cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
postliberalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postliberalisms
form: post-liberalism
Etymology: From postliberal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] I will argue that the centrality of this conception of truth in postliberalism should lead the theologian to question the validity and usefulness of Lindbeck’s broader research program.
ref: 1997 February, F. Leron Shults, “Truth Happens? The Pragmatic Conception of Truth and the Postliberal Research Program”, in The Princeton Theological Review, volume 4, number 1, →ISSN, page 26:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A theology that emphasizes a narrative presentation of the Christian faith; postliberal theology.
examples: text: So the right of 2023 needs a theory for why, up till now, its elite-replacement effort has been so disappointing. And postliberalism tends to offers two answers, both connected to the baleful influence of libertarianism.
ref: 2023 June 28, Ross Douthat, “How Do You Replace an Elite?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political philosophy that critiques and opposes liberalism, particularly as it developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
poison dogwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of poison sumac (Toxicodendron vernix)
synonyms: word: poison sumac
extra: Toxicodendron vernix
Carolina cranesbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carolina cranesbills
Etymology: Calque of taxonomic name Geranium carolinianum.
Senses: examples: text: G. caroliniaʼnum L. (Cᴀʀᴏʟɪɴᴀ Cʀᴀɴᴇsʙɪʟʟ.) Not perennial. Stems usually decumbent, hairy. Sepals awn-pointed, as long as the notched, rose-coloured or whitish petals.
ref: 1926, Henry Byron Spotton, A. Cosens, T. J. Ivey, Wild Plants of Canada: A Flora, with Descriptive Key of Families Represented, page 156:
synonyms: Carolina geranium
glosses: Any of the small annual flowering shrubs, native to much of the United States, of species Geranium carolinianum.
Tzipori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew צִפּוֹרִי.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sepphoris.
synonyms: word: Sepphoris
lolly cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lolly cakes
Senses: glosses: A treat consisting of marshmallows or similar sweets baked inside a cake made of malt biscuits.
dusky nerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dusky nerites
Senses: glosses: A freshwater snail of species Neritina pulligera in the family Neritidae.
dusky nerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dusky nerite
sea clown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea clowns
Senses: glosses: Triopha catalinae, a colourful nudibranch sea slug in the family Polyceridae.
sea clowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea clown
triopha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of some of the genus Triopha of colourful polycerid nudibranchs.
Derived terms: sea clown triopha
speckled triopha
spotted triopha
tikanga Maori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori tikanga Māori.
Senses: examples: text: The major points of Christian belief that would contrast with tikanga Māori were the notions that natural man was a fallen creature needing to be redeemed by Christ's suffering and death; and that every human life […] was of equal value in the eyes of Te Atua and those who ackowledged Him.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 128:
glosses: Maori customs and values, considered as a collective body of belief and behaviour.
emporographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of emporium + demographics.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of firmographics.
synonyms: word: firmographics
nMOSFET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛnˌɛmˌoʊˌɛsˌɛfˌiːˌtiː/
Forms: form: nMOSFETs
Etymology: n + MOSFET, where n denotes "negative" or "n-type".
Senses: examples: text: The source-drain breakdown characteristic of NMOSFETS exhibits an abrupt curve due to avalanche breakdown following punchthrough.
ref: 1990 March, Katsushi Asahina, Shuji Murakami, Katsuki Ichinose, Fuyumi Minami, Yasuhiro Funakoshi, “A 256-K 13-Nanosecond CMOS SRAM”, in Electronics & Communications in Japan, Part 2: Electronics, volume 73, number 3, page 44:
text: To achieve a large dynamic range, low leakage, and high bandwidth, the SCA sampling switches are implemented as 2.5 V nMOSFETs controlled by 1.2 V shift registers.
ref: 2025 March, Jinseo1 Park, Evan Angelico, Andrew Arzac, Davide Braga, Ahan Datta, Troy England, Farah Fahim, Henry J. Frisch, Mary Heintz, Eric Oberla, Nathaniel J. Pastika, Hector D. Rico-Aniles, Paul M. Rubinov, Xiaoran Wang, Y.M. Richmond Yeung, “Design of an 8-channel 40 GS/s 20 mW/Ch waveform sampling ASIC in 65 nm CMOS.”, in Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A, volume 1072, page 1:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: semiconductors
glosses: A type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) that utilizes an n-type channel, conducting when a voltage voltage exceeding a threshold is applied to the gate relative to the source. It is commonly used in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology alongside pMOSFETs.
