cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Loess Plateau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From loess + plateau.
Senses: examples: text: The Loess Plateau
China’s Loess Plateau is the most widely distributed loess area on earth. This loess is a deep deposit of paleosol, and the plateau is most systematically and completely developed for crops (Zhu Xianmo, 1986).
ref: 1993, Dazhong Wen, “Soil erosion and conservation in China”, in David Pimentel, editor, World Soil Erosion and Conservation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 64:
text: First excavated in A.D. 1963 at Lantian (near Xi’an) on the warm temperate Loess Plateau, the Lantian people lived about 800,000 to 600,000 years before the present.
ref: 1994, Zhao Songqiao, Geography of China, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:
glosses: A plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 km² in the upper and middle reaches of China's Yellow River.
haphephobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haphephobia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from haphephobia.
Clutha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the old name of the River Clyde in Scotland.
Senses: glosses: A river in Otago, New Zealand, the second-longest in the country, which flows into the Pacific Ocean and which was probably named by Scottish settlers.
glosses: A territorial authority in south Otago, New Zealand, which includes the former Clutha county; in full, Clutha District.
vairone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vairones
Senses: glosses: Any of several fish of the genus Telestes native to Europe.
step-mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-mothers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stepmother.
kaputski
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kaputski
form: most kaputski
form: kaputsky
Etymology: From kaput (“broken”) + -ski (faux-Polish suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But because you are so with-it, the recording capabilities of the old Sound control panel are now kaputski under M&S. To record sound with a PCI Power Mac, you have to launch the new SimpleSound DA instead.
ref: 1996, Mac User - Volume 12
glosses: broken, broken down
kaputsky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kaputsky
form: most kaputsky
Senses: examples: text: Jefferies called over to them, “The truck's kaputsky.”
“Is the truck your primary transportation?”
“It is,” the Mennonite said.
“Is the horse your nephew's primary transportation?” Service asked the other man.
“Yes,” the Amish man said.
ref: 2008, Joseph Heywood, Blue Wolf In Green Fire: A Woods Cop Mystery:
glosses: Alternative form of kaputski.
pelmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelma
trunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: more trunky
form: most trunky
Etymology: From trunk (“suitcase”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This is normal, but don’t let your enthusiasm carry over too much into your letters. Your missionary needs to remain focused on serving the Lord and the people he or she has come to love. We knew a missionary who stopped reading his mother’s letters during the last few weeks of his mission because, as he said, “She is so trunky!”
ref: 2003 July, Dallas H., Marjorie S. Bradford, “Helping from Home”, in Ensign:
text: My trainer was going home. He was tired and trunky and wanted to be with his family.
ref: 2013 August 13, David M. R. Covey, “Chapter 1: The Highly Effective Missionary”, in The Highly Effective Missionary: Bold and Innovative Approaches to Hasten the Work, Cedar Fort, →ISBN:
glosses: homesick; said of Mormon missionaries
Stewart Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈstjuːət ˈaɪlənd/
Etymology: Named after William W. Stewart, first officer of a sealing ship.
Senses: glosses: An island included in Southland, the southernmost of the larger islands of New Zealand, separated from the south of the South Island by Foveaux Strait.
wikipedia: William W. Stewart
Derived terms: Stewart Island shag
non-fatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fatal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonfatal.
ruin pub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruin pubs
Etymology: Calque of Hungarian romkocsma.
Senses: examples: text: Each ruin pub is unique, but they all share certain similarities. The main ingredient is usually an abandoned building, preferably with a vacant lot nearby to hold picnic tables and a few beer taps.
ref: 2011 August 15, Mark Baker, “The 'ruin pubs' of Budapest's seventh district”, in BBC:
text: “Let's go to Corvinteto,” she said, mentioning the ruin pub in the old abandoned department store near her apartment. “I need a drink.”
ref: 2013, Kenneth Rosenberg, chapter 32, in Memoirs of a Starving Artist: An Itinerant Writer's Journey through an Unconventional Life, →ISBN, page 295:
text: I say how much I like the shabby lounge atmosphere of a ruin pub, and Laura declares that this one, Szimpla Kert (which means “Simple Garden”), is the mecca of ruin pubs.
ref: 2014, Rick Steves, Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2015: The Travel Skills Handbook, Avalon Travel, →ISBN, page 705:
glosses: A bar, selling alcoholic beverages, inhabiting an old building left in a ramshackle condition; a popular style of pub in Budapest.
