cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Galápagos hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galápagos hawks
Etymology: From Galápagos + hawk.
Senses: taxonomic: Buteo galapagoensis
glosses: a large hawk endemic to the Galápagos Islands.
Galápagos hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Galápagos hawk
canlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canlike
form: most canlike
Etymology: From can + -like.
Senses: examples: text: They consist of a canlike housing, brackets to support the housing, a light socket and bulb inside, a reflector or diffuser to control the light pattern, and a trim ring to frame the fixture.
ref: 2003, Sam Clark, Remodeling a Kitchen, page 45:
glosses: Resembling a can (container).
loggat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒɡət/
Forms: form: loggats
form: logget
Senses: examples: text: The loggat, made of apple-wood, is a truncated cone 26 or 27 inches in length
ref: 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A small log or piece of wood.
Related terms: loggats
loggats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: plural of loggat
examples: text: Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with 'em?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
head_nr: 2
glosses: Alternative spelling of loggets (“game”).
gullery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulleries
Etymology: From gull + -ery.
Senses: glosses: An act, or the practice, of gulling i.e. trickery, cheating or fraud.
examples: text: Gulls seem to fear the great skua less than the Arctic one, and will sometimes mob and molest it. A single pair that had nested on the outskirts of a gullery were a good deal subject to this annoyance.
ref: 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, page 128:
glosses: A colony of gulls.
ingannation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingannations
Etymology: From Italian ingannazione, nominal form derived from ingannare (“deceive, cheat, betray”) from Vulgar Latin ingannāre, from Latin gannō.
Senses: examples: text: Thus having been deceived by themselves, and continually deluded by others, they must needs be stuffed with errors […] whereunto whosoever shall resigne their reasons, either from the root of deceit in themselves, or inability to resist such triviall ingannations from others; although their condition and fortunes may place them many Spheres above the multitude, yet are they still within the line of vulgarity, and Democraticall enemies of truth.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 9:
text: While I am not able by any kind of searching to find out God, in the sense of the religions, while I get no glimpse whatever of any source of nature, and refuse to beguile myself or others with any ingannation or pretence on the subject, I have nevertheless as deep and as constraining a faith as any theist can possibly have, in the holiness and power which are in nature […]
ref: 1877, Nathaniel Ramsay Waters, Through Rome On: A Memoir of Christian and Extra-Christian Experience, New York: C.P. Somerby, page 199:
text: And close as mortar cleaveth unto bricks,
To buying and selling ingannation sticks.
ref: 1907, Edwin Sauter, “The Street,” V, in Satires, Boston: R.G. Badger, p. 37, Trade asks but two thoughts to insure success— Sell much and cheaply,—but first buy for less
glosses: Cheating; deception.
escamoterie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French escamoterie.
Senses: glosses: cheat; deception
white-crowned plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-crowned plovers
Etymology: From white + crowned + plover.
Senses: taxonomic: Vanellus albiceps
glosses: a bird, a medium-sized wader, which despite its name is a lapwing rather than a typical plover.
Synonyms: white-headed lapwing
white-headed plover
gulleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gullery
white-crowned plovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-crowned plover
hook in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hooks in
form: hooking in
form: hooked in
form: hooked in
Senses: glosses: To deceive by luring with a false promise or misleading implication.
glosses: To be introduced to; to join up with; to become involved with.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: hook.
make an ass of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes an ass of
form: making an ass of
form: made an ass of
form: made an ass of
Senses: examples: text: I ſee their knauery; this is to make an aſſe of me, / to fright me if they could; […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 152:
text: I had sprung to my feet. I was speaking, and yet I had prepared no words. Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, "Sit down, Malone! Don't make a public ass of yourself."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: O5-8 does an impressive job of controlling himself, keeping his attention focused on Marion. Clay doesn't fare so well, and quickly sweeps the whole room, even checking behind his back. Making an ass of himself, essentially. He finds nothing. He looks baffled.
ref: 2008–2021, qntm, “We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: To cause (someone) to appear foolish.