Related terms: pMOSFET
nMOSFETs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nMOSFET
bitterleaf tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitterleaf trees
Etymology: bitterleaf + tree
Senses: glosses: Gymnanthemum extensum, an asteraceous shrub of East and Southeast Asia.
Related terms: Gymnanthemum extensum
Pakeha Maori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pakeha Maoris
form: Pakeha Maori
form: Pākehā Māori
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori pākehā Māori, itself made of pākehā (“a foreigner, a European”) and Māori.
Senses: examples: text: Of the original Pākehā Māori, Thomas Taylor was one of four crew members who ran away from the Sydney-based vessel Hunter in the course of a timber-gathering expedition up the Waihou River in 1798.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 105:
glosses: Someone of European descent who has adopted a Maori way of life.
regal sea goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regal sea goddesses
Senses: examples: text: I have been trying to get as much info as I can on Hypselodoris picta. Unfortunately I found your site a little too late. I purchased a Regal Sea Goddess Nudibranch with blue sponges (it just arrived a few hours ago), and thought I could share some info.
ref: 2001 August 25, Frank Winston, seaslugforum.net:
text: Regal sea goddesses have navy blue bodies inscribed with yellow lines and often polka dots. They have two rhinophores in the front to detect scents and gills on their backs that look like royal crowns.
ref: 2022 April 12, Jack Israel, “Short but Beautiful Lives”, in world.dan.org:
glosses: Felimare picta, a species of nudibranch, typically with a dark body inscribed with yellow highlights, growing to about 13 cm.
regal sea goddesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regal sea goddess
Vytkiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭtʹkĭv
ipa: /ˈvɪtkɪv/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ви́тків (Výtkiv). Compare Vitkov.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hoshcha settlement hromada, Rivne Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1765.
Related terms: Novyi Vytkiv
SPV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SPVs
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Initialism of Shope papilloma virus.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of special-purpose vehicle.
re-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-pots
form: re-potting
form: re-potted
form: re-potted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of repot.
wotagei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otagei
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ヲタ芸(げい) (otagei).
Senses: topics: ACG
video-games
qualifier: idol fandom
glosses: A type of dancing and cheering gestures performed by wota, fans of Japanese idol singers.
Related terms: otaku
wota
Tutt Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Westwell parish, Ashford district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9746).
Westwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Ashford district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9947).
glosses: A village and civil parish (without a council) in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP2210).
postliberalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postliberalism
Purmerul Peak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Bulgarian връх Пурмеру́л (vrǎh Purmerúl).
Senses: glosses: A mountain in the western foothills of Bruce Plateau, on Loubet Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, at 66°23′51″S 65°08′39″W.
un-Christianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more un-Christianly
form: most un-Christianly
Etymology: From un-Christian + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Unſavory and rotten, impertinent and ſilly, G. F. fallaciouſly, moſt un-Chriſtianly and impiouſly, &c.
ref: 1678, George Fox, John Burnyeat, “A Catalogue of R[oger] W[illiams]’s Envious, Malitious, Scornful Railing Stuff, False Accusations and Blasphemies, […]”, in A New-England-Fire-Brand Quenched. […], 2nd part, London, →OCLC, page 219:
text: A struggle for the remote control turned most un-Christianly violent and Mr Makoeya’s wife and children ended up beating him to death.
ref: 2013, David Southwell, “Turn the Other Cheek but Not the Channel”, in 1001 More Ridiculous Ways to Die […], London: Prion, →ISBN, page 159:
text: With the queen revealed as a menstruating Moon-woman, and with her private life exposed to such blatant public scrutiny, few good Christians could fail to notice how un-Christianly childless she was in a world where woman is to be “saved by her childbearing.”
ref: 2015 December 10, I. K. Fleming, “The Maimed King”, in The Rise and Fall of Paradise, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 237:
glosses: Alternative form of unchristianly.
marsh crake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: märsh′ krāk′
ipa: /ˈmɑːʃ ˌkɹeɪk/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹʃˌkɹeɪk/
ipa: /ˈmɐːʃ ˌkɹæɪk/
ipa: /ˈmaːʃ ˌkɹæɪk/
ipa: /ˈmaɹʃ ˌkɹek/
ipa: /ˈmaːʳʃ ˌkɾeːk/
Forms: form: marsh crakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Baillon's crake (Zapornia pusilla)
synonyms: word: Baillon's crake
extra: Zapornia pusilla
marsh crakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsh crake
culmacanthid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culmacanthids
Senses: glosses: Any fish in the family †Culmacanthidae.
alethopteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the genus Alethopteris.
