cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unsay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsays
form: unsaying
form: unsaid
form: unsaid
Etymology: From Middle English unseyen, unseien, from Old English onseċġan (“to deny, renounce”), from Proto-West Germanic *andasaggjan (“to unsay, renounce, deny”), equivalent to un- + say. Cognate with Dutch ontzeggen (“to deny”), German entsagen (“to renounce, abjure”).
Senses: examples: text: And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To withdraw, retract (something said).
examples: text: I wish I could unsay that.
text: There are some things I'd like to unsay... to my boss... right before he decided to fire me.
text: Certainly if Chriſts Apoſtle have ſet down but two, then according to his own words, though he himſelf ſhuld unſay it, and not only the Angel of Smyrna, but an Angel from Heaven ſhould bear us down that there be three, Saint Paul has doom'd him twiſe, Let him be accurſt [...]
ref: 1641 June or July, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whether It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Virtue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises; […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 247:
text: Unsay those haunting words.
ref: 1918, Algernon Blackwood, Karma, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive).
Synonyms: sense: retract something said
word: retract
word: take back
word: unspeak
unsearchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsəːtʃəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more unsearchable
form: most unsearchable
Etymology: From Middle English unserchable, equivalent to un- + searchable.
Senses: examples: text: He chastiseth and corrects, as to Him seems best, in His deep, unsearchable, and secret judgment, and all for our good.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:
text: So intricate, ſo anfractuous, ſo unſearchable are the vvays of Providence.
ref: 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Second Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph I, page 171:
text: Preachers warned […] that although God might sometimes make the meaning of his judgements clear they were normally unsearchable.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 103:
glosses: That cannot be searched or investigated into; inscrutable, unknowable.
glosses: That cannot be sought out or looked for.
examples: text: "Having a band name like that makes me totally unsearchable," says Rhode Island artist Λ, explaining that his name is pronounced "arc", "but I like how using symbols means favouring an aesthetic choice over a more practical one.[…]"
ref: 2010 August 11, Sian Rowe, quoting Λ, “Meet the bands whose /\/ /\ /\/\ € $ are made out of $¥ /\/\ ß 0 \ $”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not capable of being searched; on which one cannot perform a search.
unsearchable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsəːtʃəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: unsearchables
Etymology: From Middle English unserchable, equivalent to un- + searchable.
Senses: examples: text: That there should be two unsearchables in the universe, that God should be one and man the other, would confer great dignity and honour upon us men were it not for the humiliating fact that it is our deceitfulness that renders us an inscrutable problem to all but God.
ref: 1887, Richard Roberts, My later ministry: being sermons, &c., page 82:
glosses: That which is unknowable.
unsnarl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsnarls
form: unsnarling
form: unsnarled
form: unsnarled
Etymology: From un- + snarl.
Senses: glosses: To remove or undo a snarl or tangle.
unsparing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsparing
form: most unsparing
Etymology: From un- + sparing.
Senses: examples: text: Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
ref: 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:
glosses: Without sparing; liberal; profuse; thorough.
examples: text: [Giovanni's Room] is clearly written out of interior torment, and is an unsparing account of a man fighting against himself. It is certainly not a pleasant book, and David, the narrator, is not "nice" […] but even in its negative ending, it makes a strong statement in favor of self knowledge and accepting one's sexuality.
ref: 1980 February 9, Andrea Loewenstein, “James Baldwin and His Critics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 10:
glosses: Pulling no punches; brutal as opposed to politic.
Derived terms: unsparingly
unsparingness
unswayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unswayed
form: most unswayed
Etymology: From un- + swayed.
Senses: glosses: Without being swayed, unconvinced, not having changed opinion.
unequally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈiːkwəli/
Forms: form: more unequally
form: most unequally
Etymology: From unequal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Not equally, unevenly, sometimes unfairly.
Synonyms: word: inequivalently
word: nonequally
word: unequally
word: unevenly
Hyponyms: word: inferiorly
word: superiorly
unfrocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not official or not (yet) uniformed
unfrocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfrock
unequaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unequalled
Etymology: From un- + equaled.
Senses: glosses: Unmatched, superlative, the best ever done, record setting.
unerringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unerring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His sense of direction leads us unerringly every time.
text: Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is—by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Battering-ram”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 376:
text: It proved the cue for a period of implosion from Wigan, who fell two behind shortly after the hour courtesy of Boyce's costly error, Young firing in unerringly from the spot.
ref: 2011 January 25, Les Roopanarine, “Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC:
glosses: Without making a mistake, perfectly, directly
unhampered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhampered
form: most unhampered
Etymology: From un- + hampered.