Synonyms: make a fool of
make a fool out of
make a monkey of
make a monkey out of
play off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays off
form: playing off
form: played off
form: played off
Senses: examples: text: After tripping, Sara tried to play her embarrassment off by laughing with everyone else.
text: Although he's obviously hungover, he's trying to play it off as food poisoning.
coordinate_terms: laugh away#Verb
laugh off#Verb
style it out
glosses: To portray (something) (as unimportant); to dismiss or make light of (a factor in a situation, or one's embarrassment about it); to pretend not to be embarrassed, upset, impressed, or otherwise affected by (it).
raw_tags: with as
examples: text: Stalin's propensity to play off his subordinates against one another is a well-studied theme.
glosses: To set (other people) against one another: to induce competition between them, especially in a covert way so that they do not realize the degree to which they have been played (manipulated).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To compete in a play-off; to compete against (an opponent) in a play-off.
examples: text: to play off tricks
glosses: To display; to show; to put in exercise.
Derived terms: word: play-off
word: playoff
foist off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foists off
form: foisting off
form: foisted off
form: foisted off
Senses: examples: text: She was talking big, but the Haruhi of last year would've forced people to attend an explanatory lecture about the brigade, printed huge numbers of flyers, and foisted them off on absolutely everybody.
ref: 2013, Nagaru Tanigawa, The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya:
text: I used to think New Yorkers invented trends and foisted them off on a gullible nation but weren't themselves […]
ref: 2018, Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading:
glosses: To fraudulently or disingenuously pass (goods, or ideas) on to.
examples: text: When Zeytuna didn't want to do her chores, she foisted them off on Lidya, who'd spent years being her caregiver and took over without a whisper of complaint.
ref: 2014, Mary Ostyn, Forever Mom: What to Expect When You're Adopting, page 92:
text: Countries with export surpluses foisted them off by bounties or placed them through unilateral agreements.
ref: 2017, Broadus Mitchell, The Depression Decade, page 182:
glosses: To get rid of (something unwanted) by giving it to someone else.
Related terms: fob off
much ado about nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌtʃ əˈduː əˈbaʊt ˈnʌθɪŋ/
Forms: form: much adoe about nothing
Etymology: First appears c. the early 1500s, and first found in The Defense of the Aunswere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T. C., a pamphlet (1574) by John Whitgift (Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to 1604). Made popular and particularly known from the title of the comedy play Much Ado About Nothing (1598) by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare had earlier used ado (“business, activity”) in the play Romeo and Juliet (1592) Weele keepe no great adoe, a Friend or two, though it is now frequently used to mean fuss as a contraction of the phrase here; nothing in the title of the play is a wordplay which can also mean noting (“to notice”) besides the usual meaning of nothing.
Senses: glosses: A lot of fuss or bother about something trivial.
wikipedia: Archbishop of Canterbury
John Whitgift
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
noseprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noseprints
Etymology: From nose + print.
Senses: glosses: An imprint of a nose (usually an animal's nose).
noseprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: noseprints
form: noseprinting
form: noseprinted
form: noseprinted
Etymology: From nose + print.
Senses: examples: text: Dogs can be noseprinted for identification purposes.
glosses: To take a print of the nose of (an animal).
noseprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noseprint
noseprints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of noseprint
fiery cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiery crosses
Senses: glosses: A burning cross made of wood, historically used to rally troops.
sacring bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacring bells
Senses: glosses: The bell which rings when the Host is elevated at the celebration of High Mass.
note down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: notes down
form: noting down
form: noted down
form: noted down
Senses: glosses: To write down, especially hurriedly; to make a note of.
scratch out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scratches out
form: scratching out
form: scratched out
form: scratched out
Senses: glosses: To remove something by scratching.
glosses: To remove something which was written, by erasing or by putting a mark through it.
examples: text: to scratch out a meagre living
glosses: To eke out; to obtain with difficulty.
sponge out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sponges out
form: sponging out
form: sponged out
form: sponged out
Senses: glosses: To clean the inside of (something) by using a sponge.
glosses: To remove by using a sponge.
glosses: To remove (something, especially debts).
printless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From print + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And ye that on the sands with printless foot / Do chase the ebbing Neptune[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: without an imprint.
glosses: without printing, devoid of printing things.
twattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɒtəl/
Forms: form: twattles
form: twattling
form: twattled
form: twattled
Etymology: Compare tattle, twaddle.
