cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
worldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From world + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The finitude of There-being (finite transcendence) and the worldness of the World, in a sense, constitute an "atheistic" quality of this philosophy.
ref: 1990, George Kovacs, The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology, page 62:
text: The wretched other side of worldness is what is called globalization or the global market: reduction to the bare basics, the rush to the bottom, standardization, the imposition of multinational corporations[…]
ref: 2002, M. Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Beyond Dichotomies, page 288:
text: It can be carried out in several ways, depending on whether the goal is to identify more general aspects of “worldness” or to identify defining aspects of the worldness of one gameworld.
ref: 2010, Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, Matthew Allen, The international handbook of internet research, page 318:
glosses: The quality of being a world; existence as a world.
Related terms: small-worldness
here's mud in your eye
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: That's not skiting, sport. Edward Garnett reckons you're the best new thing in the Empire, and so do I. Good on you, mate, nothing on earth can stop you now! Here's mud in your eye.
ref: 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, 2nd edition, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.: Pip Wilson, →ISBN, page 405:
glosses: A good-natured toast used when drinking an alcoholic beverage.
greetee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greetees
Etymology: From greet + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Too early an enquiry results in forcing the greetee into a conversation, but waiting too long results in a verbal collision or in missing your target.
ref: 1996, Richard T. Arndt, David Lee Rubin, The Fulbright Difference, 1948-1992, page 343:
text: The greetee could have responded with a request for delay after part of the process (as in "oh hi, give me a minute," and then attending to another matter).
ref: 2006, Jan van Kuppevelt, Laila Dybkjær, Niels Ole Bernsen, Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems, page 64:
text: They greeted the others with some kind of rhythmical hand gestures ending with leaning one shoulder into the greetee.
ref: 2010, Sunny Kreis Collins, Kill the Clock, page 123:
glosses: One who is greeted.
greetees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greetee
pepper-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepper-pots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pepper pot.
pepper-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pepper-pots
form: pepper-potting
form: pepper-potted
form: pepper-potted
Senses: examples: text: In a government office not so long ago, we read an understandable petition from Europeans asking that these 'pepper-potted' people be removed, or they were going to move.
ref: 1982, Hans Mol, The fixed and the fickle: religion and identity in New Zealand, page 70:
text: Although these would be of a maximum of 12 houses, he would prefer to pepper-pot rather than create the risk of "mini ghettos".
ref: 1997, Institute of Housing (Great Britain), Housing (volume 33, page 22)
text: Residential surveyors also say pepper-potting reduces the marketability of a house.
ref: 2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods, page 222:
glosses: To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.
pepper-potted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pepper-pot
pepper-potting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pepper-pot
pepper-pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepper-pot
pepper-pots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pepper-pot
white heat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white heats
Senses: examples: text: George comes over to work the doors while you swing well-broken coal into flame fiercer than ever, at pure white heat that drives you back scorched and blind from each quick shot.
ref: 1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:
glosses: The state or temperature at which matter emits white light.
glosses: A state of intensive activity.
examples: text: The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated methods on either side of industry.
ref: 1963, Harold Wilson, quotee, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: The white heat of events tempered these new political ideas, allowing the magistrates and others to forge them into a coherent alternative ideology.
ref: 1995 September 28, James B. Collins, The State in Early Modern France, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: A critical situation which causes a significant development in something; a force that metaphorically forges something.
examples: text: Wilson's white-heat strategy continued down the same path; its potency as a vote winner in its own right offset by the attention ministers themselves gave to modernising rhetoric.
ref: 1997 June 30, Kevin Jefferys, Retreat from New Jerusalem: British Politics, 1951-64, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 194:
text: The Internet revolution had been one of the trends which for all Blair's white-heat futurology he had underestimated in Opposition.
ref: 2013 June 20, John Rentoul, Tony Blair: Prime Minister, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
text: We had moved from being the party of ‘white heat’ to the party of sepia-tinged nostalgia. We had become a party squabbling over its own past, rather than one focused on the future of the country.
ref: 2021 September 23, Peter Walker, quoting Keir Starmer, “Keir Starmer’s words – and what they mean for Labour”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A strategy for economic growth through technological development, especially associated with the government of Harold Wilson.
concelhos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concelho
net curtains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of net curtain
fungivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungivore
dysgenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈdʒɛnɪks/
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cacogenics.
synonyms: word: cacogenics
unflummoxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflummoxed
form: most unflummoxed
Etymology: From un- + flummoxed.
