cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scallywags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scallywag
mythconception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪθ.kənˈsɛp.ʃən/
Forms: form: mythconceptions
Etymology: Blend of myth + misconception
Senses: examples: text: That Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world is a common mythconception.
text: The claim that when you have a cold, drinking heavily will get rid of it is just a mythconception.
glosses: A popular misconception; something often held to be true that in fact is not.
Related terms: myth
old wives' tale
pseudoscience
truism
urban legend
urban myth
burnt offering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /bɝnt ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /-ˈɑfəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: burnt offerings
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁epi
From Middle English brend offring, brend offringe, from brend (past participle of brennen (“to burn”)) + offring, offringe (“presentation of something as a religious offering; offering presented to God or another deity”), used in biblical texts to translate Late Latin holocaustum (“burnt offering wholly consumed by fire”) in the Vulgate version of the Bible. The English term is analysable as burnt + offering.
Senses: examples: text: […] Job ſent for them, and clenſed them agayne, ſtode vp early, and offred for eueryone a brẽtofferinge [brentofferinge].
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Job j:[5], folio i, recto, column 2:
text: When they faſt I will not heare their crie, and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation I wil not accept them: but I will conſume them by the ſword, and by the famine, and by the peſtilence.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 14:12, column 2:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.
examples: text: A cooler oven would give heavy, doughy loaves while a hotter oven would provide the family with the inevitable burnt offerings.
ref: 1991, Sara Minwel Tibbott, Baking in Wales, page 21:
glosses: Overcooked food.
fungaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungaemias
Senses: glosses: a form of sepsis in which fungi circulate in the blood.
Related terms: fungaemic
liftin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liftin
form: most liftin
Senses: examples: The rubbish dump was liftin
glosses: Stinky, noisome, putrid.
examples: text: Ees claes were liftin wi vormin!
glosses: Alive with parasites or pests.
qualifier: Ottawa Valley
glosses: Holy or unholy, supernatural.
parasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasite
parasites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parasite
oor kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Younger (sometimes older) sibling, usually masculine.
Related terms: sense: mainly Manchester
word: our kid
word: wor kid
royal flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal flushes
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: royal straight flush
glosses: An ace-high straight flush; a hand consisting of the cards A, K, Q, J, 10, of the same suit and the rarest and strongest hand in poker.
fill in the blank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fill in the blanks
form: fill in the blanks
Etymology: As a noun, a clipping of fill-in-the-blank question, problem, &c.
Senses: examples: text: The test consisted of fill-in-the-blank sentences.
text: The emphasis on doing the Bible study portion. This is not a fill in the blank with a simple answer from the Bible that “says” what we are looking for.
ref: 2009, Randy Huddleston, Getting to Know God, page 43:
glosses: A language exercise in which one or more words are replaced with a blank line and the reader is tasked with supplying a valid replacement.
examples: text: It was important that she make something memorable. She wanted to be complimented. She wanted people to go home after the party and say, “Wasn't Dorothy's — fill in the blank — amazing?"
ref: 2011, Debra Ginsberg, The Neighbors Are Watching: A Novel, page 55:
glosses: A placeholder allowing for any of a variety of possible answers or a single elicited answer.
Synonyms: topics: exercise
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: gap fill
Hyponyms: topics: exercise
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: cloze
fill in the blank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills in the blank
form: filling in the blank
form: filled in the blank
form: filled in the blank
form: fill in the blanks
Etymology: As a noun, a clipping of fill-in-the-blank question, problem, &c.
Senses: glosses: To complete a single fill in the blank question.
examples: text: The Zionists intended to shape the perceptions of a global public with limited interest in or understanding of the issues, filling in the blanks with their own narrative.
ref: 2010, George Friedman, Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion:
glosses: To complete an interruption, ambiguity, or vagueness in understanding, perception, or context.
Synonyms: word: gapfill
psychogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪkɒˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/
Etymology: From psycho- + -genic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Originating from or caused by state of mind; having a psychological rather than a physiological cause.