Senses: examples: text: After all, she objected, Do not Men run visiting from House to House, for no other purpose but to twattle, spending their time in idle and fruitless discourse?
ref: 1671, Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, Natures Pictures drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life, page 181:
text: Tis very well, Mistress, says he, and are you not a fine Gossiping Lady, do you think, to twattle your Husband thus out of his Life and Fortune?
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: He now and then twattles a little , as an old gentleman may when lamenting the degeneracy of the evil times on which his gray hairs have fallen; but his Introductions and Notes are always gravely entertaining, and generally learnedly instructive.
ref: 1858 January, “Dr. Wordsworth's Greek Testament”, in Bibliotheca sacra: a theological quarterly, volume 15, number 5, page 248:
text: He has no story to tell, it is true, but is eminently readable, for he writes most forcible, idiomatic English, is never dull in his didactics, never twattles, is learned without pedantry, and although the topics treated are so diverse, yet there is a natural consecutiveness from first to last, and no abrupt transition.
ref: 1860 May, “Literary Notices: Doctor Oldham at Greystones, and His Talk There”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 55, number 5, page 528:
glosses: To talk in a digressive or long-winded way.
Derived terms: betwattled
twattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɒtəl/
Forms: form: twattles
Etymology: Compare tattle, twaddle.
Senses: examples: text: Continue, if you choose, your twattle against Homœopathy; distort it, misinterpret it, calumniate and deride its author; the unprejudiced legions will soon be able to decide on which side is the truth.
ref: 1850 May, “Unjust Personalities”, in The American Journal of Homœopathy, volume 5, number 1, page 11:
text: It concedes too much to you Northern fellows; and all the old man said about magnanimity was mere twattle.
ref: 1860, Hezekiah Lord Hosmer, Adela, the Octoroon, page 91:
text: The penetrating power of that saying might atone for pages of twattle, and Carlyle has flashes of such tremendous insight as is only given to masters in literature.
ref: 1876 January, Francis Gerry Fairfield, “An Unconventional View of Herbert Spencer”, in Phrenological Journal, volume 65, number 1:
text: The lies, twattles, and contrivances about this affair, are innumerable.
ref: 1970, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1st Baron), William Moy Thomas, The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, page 500:
glosses: Chatter; twaddle.
twattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɒtəl/
Forms: form: twattles
form: twattling
form: twattled
form: twattled
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Never fear her, I warrant you, she that will ask for a weapon is not desperate; get you gone in to her, and twattle her out of the sullens if you can; if not, I'le not long be absent.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband:
text: For se waik an' se silly, an' helpless was I, I was always a tumbling down then, While me mother would twattle me gently, and cry Honey Jenny: tak' care o' thysen.
ref: 1884 October 15, “Song”, in The Hull Quarterly and East Riding Portfolio, volume 1, number 4, page 155:
text: Thoo twattles on wi ' ť pup ez if ' t wur a bairn.
ref: 1911, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 484:
glosses: To cosset; to pet or coddle.
twattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɒtəl/
Forms: form: twattles
Senses: examples: text: PIGMEO, a pigmey, a kinde of little man like a dwarfe, a dandiprat, a twattle, or an elfe. Some thinke that they be but a kind of spirits ingendred of the corruption of the earth, even as the Scarab is bread of horses doung.
ref: 1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, page 486:
text: She had telt him, indignant, 'I am not ten.' 'No? An uncomely twattle, are ye no?' 'A twattle?' she had said. 'A mimmerkin. A dwarf.'
ref: 2016, Shirley McKay, 1588: A Calendar of Crime:
glosses: A dwarf.