Senses: examples: text: Having been forewarned separately by Uncle Dom and Aunt Regina, Christine was unflummoxed by the sight of a nearly bald Ma. "It suits you, Ma," she said, walking around to admire the cut from all angles.
ref: 1984, Elaine Ford, Missed Connections, page 107:
glosses: Not flummoxed.
Iliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Iliac
form: most Iliac
Etymology: Latin Iliacus.
Senses: examples: text: The other epics of the Iliac Cycle differ in their narrative from the Iliad
ref: 1881, William Ewart Gladstone, Homer:
glosses: Relating to ancient Ilium, or Troy.
sperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sperabilis. Compare esperance and see -ible.
Senses: examples: text: wee may either cast it away, if it be found but a Bladder; Or discharge it, of so much as is vaine, and not sperable.
ref: 1622 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “An Advertisement Touching an Holy Warre. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC, page 107:
glosses: hopeful or hoped for
turbinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turbinate
pugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pug
pugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puggings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: mortar etc. laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound.
Synonyms: sense: mortar etc. laid between joists
word: deafening
pugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pug
synclinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synclinal
awakeningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more awakeningly
form: most awakeningly
Etymology: From awakening + -ly.
Senses: examples: an awakeningly unforgettable journey
glosses: In a way that awakens, or brings new sensations.
gloamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gloam
duads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duad
navamsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navamsas
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Vedic astrology, a ninth part or division of a zodiac sign.
navamsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navamsa
delfts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delft
hectics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectic
hecticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectick
lexicogrammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexicogrammars
Etymology: From lexico- + grammar, coined by Michael Halliday.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The continuity between grammar and lexis.
wikipedia: Michael Halliday
lexicogrammars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexicogrammar
delexicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delexicalize
delexicalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delexicalize
delexicalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delexicalize
interlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interlists
form: interlisting
form: interlisted
form: interlisted
Etymology: From inter- + list.
Senses: examples: text: To the extent that current communications technology and the interlisting of shares (e.g., on both the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges) permits, an increasingly integrated North American market system exists.
ref: 2002, Harold S. Bloomenthal, International capital markets and securities regulation, volume 4:
glosses: To list on more than one stock exchange.
interlist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + list.
Senses: glosses: Between lists.
interlisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interlist
interlists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interlist
interlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interlist
harassive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From harass + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Specifically, former Supervisor (Christie) indicated having "warned" Grievant J_ about his harassive behavior toward the female approximately three (3) to four (4) months prior to her submission of the complaint.
ref: 1990, Labor Arbitration Reports:
text: The hypothesis that women generally perceive sexually harassive conduct in the workplace to be unacceptable is clearly supported by these results.
ref: 1993, Americas & Latinas:
text: A set of jointly necessary and sufficient conditions of sexual harassment are defended which purport to capture the more subtle instances of sexual harassment while circumventing those sexual advances that are not sexually harassive.
ref: 2001, Robert A. H. Larmer, Ethics in the Workplace: Selected Readings in Business Ethics:
text: A person's dignity can be violated without causing an harassive environment and an harassive environment may not necessarily violate an individual's dignity. Harassive in this context meaning - hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive.
ref: 2006, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, Harassment & Bullying in the Workplace:
glosses: Characterized by the tendency to harass; tending to harass; constituting or pertaining to harassment.
Synonyms: hindering
bullying
lapseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lapse + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lapse
molesteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: molest + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of molest
molestest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: molest + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of molest
ajingle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɪŋɡəl/
Etymology: From a- + jingle.
Senses: examples: text: 1890, Rosamund Marriott Watson (as Graham R. Tomson), “The Ballad of Tonio Manzi,” Scribner’s Magazine, Volume 7, No. 1, January 1890, p. 53,
[…] the beasts in harness
Now and then awaking, stirring,
Set their listless bells ajingle.
text: You’re as superstitious as my father, who, if he had his way, would have my neck ajingle with his holy medals.
ref: 1947, Seán O’Casey, Oak Leaves and Lavender, New York: Macmillan, act 2, page 83:
text: They were riding down to Wullunya in O’Dowd’s spring cart, all ajingle on the yellow road, lashing the water with their wheels.
ref: 1955, Patrick White, chapter 7, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 75:
glosses: Jingling.
ajangle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒæŋɡəl/
Etymology: From a- + jangle.