Synonyms: ruin bar
ruin pubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruin pub
have one's tail up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's tail up
form: having one's tail up
form: had one's tail up
form: had one's tail up
Senses: examples: text: This is incredible stuff from Paraguay now. They have their tails up and are imposing wave after wave of attacks on the Argentina goal.
glosses: To be confident, spirited.
force someone's back to the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forces someone's back to the wall
form: forcing someone's back to the wall
form: forced someone's back to the wall
form: forced someone's back to the wall
Senses: examples: text: You are forcing our backs to the wall, Mr. President. The time is not far off when, living for God’s reign on earth, we shall have to stand against you.
ref: 1947, Friends’ Intelligencer, volume 104, page 366:
text: He didn’t want to do it this way, but she’d forced his back to the wall.
ref: 1991, Stella Cameron, Snow Angels, →ISBN, page 35:
text: It was unlikely that “the masses” would respond to this, unless rising prices forced their backs to the wall – or unless they were incited!
ref: 1998, Richard I. Mann, Plots & Schemes That Brought Down Soeharto, →ISBN, page 132:
text: We did not do that because the opposition was forcing our backs to the wall. We did that because we want to govern well.
ref: 2000 March 21, Bonnie Brown, Canada, House of Commons Debates (Hansard), volume 136, number 68, page 4921:
text: There are those who believe that the truth about the humanity emerges only when you subject people to extreme pressure. Force their backs to the wall, confront them (for example) in some room full of light with what terrifies them most in the world, and they will reveal themselves for what they are. But this is palpably untrue.
ref: 2010, Terry Eagleton, On Evil, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: To put someone under a lot of pressure; to put someone in a very difficult situation.
jaun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʒɔn/
/dʒɔːn/
Forms: form: jauns
Etymology: From Bengali and Hindi.
Senses: examples: text: Who did not know that office Jaun of pale Pomona green,
 With its drab and yellow lining, and picked out black between,
 Which down the Esplanade did go at the ninth hour of the day […]
ref: 1851, Henry Meredith Parker, Bole Ponjis:
text: A large number of accidents are also caused by office jauns which as a class are driven too fast and by inexperienced men. It has been suggested that these jauns should be registered and numbered and their drivers licensed.
ref: 1917, Reginald Clarke, Annual Report on the Police Administration of the Town of Calcutta and Its Suburbs, page 142:
glosses: Synonym of litter, particularly those of the upper middle class in 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century Kolkata.
synonyms: word: litter
word: particularly those of the upper middle class in 18th-
word: 19th-
word: and early 20th-century Kolkata
a little matter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Somewhat; slightly; a little.
Related terms: a small matter
a matter
some little matter
some small matter
a matter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ætə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Somewhat; slightly; a little.
Related terms: a small matter
a little matter
some little matter
some small matter
some little matter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Somewhat; slightly; a little.
Related terms: a small matter
a matter
a little matter
some small matter
some small matter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Somewhat; slightly; a little.
Related terms: a small matter
a matter
some little matter
a little matter
mother church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mother churches
Etymology: From an association of spiritual comfort and hierarchy with familial relationships, probably originally as a calque of similar expressions in other languages, especially 2nd-century Latin mater ecclesia (“mother church”) and 12th-century Old French mere eglise (“mother church”).
Senses: examples: text: Catholics regard Mary as Mother of the Church but an all-male hierarchy as the Mother Church.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Church regarded as nourishing and protecting its members.
examples: text: Mothering Sunday arose from the custom of visiting mother churches at Mid-Lent, rather than the usual parish church.
topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: daughter church
glosses: A church with oversight over another or others, now especially a cathedral or metropolitan church.
examples: text: The mother church of Christian Scientists is in Boston, Massachusetts.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The original church of a denomination, regarded as having birthed the others.
examples: text: The Church of England is the mother church of Anglicans around the world.
text: Not Rome, but Ierusalem should be the Mother Church.
ref: 1667, Matthew Poole, Dialogue between a Popish Priest & an English Protestant, page 35:
text: Puritanism is the mother church of Western democracy.
ref: 1908 February, P.T. Forsyth, Contemporary Review, page 159:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The original denomination or community of believers from which other denominations and communities of believers sprang.
Derived terms: mothering
Mothering Sunday
transspecies
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + species.
Senses: glosses: Interspecies.
transclass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + class.