Related terms: twittle-twattle
academy figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: academy figures
Senses: qualifier: painting
glosses: A drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.
twattles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of twattle
twattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twattle
twattling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twattle
twattled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twattle
appallingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From appalling + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The appallingness of the idea of murder, the appallingness of this murder, does not shake Hamlet to his soul and does not haunt him later. The deep damnation of the taking off is felt as only one of a series of horrors.
ref: 1978, Wilbur Sanders, Howard Jacobson, Shakespeare's magnanimity:
glosses: The quality of being appalling.
Alice band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alice bands
Etymology: From Lewis Carroll's fictional Alice, often depicted wearing the headband in the illustrations in Through the Looking-Glass.
Senses: glosses: A flexible horseshoe-shaped headband.
wikipedia: Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass
Alice bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alice band
anti-inflationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-inflationary
form: most anti-inflationary
form: antiinflationary
Etymology: From anti- + inflationary.
Senses: examples: text: A number of anti-inflationary policies were discussed by the Fed.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Intended to counteract or reverse inflation or its effects.
Lybian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lybia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Libyan.
Lybian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lybians
Etymology: From Lybia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Libyan.
sambhur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sambhurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sambar.
sambhurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sambhur
sand bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand bar
bibblebabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bibblebabble
bibblebabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bibblebabble
bibblebabbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bibblebabble
blackmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blackmark
blackmarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackmark
aphrodisia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A state of sexual desire.
glosses: sexual intercourse
Synonyms: sense: sexual desire
word: carnality
word: concupiscence
word: lust
sense: sexual intercourse
word: coitus
word: sex
word: copulation
Derived terms: anaphrodisia
Aphrodisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aphrodisian
form: most Aphrodisian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀφροδῑ́σιος (aphrodī́sios) + -an.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: Venusian
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
glosses: Devoted to sensual love.
Christ the Redeemer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Seven Wonders of the World
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Seven Wonders of the World
Senses: glosses: Any of several lists of remarkable natural or man-made places.
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
glosses: Any of several lists of remarkable natural or man-made places.
New 7 Wonders of the World
Related terms: wonder of the world
nine-day wonder
90-day wonder
ninety-day wonder
one-hit wonder
mammatus cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammatus clouds
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: mammatocumulus
mammatus
glosses: A cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud.
rosy-lipped batfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosy-lipped batfishes
Senses: glosses: Ogcocephalus porrectus
Coordinate terms: red-lipped batfish
red-lipped batfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-lipped batfish
Senses: glosses: A variety of batfish, Ogcocephalus darwini, native to the Galapagos Islands and Peru, which is noted for its bright red lips and inability to swim.
Volkswagens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Volkswagen
chromostereopsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chromo- + stereopsis.
Senses: glosses: A visual illusion whereby an impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional colour images, usually a combination of red with either green or blue.
on deck circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of on deck circle
Kader
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaders
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قادر (qādir, “powerful”). This surname is mostly found in Bangladesh.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
conservatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conservatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cōnservātrīx. By surface analysis, conservator + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female conservator.
imperspicuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From im- + perspicuity.
Senses: antonyms: perspicuity
glosses: vagueness; lack of clarity
Related terms: imperspicuous
imperspicuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imperspicuous
form: most imperspicuous
Etymology: From im- + perspicuous.
Senses: antonyms: perspicuous
glosses: vague; unclear; lacking clarity
Related terms: imperspicuity
you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From a line in a Bob Dylan song, Subterranean Homesick Blues.
Senses: glosses: One does not require an expert to tell one what one already knows.
wikipedia: Bob Dylan
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Derived terms: Weatherman
Related terms: which way the wind is blowing
secretness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secret + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being secret.
examples: text: Now the continualness, the secretness, yet the always present domesticness of our love; how may we best compass that, without jeopardizing the ever-sacred memory I hinted of?