Senses: examples: text: 1913, Bert Leston Taylor, “Canopus” in Motley Measures, Chicago: The Laurentian Publishers, p. 14,
When men are calling names and making faces,
And all the world’s ajangle and ajar,
I meditate on interstellar spaces
And smoke a mild seegar.
text: Where the horrible clamor had merely set my nerves ajangle, it had plainly lacerated her like some evil bullwhip.
ref: 1979, William Styron, chapter 15, in Sophie’s Choice, New York: Random House, page 462:
text: That actually did make Cora feel better—enough that she took a deep breath and reminded herself that the mission was done and successful. No injuries, no pursuit... no reason to still feel so twitchy, her nerves all a-jangle.
ref: 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 3, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68:
glosses: Jangling.
balladed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ballad
ballading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ballad
impassionating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impassionate
impassionating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impassionating
form: most impassionating
Senses: glosses: Causing passion; evoking passion.
impassionates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impassionate
impassionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impassionate
stammereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stammer + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stammer
cribbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cribble
cribbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cribble
cribbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cribble
cribbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cribble
settable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From set + -able.
Senses: examples: a settable threshold
a settable power control
glosses: Capable of being set.
bombardings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombarding
bombarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombarder
bombardable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bombard + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being bombarded; suitable for bombardment.
mulinanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulinane
formicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːmɪsʌɪd/
Forms: form: formicides
Etymology: Combining form of Latin formīca (“ant”) + -cide.
Senses: glosses: A substance that kills ants
examples: text: Each category of formicide is driven by an utterly distinct motive. But if you were an ant, you might not care about these fine distinctions.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 599:
glosses: The killing of ants
Synonyms: sense: substance
word: anticide
Grimm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Grimm.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Grimm pleaded guilty to a single count of tax fraud and was convicted in July 2015; he went on to serve eight months in prison. Lawmaker, law enforcer and lawbreaker — that’s a heck of a résumé, and alliterative, too!
ref: 2017 February 18, John Schwartz, “Tax Advice From Lawmakers Turned Lawbreakers”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Grimmian
Grimm's law
cumular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cumulous.
synonyms: word: cumulous
superbolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəɹˈboʊ.laɪd/
ipa: /suːpəɹˈboʊ.lɪd/
Forms: form: superbolides
Etymology: From super- + bolide.
Senses: examples: text: Meteorite falls are always in the bolide or superbolide category. Nevertheless, it is not true that the brighter the bolide, the larger the meteorite.
ref: 2015, William F. Bottke, Francesca E. DeMeo, Patrick Michel, Asteroids IV, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 258:
text: On February 15, 2013, many on Earth were watching for news of the approach of an asteroid labeled 2012 DA14. Suddenly, those watchers – and millions of others around the globe – were startled by news of a superbolide, or super bright meteor, above the region of Chelyabinsk in Russia.
ref: 2016 February 15, Deborah Byrd, “Chelyabinsk meteor mystery 3 years later”, in earthsky.org, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2020:
text: In February 15, 2013, a superbolide meteor (brighter than the Sun) entered Earth’s atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded at an altitude of 23.5 km. Eyewitnesses could feel the intense heat from the fireball, and the blast wave from the explosion blew out windows in buildings.
ref: 2018, Samuel J. Lin, Jeff Sanny, William Moebs, University Physics Volume 1 LR, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 149:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A bolide with a high apparent magnitude.
superbolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbolide
IMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IM
IM'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “WDYT,” she IM'd Sophie, wondering what her new friend thought of the idea. Sophie, sitting next to her, quickly IM'd back “G4I” to show her support.
ref: 2010, Jeanne C. Meister, Karie Willyerd, The 2020 Workplace […] , Harper Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: simple past and past participle of IM
iambic tetrameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A poetic meter consisting of lines with four iambic feet each, meaning the even syllable is dominant.
stoopeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stoop + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stoop
stoopest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stoop + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of stoop
staggerest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stagger + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of stagger
staggereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stagger + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stagger
slopeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: slope + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slope
gigography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: gigographies
Etymology: From gig + -o- + -graphy. Compare discography.