Keightley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
araucarioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the genus Araucarioides.
asterolepidoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asterolepidoids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of asterolepid.
synonyms: word: asterolepid
cladophleboid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cladophleboids
Senses: glosses: Any fern of the genus Cladophlebis.
crangonyctoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crangonyctoids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crangonyctid.
cranioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling a cranium.
eusthenopterid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eusthenopterids
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the genus Eusthenopteron.
homostiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homostiids
Senses: glosses: Any placoderm of the family Homostiidae.
laganid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laganids
Senses: glosses: Any echinoderm of the family Laganidae.
meenoplid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meenoplids
Senses: glosses: Any planthopper of the family Meenoplidae.
fulgoromorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulgoromorphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fulgoromorphan.
nostolepid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nostolepids
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the family †Nostolepidae.
odontopteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the genus Odontopteris.
Carolina geranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carolina geraniums
Senses: examples: text: Carolina geranium seems quite harmless when it is young but becomes unsightly in flowerbeds when it suddenly reaches full size in late spring.
ref: 1996 January 1, Barbara Pleasant, The Gardener's Weed Book: Earth-safe Controls, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:
synonyms: Carolina cranesbill
glosses: A type of small annual flowering shrub, native to much of the United States, of species Geranium carolinianum.
oviraptosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oviraptosaurids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oviraptosaurian.
synonyms: word: oviraptosaurian
palmatolepid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmatolepids
Senses: glosses: Any conodont of the family †Palmatolepidae.
parapterygoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Near the region of the inferior part of the sphenoid bone of the vertebrate skull.
petrarcid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrarcids
Senses: glosses: Any crustacean of the family Petrarcidae.
clam digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clam diggers
Senses: examples: text: I provided myself with a stick, sharpened at the end like a clam digger, and half a nut to scoop the dirt with.
ref: 1819, Alexander Smith [pseudonym; Charles Lenox Sargent], The Life of Alexander Smith, Captain of the Island of Pitcairn; […], Boston, Mass.: […] Sylvester T. Goss, →OCLC, page 28:
text: It was said that if a clam digger did not have a clam in the air at all times, he was too slow.
ref: 2002 December, Katherine Johnson, “Working the Swikshak Beach”, in Buried Dreams: The Rise and Fall of a Clam Cannery on the Katmai Coast (NPS D-87), [Anchorage, Alas.]: Katmai National Park and Preserve, →OCLC, page 56:
text: As how to best use it I gave that a lot of thought and decided to invest in buying a work skiff and set of bull raking gear and became a bull raker, a clam digger, I would be outdoors, on the water, be my own boss, have a very flexible work schedule but most of all I would be able to take care of my kids.
ref: 2011, John Lawless, “The Spoils”, in Pot Luck: A Sea Story, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of clamdigger.
clam-digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clam-diggers
Senses: examples: text: For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter VI, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 118:
text: [T]here was no funeral cortege, naturally, there being no mourners other than myself and Mr. Spitzer and the old, clammish clam-digger chauffeur who drove the rickety Packard with the storm curtains and roof through which the rain fell, […]
ref: 1965, Marguerite Young, chapter 82, in Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, volume 2, Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 1183:
text: His father made a living as a clam-digger. For some reason, probably out of his own feelings of low status, he kept telling young Vincent: “You’re a dummy! You’ll never amount to anything more than a clam-digger’s son.”
ref: 1996, Martin Pable, “Man: Created in God’s Image”, in The Quest for the Male Soul: In Search of Something More, Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of clamdigger.
clam diggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Medium height and a figure that was well-molded except for the dragging left leg that had been attacked by polio on just such a summer day three years ago. Her clam diggers camouflaged her almost to normalcy.
ref: 1950 July, Helen Gregutt, “Victory”, in Esther R. Bien, editor, The American Girl, New York, N.Y.: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
text: My only consolation was that Sasha’s move inspired me to design a line of travel clothes—plaid clam diggers with a matching plaid circle hat box—which ran in the Spring Previews issue of Katy Keene.
ref: 1987, Linda Sunshine, “Best Friends and Barbie Dolls”, in The Memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing Up in New Jersey (A Fireside Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 44:
text: Her small frame, clothed in clam diggers and a plain white tee, added to the illusion Janelle held a girl, not a woman.
ref: 2019, Mandy Mikulencak, chapter 3, in Forgiveness Road, John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of clamdiggers.