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: Secrecy.
do one's block
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does one's block
form: doing one's block
form: did one's block
form: done one's block
Etymology: A loose usage of do with block (“(slang) head”).
Senses: examples: text: Dad was […] the man who slaved his guts out to win the status of a landowner, got dead drunk and was carried home from the local pub, and did his block, and shouted and raved, and sometimes bawled like a bull, but at other times was tender with man and beast.
ref: 1993, Manning Clark, edited by Michael Cathcart, Manning Clark's History of Australia: Abridged, page 303:
text: He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky.
ref: 2003, Dal Stivens, Jimmy Brockett: Portrait of a Notable Australian, page 283:
text: I did my block and told him that he was there because I had consented to him being there, he wasn′t part of the interviewing team, and that if he was a smart-arse one more time, there would probably be a fight in the interview room.
ref: 2007, Andrew Fraser, Court in the Middle, unnumbered page:
glosses: To become enraged.
show one's cards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows one's cards
form: showing one's cards
form: showed one's cards
form: shown one's cards
form: showed one's cards
Senses: synonyms: show one's hand
glosses: To reveal something known to oneself but previously concealed from others, especially regarding one's own plans or resources.
Related terms: let the cat out of the bag
put one's cards on the table
tip one's hand
unmask one's batteries
out with it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “What’s your name, youngster? Out with it!” cried Laballière, striving to shake the little free mulatto into speech; but he stayed dumb as a mummy.
ref: 1894, Kate Chopin, “In and Out of Old Natchitoches”, in Bayou Folk:
text: 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
"Come, out with it," said the Doctor.
"It's rather hard, you see," said Bobbie, "to out with it; because of what Mother said."
text: "Six years!" mused Gor Hajus. "Well, out with it, man. What do you want? If it is to slay Ras Thavas, no! He has saved me from utter destruction; but name me some other, preferably Vobis Kan, Jeddak of Toonol. Find me a blade and I will slay a hundred to regain life."
ref: 1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter VIII, in The Master Mind of Mars, ESCAPE:
glosses: Used to tell somebody to reveal a secret.
Related terms: spit it out
at no time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Never.
theater in the round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of theater-in-the-round.
theatre-in-the-round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatres-in-the-round
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of theater-in-the-round.
theatre in the round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of theater-in-the-round.
scyphus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scyphi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scyphus (“cup”), from Ancient Greek σκῠ́φος (skŭ́phos).
Senses: glosses: A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens.
Related terms: skyphos
scyphi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scyphus
scyphos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scyphoi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skyphos.
consessus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛ.səs/
Forms: form: Consessus
Etymology: From Latin consessus.
Senses: examples: text: And to the same purpose he writes concerning Numidicus, Ep. 40, viz. that his will was that Numidicus should be listed in the number of Carthaginian Presbyters, and sit with him," no doubt in the [consessus] in the consistory or Ecclesiastical senate.
ref: 1846, The Works of the Right Rev. John Sage, page 379:
text: The consessus of Haririus present an analogy to this; and the traditional סיעה at the court of Hezekiah.
ref: 1862, Samuel Davidsohn, An Introduction to the Old Testament, Critical, Historical and Theological, Containing a Discussion of the Most Important Questions Belonging to the Several Books, page 356:
text: Strauss mentions the custom, that the scholars of the Rabbis in the consessus were wont to stand.
ref: 1863, Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard, The Gospel History: A Compendium of Critical Investigations in Support of the Historical Character of the Four Gospels, page 190:
glosses: An assembly or congregation of people, especially in religious contexts.
green woodpeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green woodpecker
northern flicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern flickers
Senses: synonyms: yellowhammer
clape#Noun
gaffer woodpecker
harry-wicket
heigh-ho#Noun
wake-up#Noun
walk-up#Noun
wick-up
yarrup
gawker bird
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glosses: Colaptes auratus, a medium-sized member of the woodpecker family, native to most of Central and North America.