Senses: glosses: A comprehensive list of the gigs played by a musical band or artist.
gigographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigography
is there a grocery store nearby
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker wants to know whether a grocery store is nearby.
I'm looking for a grocery store
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is looking for a grocery store.
designados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of designado
top-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of top-up
rubegoldbergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːbɡəʊldˈbəːɡɪən/
Forms: form: more rubegoldbergian
form: most rubegoldbergian
form: Rube Goldbergian
Etymology: From Rube Goldberg + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The machinery of government is often rubegoldbergian, with complex arrangements of devolution and special status and power-sharing and affirmative action, and the contraption is held together by a few national symbols such as a rugby team.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 633:
synonyms: Goldbergian
Heath Robinsonesque
glosses: Achieving a simple objective by absurdly complicated means; overcomplicated, elaborate and impractical.
Ludlumesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ludlumesque
form: most Ludlumesque
form: Ludlum-esque
Etymology: From Ludlum + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this.
ref: 1986, “review of Robert Ludlum The Bourne Supremacy”, in Publishers Weekly:
text: It had been damp; Scotch tape did not like the damp; in many cases her Ludlumesque little traps had undoubtedly just peeled off and floated away on some random draft.
ref: 1987, Stephen King, Misery, Viking, page ??:
text: There's even a best-selling paperback novelist living in Frome, Dante Minuto, whom none of us has ever seen, who writes Ludlumesque thrillers with Ludlumesque titles, like The Marchpane Cicatrix and The Wiesenheimer Punctilio.
ref: 2003, Jincy Willett, Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather, Thomas Dunne Books, page 112:
text: Its singularly serendipitous nature lends itself to romantic novelisation (book cross-dressing, as it were) or Ludlumesque thrillers (book double-crossing, so to speak).
ref: 2006, Stephen Brown, “Rattles from the Swill Bucket”, in Stephen Brown, editor, Consuming Books: The Marketing and Consumption of Literature, Routledge, page 13:
glosses: Plotted in the style of Robert Ludlum's novels, noted especially for their intricate and extensive use of thriller tropes.
examples: text: There's even a best-selling paperback novelist living in Frome, Dante Minuto, whom none of us has ever seen, who writes Ludlumesque thrillers with Ludlumesque titles, like The Marchpane Cicatrix and The Wiesenheimer Punctilio.
ref: 2003, Jincy Willett, Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather, Thomas Dunne Books, page 112:
text: It had not taken long for the press to bestow upon the event legendary status and a Ludlumesque name: “the 'macaca' incident.”
ref: 2008, Howard Fineman, The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country, Random House, page 38:
text: Most publicized is the Italian firm, Bulgari jewellery, who commissioned Fay Weldon, in 2001, to write what became The Bulgari Connection (in the circumstances, a wonderfully wry, Ludlumesque, title).
ref: 2009, John Sutherland, Curiosities of Literature, Skyhorse Publishing, page 184:
glosses: Titled in the style of Robert Ludlum's novels, typically consisting of "The", followed by a proper noun used attributively, then an understated common noun.
loster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps, being lost, one should get loster; being very late for an appointment, it might be best to walk slower, as one of my beloved Russian writers advised.
ref: 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Viking:
text: You can get loster, faster!
ref: 2006 April, American Motorcyclist, page 41:
ref: 2009, Doug Lansky, Signspotting III: Lost and Loster in Translation, Penguin, page title:
glosses: comparative form of lost: more lost
lostest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: lost + -est
Senses: examples: text: The strongest sheep can be the "lostest" because of its power to go farthest into the wilderness.
ref: 1906 September, The Sunday School Journal and Bible Student's Magazine, volume 38, number 9, page 675:
text: No man can safely be left alone, and the lostest man in all creation is he who says "No one cares for my soul."
ref: 1920, William Thomas Tardy, The man and the message, Mrs. W.T. Tardy, page 100:
text: And when you add to that the peculiar weather patterns, the temporal shifts, and mermaids who had a tendency to chew up any cables strung underwater, the result was the lostest of lost causes.
ref: 2009, James A. Owen, The Shadow Dragons, Simon and Schuster, page 269:
glosses: superlative form of lost: most lost
lostest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lost + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of lose
cri du chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cri du chat syndrome.
synonyms: word: cri du chat syndrome
sire-land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪə(ɹ)lənd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)lənd
Forms: form: sire-lands
form: sireland
Etymology: From sire + land.