clam diggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clam digger
clam-diggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She pulled on her clam-diggers and shirt and ran downstairs.
ref: 1955, Mary Sellars, “Bittersweet”, in George E. Murphy, Helen Rand Miller, Thomas J. Quinn, Let’s Read! Book 4, The Bronze Book: Reading for Life, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, Unit 4 (Families Are Important: Understanding Words), page 246:
text: She was about to drop the key in the pocket of her clam-diggers when he said, “Put it in my pocket. If you start turning cartwheels or something, you may lose it.”
ref: 1988 November, Patt Bucheister, chapter 6, in Time Out (Loveswept; 292), Toronto, Ont.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Her clam-diggers protected her legs from the wind, but the Berkeley tee under her sweater was feeling nearly thread-bare.
ref: 2009, Patricia Adams Farmer, chapter 16, in The Metaphor Maker, Estrella de Mar Publications, published 2010, →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: Alternative form of clamdiggers.
clam-diggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clam-digger
enemaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enema
enemaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enema
phoebodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoebodontids
Senses: glosses: Any elasmobranch of the family †Phoebodontidae.
rhyniopsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhyniopsids
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the class †Rhyniopsida.
schendylid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schendylids
Senses: glosses: Any soil centipede of the family Schendylidae.
sphenopterid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphenopterids
Senses: glosses: Any seed fern of the family †Sphenopteridae.
root-knot nematode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: root-knot nematodes
form: root knot nematode
Etymology: Due to these nematodes usually causing the roots of the plants, which they inhabit, to create galls which resemble knots.
Senses: glosses: Any nematode of the genus Meloidogyne, which parasitize the roots of various plants.
Hyponyms: African cotton root-knot nematode
African cotton root nematode
barley root-knot nematode
British root-knot nematode
cereal root-knot nematode
cotton root-knot nematode
Indian root-knot nematode
mature tea nematode
northern root-knot nematode
peanut root-knot nematode
southern root-nematode
tea root-knot nematode
Thames' root-knot nematode
Related terms: Meloidogyne
sphenopteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the genus Sphenopteridae.
teloganodid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teloganodids
Senses: glosses: Any mayfly of the family Teloganodidae.
tricorythid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricorythids
Senses: glosses: Any mayfly of the family Tricorythidae.
F-statistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A measure used to describe the statistically expected level of heterozygosity in a population.
hygrophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or having hygrophobia.
boxhole borer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxhole borers
Senses: glosses: A variant of a raise borer that is used when there is not enough space on the higher of the two levels to be connected.
shear zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shear zones
Senses: glosses: A thin zone within the Earth's crust or upper mantle that has been strongly deformed, due to the walls of rock on either side of the zone slipping past each other.
post-liberalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-liberalisms
Senses: examples: text: While the ongoing debate between nationalism and globalism continues unabated, that debate has a cousin: liberalism versus post-liberalism.
ref: 2020 July 8, Josh Hammer, “Has Liberalism Failed? Patrick Deneen Debates Jonah Goldberg”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Alternative spelling of postliberalism.
back-build
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-builds
form: back-building
form: back-built
form: back-built
Senses: glosses: Of a thunderstorm or supercell, to generates new cells on the side opposite its direction of movement.
back-builds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of back-build
back-building
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back-build
back-built
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of back-build
North Okanagan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A regional district in southern British Columbia, Canada. Seat: Coldstream.
bear cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear cages
Senses: glosses: The dangerous region of heavy precipitation and poor visibility surrounding a rotating wall cloud or a tornado.
bear cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bear cage
Paschal term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paschal terms
Senses: glosses: The fourteenth day of the first lunar month of spring, formerly used in calculating dates.
wharepuni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌreˈpʉni/
ipa: /ˌwɑːɹeɪˈpuːni/
ipa: /ˌfɑːɹeɪˈpuːni/
Forms: form: wharepuni
form: wharepunis
Etymology: From Maori wharepuni.
Senses: examples: text: The dwellings of the chiefs are surrounded with enclosures of pole-fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings.
ref: 1867, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, translated by Edward Sauter, “Ngawhas, and Puias; boiling springs, solfataras and fumaroles”, in New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History […], Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, →OCLC, page 423:
text: A notable recent event was the construction of a fourth wharepuni. These wharepuni are in themselves fully fledged meeting-houses, although the decoration inside is simple, in accordance with their function as dormitories.
ref: 1954, Forefront: A Monthly Survey of New Zealand Affairs, volumes 1–5, London: High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom, page 19, column 3:
text: Wharepuni increased greatly in size to the kinds of dimensions that would become common in the twentieth century.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 231:
glosses: A large building in Maori communities for communal sleeping or for group meetings; a meeting house.