across the line
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Describing the action of a batsman in moving the bat in a direction lateral to that of the incoming ball
northern flickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern flicker
consocies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consocies
Senses: examples: text: The consocies grows to an average maximum height of 15 feet, the canopy formed being well knit, but allowing entrance to a large percentage of the light.
ref: 1927, Forestry Pamphlets. Africa, volume 3, page 171:
text: These weeds grow in abundance and thrive with notable vigor in these locust stands, but are almost or entirely absent in the consocies of scrub pine, tulip poplar, and in the mixed hardwood forest tending toward the climax type.
ref: 1944, Experiment Station Record, volume 90, United States. Office of Experiment Stations, page 482:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A consociation.
crapstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapstorms
Etymology: From crap + storm.
Senses: examples: text: Watergate and that creep Nixon; the sheriff drove north through the night listening to every detail of the national crapstorm cascading down on anything Republican, the moment at last arriving when […]
ref: 1996, Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun:
text: 2020 was one long, howling, Category 5 crapstorm.
ref: 2020 December, Dave Barry, Year in review:
glosses: Euphemistic form of shitstorm (both senses).
go round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes round
form: going round
form: went round
form: gone round
Senses: glosses: To physically swirl or rotate.
glosses: To rotate, to move in a circle.
glosses: To travel around (something) physically.
glosses: To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
glosses: To circulate, to move aimlessly.
examples: text: They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America.
glosses: To pass around, to circulate.
glosses: To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
examples: text: I went round and told him what I thought of him.
glosses: To go to another person's home or a public event.
examples: text: You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!
glosses: To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
Derived terms: go round in circles
make the world go round
make this world go round
Related terms: go around
go-round
merry-go-round
leap in the dark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaps in the dark
Senses: synonyms: leap into the unknown
glosses: An act or attempt without any idea about what the result will be.
Related terms: in the dark
shot in the dark
stab in the dark
whistle in the dark
take the plunge
make after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes after
form: making after
form: made after
form: made after
Senses: glosses: To chase.
macarena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macarenas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Macarena.
Kaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaw
attritus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: material pulverized by attrition
balywick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balywicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bailiwick.
tattis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatti
woma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womas
Etymology: From Dieri woma.
Senses: glosses: Short for woma python
commodate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commodates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin commodātum (“something lent, a loan”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A gratuitous loan.
commodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commodates
form: commodating
form: commodated
form: commodated
Etymology: First attested in 1595; borrowed from Latin commodātus, perfect passive participle of commodō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To put in order, adjust, arrange.
glosses: To suit, accommodate (to).
glosses: To lend.
flag days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flag day
fish fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish finger
fiscal conservatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiscal conservative
flag carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flag carrier
plecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plec
actuose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more actuose
form: most actuose
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin actuōsus (“active”).
Senses: examples: text: When I say that the soul is actuose, this is to emphasize once more that it is not to be thought of as a substance, an existing entity or being, but as ongoing enactment or performance.
ref: 2012, Wolfgang Giegerich, What Is Soul?:
glosses: Very active.
Colossus of Rhodes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A statue of Greek god Helios in ancient Rhodes, Greece. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Aphrodisia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A festival celebrating the goddess Aphrodite, held throughout Ancient Greece, but of particular importance in Attica and Cyprus.
go along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes along
form: going along
form: went along
form: gone along
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, along.
examples: text: I refuse to go along with another of his dangerous schemes.
glosses: To participate, cooperate, or conform.
glosses: To move along or proceed.
Derived terms: go along for the ride
go along to get along
make it up as one goes along
go along with
goldfish bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ ˈboʊl/
Forms: form: goldfish bowls
Senses: glosses: A transparent bowl in which pet fish are kept.
examples: text: "Because East Midlands Railway's HQ is here in Derby, we're rather in a goldfish bowl... and now there's the announcement that Derby will be the Great British Railway headquarters, so the goldfish bowl is about to get a whole lot bigger," he says.
ref: 2023 November 1, Nick Brodrick talks to Jason Cocker, “A station that "oozes" customer service...”, in RAIL, number 995, page 50:
glosses: Any place that lacks privacy, especially a room with a large window facing a public area.