Senses: glosses: A fatherland; an ancestral homeland.
spider vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider veins
Etymology: From the slight resemblance to a spider on the skin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A blood vessel affected by telangiectasia.
spider veins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider vein
spider veins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: telangiectasia
religitard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religitards
form: religiotard
Etymology: From religion + -tard.
Senses: examples: text: Come on you, religitards: Prove your God exists and I'll shut the hell up.
ref: 2008 June 2, Gwen, “Re: God made pre-humans into people, Vatican newspaper says”, in alt.abortion (Usenet):
text: I understand the problem religitards have with Sodom, but what did Gomorrah ever do?
ref: 2012 May 2, chibiabos [username], “Re: "At Ease, Moron!!!"”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: I find it somewhat amusing that religitards get offended by the notion that they are related to other primates, but react with pride when they are referred to a^([sic]) flock of sheep.
ref: 2013 April 3, Barry OGrady, “Re: My question to CMI”, in aus.religion.christian (Usenet):
glosses: An adherent of a religion, especially one who is dogmatic.
religitards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of religitard
have one's tubes tied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's tubes tied
form: having one's tubes tied
form: had one's tubes tied
form: had one's tubes tied
Senses: examples: text: My sister had her tubes tied after her fifth pregnancy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To undergo a tubal ligation.
Related terms: tube tying
alotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: As for the number of beds alotted to the individual institutions, …
ref: 2011, Gunter Bischof, Fritz Plasser, Barbara Stelzl-Marx, editors, New Perspectives on Austrians and World War II, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: Misspelling of allotted.
alotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: … that the Bush administration considered holding him as an enemy combatant after serving his alotted sentence.
ref: 2010 October 15, Adam Serwer, “Thiessen's Misleading Attack on Due Process”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2013:
glosses: Misspelling of allotted.
Rael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Raël.
Worthing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəːðɪŋ/
Forms: form: Worthings
Etymology: * The name of the village in Norfolk derives from Old English worþig (“enclosure”).
* The name of the town in West Sussex derives from the unattested Old English personal name *Weorþ + -ing (“belonging to”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in Hoe and Worthing parish, Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9919).
glosses: A placename:
A coastal town and borough in West Sussex, England.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Lincoln County, South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: East Worthing
Hoe and Worthing
West Worthing
counteremotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counteremotions
Etymology: From counter- + emotion.
Senses: examples: text: The counteremotion of anger is serenity, that of fear relaxation.
ref: 1996, Dolf Zillmann, “Sequential Dependencies in Emotional Experience and Behavior”, in Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, page 265:
text: He began to feel [...] the elation of money coming his way, the self-congratulation that followed – because the gain was all down to his inspired decisions — and then the almost equal counteremotion of sickening anxiety: a fear that there was some aspect of the trade he hadn't covered, some twist that even he had not foreseen.
ref: 2009, Sebastian Faulks, A Week in December:
text: An aggressor experiences a revulsion to hurting his victim, but the discomfort cannot last forever, and eventually a reassuring, energizing counteremotion resets his equilibrium to neutral.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 670:
glosses: An emotion which acts in contrast or opposition to another emotion.
steened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steen
Cape Capensis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cape capensis
Senses: examples: text: ... described multifasciatus (type locality Madagascar) and distinguished it from the common Cape capensis C. and V.
ref: 1935 May, J. L. B. Smith, “The “galjoen” fishes of South Africa”, in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa:
text: Other species, such as Cape Capensis, Orange Roughy, Nile Perch and various types of whiting and seatrout can also be expected to compete directly with tilapia in many markets.
ref: 1996, William S. Brinkop, Raul H. Piedrahita, “Water quality modeling for aquaculture water reuse systems”, in AES Technical Session 1: Open Papers:
text: We currently import and distribute the following products: Cobia, Tilapia, Channel Catfish, Flounder, Rock Sole, Yellowfin Sole, Grouper, Red Snapper, Cape Capensis, Hoki, Shrimp (HLSO, EZ peel, PUD, P&D), Pollock, Squid/Calamari, Mahi, Yellowfin Tuna, Bluefin Tuna, Wahoo, Swordfish, Swai, Atlantic Salmon, Steelhead Trout, Bangamary, Betterfish
ref: 2007, International Business Publications, Global Sea Food Industry Directory, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Executive Chef Eric Brittin said Lazy Lanigan’s offers signature Irish dishes such as Guinness Beef Stew, Shepherd’s Pie, Fish and Chips made with Cape Capensis fish from South Africa, Lanigan’s Meatloaf and Whiskey Chicken or vegetable Boxty, which is chicken and vegetables with a whiskey cream sauce wrapped in a potato pancake.