Senses: examples: text: "The he won't depart," I replied, and approached still nearer. Rough and narrow ledges formed by nature gave access to the upper caves. A man might scale them if unhampered and unhindered, but to clamber upward in the face of a belligerent tribe of half-men and with a girl to assist was beyond my capability.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: The bare arms and thighs and unhampered breasts of young American womanhood are brushing contentedly against him.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
synonyms: unencumbered
unimpeded
;
unqualified
glosses: Not hampered.
parotitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parotitides
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παρωτῖτις (parōtîtis, “(disease of the) parotid gland”), from παρωτίς (parōtís, “gland behind the ear”). By surface analysis, parot(id) + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: I except the mumps, or parotitis, described below; which is properly an external gland, as its excretory duct opens into the air.
ref: 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life:
text: Test Purpose 1) to diagnose acute pancreatitis, acute relapse of chronic pancreatitis, 2) to distinguish between acute pancreatitis and other causes of abdominal pain requiring immediate surgery, 3) to evaluate possible pancreatic injury caused by abdominal trauma or surgery, 4) to help in the diagnosis of epidemic and alcoholic parotitides.
ref: 2012, Vincent Marks, Differential Diagnosis by Laboratory Medicine:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of one or both parotid glands.
Hyponyms: mumps
Derived terms: pneumoparotitis
uveoparotitis
parotid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪd
Etymology: By surface analysis, para- + ot- + -id, literally “near the ear”.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the parotid gland.
Synonyms: parotoid
Derived terms: intraparotid
subparotid
temporoparotid
transparotid
tympanoparotid
uveoparotid
Related terms: parotic
parotid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪd
Forms: form: parotids
Etymology: By surface analysis, para- + ot- + -id, literally “near the ear”.
Senses: glosses: The parotid gland.
Synonyms: parotoid
Related terms: parotidectomy
parities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parity
elusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elusions
Etymology: From Medieval Latin ēlūsiō.
Senses: examples: text: No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: The act of eluding.
parkinsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːkɪnˈsəʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Parkinsonian
Etymology: From Parkinson + -ian.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or appearing to be caused by, Parkinson's syndrome.
Derived terms: hemiparkinsonian
nonparkinsonian
parkinsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːkɪnˈsəʊnɪ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: parkinsonians
form: Parkinsonian
Etymology: From Parkinson + -ian.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: One who has Parkinson's syndrome.
Parkinson's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: parkinsonism
Related terms: atypical Parkinson's
secondary Parkinson's
postural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒstʃəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈpɑst͡ʃəɹəl/
Etymology: From posture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to posture.
examples: text: Cindy, he's gone postural.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Lying down.
Derived terms: nonpostural
postural asphyxia
posturally
suprapostural
visuopostural
hypokinesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + -kinesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Slowed or diminished movement of the body.
Dorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːɹiən/
Forms: form: more Dorian
form: most Dorian
Etymology: Constructed like the French Doriens. From the Latin root of Dōres + -ian. Compare Ancient Greek Δωριεύς (Dōrieús, “of Doris”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Dorians.
examples: text: while the [Dorian] love of males for males in Greece obtained moralisation, and reached the high position of a recognised social function, the [Lesbian] love of female for female remained undeveloped and unhonoured
ref: 1883, John Addington Symonds, chapter 19, in A Problem in Greek Ethics:
text: All the Spartan kings and generals grew up under the institution of Dorian love. Epameinondas and Alexander were notable lovers; and the names of their comrades are recorded.
ref: 1890, John Addington Symonds in A. Strahan, The Contemporary Review, page 416:
text: And the evidence from Symonds's Memoirs seems to suggest that 'Ionian' implied pederastic relations, as attested in ancient Athens, whereas 'Dorian' involved two virile men.
ref: 2011, Daniel Orrells, Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity, page 159:
text: Dorian love, on the other hand, was a love between two virile equals, and so exceptional and unique.
ref: 2012, Daniel Orrells, “Greek love, orientalism and race: intersections in Classical reception”, in The Cambridge Classical Journal, Cambridge University Press:
text: Gay may not be ideal, and it has acquired negative connotations in recent years. I'd much prefer the beautiful word, Dorian, which can be both noun and adjective.