Related terms: whare
Hukuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Methods of selecting only the best men have been worked out. Not everyone who wants to join the army is accepted by any means.[…]
In Hukuan County in southern Shansi, only 1,400 men were approved out of 2,101 who wanted to go.
ref: 1956, “Recruiting in Communist China”, in Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 273:
text: Today a village is considered “good” if its land is fully collectivized and all buying, selling and banking done through co-ops. The potentiality of socialization is apparent when, as in Hukuan county, Shansi, a credit co-op signs a contract with only one supply and marketing outfit and three or more producers’ co-ops.
ref: 1956 June 25, Richard Wandervogel, “Red China's Farm Program”, in The Ansgar Lutheran, volume XXIX, number 26, Blair, Nebraska, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:
text: The Hukuan County CCP Committee has seriously implemented the instructions of Chairman Hua and the party Central Committee, carried forward the party's traditions and work style and actively rectified fiscal and economic discipline.
ref: 1978 February 21 [1978 February 15], “County in Shansi Improves Fiscal Economic Discipline”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 35, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Huguan.
Novyi Vytkiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏvēʹ vĭtkēvʹ
ipa: /nɒvˈiː vɪtˈkiːv/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Нови́й Виткі́в (Novýj Vytkív).
Senses: glosses: A village in Radekhiv urban hromada, Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1469.
glosses: A village in Radekhiv urban hromada, Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1469.
A silrada of the former Radekhiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, superseded by Radekhiv urban hromada in July 2020. Administrative centre and sole constituent settlement: Novyi Vytkiv.
homoeoptoton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoeoptotons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of homoioptoton.
cornography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koɹˈnɑ.ɡɹə.fi/
Etymology: Blend of corn + pornography, with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽 for porn.
Senses: examples: text: Increased escapism and addiction(alcohol/drug/gambling/cornography/gaming)
ref: 2023 September 2, @Rinnerott, X, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2024:
text: After I decided to stop for 30 days, I avoided all of my triggers, like Youtube, gaming, smoking, cornography, etc.
ref: 2024 April 1, Kevin Nokia, “Dopamine Detox: We Are Seeking Progress, Not Perfection”, in Medium, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2024:
text: But I'm worried because most of the people in the 3rd world countries use vpn just to access adult content or we can say just to watch cornography.
ref: 2024 April 16, u/Ahmadbi, “Is earning money from VPN App Halal or Haram?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
text: We need to detox our sexuality. We need to detox all these different inputs that we're getting from different places, whether that be movies, whether that's following people on Instagram, if you're watching cornography.
ref: 2024 May 22, Isaac David, “Your S*xual Attraction has been Screwed up by the World”, in Daily Disciple, via YouTube:
text: Is Elon trying to make TwiXter even more of a cornography platform? Because hiding likes is how you make TwiXter even more of a cornography platform.
ref: 2024 June 13, @The_GayRedneck, X, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2024:
text: Pump iron, please for goodness sake quit cornography be honest with yourself do you want to watch other people do to hot chicks what you should be doing?
ref: 2024 November 26, u/BoricuaMixed, “Testosterone and insecurity”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2025:
text: I-I can’t the UwU waifu mommies have a choke hold on me (I’m trying to quit cornography (it’s difficult))
ref: 2025 January 12, u/CashFantastic1755, “Show me your last saved image (im not a bot)”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2025:
glosses: Pornography; explicit depiction of sexual subject matter.
virusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of virus
virused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of virus
Shope papilloma virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shope papillomavirus
Senses: synonyms: SPV
CRPV
cottontail rabbit papilloma virus
Kappapapillomavirus 2
glosses: A papillomavirus which causes keratinous carcinomas that resemble horns to form on the bodies of certain leporids, typically on or near the heads of these animals.
Shope papillomavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shope papilloma virus.
bovine papillomavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bovine papillomaviruses
Senses: synonyms: BPV
glosses: Any of a paraphyletic group of DNA viruses that commonly cause warts on cattle.
sulphate of copper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: My poor boy, how the prickly heat has marked your forehead! Have you ever tried sulphate of copper in water?
