (to yield new well-formed formulas).
Hyponyms: modus ponens
modus tollens
existential instantiation
matter of time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: DUKAT: I blame no one but myself. I was indiscreet. I compromised myself and have been punished accordingly. If someone under my command had behaved so outrageously, I would do the same thing to him. Besides, I assure you, this is only a temporary setback. Everything I have lost, I will regain. It's only a matter of time.
ref: 1996, “Return to Grace”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 4, episode 14 (Science Fiction), →OCLC:
text: In a matter of time it would slip from my mind / In and out of my life, you would slip from my mind / In a matter of time
ref: 2010, “Walk in the Park”, in Victoria Legrand (lyrics), Teen Dream, performed by Beach House:
text: Dortmund continued to control proceedings, however, and it looked only a matter of time before they would break through.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: An inevitable result; something that is bound to happen.
Synonyms: question of time
Derived terms: it's only a matter of time
inference rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inference rule
return pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return passes
Senses: examples: text: But then Arsenal scored. Sebastian Kehl's poor touch ended at Walcott's feet via Van Persie. The Englishman's return pass was a delight, allowing Van Persie to take a touch before rifling a rising drive past Roman Weidenfeller.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A pass back to the person who just passed the ball.
Related terms: one-two
premisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premiss
premisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of premiss
spifes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spife
friendy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛndi
Forms: form: friendies
Etymology: From friend + -y.
Senses: glosses: A friend.
hemitonic pentatonic scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemitonic pentatonic scale
anhemitonic pentatonic scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhemitonic pentatonic scale
this is the life
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Ah, this is the life. All dressed up on an ocean liner with your favourite cocktail in hand, enjoying a nice relaxing evening.
ref: 2008, Gary Wood, Don't Wait for Your Ship to Come In... Swim Out to Meet It:
glosses: An expression of bliss, an expression of happiness with one's current situation.
Related terms: this is it
insurance goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurance goals
Senses: examples: text: Ricky Shakes scored Guyana's first goal in the 10th minute and Leon Cort provided the insurance goal in the 81st minute.
ref: 2012, Aldwyn McGill, Jamaica Football: Reggae Boyz History, page 40:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A goal scored by a team that is already leading by one goal.
in the lead
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnðəˈliːd/
Senses: examples: text: Again we managed to pull ahead a bit each time we came together and by the first mark we rounded several boatslengths in the lead.
ref: 1996, Russell Coutts, as told to Paul Larsen, Russell Coutts: Course to Victory, Hodder Moa Beckett, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: in first place in a contest, or parade.
go down like a lead balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down like a lead balloon
form: going down like a lead balloon
form: went down like a lead balloon
form: gone down like a lead balloon
form: go over like a lead balloon
Senses: examples: text: I thought my idea of a superhero-themed party was a great idea, but it went down like a lead balloon with my friends.
qualifier: simile
glosses: To be received negatively by others.
insurance goals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insurance goal
sex-texts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex-text
sex-texts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sex-text
lens cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lens caps
Etymology: From lens + cap.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The detachable cap that protects the camera lens when the camera is not in use.
sex-texting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sex + texting.
Senses: synonyms: sexting
glosses: The act of sending sexually explicit text messages and/or photographs between cell phones.
sex-texting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sex + texting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sex-text
drop trow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops trow
form: dropping trow
form: dropped trow
form: dropped trow
form: drop trou
Senses: glosses: To pull down one's trousers (pants).
sex-texted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sex-text
self-right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-rights
form: self-righting
form: self-righted
form: self-righted
Etymology: Back-formation from self-righting, equivalent to self- + right.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
transport
glosses: To make oneself upright.
Derived terms: self-righter
capillary wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capillary waves
Etymology: So named because the wave propagation is due to similar physical principles to those involved in capillary action.
Senses: glosses: A wave at a fluid boundary dominated by surface tension (opposed to larger waves dominated by gravity), a ripple.
suck a big one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks a big one
form: sucking a big one
form: sucked a big one
form: sucked a big one
Senses: glosses: To be terrible; to be of a very low standard.
Synonyms: suck
suck cock
suck donkey balls
king pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king pair
indeavored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indeavor
suckable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suckable
form: most suckable
Etymology: From suck + -able.
Senses: examples: text: His cock began growing—six, seven... eight-and-a- half and still rising—bloody hell ten incredible inches of superb and suckable cock snaking invitingly down the leg of his breeches.
ref: 2009, Ken Smith, Spunky Sailor:
text: The child tries things over and over again to work out things like 'What things are suckable' and then works out categories of suckable and non-suckable things.
ref: 2005, Sandra Smidt, Observing, assessing and planning for children in the early years:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being sucked.
Derived terms: suckability
suckability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From suck + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The degree in which something is suckable
fondleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fondleable
form: most fondleable
Etymology: From fondle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be fondled, or suitable for fondling.
screwability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From screw + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The degree to which something is screwable.
vealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vealers
Etymology: From veal + -er.
Senses: glosses: A calf intended for use as veal.
Synonyms: veal calf
vealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vealer
poetise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poetises
form: poetising
form: poetised
form: poetised
form: poetize
Etymology: From poet + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To write as a poet; to put into a poem
Derived terms: poetiser
UKoGBaNI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: UKoGBaNI
form: the UKoGBaNI
form: UKGBNI
form: UKOGBANI
Senses: examples: text: This American has heard of Dame Edna. I saw the referenced show [The Dame Edna Experience] while visiting the UKoGBaNI in late July and early August.
ref: 1991 September 1, Eric A Cottrell, “Dame Edna's Hollywood”, in rec.arts.tv.uk (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jan 2025:
text: A friend of mine has never got further away from UKoGBaNI than Amsterdam, and is a regular user of the phrase "a whole bunch".
ref: 1996 September 10, Mike Holmans, “Bogus science in YOUR COMPUTER'S PROCESSOR!”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jan 2025:
text: The confusion is presumably because the pound sign on a UKoGBaNI keyboard is in exactly the same place as the sharp sign is on an American keyboard, which you might not know.
ref: 2002 November 19, Donald Fisk, “What's up with #'?”, in comp.lang.lisp (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jan 2025:
glosses: Initialism of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.