ref: 2015, John Lauritsen, “Down With LGBTQ!”, in Gay Liberation, Utrecht University, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022:
text: Wilde’s choice for his main protagonist’s name a “veiled reference to ‘Dorian’ or ‘Greek’ love”.
ref: 2015, Lotte Campman, chapter 1, in Greek Love and Love for All Things Greek: Gay Subtext and Greek Intertext in Works by Oscar Wilde, page 9:
text: "Dorian love" between two masculine adult men should now be seen as a model for modern democratic, socialist politics.
ref: 2022, Sarah Olsen & Mario Telò, chapter 1, in Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy, page 31:
glosses: Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively men as romantic or sexual partners; male counterpart of lesbian.
raw_tags: of a man
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the oceanid Doris in Greek mythology.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the asteroid (48) Doris.
Dorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːɹiən/
Forms: form: Dorians
Etymology: Constructed like the French Doriens. From the Latin root of Dōres + -ian. Compare Ancient Greek Δωριεύς (Dōrieús, “of Doris”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Dorians.
Dorian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːɹiən/
Etymology: Constructed like the French Doriens. From the Latin root of Dōres + -ian. Compare Ancient Greek Δωριεύς (Dōrieús, “of Doris”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, famously used by Oscar Wilde in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).
glosses: A female given name.
Related terms: Doric
Dorian Gray effect
Dorian mode
Hellenic
hypodorian
Pelasgian
Dorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular ancient Greek tribe.
Dorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dorian
assed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æst/
Etymology: From ass + -ed; morphologically parallel with forms such as boned in big-boned, nosed in hard-nosed, and armed in one-armed.
Senses: examples: text: a large-assed young woman
glosses: Having a particular kind of ass or backside.
glosses: Adjective intensifier.
examples: text: I can’t be assed to get out of bed today.
text: We asked John if he wanted to come down the bar with us, but he couldn’t be assed.
glosses: bothered; willing to make an effort.
Derived terms: bare-assed
blackassed
black-assed
candy-assed
dumbassed
fat-assed
fatassed
half-assed
hard-assed
lard-assed
quarter-assed
red-assed
tight-assed
Related terms: arsed
-ass
-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Partially from ass, and partially from a corruption or simplification of assed.
Senses: examples: text: That's a big-ass wrench you've got there.
text: Wilson: He's right. They endorse Royce, fine, 'the hell else they gonna do? But what they say and don't say from the pulpit the Sunday before the primary we still got a dog in that fight.
Carcetti: I do this right, they respect it.
Wilson: An' if they don't, at least they get to see a beggin’-ass white man on his knees. Always a feel-good moment for the folks.
ref: 2006 October 1, Dennis Lehane, “Refugees” (00:32:06), in The Wire, season 4, episode 4:
text: I recognize that the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it.
ref: 2012, Joss Whedon, The Avengers, Marvel Studios:
text: You've got to work with me
Now, I don't wanna see any fake-ass workers
I need real builders
ref: 2018, “Work It”, in Working Class Woman, performed by Marie Davidson:
glosses: Used to intensify an adjective.
examples: text: Don't be such a broke-ass—you can afford a fast-food run today!
glosses: Used to convert an adjective into a noun for a person who has that trait.
examples: text: That's some Nixon-ass shit he's pulling.
text: What's that formal-ass language you're using? We're at a party!
glosses: Resembling.
Synonyms: word: as
sense: resembling
word: quasi-
sense: resembling
word: para-
sense: resembling
word: -oid
sense: resembling
word: -form
sense: resembling
word: -iform
sense: resembling
word: -esque
sense: resembling
word: -ish
sense: resembling
word: -ly
sense: resembling; forms adjectives from nouns only
word: -like
sense: resembling
word: -some
sense: resembling
word: -y
Related terms: assed
get through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/
Forms: form: gets through
form: getting through
form: got through
form: got through
form: gotten through
Senses: examples: text: Military training was hard, but I got through it.
glosses: To overcome; to endure.
examples: text: She got through her book this morning!
text: I was so thirsty that I got through three glasses of orange juice.
glosses: To complete; to finish.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: burn through, run through
text: With near-daily trips to Houston and back, he really gets through a lot of fuel in one month.
glosses: To use up; to expend.
examples: text: Near-synonym: get across
text: He was such a dyed-in-the-wool partisan that I just couldn't get through to him and change his mind.
text: He was such a dyed-in-the-wool partisan that I just couldn't get it through his skull.
text: The call wouldn't get through no matter how many times I tried.
text: My father had a horror of girls' schools (and if he could “get through”—to use the orthodox expression of the spookists—he would find all his opinions on this subject more than justified by the manners, morals and learning of the young ladies of the present day) […]
ref: 1920, Margot Asquith, An Autobiography:
text: And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU… WILL… ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
ref: 1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty):
text: What'll it take to get it through to you precious?