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 82:
glosses: copper sulphate
wharepunis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wharepuni
bovine papillomaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bovine papillomavirus
bonnet skewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonnet skewers
Senses: examples: text: What do you wear these huge dagger bonnet-skewers for? They're big enough to kill a man with.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 90:
text: The damsel of today carries neither parasol nor bonnet skewer, but that, hasn't cut down the occupational hazards of mashing.
ref: 1948 June 15, The Southwest Times, Pulaski, Va., page 14, column 1:
glosses: A hatpin.
bonnet skewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonnet skewer
Soul Link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Soul Links
form: soul link
Senses: glosses: A variation of a Nuzlocke where two players team up to play the same Pokémon game version on separate consoles. When each player catches a Pokémon on the same route, those two Pokémon become linked. If one of the linked Pokémon faints, both it and its counterpart can no longer be used for the rest of the playthrough.
Soul Links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soul Link
soul link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soul links
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Soul Link.
soul links
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soul link
moral distress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The term was first used in clinical nursing literature in the 1980s and first formally described by Andrew Jameton in 1984.
Senses: examples: text: Moral distress arises when one knows the right thing to do, but institutional constraints make it nearly impossible to pursue the right course of action.
ref: 1984, Andrew Jameton, Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues, Prentice-Hall, page 6:
text: Unlike burnout, moral distress isn’t primarily exhaustion. Unlike trauma, it isn’t primarily fear. Instead, moral distress arises from an unspoken, collective agreement to pretend things are fine when they’re clearly not. It’s the quiet erosion of professional identity—the gradual realization that what you’re doing daily doesn’t align with why you chose this profession in the first place.
ref: 2025 May 3, Dr. Jenny Shields, “DSM-5 doesn’t name it, but moral distress is everywhere in medicine”, in KevinMD:
glosses: A form of emotional or psychological distress that occurs when a person knows the ethically appropriate action to take but is prevented from acting due to external constraints, such as policy restrictions or an insufficiently powerful role.
Related terms: moral injury
burnout
wānangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wānanga
furever home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furever homes
Etymology: Blend of fur + forever home, as a pun in reference to furry animals.
Senses: glosses: A forever home for a furry animal that is adopted.
monobutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monobutts
Etymology: From mono- + butt (“buttocks”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
synonyms: monorump
glosses: A smooth, featureless posterior without defined buttocks or a gluteal cleft; often cartoonishly stylized and exaggerated in size.
Related terms: nullge
monorump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monorumps
Etymology: From mono- + rump (“buttocks”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of monobutt.
synonyms: word: monobutt
folliculitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folliculitic
form: most folliculitic
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to folliculitis.
merfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merfurs
Etymology: From mer- + fur.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
synonyms: merfurry
glosses: A furry character with an anthro upper half and a piscine lower half; a furry merperson.
Related terms: taur
flowerpot-ful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerpots-ful
Senses: examples: text: Every one has heard of the language of flowers, in which lack-a-daisical young ladies might talk sweet stuff by the flowerpot-ful for hours together; […]
ref: 1851 May 16, “Miscellaneous”, in The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser, number 2499, Truro, page 7:
text: It begins with a flowerpot-ful of water sousing a pretty lady below on the curb, and the young wife has her brought up at once to be dried out and warmed inside with hot tea.
ref: 1927 July 26, “‘The Harem,’ Gay Vajda Farce, Opens Engagement at the Lurie: Isobel Elsom Is Starred in New Play”, in San Francisco Examiner, volume CXXVII, number 26, San Francisco, Calif., page 15:
text: Auditorium and stage were sheltered from the sun by a coloured canvas roof. A couple of flowerpots-ful of wheat played at being a cornfield in front of a plain backcloth. The piece was called Bucco the Peasant.
ref: [1949], Arthur Koestler, translated by Edith Simon, “Destruction of the Town Nola”, in The Gladiators, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, →OCLC, book 2 (The Law of Detours), page 116:
glosses: Rare form of flowerpotful.
flower-potful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flower pot /flower-pot + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: When you go to your florist for a flower-potful of his best plant soil don’t think he is defrauding you if he offers a rough-looking article, and ask for some that is finer.
ref: 1884 December 21, “Offered in the Bud”, in Sunday Express, Buffalo, N.Y., page 8:
text: The quantity to apply is about a tree-inch flower-potful per square yard, or about a half-stone per square pole.
ref: 1918 April 19, “Allotment Gardens”, in Newcastle Daily Journal and Courant, 208th year, number 22,740, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, page 5:
text: Another person owns a flower-potful of earth on his window-sill—but he has to pay rent for the space it occupies.