ref: 2012 April 18, Kelly Roncace, “Lazy Lanigan's Publick House offers same staff, chef as previous tenant”, in Gloucester County Times:
text: However, I was stunned at how bad the Cape Capensis fish special was.
ref: 2015 October 31, “Shopoff's steeped in nostalgia, cordial service”, in Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
text: Caught in the icy cold Benguela current off the coast of Southwestern Africa, Cape Capensis has become a popular substitute for more expensive species like Cod, Haddock, Flounder, Sole, and even Orange Roughy.
ref: 2018 November 29 (last accessed), “Cape Capensis”, in Gulf Pacific Seafood:
glosses: Any of various species of fish in the genus Merluccius, especially Merluccius capensis, shallow-water Cape hake and Merluccius paradoxus, deep-water Cape hake.
wikipedia: Merluccius capensis
Merluccius paradoxus
ballbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballbags
form: ball bag
Etymology: From ball + bag.
Senses: glosses: The scrotum.
glosses: A thoughtless and ignorant individual.
ingenu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingenus
form: ingénu
Etymology: Borrowed from French ingénu (“guileless”), especially as used by Voltaire in L'Ingénu, from Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”). Doublet of ingenuous.
Senses: examples: text: Even a casual reader of the philosophic tale will have met, in the array of types on parade-an oft-repeated "naïf" (who was anything but naive), at least one famed "candide," and several "ingénus."
ref: 1946 September, Dorothy M. McGhee, “The Conte Philosphique Evolves Its Solitaire”, in PMLA, volume 61, number 3, page 752:
text: Swift, it might be noted, has used this technique, but with "reverse English." Instead of a fine central intelligence, he has set up at the core of his work his favorite ingénu, an "I" who egregiously identifies himself with the very abuses that Swift is attacking.
ref: 1951 June, Robert C. Elliott, “Swift's Tale of a Tub: An Essay in Problems of Structure”, in PMLA, volume 66, number 4, page 44:
text: The trouble still lies, as it did in the Happy Valley, in the mental ineptitude and moral weakness of the characters. This is the target throughout the story, as mere ingénu and mere academic split time after time on the rock of reality.
ref: 1961 Fall, John M. Aden, “"Rasselas" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes"”, in Criticism, volume 3, number 4, page 300:
text: You seem pleasant and harmless with your dark ingenu eyes and your nice Midwestern manners.
ref: 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Viking, page 18:
text: And ... he examines ingénus like Oliver Twist and David Copperfield whose lives Dickens renders as patterns of self-growth towards moral health.
ref: 1975 Summer, A. Robert Lee, “review of Joseph Gold Charles Dickens: Radical Moralist”, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, volume 64, number 254, page 201:
text: The innocent childlike nature of the Ingenu is perhaps his most obvious and charming characteristic and has been much noted. ... But actual children are rare among the Ingenus ....
ref: 1991, George Austin Test, Satire: Spirit and Air, University Press of Florida, page 205:
text: For his novel, Saro-Wiwa draws on the figure of the ingenu in order to satirise the evils and pettiness of war from an apparently naïve perspective, which conceals the biting criticism that prevails throughout the narration.
ref: 2003, Juan Francisco Elices Agudo, “The Role of the Ingenu in the Construction of a Postcolonial Anti-War Satire: Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy”, in Ignacio Miguel Palacios Martínez, María José López Couso, Patricia Fra López, Elena Seoane Posse, editors, Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002): A Commemorative Volume, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 565:
antonyms: homme fatal
coordinate_terms: ingenue
glosses: An innocent, unsophisticated, naive, wholesome boy or young man.
wikipedia: L'Ingénu
Voltaire
aulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aula
toe box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe boxes
form: toebox
Etymology: From toe + box.
Senses: glosses: The portion of the upper of footwear that encloses the toes.
toebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toeboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toe box.