Synonyms: fish bowl
Derived terms: guilty as a cat in a goldfish bowl
golf cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf carts
Senses: glosses: a small four-wheeled motorized vehicle, used to travel around a golf course.
Synonyms: golf buggy
golf car
Derived terms: cart path
peacefullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: superlative form of peaceful: most peaceful
behalfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of behalf
Yellow Boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yellow Boys
Etymology: From the golden yellow colour of its receiver.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A Winchester Model 1866 lever action rifle.
rigourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rigourous
form: most rigourous
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rigorous.
glosses: Alternative form of rigorous.
rigourously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From rigourous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of rigorously.
laned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lane + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Divided into lanes, as with a road.
dead soldiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead soldier
vacuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vacuates
form: vacuating
form: vacuated
form: vacuated
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Toynbee recommends, in cases of ruptured membrane tympani, "directing the stream of water [in syringing] through the orifice of the membrane into the tympanum in order to vacuate the latter cavity of its contents."
ref: 1861, W. R. Wilde, “On Aural Diagnosis and Diseases of the Mastoid Process”, in The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 1, page 488:
glosses: To empty; to clear out.
Related terms: evacuate
vacuation
vacuist
vacuity
vacuous
vacuum
vacate
polygynies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygyny
h'lo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “H'lo,” said Robert.
“Mary Lee!” her mother called and there were light steps upstairs.
ref: 1946, Frank Owen, Teen-age Companion, page 245:
glosses: Abbreviation of hello.
Green Beret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Green Berets
Etymology: From the color of the beret worn by them.
Senses: examples: text: A former Green Beret wearing a tactical vest struck an officer in the face with a flagpole he was wielding like a spear during the Capitol riot, according to new court filings from the government and the F.B.I.
ref: 2021 March 19, Hailey Fuchs, “A former Green Beret used a flagpole to attack an officer in the Capitol riot, authorities say.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: blue beret
glosses: A member of the United States Army Special Forces.
Green Berets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Green Beret
Sousa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sousas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Sousa, from Old Galician-Portuguese Sousa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
lagman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagmans
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish lagman. Doublet of lawman.
Senses: examples: text: There was a ſucceſſion of thirty-eight lagmans, which continued till 1262, when the republic [the Icelandic Commonwealth] was deſtroyed by the Danes.
ref: 1788, Allan Maconochie, “Essay on the Origin and Structure of the European Legislatures”, in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume I, Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, Part I, page 23:
topics: law
glosses: In medieval Scandinavia and parts of the Danelaw: a district official, magistrate or judge; a lawspeaker.
topics: law
glosses: The presiding justice of the supreme court; a lawman.
Related terms: lawting
lagman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagmans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laghman.
western gorilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western gorillas
Senses: coordinate_terms: eastern gorilla
glosses: Gorilla gorilla, a great ape and the most populous species of the genus Gorilla.
western gorillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western gorilla
great apes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great ape
spyhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spyholes
Etymology: From spy + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Then there is a shuffling sound, and the quiet slide of a spyhole cover.
ref: 2009 September 13, Ariane Sherine, “Golden shower”, in Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of peephole.
synonyms: word: peephole
spyholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spyhole
spraddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spraddle
rhesus macaques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhesus macaque
mantegars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mantegar
silvery gibbons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silvery gibbon
spider monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider monkey
squirrel monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirrel monkey
rhesus monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhesus monkey
cebines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cebine
Roosmalens' dwarf marmosets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roosmalens' dwarf marmoset
diademed sifakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diademed sifaka
spraddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹædl̩/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: spraddles
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from sprad, an obsolete dialectal past participle of spread; or a blend of sprawl + straddle or spread + straddle, or perhaps from Middle English *spraddelen; a frequentative form of Middle English spradden, spraden, sprēden (“to lay flat, spread; to distribute, scatter, sow”), from Old English sprǣdan (“to expand, spread; to outspread, stretch forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, sprinkle, strew”), equivalent to spread + -le. Compare also dialectal Norwegian spradla (“to flail, squirm, thrash about”).