ref: 1918 November 30, R. Shaw, “Monopoly to Follow the Knock-Out of Despotism”, in Middleton Guardian, number 2,405, page 2:
text: Old lawns should be renovated in early spring by covering them with a one-inch layer of equal parts good loam and pulverized peatmoss to which is added a six-inch flower-potful of both bone flour and ground sheep manure.
ref: 1931 March 9, “Gardener’s Notes”, in Wausau Daily Record-Herald, volume XXIV, number 83, Wausau, Wis., page nine:
text: Before commencing to layer, take the precaution of lightly forking the soil round the parent plant, mixing in a medium flower-potful of loam, sand, and leaf-mould to stimulate the plants.
ref: 1931 July 28, “To-day in the Garden”, in The Midland Daily Telegraph, volume LXXXII, number 12,530, Coventry, page 2:
text: To this add a three-inch flower-potful of finely ground limestone.
ref: 1957 March 17, Lillie L. Madsen, “Home and Garden”, in The Oregon Statesman, 106th year, number 355, Salem, Ore., section “Questions & Answers”, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of flowerpotful.
flowerpots-ful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerpot-ful
flowerpotfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerpotful
window-sills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window-sill
vanishing caloric density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Food science
glosses: A perceived lightness or lack of substantiality in certain foods, especially snack foods, that fail to trigger satiety signals in the brain because they dissolve or melt in the mouth.
caloric density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Food science
glosses: The amount of energy, measured in calories, contained in a given weight or volume of food, typically expressed as calories per gram.
Derived terms: vanishing caloric density
crunch factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crunch factors
Senses: qualifier: Food science
glosses: The degree of crispness or audible crunch produced when biting into a food, often associated with freshness, texture satisfaction, and sensory appeal.
glosses: A measurement of lateral flexion and axial rotational velocity of the lumbar spine, used in certain sports, especially golf, to determine the risk of lower back injury.
crunch factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crunch factor
crunchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crunchless
form: most crunchless
Etymology: crunch + -less
Senses: glosses: Of food, lacking crunch or crispiness; soft.
glosses: Of exercise, performed without the use of crunches (abdominal exercises based on the sit-up).
flavor burst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavor bursts
Senses: qualifier: Food science
glosses: A sudden, intense release of taste or aroma experienced when biting into or chewing a food product, often due to capsules of concentrated seasonings or flavorings.
flavor bursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavor burst
twenty-four hour clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twenty-four hour clocks
Senses: examples: text: Twenty-four hour clock time is gaining in favor.
ref: 1893, “Time and Its Landmarks”, in J. C. Thomas, editor, Manual of Useful Information […] (The Working Teachers’ Library; V), Chicago, Ill.: The Werner Company, →OCLC, page 41:
text: The American Society of Civil Engineers recently announced a meeting of the society to occur at their house in New York at 20.30 o'clock, thus springing the twenty-four hour clock system upon those who wished to attend, and causing some inquiries and explanations as to the time intended. Commodore Melville, who was to be present, was one of those who had to inquire and to be informed that 8.30 P. M. was intended.
ref: 1899 February 23, Fred J. Miller, editor, American Machinist: A Practical Journal of Machine Construction, volume XXII, number 8, New York, N.Y.: American Machinist Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33-157, column 3:
text: Time shall be stated in exactly four figures utilizing the twenty-four clock basis. […] Midnight is 0000, never 2400. The last hour of the twenty-four hour clock day begins at 2300. The last minute of the hour begins at 2359 and ends at 0000, which is the beginning of the first minute ending at 0001 of the first hour of the next day.
ref: 1942, Harold E. Baughman, “Civil Air Communications: Reprinted from Manual of Operations: Chapter B—Communications Section”, in Baughman’s Aviation Dictionary and Reference Guide […], 2nd edition, Los Angeles, Calif.: Aero Publishers, →OCLC, paragraphs B5.1072–B5.10720, page 363:
text: The twenty-four hour clock is used by railroads, airports and the military because there is no need to add a.m. or p.m. The number on the clock immediately tells you if it is before or after noon. Eight thirty in the morning would be 08:30. Eight thirty at night would be 20:30.
ref: 1989, Jane Briehl, “Thirty-eight Activity Cards [Minute Math Card #2: The Twenty-four Hour Clock!]”, in All about Time: Curriculum-based Activities for Telling Time & Much More!: Grades 4–6, [Napanee, Ont.]: S & S Learning Materials, →ISBN, page 23:
text: With circular or directional data, there is no true zero. The lowest value in a circular distribution is the same as its highest value. Common examples cited to illustrate this point are twenty-four hour clocks and twelve-month calendars.