Senses: glosses: Across multiple social classes.
catch a dick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches a dick
form: catching a dick
form: caught a dick
form: caught a dick
Senses: examples: text: I'm probably like 160 pounds right now, and I can catch a dick whenever I want.
ref: 2015 June 3, Natasha McNamara, quoting Amy Schumer, “"I'm 160lbs and can catch a dick whenever I want"”, in Glamour, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2016:
text: "Funny old world where I can't even catch a dick yet Milo Yiannopoulos can get married without even growing out those ghastly frosted tips," one person tweeted.
ref: 2017 October 2, Mariah Cooper, “Milo Yiannopoulos marries boyfriend in Hawaii”, in Washington Blade:
text: Bitch, this isn't the '80s. You need to catch a dick!
ref: 2019 June 16, Sam Levinson, “Pilot”, in Euphoria, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Jules Vaughn (Hunter Schafer), via HBO:
glosses: To be the recipient of penetrative sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: bang
do it
get it on
have sex
copulate
Chaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæz/
rhymes: -æz
Etymology: From Chas.; Originally an abbreviation of Charles.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Charles.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Charlotte.
Related terms: Chazza
gasoline station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasoline stations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gas station.
financialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more financialized
form: most financialized
form: financialised
Senses: examples: text: Large multinationals have become financialized, that is, they are regularly active in financial markets and draw financial profits.
ref: 2013, Martin H. Wolfson, Gerald A. Epstein, The Handbook of the Political Economy of Financial Crises, page 384:
text: Nothing came of this last-ditch overture and Lehman went under in the fall of 2008, very nearly taking the financialised infrastructure of global capitalism with it.
ref: 2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
glosses: Made into a financial issue; governed by or dependent on financial institutions.
Hippocratic faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hippocratic face
Hippocrates' sleeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hippocrates' sleeve
Bohemian olives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bohemian olive
QBism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː.bɪz.əm/
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Acronym of quantum Bayesianism.
Local Fluff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From local + fluff from the relative "fluffiness" of the local interstellar medium resulting in a low density cloud of matter in relation to the surrounding space.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively dense region of interstellar space (containing our Solar System) that formed where the Local Bubble met another bubble, the Loop I Bubble
Synonyms: Local Interstellar Cloud
Related terms: Local Arm
Local Bubble
Local Group
Local Interstellar Cloud
Local Supercluster
Local Void
Local Volume
Local Wall
Local Filament
Local Volume
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From local + volume from being the volume of space in which we exist (that which is local to us).
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002
Related terms: Local Arm
Local Bubble
Local Fluff
Local Interstellar Cloud
Local Group
Local Supercluster
Local Void
Local Wall
Local Filament
alt texts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alt text
biconsonantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + consonantal.
Senses: glosses: Composed of two consonants
biconsonantal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biconsonantals
Etymology: From bi- + consonantal.
Senses: glosses: A word or root (in particular in an Afroasiatic language) which consists of two consonants.
Related terms: triconsonantal
quadriconsonantal
uniconsonantal
Breslavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Breslau + -v- + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Breslau.
Breslavian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Breslavians
Etymology: From Breslau + -v- + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The prima donna of this temple of 'Thalia Canina' was a charming poodle, called Madame Batavia, and the darling of the Breslavians, […]
ref: 1884, The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, page 427:
text: Passed by and ignored on a daily basis by the Breslavians hurrying about to work or relaxation, its spectacular implosion has made of it an element that cannot be overlooked.
ref: 2014, Charles Kraszewski, Rossetti’s Armadillo, page 172:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Breslau.
Breslavians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Breslavian
do you have a girlfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to ask whether the interlocutor has a girlfriend.
Related terms: do you have a boyfriend?
what is his name
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to ask the name of a man.
Related terms: what is your name?
what is her name?
my name is ...
what is her name
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to ask the name of a woman.
glosses: Used to ask the name of a female animal.
Synonyms: what's her name?
Related terms: what is your name?
what is his name?
my name is ...
I'm worried
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is worried.
Related terms: don't worry
phub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /fʌb/
Forms: form: phubs
form: phubbing
form: phubbed
form: phubbed
Etymology: Blend of phone + snub, coined by Adrian Mills at the McCann advertising agency in a brainstorming session in collaboration with
the Macquarie Dictionary and a group of selected wordsmiths; subsequently widely promoted by the McCann agency.
Senses: examples: text: Phubbing has been theorized to provoke conflict in romantic relationships because the partner being phubbed feels unimportant and deprioritized compared to the digital content delivered through their partner's mobile phone.
ref: 2018, Zizi Papacharissi, editor, A Networked Self and Love, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Individuals who were phubbed during a conversation, felt less valued, less close, and less important to the individual who phubbed them.
ref: 2022, Lambert Deckers, Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: To ignore the conversation around oneself by focusing on one's smartphone.
phub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fʌb/
Forms: form: phubs
Etymology: Blend of phone + snub, coined by Adrian Mills at the McCann advertising agency in a brainstorming session in collaboration with
the Macquarie Dictionary and a group of selected wordsmiths; subsequently widely promoted by the McCann agency.