I'm over this, why do you wanna throw it away like this?
Such a mess, why would I want to watch you?
ref: 2003, “The Outsider”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
glosses: To communicate successfully across a barrier; to make contact, or get one's point across; to reach the addressee with difficulty.
Related terms: go through
live through
in-fucking-credible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in-fucking-credible
form: most in-fucking-credible
Senses: glosses: Extremely incredible.
Synonyms: un-fucking-believable
abso-fucking-lutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbsəˈfʌkɪŋluːtli/
ipa: /ˌæbsəfʌkɪŋˈluːtli/
Forms: form: more abso-fucking-lutely
form: most abso-fucking-lutely
form: abso-fuckin'-lutely
form: abso-fuckin-lutely
Etymology: A tmesis, absolutely + -fucking-.
Senses: examples: text: Poverty corrupts and absolute poverty corrupts absolutely. Abso-fucking-lutely.
ref: 1997, Phil Strongman, Cocaine: A Novel of the Cocaine Generation, Abacus, page 73:
text: Then, in what sounded too embarrassingly familiar, she squealed in her best, worst, most screechingly awful human voice, Down! Down! Down! while she stumbled around as if she was completely, abso-fucking-lutely smashed.
ref: 1998, Rebecca Brown, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, City Lights Books, page 66:
glosses: Alternative spelling of absofuckinglutely.
abso-fucking-lutely
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbsəˈfʌkɪŋluːtli/
ipa: /ˌæbsəfʌkɪŋˈluːtli/
Forms: form: abso-fuckin'-lutely
form: abso-fuckin-lutely
Etymology: A tmesis, absolutely + -fucking-.
Senses: examples: text: Except one local who said, "A hundred fifty?" "Abso-fucking-lutely. I need a fucking fix. I’ll smoke it, shoot it, snort it. Shit, I’ll put it up my ass if it gets me high."
ref: 2008, Bill Carter, Red Summer: The Danger, Madness, and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote Alaskan Village, Scribner, page 94:
text: Abso fucking lutely^([sic]) sir, and make no mistakes about my threat in the least either, Colonel Levy!
ref: 2013, Stephen Francis Montagna, The Scorpion's Daughter: Designer Biological Weapon of Mass Destruction, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co, page 215:
glosses: Alternative spelling of absofuckinglutely.
unbe-fucking-lievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbe-fucking-lievable
form: most unbe-fucking-lievable
Etymology: From unbelievable + (intensifying infix) -fucking-.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unbefuckinglievable.
crapload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craploads
Etymology: From crap + load.
Senses: synonyms: word: shitload
word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large amount, especially of something worthless.
craploads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapload
mukula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mukula
form: mukwa
form: Mukwa
Etymology: Borrowed from various Bantu languages, where the mu- or m- represents the noun class prefix.
Senses: glosses: Transvaal teak, the timber tree Pterocarpus angolensis, or its substitute of comparable properties Pterocarpus tinctorius syn. Pterocarpus chrysothrix
Popocatepetl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Popocatépetl.
oughtnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oughtness
malas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mala
rabbit food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbit foods
Senses: examples: text: The bunny ate the rabbit food.
glosses: A type of food specially formulated for the feeding of rabbits
examples: text: Are you on a diet? Why are you eating that rabbit food?
glosses: Salad vegetables, such as carrots, celery or lettuce.
Related terms: bunny chow
escape artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape artists
Senses: examples: text: Whether he is an escape artist, whether he is a known troublemaker and agitator, fights, and one thing or another. All these things are taken into consideration by the committee before a decision is made.
ref: 1972, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime, American Prisons in Turmoil: Hearings, page 615:
text: They do not mention that if the dog is like Nero, it can be a regular escape artist, pulling out chains or breaking ropes.
ref: 2001, Claire Rudolf Murphy, Jane G. Haigh, Gold Rush Dogs, page 40:
glosses: A person who is skilled at escaping from confinement, for example from prisons.
hyponyms: handcuff artist
glosses: An entertainer who performs escapes from perilous situations such as cages, coffins, and straitjackets.