'clare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: 'clares
form: 'claring
form: 'clared
form: 'clared
Senses: examples: text: “Tea Cake, Ah ’clare Ah don’t know whut tuh make outa you. You’se so crazy.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 107:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of declare, representing African-American Vernacular English.
tubal ligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubal ligations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: vasectomy
glosses: A surgical procedure for female sterilization in which the Fallopian tubes are blocked or severed.
Related terms: have one's tubes tied
salpingectomy
tie someone's tubes
tubectomy
cêntimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cêntimos
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese cêntimo.
Senses: examples: text: The Portuguese escudo was replaced by a national currency, the dobra (divided into 100 cêntimos), in September 1977.
ref: 1985, Quarterly Economic Review of Angola, São Tomé & Principe, number 1, London: Economist Intelligence Unit, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:
text: What do you mean 'too much education?' I won't spend a cêntimo of your precious money. I'll go if I get a scholarship.
ref: 2010, Ke Huang, “Lullaby: Barcarole”, in The One Million Stories Creative Writing Project 2010 Anthology, One Million Stories Small Press, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Paulino, you say you believe what’s in that letter, and you, my mother, find me accused of having an affair with a young man who, I imagine, hasn’t a cêntimo to his name. So why don’t you both just leave?
ref: 2014, José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, chapter 31, in Skylight, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 249:
glosses: Alternative form of centimo in Portuguese context.
cêntimos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cêntimo
invigilatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɪd͡ʒɪleɪtɹɪks/
Forms: form: invigilatrices
Etymology: Formed as invigilate + -trix, after invigilator. Compare the Italian invigilatrice.
Senses: examples: text: A History paper was lately set, at a girls’ school, on a certain period of English history—say the Reformation. One question was: “Mention the person in your period who interests you most, and give your reasons.” During the examination some female præpostor or other subaltern was sitting with the girls, some of whom asked, “Does ‘your period’ mean our period?” “Yes,” said the invigilatrix, if that is the word for the fair looker-on.
ref: 1911 January 7, Andrew Lang, “At the Sign of St. Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Scott and Golf, Ghosts, and Literary Examinations”, in The Illustrated London News, volume CXXXVIII, number 3742, London: [T]he Illustrated London News and Sketch, Limited, page 16, column 3:
text: Our invigilatrix was my WEA widow, earning a little daytime money by giving out the papers and watching for cheaters.
ref: 1987, Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God, page 145:
glosses: A woman (or entity given female personification) who invigilates; a female invigilator.
manther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manthers
Etymology: Blend of mother + panther
Senses: examples: text: Cougars and manthers (which you should have heard of by now—or you can at least intuit) are always on the hunt for the energetic, supple, and naive.
ref: 2010, Brian Griffin, The Trustafarian Handbook: A Field Guide to the Neo-Hippie Lifestyle Funded by Mom and Dad, Adams Media, published 2010, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: A woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men.
Coordinate terms: word: cougar
manther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manthers
Etymology: Blend of man + panther
Senses: examples: text: “Jolo was a dick magnet but preferred manthers (older men who preyed on younger women) who spend lots of cash on her and me.”
ref: 2011, Dennis J. Stevens, Wicked Women: A Journey of Super Predators, iUniverse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 50:
text: All of these questions and more will be answered when Loverboy unleashes its well-oiled, classic rock canon on a sea of sweaty cougars and manthers grinding against one another to “Turn Me Loose,” April 21 at the Commodore.
ref: 2012 April 20, “Picks of the week”, in Vancouver Courier, page A37:
glosses: A man who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger women.
Hypernyms: cradle robber
cradle snatcher
Related terms: MILF
DILF
sugar mama
sugar daddy
18 holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A round of golf.
big two
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the fact that the two is the high card.
Senses: glosses: A shedding-type card game with many variants.