Senses: examples: text: Researchers have found that phubs damage relationships and increase dissatisfaction and depression. About 25% of couples have fought over phubs (Goldberg, 2018).
ref: 2020, Patrick R. Steffen, editor, Mindfulness for Everyday Living: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: An instance of phubbing.
Derived terms: phubbee
phubber
phubbing
phubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phub
phubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phub
phubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See phub.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phub
phubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phubbings
Etymology: See phub.
Senses: examples: text: Phubbing, which is the term for snubbing someone you're face to face with by looking at or using your phone, is a big source of conflict.
ref: 2014, Barbara Pachter, The Power of Positive Confrontation, →ISBN:
text: Current studies suggest that contextual factors indeed play a role in the extent to which phubbing is harmful. With respect to situation formality, for example, people report being more tolerant of their partner's phubbing behavior in casual settings, such as at home in front of the TV, than in formal settings, such as restaurants, […]
ref: 2020, Rich Ling et al., editors, The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: The act of ignoring a conversation going on around oneself to focus on one's mobile phone.
phubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phub
phubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: phubbers
Etymology: From phub + -er.
Senses: examples: text: You could try talking to the phubbers, but it’s almost never worth spending social capital in the workplace on these kinds of issues.
ref: 2015 June 14, Robin Abrahams, “Miss Conduct”, in The Boston Herald:
antonyms: phubbee
glosses: One who phubs.
phubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phubber
smart phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart phones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smartphone.
smart phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smart phone
newes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Theſe newes (my Lords) may cheere our drooping ſpirits:
 ’Tis said, the ſtout Pariſians do reuolt,
 And turne againe vnto the warlike French.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 115, column 1:
text: This ſtrange vnwelcome and vnhappie newes,
 Of theſe vnnaturall Rebels and vniuſt,
 That threaten wracke vnto this wretched Land,
 Aye me affrights my womans mazed minde,
 Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe,
 That now vnleſſe ſome better tidings come,
 Vnto my ſonne their true annointed King.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: This newes is old enough, yet it is euerie daies newes.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 74, column 2:
text: With what joy theſe newes were well-commed, when they came to Carthage, we may eaſily conjecture; […]
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of the first Punicke Warre”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 5th book, §. VIII (The Romans preuaile in Africk. Atilivs the Consull propoundeth intolerable conditions of peace to the Carthaginians. He is vtterly beaten, and made prisoner.), page 356:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of news.
rank-and-filer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rank-and-filers
Etymology: From rank and file + -er.
Senses: examples: text: My mother was an active rank-and-filer in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York. She would go to the Union meetings, and she'd come back with this little song book called "The Little Red Song Book."
ref: 1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 8:
glosses: A member of the rank and file.
burgerlicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more burgerlicious
form: most burgerlicious
Etymology: From burger + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: It is packed with families dining under the live oaks at wooden picnic tables on food that is simply burgerlicious and better for dad's soul than nightly chicken.
ref: 2009, Cam Rossie, Hilary Hylton, Insiders' Guide to Austin, Insiders' Guide, →ISBN, page 100:
text: The Saloon Burger is a “burgerlicious nine napkin 1/2 pound monster,” a pretty accurate description.
ref: 2014 July, “Best Burger”, in The Park Record, page 12:
text: A lovely thick burger patty, cunningly seasoned, succulent inside and decently grilled on the outside, set in crisp-topped bun along with bacon, cheese, gherkins and relish. Truly burgerlicious.
ref: 2015, Claudia Blake, "The Discerning Diner", Dales Life, Spring 2015, page 54
glosses: Delicious in a way that involves burgers.
rockadelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rockadelic
form: most rockadelic
Etymology: From rock + -adelic.
Senses: examples: text: In November 1977, he released Born Late, another rock masterpiece, complete with the rockadelic “Hey Deanie.”
ref: 1999 November, John Elsasser, “Shaun Cassidy”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 75, page 64:
text: The ground floor contained a bar/pub with posters advertising heavy metal and rockadelic nights.
ref: 2007, Cara Black, Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis, Soho Press, →ISBN:
text: She could not have looked more rockadelic: Purple highlights had replaced the blond streaks in her long, dark curls, and she was wearing a black tank dress over a gray long-sleeved thermal with plum-colored platform sandals that made her tan, slender legs look even longer than usual.
ref: 2009, Alexa Young, Faketastic, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Having the coolness or style of rock music or rock stars.