Senses: glosses: A manner of walking with the legs spread out.
snap shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap shots
Senses: examples: text: But the League One side's early endeavours brought only two well-struck but off-target free-kicks and a snap shot from Rickie Lambert.
ref: 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A hard shot without much planning.
examples: text: The other maior shot is the snap shot. It is like a cousin of the wrist shot. It is a little faster than the wrist shot and requires less movement with the stick.
ref: 2014, Chris Peters, Girls' Hockey, →ISBN, page 15:
qualifier: field hockey or ice hockey
glosses: A quick shot executed by moving the stick parallel to the ground and ending with a snap of the wrist.
examples: text: Oh, i thought, a mistake, a bad one, a dumb one. i shouldn't have made the snap shot. i took a few more steps, looking for possible new blood from my hasty shot—fearing the worst—and found some.
ref: 2010, Jay Cassell, Thomas McIntyre, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, →ISBN, page 474:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A shot taken quickly, without time for careful aiming.
examples: text: Tentatively, the market sentiment on May 5, 2004 could be described as favoring greater stability around the forward, however with a bias for a dollar depreciation. This is only a snap shot of expectations.
ref: 2004, Noureddine Krichene, Deriving Market Expectations for the Euro-Dollar Exchange, →ISBN:
text: The people in the family are alive and dynamic and change whereas the snap shot is a fixed image of how they appeared in the past.
ref: 2009, Byron R. Harrell, Supercharged Giving, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: Alternative form of snapshot.
snap shot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snap shoot
roar on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roars on
form: roaring on
form: roared on
form: roared on
Senses: examples: text: With the game crying out for width, the home fans roared on winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain whenever he touched the ball, but he was unable to show why he is a £10m target for Liverpool and Arsenal.
ref: 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:
glosses: To cheer loudly for.
Gulls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: As a seaside town, Torquay has many seagulls.
Senses: examples: text: Gulls keeper Scott Bevan kept his side in the game by saving a Tubbs penalty after Chris Zebroski was sent off.
ref: 2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Torquay United F. C., a football club from Torquay, England.
exscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exscribes
form: exscribing
form: exscribed
form: exscribed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excribere; ex (“out, from”) + scribere (“to write”).
Senses: examples: 1640-41, Ben Jonson, A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth,
I that have been a lover, and could show it/ Though not in these, in rhymes not wholly dumb/ Since I exscribe your sonnets, am become/ A better lover, and much better poet.
glosses: To copy; to transcribe.
pull out of the hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls out of the hat
form: pulling out of the hat
form: pulled out of the hat
form: pulled out of the hat
form: pull out of a hat
Senses: examples: text: Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw.
ref: 2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC:
glosses: To select at random, or seemingly at random.
Synonyms: pull out of the bag
interscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interscribes
form: interscribing
form: interscribed
form: interscribed
Etymology: From Latin interscribere; inter (“between”) + scribere (“to write”). By surface analysis, inter + scribe.
Senses: glosses: To write or draw between.
roll back the years
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls back the years
form: rolling back the years
form: rolled back the years
form: rolled back the years
Senses: glosses: To produce a sense of nostalgia.
examples: text: Pires, a three-time Cup winner with Arsenal who scored the Gunners' winner against Southampton in the 2003 final, has been a largely peripheral figure at Villa Park since joining in November - but the 37-year-old rolled back the years with a fine finish from Delfouneso's knockdown.
ref: 2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Aston Villa 3 - 1 Blackburn”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To demonstrate a performance later in life as good as in one's prime.
effrenate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more effrenate
form: most effrenate
Etymology: From Latin effrēnātus (“unbridled, let loose”), past participle of effrēnō (“unbridle, let loose”).
Senses: glosses: Unrestrained.
Related terms: effrenation
excellenter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of excellent: more excellent
possibilitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of possibilitate