Related terms: quick-change artist
escape artists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escape artist
pivoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pivot
Derived terms: nonpivoting
pivoting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pivotings
Senses: glosses: A motion by which something pivots.
glosses: The pivot-work in a machine.
pivoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pivot
pivoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a pivot or pivots.
Derived terms: nonpivoted
carves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carve
pentahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛntaˈhiːdɹən/
rhymes: -iːdɹən
Forms: form: pentahedra
form: pentahedrons
Etymology: From penta- + -hedron.
Senses: examples: text: Their tent was too small for them to stand, a long but low pentahedron, in shape like the triangular glass prism Saeed used to have as a child, with which he would refract sunlight into little rainbows.
ref: 2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 106:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron with five faces.
Related terms: pentahedral
pentahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentahedron
pentahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + -hedral.
Senses: glosses: relating to a pentahedron
Derived terms: pentahedrally
Related terms: pentahedron
petrographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to petrographs.
glosses: Relating to petrography.
Derived terms: petrographically
petrographic microscope
petrographic province
petrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrographs
Etymology: From petro- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: Drawing, writing or inscription on stone, as a painting on a cave wall.
Related terms: petroglyph
747s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 747
petro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: * From Latin petra (“stone, rock”), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”).
* Clipping of petroleum.
Senses: glosses: stone
glosses: petroleum
glosses: oil export, sometimes as a source of funding
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: petrous
Derived terms: sense: of stone
word: petroform
sense: of stone
word: petroglyph
sense: of stone
word: petroleum
sense: of petroleum-based products
word: petro-free
sense: of petroleum-based products
word: petrochemical
sense: of petroleum-based products
word: petroholic
sense: of, or funded by, oil export
word: petrodollar
sense: of, or funded by, oil export
word: petro-superpower
sense: of, or funded by, oil export
word: petro-dictatorship
sense: of, or funded by, oil export
word: petrostate
Related terms: oleo-
dog it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dogs it
form: dogging it
form: dogged it
form: dogged it
Senses: examples: text: The boss made him do extra cleaning work, because he was caught dogging it on his prior assignment.
text: The coach made him run extra laps, because he was dogging it in practice.
synonyms: soldier#Verb
;
fuck the dog
glosses: To underperform; to lag behind; to fail to exert effort.
Related terms: word: dogfucker
dress form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dress forms
Senses: glosses: A simple tailor's dummy with no head or limbs
Jingzhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.d͡ʒʌ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 惊蛰 (Jīngzhé), from 惊 (jīng, “rouse, startle, stir”) + 蛰 (zhé, “hibernate”), literally “rouse [insects] from [their] hibernation”.
Senses: examples: text: In Cenxi county, south of Wuzhou on a tributary flowing into the West River, the local gazetteer even assigned a specific date to the introduction of double cropping of rice: “Planting an early crop of rice first began during the Tianqi reign (1621–27), [and after that] each year two crops were harvested. The early crop is planted at Jingzhe [“Waking of the Insects”, March 5] and harvested in Xiaoshu or Dashu [“Lesser” or “Greater Heat”, July 7–23]. The late crop is planted at Mengzhong [“Grain in the Ear”, June 6] and harvested in the first month of the winter [mid-November].”
ref: 1998, Robert B. Marks, Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China, →ISBN, page 111:
text: In Shanghai, popular beliefs such as the idea that a thunderstorm prior to Jingzhe (the Waking of Hibernation, third solar period) foretells a bad year, eating many watermelons after Liqiu (the Beginning of Autumn, thirteenth solar period) may cause typhoid, tonics are most efficacious if taken after Dongzhi (the Winter Solstice, twenty-second solar period), and so on remained powerful in the twentieth century.
ref: 2004, Hanchao Lu, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, →ISBN, page 298:
glosses: The “Waking of Insects”; the Chinese third solar term — a “month” lasting from the fifth to the twentieth days of March.
carcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcases
Senses: examples: text: Oꝛ if a ſoule touch any vncleane thing, whether it be a carcaſe of an vncleane beaſt, oꝛ a carcaſe of vncleane cattell, oꝛ the carcaſe of vncleane creeping things, and if it be hidden from him, he alſo ſhall be vncleane, and guilty: […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 5:2, signature K, verso, column 2:
text: So he took for him all these and divided them in halves and placed the halves opposite to one another, but the birds he did not divide; but the birds alighted on the carcases, on the two halves of them, and Abram sat down with them.