Aberdeen hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aberdeen hook
Ju
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (Jǔzhōu, “Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
glosses: A former prefecture of imperial China centered on Juzhou in what is now Guizhou Province.
examples: text: Among the various Neolithic inscriptions found on pottery vessels and other artifacts that contain astronomical information, the most significant ones are probably those found on ceremonial pottery vessels of the Dàwénkǒu culture (c. -4300 to -1900) unearthed in 1959 at Língyánghé 陵陽河 in Jǔ 莒 county in the Shāndōng 山東 province as illustrated in Figure 46.²¹²
ref: [1996, Chen Cheng-Yih [程貞一], “Early Chinese Work in Astronomy”, in Early Chinese Work in Natural Science: A Re-examination of the Physics of Motion, Acoustics, Astronomy and Scientific Thoughts [中華早期自然科學之再研討], Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 173:
english: 中華早期自然科學之再研討
translation: 中華早期自然科學之再研討
glosses: A county of Rizhao, Shandong, China.
Synonyms: topics: prefecture
region
location
word: Juzhou
Derived terms: Ju kiln
Ju ware
Ju
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuː/
rhymes: -uː
Senses: glosses: Clipping of JUPAS.
Zhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuː/
ipa: /zuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Chu
form: Choo
form: Tu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 朱 (Zhū).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Related terms: Chau
Ju
Joo
Shu
BBCesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more BBCesque
form: most BBCesque
form: BBC-esque
Etymology: From BBC + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: We are by no means obliged to surrender to some BBCesque cliché and think harshly of everyone among the privileged characters while we praise all those at the mercy of their spoiled whims.
ref: 1980, Isabel Colegate, The Shooting Party, Penguin Books, published 2007, →ISBN:
text: Thanks to cable, PBS now has to compete with Disney, A&E, and the Discovery Channel for BBCesque programming.
ref: 1996, James B. Twitchell, chapter 2, in Adcult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 102:
text: The most peculiarly BBCesque of these publications, however, were the affordable, light pamphlets circulated to the members of listening groups, in advance of a particular broadcast series.
ref: 2014, Shundana Yusaf, chapter 3, in Broadcasting Buildings: Architecture on the Wireless, 1927-1945, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the BBC.
Carolingian crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carolingian cross
soccermania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From soccer + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Apart from soccermania, few issues fire up Italians more than the debate over the quality of their television system, affectionately dubbed "II Far West" due to its chaotic and chameleonic airwaves.
ref: 1990, IPI Report, volumes 39-40, page 22:
text: Their adaptation to austere monastic life includes an unexpected wrinkle — their introduction to World Cup Soccer! Even in this isolated, ethereal locale, soccermania is rampant.
ref: 2003, David Bleiler, TLA Film, Video, and DVD Guide 2002-2003: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: During the 1920s, soccermania gripped the planet like never before. The end of World War I (1914–1918) and social changes that swept Europe and the Americas meant people had more time for recreation and to go to sporting events.
ref: 2010, Mark Stewart, Mike Kennedy, chapter 1, in Goal!: The Fire and Fury of Soccer's Greatest Moment, Millbrook Press, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Intense enthusiasm for soccer.
tweetaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweetaholics
Etymology: From tweet (“an entry posted on Twitter”) + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still four minutes long ... I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete though anymore. And I was a tweetaholic.
ref: 2011, John Mayer, quoted in Rena Bivens, Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News, University of Toronto Press (2014), page 17
text: I know, not everyone is a tweetaholic like me, and not everyone can devote a good chunk of their day to Twitter.
ref: 2012, Scott Stretten, chapter 16, in UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging, Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:
text: The whole group admits to being tweetaholics, but Louis says that he is the one who is following the most 1D fans.
ref: 2012, Anne Raso, One Direction, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: A heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service; a person addicted to tweeting.
tweetaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweetaholic
here's looking at you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Here's looking at you," said Yates, strolling into the barn, taking a telescopic metal cup from his pocket, and clinking it into receptive shape by a jerk of the hand. He offered the now elongated cup to Hiram, who declined any such modern improvement.
"Help yourself in that thing. The jug's good enough for me."
ref: 1894, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in In the Midst of Alarms:
text: "I drink out of the bottle—not your style.
Mayn't I offer you—?"
"No, no, no, thank you."