Synonyms: big deuce
Coordinate terms: english: a variant of big two
translation: a variant of big two
word: arsehole
english: a variant of big two
translation: a variant of big two
word: asshole
word: Big One
word: big one
word: Big Three
word: Big Four
word: big five
word: big six
word: big eight
this, that, and the other
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Forms: form: this, that, or the other
form: this, that, and the third
form: this, that, and the other thing
Senses: examples: text: These returns exhibit a curious annual uniformity in results; the sort of uniformity which you find in the annual output of suicides in the world's capitals, and the proportions of deaths by this, that, and the other disease.
ref: 1897, Mark Twain, chapter 57, in Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:
text: She meant to use the cumbrous machine to pick out this, that, and the other interesting person from the muddle of the world.
ref: 1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Night and Day:
text: Looking at his paintings, we sense the intense performance of making them, not as an Expressionistic process, but as a notational, seismographic record of the dodging feints his mind made in this, that and the other direction.
ref: 2005 March 11, Roberta Smith, “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Collisions on Canvas That Still Make Noise”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Apr 2013:
glosses: Particular items belonging to a large, diverse set, but items of the general kind of item indicated.
this, that, and the other
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pl
form: this, that, or the other
form: this, that, and the third
form: this, that, and the other thing
Senses: examples: text: A knowing old sheet-anchor-man, an unprincipled fellow, putting this, that, and the other together, ferrets out the mystery; [...]
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, “Smuggling in a Man-of-War”, in White Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 285:
text: Very much admired, indeed, the young woman was. What with her dress; what with the air and sun; what with being made so much of; what with this, that, and the other; her merits really attracted general notice.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “Intelligence”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 473:
text: Anyway, we were sitting here doing this, that, and the other, and she said she positively was not going to do the other any more with Carstairs sneering at her while she did it.
ref: 1943, Norbert Davis, Sally's in the Alley:
text: "There's such an onslaught of people wanting information, people wanting this, that and the other," she says.
ref: 2001 November 12, Andrea Sachs, “Out Of Africa”, in Time:
glosses: A wide range of actions, circumstances, characteristics, topics, or other items.
this, that, and the other thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pl
Senses: examples: text: "I aye took your part when folk miscaa'd ye, and said ye were this, that, and the other thing."
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 14, in St.Ronan's Well:
text: They insisted upon knowing how this, that, and the other thing would be done in the Cooperative Commonwealth.
ref: 1911, Upton Sinclair, Love's Pilgrimage, Book 14:
text: Gilligan: I would like to promise you [the people of the island]…
Gilligan: I… I'd like to promise you, uh… Just a second! (whispers)
Rodriguez: Promise dem “dis, dat, 'n' dee oda ting.”
Gilligan: I promise you this, that, and the other thing!
ref: 1965 September 30, Sherwood Schwartz, “Little Dictator” (17:11–17:26 from the start), in Gilligan's Island, season 2, episode 3, spoken by “Gilligan” and “El Presidente Rodriguez” (Bob Denver and Nehemiah Persoff):
text: [W]hen people called and wanted to know how I intended to vote or what my opinion was on this, that and the other thing, I used to decline to talk to them.
ref: 2002 September 16, Lee Dembart, “For the record”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Apr 2013:
glosses: Alternative form of this, that, and the other.
this, that, or the other
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of this, that, and the other.
this, that, or the other
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of this, that, and the other.
palletizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palletizers
Etymology: From palletize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine that automatically stacks cases of goods onto a pallet.
coleto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coletos
Senses: glosses: A starling of species Sarcops calvus, endemic to the Philippines.
sireland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirelands
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sire-land.
suppositio materialis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppositiones materiales
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin suppositio materialis.
Senses: glosses: The use of a word autonymously, or as a name for itself
Related terms: autonymy
snarktastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /snɑːkˈtæstɪk/
Forms: form: more snarktastic
form: most snarktastic
Etymology: From snark + -tastic.
Senses: examples: text: By the time she made it to the mic the audience was ready to eat every snarktastic morsel from the palm of her hand.
ref: 2006 April 21, Marijke Rowland, “Spicy, Dicey Kathy Griffin Dishes Hysterical Dirt”, in The Modesto Bee:
text: They loved her snarktastic attack on Halley—some people were even asking for Halley to write a response in her next column.
ref: 2008, Alexa Young, Frenemies, HarperTeen (2008), age 177
text: One of the most promising new comedies of the fall, Community stars the snarktastic Joel McHale as a disgraced lawyer who returns to community college for a chance at a new life.
ref: 2009 September 20, Joshua Alston, “Fall TV Preview: EHarmony Edition”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Very snarky, especially in an appealing or entertaining way.
Five-Percenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Five-Percenters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 5 percenter.
condessa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condessas
Etymology: From Portuguese condessa. Doublet of countess and contessa.
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese countess.