ref: 1808, Charles Thomson, transl., The Holy Bible, […], Philadelphia: […] Jane Aitken, […], Genesis 15, 10:
text: But sometimes, especially upon the Line in the Pacific, this plan will not answer at all; because such incalculable hosts of sharks gather round the moored carcase, that were he left so for six hours, say, on a stretch, little more than the skeleton would be visible by morning.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Shark Massacre”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 336:
text: Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, “The Sheep-washing—The Offer”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 211:
text: I’m wonderin’ what Sidoli will do when she gets close to him. I bet he knows a trick or two. He’ll probably grab her an’ hold her in front of his measley carcase.
ref: 1944, A[rchibald] E[dward] Martin, chapter 13, in The Misplaced Corpse (Wakefield Crime Classics; 1), Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield Press, published June 1992, →ISBN, page 175:
text: Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.
ref: 1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:
text: 2005, N. M. Fogerty, V. Ingham, L. McLeod, G. Gaunt, L. Cummins, Variation among maternal sires for lamb and wool gross margin performance of their crossbred daughters, Association for the Advancement of Breeding Genetics, Proceedings of the 16th Conference: Application of New Genetic Technologies to Animal Breeding, page 61,
In each year lambs were weaned at 3 months and slaughtered as a group at a target average carcase weight of 22kg.
text: Also, scribe lines across the side panels to locate the dado for the bottom piece of the carcase.
ref: 2008, Matthew Teague, Helen Albert, Shelves, Cabinets & Bookcases, page 65:
glosses: Alternative form of carcass.
Republicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Republican
glosses: The Republican Party
raw_tags: without the article
an Englishman's home is his castle
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of a man's home is his castle.
synonyms: word: a man's home is his castle
ladies' man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies' men
Senses: examples: text: [S]he told me very frankly that whenever I returned, she would leave her mate and come to me, as she preferred me above all others. I was becoming a ladies' man after a lifetime of bashfulness!
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of lady's man.
Hooverville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hoovervilles
Etymology: From Hoover + -ville, named after Herbert Hoover.
Senses: glosses: Any of many shantytowns established by the homeless in the United States in the Great Depression of the early twentieth century.
wikipedia: Herbert Hoover
Related terms: Hoover blanket
Hoover flag
Hoover hog
Hoover wagon
pentadactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pentadactyl + -y.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having five digits (fingers or toes) on a limb
Related terms: pentadactylic
pentadactylous
jolly well
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: You jolly well deserved it.
text: We never had a Christmas in the country before. It was simply ripping. And […] we had games and charades, and hide-and-seek, and Devil in the Dark, which is a game girls pretend to like, and very few do really, and crackers and a Christmas-tree for the village children, and everything you can jolly well think of.
ref: 1904, Edith Nesbit, The New Treasure Seekers, Chapter 1:
text: "Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.
ref: 1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven, page 122:
text: Adrian thought it worth while trying out his new slang. […] ‘That’s beastly talk, Thompson. Jolly well take it back or expect a good scragging.’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 26:
text: For most main lines, that's one or two extra trains every hour. "We jolly well ought to be able to encompass that on a lot of lines," he suggests.
ref: 2022 April 6, Philip Haigh, “Passenger numbers increase... and freight must follow”, in RAIL, number 954, page 51:
glosses: Certainly, very well.
tailor's dummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailors' dummies
Senses: glosses: A simple mannequin used by tailors to fit clothes
Song dynasty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Song dynasty
Etymology: Partial calque from Chinese 宋朝 (Sòngcháo).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese dynasty that lasted from 960–1279 C.E.
doubler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublers
Etymology: From double (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who doubles.
glosses: An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
examples: text: The mechanics fastened a doubler over the hole where the cracked section of the plane's skin had been cut out.
text: The airworthiness directive called for riveting a reinforcing doubler to the wing midspar web to keep the spar from buckling under flight loads.
qualifier: structural engineering
glosses: A metal plate riveted or welded over a preexisting metal structural component to reinforce it and relieve the stress on the preexisting component, or to serve as a patch where part of the original structure has failed or been removed.
glosses: Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
qualifier: calico printing
glosses: A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
glosses: A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
synonyms: diaper doubler
glosses: A diaper insert.