"Just as you say. Here's looking at you then."
ref: 1915, Robert Frost, A Hundred Collars:
text: “Here's looking at you, Dave, old man,” Nick gestured a toast with a half filled punch cup.
ref: 2009, Catelin Hoover, The Assignment, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: A toast made to a friend or acquaintance when drinking an alcoholic beverage.
mookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mookish
form: most mookish
Etymology: From mook (“a disagreeable or incompetent person”) + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He drops the phrase my vision a lot, although he hasn't quite defined it beyond wanting to be huge. But despite this and his more than slightly mookish image, Durst is extremely down-home friendly (he was raised in the deep South) and obsessed with pleasing his fans, even if it means playing the clown.
ref: 1999 August, Zev Borow, “How to Succeed in Bizness...by Really, Really Trying”, in Spin, pages 97–98:
text: The small hovels and junkyards outside Basra look like a Star Wars set: I'm waiting for a bunch of mookish little guys to attack us with sticks, but instead we find two guys pushing handcarts loaded with rolls of heavy power cable along the side of the highway.
ref: 2005, David Enders, Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation, The University of Michigan Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 62:
text: The first is the “mookish,” pot smoking, dimwit movie character type or moron in a beer commercial.
ref: 2014, Kevin Mcconaghy, Hot Fudge Sundaes for Breakfast: With One Reason Not to Hurl Myself Off of the Roof of an Atlantic City Casino Parking Garage, Lulu, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling.
Related terms: foolish
televisionish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more televisionish
form: most televisionish
Etymology: From television + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: His straightforward, somewhat televisionish script benefits from the clean, classical directorial style of Czech-born, British-bred Karel Reisz ("The French Lieutenant's Woman").
ref: 1985, Newsweek, volume 106, numbers 10-18, page 88:
text: A shop that wasn't here before, an old Chinaman in a shop of oriental oddities—this is too televisionish to be true!
ref: 2009, Jerome Baker, “The Thin Man's Disappearing Act”, The Collected Short Stories of Jerome Baker, Xlibris (hardcover) (softcover), 149
text: There was televisionish sound coming from a bright but deserted-looking break room, and I went in.
ref: 2009, Brian D'Amato, In the Courts of the Sun, Dutton, →ISBN:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of television or a television show.
Graecicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Graecicizes
form: Graecicizing
form: Graecicized
form: Graecicized
form: Grecicize
form: graecicize
form: grecicize
Senses: examples: text: In this period it enlarged its vocabulary to deal with new tools, institutions and ideas introduced by Hellenistic Greek and Latin, the latter through the medium of Graecicized Latin words, and words created in Greek for Roman institutions and concepts.
ref: 1989, Chaim Rabin, “Terminology development in the revival of a language: the case of contemporary Hebrew”, in Florian Coulmas, editor, Language Adaptation, Cambridge University Press:
text: 2001, John Douglas Turner, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec; Éditions Peeters, Louvain – Paris.
The largely non-Semitic and non-Christian, Graecicizing form of the names of the beings named are not part of the standard repertoire of names invoked in the traditional baptismal context, which suggests that they originated elsewhere.
text: 2013, Samuel N. C. Lieu, "The 'Romanitas' of the Xi'an Inscription", in From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, Li Tang & Dietmar W. Winkler (Eds.), Lit Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Wien.
The most obvious Syriac church-hierarchical term in the context of the Syriac would have been papa (<Lat.) or in its Graecicized form pap(p)os which in this case does not mean 'Pope' but a 'metropolitan bishop'.
glosses: Synonym of Grecize (to translate into Greek or render in a Greek form).
synonyms: word: Grecize
extra: to translate into Greek or render in a Greek form
Related terms: graecicization
moviemania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From movie + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: They both agree that they were literally forced into all this by the moviemania and supersalesmanship of young Sam Goldwyn — which is the way Goldwyn remembers it too.
ref: 1947 October 27, Roger Butterfield, “Sam Goldwyn”, in Life, page 127:
text: If one walked into New York's largest department stores toward the end of 1929 one could find abundant evidence of the penetration of Hollywood fashions, as well as a virulent form of moviemania.
ref: 2004, Charles Eckert, “The Carole Lombard in Macy's window”, in Thomas Schatz, editor, Hollywood: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, volume 2, part 6, chapter 29, 183:
text: Franklin had a far worse case of moviemania than I — a childhood spent scouring video stores and sitting in art houses.
ref: 2004, Martha Sherrill, My Last Movie Star, Random House, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Enthusiasm for or obsession with movies.
Grecicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Grecicizes
form: Grecicizing
form: Grecicized
form: Grecicized
Senses: examples: text: His Schauspielhaus (the Royal Theatre, not the Opera-House) is an excellent example of what can be done with Greek, or more truly by Grecicizing, forms kept free from all Roman intermixture.
ref: 1885 July 18, M.G. van Rensselaer, “Berlin and New York”, in The American Architect and Building News:
text: All efforts to Slavize, Grecicize, or Ottomanize him have failed.
ref: 1917, M. Edith Durham, “Albania Past and Present”, in The Journal of the Central Asian Society, volume IV:
text: The early names ΄Ασκαλιγγιον Ptol., Caspingium Tab. Peut. (cf. Förstemann, Die deutschen Ortsnamen, p. 198) may be partly Grecicized or Latinized.
ref: 1923, Eilert Ekwall, English Place-Names in -ing, Lund:
glosses: Alternative form of Graecicize.
addictlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more addictlike
form: most addictlike
Etymology: From addict + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Sniffling nose congestion, “up and down” energy levels, constant fatigue, and addictlike food cravings were additional troubles for Mrs. Bennett, according to the extensive patient history form she filled in.
ref: 1986, John Parks Trowbridge, Morton Walker, The Yeast Syndrome: How to Help Your Doctor Identify & Treat the Real Cause of Your Yeast-Related Illness, Bantam Books, →ISBN, section 1, chapter 1, 5:
text: And although Danny had been sober for a long stretch, you only had to scratch the surface to find that crazy, dramatic, addictlike behavior.
ref: 2009, Melissa Gilbert, chapter 18, in Prairie Tale: A Memoir, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, →ISBN, page 201:
text: There were many bumps along the road to recovery. Because Jessica's relationship to gluten was addictlike in its intensity, it took her about six months to permanently change her behavior.
ref: 2013, Kelly Dorfman, Cure Your Child with Food: The Hidden Connection Between Nutrition and Childhood Ailments, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, part 3, chapter 12, 201:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an addict or addictive behaviour.
cookieholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookieholics
Etymology: From cookie + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: The joy of cookies is one thing, but to the true cookieholic, there is something better…far better, in fact. So much better that it's something my kids have learned they must never touch, for fear of incurring the wrath of their cookieholic father.
ref: 2001, Gary E. Anderson, Spider's Night on the Boom: And Other Fiascos, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 29:
text: As a recovering cookieholic, I really was not interested in buying any. However, as I yielded to temptation, I focused on the healthy ones, with fiber and such.
ref: 2002, Phil Lempert, Being the Shopper: Understanding the Buyer's Choice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 40:
text: A self-declared chocolate lover and “cookieholic,” at age eighty-six Brown weighed 125 pounds, not her almost lifelong 100 pounds, and she tried only occasionally, and generally unsuccessfully, to diet her way back to her preferred weight.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Scanlon, chapter 11, in Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: A person who is intensely fond of cookies.
cookieholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookieholic
scare campaign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scare campaigns
Senses: glosses: An effort to make a large group of people afraid of someone or something.
Synonyms: fear campaign
fear campaign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fear campaigns
Senses: glosses: A scare campaign.
fear campaigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fear campaign
scare campaigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scare campaign
essential tremor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essential tremors
Senses: examples: text: Patients with essential tremor will often complain of difficulty with handwriting.
ref: 2003, Mary J. Shomon, Jill Marjama-Lyons, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Parkinson's Disease: A Holistic Program for Optimal Wellness, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A neurological condition that causes rhythmic shaking of unknown cause in one or more parts of the body during voluntary movements.
dirtybadwrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dirtybadwrong
form: most dirtybadwrong
Etymology: From dirty + bad + wrong.
Senses: examples: text: Y’know, that sounds dirtybadwrong. Like, an incredibly perverse sex act that involves bodily excretions that have no business being excreted during sex.
ref: 2007, Robert Wilonsky (quoting the blog Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels), "Gettin' All Romance Novel Up in this Bitch", Dallas Observer, 13 July 2007
text: Talking about payment in kind was very tacky when they'd been thundering towards the kind of dirtybadwrong porno-sex that she'd remember on her deathbed.
ref: 2009, Sarra Manning, Unsticky, page 227:
text: If you want to get judgey about the fact that some people get off on dirtybadwrong things happening to their favorite characters, this isn't the venue for that debate.
ref: 2017, "Hydratrashmeme", quoted in Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities, page 215
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Twisted, perverse, or unnatural, often in an appealing way.
food bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food bowls
Senses: examples: text: If your puppy guards his food bowl, you can help to discourage this unfortunate tendency by playing the following training game.
ref: 2006, Patty Dobbs Gross, The Golden Bridge: Selecting and Training Assistance Dogs for Children with Social, Emotional, and Educational Challenges:
glosses: A bowl that is used to serve food, especially to pets.
synonyms: foodshed
breadbasket
antonyms: food desert
glosses: A region that has the conditions required to produce a large amount of food; a breadbasket.
food bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food bowl
cell nucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cell nuclei
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells; a nucleus.
cell nuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cell nucleus
Murray-Darling Basin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the two major rivers, the Murray River and the Darling River.