ref: 2024, Bernard K. Means, “Ring-shaped Settlements and Exploratory Circular Statistics: A Graphical Approach”, in Martin Menz, Analise Hollingshead, Haley Messer, editors, The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities: Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands (A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication), Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, part II (Organizing Principles of Arcuate Communities), page 95:
glosses: Alternative form of 24-hour clock.
twenty-four hour clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twenty-four hour clock
liberty man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberty men
Senses: examples: text: With these counsels, and many others equally valuable, did Papa Wick fortify Bobby ere that last awful night at Portsmouth when the Officers' Quarters held more inmates than were provided for by the Regulations, and the liberty-men of the ships fell foul of the drafts for India, and the battle raged from the Dockyard Gates even to the slums of Longport, while the drabs of Fratton came down and scratched the faces of the Queen's Officers.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 135:
glosses: A sailor who has been granted permission to go ashore.
liberty men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liberty man
tokiponizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tokiponize
tokiponizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tokiponize
tokiponized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tokiponize
tokiponists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tokiponist
hiatused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Pseudo-participial formed from hiatus + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Some years before, the Colonel commanding had looked into the fourteen fearless eyes of seven plump and juicy subalterns who had all applied to enter the Staff Corps, and had asked them why the three stars should he, a colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers who put on condemned tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 135:
text: With a charitable consideration for Mr. Miller's "hiatused" intellect, and for his stupendous ignorance, I hinted, some time ago, that he deserved contempt.
ref: 1897 May 24, The Catholic Journal, New York, page 169:
text: It was no good telling Kirton that he was an hiatused fool.
ref: 1899 June 24, The Evening News, Sydney, page 3, column 4:
glosses: Lacking brains or intelligence; empty-headed; vacuous.
tadpole tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Breeders of a larger scale will benefit from making tadpole tea in advance, by simply adding Indian Almond Leaves to a larger container of water which can be refrigerated for 2-3 weeks until it's ready to be used. (Remember to warm it up before adding tadpoles!)
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “A detailed guide pertaining to the care of the many morphs of D. tinctorius dart frog”, in neherpetoculture.com:
text: Tadpole tea has the benefit of acting as a natural antifungal and antibacterial agent.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Breeding & Raising Poison Dart Frogs”, in dartfrog.pet:
text: I had one delayed when I wasn’t refreshing its tadpole tea enough. If you haven’t already, try swapping in 50% fresh every week for a while.
ref: 2024 June 18, User ClaimPowerful8024, reddit.com:
text: On top of this I got a few surplus Leuc tads last year from Morg, all of which succumbed to fungal problems at some stage in the rearing process. I have discussed using tadpole tea with him and he said he had had no fungal problems just using plain water.
ref: 2012 February 9, marcuswinner1, reptileforums.co.uk:
glosses: A liquid used to sustain poison dart frog tadpoles, usually made by soaking Indian almond leaves in water
child sexual-abuse materials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of child sexual-abuse material
magic potion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic potions
form: Magic Potion
Senses: examples: text: Magic potions are probably my favorite isopod[s]. I got some from Eddie recently. So far they are pretty easy- can’t wait for them to grow up a bit and reproduce.
ref: 2021 November 9, OrangeBandito21, reddit.com:
text: So, my magic potions have been struggling since i got them, they were very inactive, and some were suiciding themselves by escaping. I knew they needed good air flow, a drink source, and food, as well as proper temps.
ref: 2022 February 24, @verinium, “I think i figured out what magic potions like by accident”, in community.morphmarket.com:
glosses: A colour morph of the common pill-bug (Armadillidium vulgare), characterised by a mostly white body that is dotted with yellow and black spots.
magic potions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic potion
universally unique identifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universally unique identifiers
Senses: glosses: A 128‑bit label used to uniquely identify objects in computer systems
camerlingate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camerlingates
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The dignity of the camerlengo (cardinal who presides over the Apostolic Chamber in pontifical interregnum).
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: period, between the death of a pontiff and the election of his successor, in which a camerlengo is in charge of governing the Church in the administrative field.
camerlingates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camerlingate
Kentucky coffee tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kentucky coffee trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kentucky coffeetree.
Kentucky coffee trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kentucky coffee tree
Kentucky coffee-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kentucky coffee-trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kentucky coffeetree.
Kentucky coffee-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kentucky coffee-tree