Derived terms: line doubler
nanodoubler
scan doubler
doubler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublers
Etymology: From double (adjective) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tenement house having two families on each floor.
glosses: A biplane aeroplane or kite.
zoisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzɔɪˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: zoisites
Etymology: Named after Austrian scientist Baron Sigmund Zois von Edelstein (1747-1819) in 1805. + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with orthorhombic crystals, Ca₂Al₃(SiO₄)(Si₂O₇)O(OH).
Derived terms: clinozoisite
zoisitic
zoisitization
zoisitized
zinkenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinkenites
Etymology: After German mineralogist J. K. L. Zinken (1798-1862), named in 1862.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A grey mineral with hexagonal crystals, Pb₉Sb₂₂S₄₂.
enterprise service bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterprise service buses
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: ESB
glosses: A layer in the abstract architecture of the message system of an organization.
double decker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double deckers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double-decker.
database engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: database engines
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: storage engine
glosses: The underlying component that a database management system uses to create, retrieve, update and delete data.
niello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niˈɛləʊ/
ipa: /niˈɛloʊ/
Forms: form: niellos
form: nielli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian niello, from Latin nigellus (“blackish”).
Senses: examples: text: a young woman named Renata, with a gesturing of her dark curls, beckoned him in with a cigarette-case of Russian silver and niello, which sprang open to reveal a collection of “smokes” […]
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 283:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various black metal alloys, made of sulphur with copper, silver or lead, used to create decorative designs on other metals.
glosses: An impression on paper taken from the engraved or incised surface before the niello alloy has been inlaid.
Derived terms: nielloware
Related terms: niellated
nielle
niellist
niellure
niello
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /niˈɛləʊ/
ipa: /niˈɛloʊ/
Forms: form: niellos
form: nielloing
form: nielloed
form: nielloed
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian niello, from Latin nigellus (“blackish”).
Senses: glosses: To decorate (a surface) using this technique.
fasciculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fasciculations
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: (toxicology, venoms) An involuntary muscle twitch, usually localised and temporary, but that may be intensified and prolonged fatally by particular poisons and venoms such as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.
glosses: A cluster of fascicles.
glosses: The process of becoming fasciculate, of growing together in clusters of fascicles.
Derived terms: cofasciculation
cramp fasciculation syndrome
defasciculation
feeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːb/
rhymes: -iːb
Forms: form: feebs
Etymology: Clipping of feeble-minded.
Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman feblebor.
Middle English feble
English feeble
English mind
English -ed
English minded
English feeble-minded
English feeb
Senses: examples: text: ‘Everybody that knows anything about me knows that I wouldn't hurt a feeb.’
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 128:
text: “Eeeyynnhh, too many feebs to deal with over the years, I guess—oh I'm sorry, hope I'm not offending—”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 285:
glosses: Someone who is feeble-minded; an idiot.
feeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːb/
rhymes: -iːb
Forms: form: feebs
Senses: examples: text: I ignored the bait until she said she couldn't understand why Harley had wanted to be a drug agent instead of "a feeb."
ref: 1979, James Mills, The Truth about Peter Harley, page 19:
text: When Lance was introduced, he held out his hand toward the feeb and said, “Hi, I'm current occupant:” The FBI agent was so nervous about the chopper flight he never noticed.
ref: 1990, Robert Coram, America's Heroes, page 135:
text: “Surrender, feeb! Only I can save her!” Kegan boasted, firing short bursts from his weapon about randomly.
ref: 2014, Don Pendleton, Oblivion Pact:
glosses: Alternative form of Feeb (“FBI agent”).
feeb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːb/
rhymes: -iːb
Senses: examples: text: This feeb supervisor here says he's shuttin' this case down at two o'clock, which means putting the dope on the street without the money, even if they can get it together.
ref: 1994, William Gately, Yvette Fernández, Dead Ringer, page 214:
text: Your presence is requested in the feeb liaison office by my boss, Agent Jinadu.
ref: 2008, Eghosa Imasuen, To Saint Patrick, page 189:
text: It's rare, but sometimes he encounters skepticism in the cops he works with—cops who had a feeb profiler forced on them by their superiors, and perceive this as a vote of no confidence in their own abilities.
ref: 2010, Max Salt, Harold's World, page 41:
text: This week, Stephen Tobolowsky and Max Perlich join the party: the former as a “feeb” agent warning Raylan away from the latter, who’s playing Detroit crime prince Sammy Tonin.
ref: 2012 February 28, Noel Murray, “Justified: “The Man Behind The Curtain””, in AV Club:
glosses: Alternative form of Feeb (“FBI”).
cribbage board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cribbage boards
Senses: glosses: A board with several tracks of holes, used for scorekeeping in games such as cribbage and dominoes.