Senses: glosses: A large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, spanning most of the states of New South Wales, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory, and parts of the states of Queensland (lower third) and South Australia (southeastern corner).
heart-wrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heart-wrenching
form: most heart-wrenching
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heartwrenching.
Srpska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Republika Srpska
form: Republic of Srpska
form: Serb Republic
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Republika Srpska: a polity within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
finger steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger steaks
Senses: glosses: A small strip of battered and deep-fried steak.
finger steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger steak
orange chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An American Chinese dish of Hunanese origin made with fried chicken pieces in a sweet orange-flavored chili sauce glaze.
djent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: gent
Etymology: Onomatopoeia for a high-gain, distorted palm-muted, low pitch guitar sound; coined by guitarist Fredrik Thordendal (b. 1970) of the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah.
Senses: examples: text: […] they later evolved into a progressive technical metal band with elements of mathcore and djent.
ref: 2015, Brian Giffin, Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal, page 2232:
glosses: A style of progressive heavy metal music characterized by rhythmic and technical complexity, and typically featuring heavily distorted, palm-muted guitar chords, syncopated, downtuned riffs, and polyrhythms alongside virtuoso soloing.
djent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: gent
Forms: form: djents
form: djenting
form: djented
form: djented
Etymology: Onomatopoeia for a high-gain, distorted palm-muted, low pitch guitar sound; coined by guitarist Fredrik Thordendal (b. 1970) of the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah.
Senses: examples: text: It may have thirteen strings, but can it Djent?
ref: 2016, Patrick Johnson, Departure:
text: Be creative in your arrangement for maximum djenting effectiveness.
ref: 2020 February 7, Tyler Larson, “Djent for Dummies: A How-To Guide”, in Guitar World:
text: A particular meme sees individuals preoccupied with the question "does it djent?", a way of ascertaining the suitability of equipment (Rabea Massaad 2015).
ref: 2021, Steven Gamble, How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal:
glosses: To play a djent riff.
sulfantimonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfantimonite
allography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of allographs, or grapheme variants.
Hainanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hainanese
form: most Hainanese
Etymology: From Hainan + -ese. Doublet of Hainamese and Hailamese.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the comparatively shorter distance, Hainanese merchants could use smaller vessels, usually constructed of fir and other inferior woods, which they customarily furnished with masts, rudders, and wooden anchors, availing themselves of the abundance of material in Champa and Cambodia which lay on their route to Bangkok.
ref: 1977, Sarasin Viraphol, Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade 1652–1853, Harvard University Press, pages 188–189:
glosses: Of or relating to the island of Hainan, its people and their diaspora.
Hainanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hainan + -ese. Doublet of Hainamese and Hailamese.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. MELROSE, though engaged in the study of the Hainanese language, has found time to open and give daily supervision to a Boy's School.
ref: 1892, Report of the American Presbyterian Mission in Canton, China for the Year 1891, Canton, page 48:
text: It is not easy to decide from which dialect of Chinese some of the loanwords derive, and this may explain why Philip Leo does not list any as coming from Hainanese nor Tiociu.
ref: 1984, NUSA: Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia, volume 19, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
glosses: A group of Min Chinese dialects spoken on the island of Hainan and its diaspora.
Derived terms: Hainanese pork chop
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Hainanese terms
Hainanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hainan + -ese. Doublet of Hainamese and Hailamese.
Senses: examples: text: I needed an interpreter in only one interview, that with an elderly Hainanese from Kompong-Trach.
ref: 1970, William E. Willmott, The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia, Athlone Press, page v:
glosses: The inhabitants of the island of Hainan and its diaspora
Hardy-Ramanujan number
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See the etymology at taxicab number.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number 1729, one of the taxicab numbers.
Related terms: Ramanujan-Hardy number
urge to merge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urges to merge
Senses: examples: text: Urge to Merge. How life changes when two girls move in together is discussed.
ref: 2015, Vincent Terrace, Internet Lesbian and Gay Television Series, 1996-2014, page 30:
text: As Y2K approaches, the urge to merge is upon the land. It's not just for lesbians anymore. Banks are merging with other banks, with insurance companies, with phone companies.
ref: 1998, The Advocate, number 769, page 57:
glosses: A strong desire to form intense emotional connections, stereotypically associated with lesbians.
Related terms: U-Haul lesbian