Derived terms: crib board
twosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twosies
Etymology: From two + -sies.
Senses: glosses: A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where two actions must be performed.
ombud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒmbəd/
Forms: form: ombuds
Etymology: Clipping of ombudsman.
Senses: glosses: ombudsman
sūtras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sūtra
had to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have to
Related terms: must
mustn't
haven't
have
hadn't
mad as a March hare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Possibly from the boisterous behaviour of hares in their breeding season.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he was with childe in hir huſbande his abſence, or that hir louer vſed hir fondly in open preſence, as the preſumption was not onely vehement, but alſo the fact too too apparent. Hir vnfortunat huſband had not ſooner notice gyuen him vpon his returne of theſe ſorowfull newes, then his fingers began to nibble, hys teeth to grinne, hys eyes to trickle, his eares to dindle, his heade to dezell, in ſomuch as his heart being ſkeared wyth ialouſie, & his wits enſtalde through Phrenſie, he became as madde, as a marche hare.
ref: 1577, Richard Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “[The Historie of Irelande […].] A Treatise Contayning a Playne and Perfect Description of Irelande, […].”, in Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, folio 14, recto, column 1:
synonyms: word: mad as a hatter
word: 5150
word: bananas
word: barking
word: barking mad
word: buggish
word: buggy
word: bughouse
word: barmy
word: batchy
word: batpoop
word: bats
word: batty
word: bonkers
word: bread baskets
word: cracked
word: crackers
word: cra-cra
word: cray
word: cray-cray
word: crazed
word: crazy
word: crazy as a bedbug
word: crazy as a cootie
word: crazy as a cootie bug
word: crazy as a pet coon
word: cuckoo
word: daffy
word: daft
word: demented
word: deranged
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: doolally
word: dotty
word: eccentric
word: fruit loops
word: gaga
word: hatstand
word: harebrained
word: insane
word: kooky
word: loon
word: loco
word: loony
word: loony tunes
word: loopy
word: lunatic
word: mad
word: mental
word: mentally ill
word: meshigener
word: meshugge
word: moonsick
word: non compos mentis
word: nonsane
word: nucking futs
word: nut job
word: nutballs
word: nut
word: nuts
word: nutso
word: nutty
word: nutter
word: off the beam
word: off the chain
word: over the edge
word: potty
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: psychotic
word: sicko
word: screwy
word: squirrelly
word: starkers
word: tonto
word: unbalanced
word: unsane
word: wackadoodle
word: weird
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: whacky
word: wode
word: yampy
word: zany
word: apeshit
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bat-shit
word: fucked in the head
word: fucked up
word: ripshit
qualifier: simile
glosses: Crazy, demented.
fibbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibbies
form: Fibbie
Senses: examples: text: You can also rest assured that he will not take that ass chewing from the fibbies setting down.
ref: 2003, R. Roy Simmons, Dynamite!, →ISBN, page 79:
text: The fibbies would walk in here just like the two of you, wave a gun around, and swear that they weren't fibbies.
ref: 2010, John Grisham, The Brethren, →ISBN, page 292:
text: The envelope was right on top -- I handled it carefully, still stubbornly clinging to the belief that the fibbies would want to dust it for fingerprints.
ref: 2010, Jerald Ford, Turn Me On, Dead Man, →ISBN, page 77:
text: “My stepfather used to be a fibbie,” Allyn said. “He might be useful.”
ref: 2011, Terese Ramin, A Drive-By Wedding, →ISBN:
glosses: An FBI agent.
abondance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abondances
Senses: examples: text: with an abondance already declared against him and lacking the top two hearts, West took it as a fair bet that he must have held ten or eleven trumps, leaving a strong possibility of Ace bare in South's hand.
ref: 1976, Edu-Games (U.K.) (publisher), Games & Puzzles, numbers 44-55, page 32:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Alternative form of abundance
aerosolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerosolization
forgi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgis
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Forgi.