Derived terms: psychogenic alopecia
psychogenic pain
on top of the world
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He was on top of the world after she agreed to marry him.
glosses: Delighted; ecstatic; exceptionally pleased, happy, or satisfied.
witcha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪ.t͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ɪtʃə
homophone: witcher stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: with + -cha
Senses: glosses: Contraction of with you.
dreamlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dreamlike
form: most dreamlike
Etymology: From dream + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Her kiss sent me into a dreamlike state of bliss.
text: The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi, “Diana's Mirror,” as it was called by the ancients.
ref: 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
text: Even when the legend is of an actual historical personage, the deeds of victory are rendered, not in lifelike, but in dreamlike figurations; for the point is not that such-and-such was done on earth; the point is that, before such-and-such could be done on earth, this other, more important, primary thing had to be brought to pass within the labyrinth that we all know and visit in our dreams.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29:
synonyms: dreamish
dreamy
oneiric
glosses: Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.
Derived terms: dreamlikeness
undreamlike
out of this world
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You must try the chef's special: it's just out of this world.
text: A team of Irish astronomers have captured an out-of-this-world image of one of the youngest stars known to scientists.
ref: 2023 August 24, Mairead Sheehy, “Irish group captures 'advanced image' of one of the youngest stars known to scientists”, in Irish Examiner:
synonyms: too good for this world
glosses: Of exceptionally high quality; wonderful; marvelous.
chrysoprase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysoprases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) and πράσινον (prásinon, “green”).
Senses: examples: text: […]or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase,[…]
ref: 1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 10, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 7, page 79:
text: With shaken soul of light and shuddering blaze / Of leaping emerald and cold chrysoprase
ref: 1911, George Sterling, Duandon:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
brownstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaʊnˌstoʊn/
Forms: form: brownstones
Etymology: From brown + stone.
Senses: glosses: A variety of brown to red-brown sandstone once popular as a building material.
examples: text: Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto, I’ve lived all over this town.
ref: 1979, Talking Heads, Life During Wartime:
text: Did I mention he lives in a fantastic, expensive-looking brownstone? Did I mention that he’s a published novelist? Did I mention that he’s an involved, attentive father?
ref: 2014 October 9, James Poniewozik, “Review: The Affair: More Than Meets the "I"”, in Time:
text: They emerge from the car to face a pair of brownstones, stately narrow things, which seem to have been similarly renovated and decorated.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 203:
glosses: A row house built of brownstone, especially in New York City.
Derived terms: brownstoned
brownstoner
Hummelstown brownstone
brownstone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaʊnˌstoʊn/
Forms: form: brownstones
form: brownstoning
form: brownstoned
form: brownstoned
Etymology: From brown + stone.
Senses: coordinate_terms: whitestone
glosses: To scour (steps) with a donkey stone.
row house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: row houses
form: rowhouse
form: row-house
Etymology: From row + house.
Senses: examples: text: The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down.
text: When we meet Jess in the early '50s she's seven, living in a row house crammed against other row houses in a working-class Lancaster, all packed in against the steep hills that populate the English Northwest.
ref: 1990 August 18, Liz Galst, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 9:
glosses: A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof
Related terms: word: terraced house
word: terrace
row houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of row house
townhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaʊnˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: townhouses
form: town house
Etymology: From town + house. Compare Dutch tuinhuis (“summer house, cabana”), tuinhuisje (“bower”).
Senses: hypernyms: house
glosses: A row house or terraced house.
hypernyms: house
glosses: A house in an urban setting.
glosses: A town hall.
Derived terms: Creole townhouse
town house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of townhouse.
town houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town house
townhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of townhouse
objectivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪ.vɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: objectivisms
Etymology: From objective + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being objective; objectivity.
glosses: Moral objectivism.
examples: text: Objectivism and subjectivism need each other to exist. Each defines itself in opposition to the other and sees the other as the enemy. Objectivism takes as its allies scientific truth, rationality, precision, fairness, and impartiality.
ref: 1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 25, in Metaphors We Live By:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: positivism
glosses: Any of several doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind.
examples: text: Ayn Rand, the guiding spirit of the philosophy of Objectivism and an advocate of “laissez faire capitalism,” endorsed Senator Goldwater as [“]the best of what is available.”
ref: 1964 November 5, Murray Seeger, quoting Ayn Rand, “Hope Still Found For Conservatism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Into philosophy but not computer games? Then you probably missed Ayn Rand’s objectivism in BioShock (where the villain builds an undersea city out of the reach of government).
ref: 2008 September 15, Tom Kuntz, “Fantasy and Philosophy”, in New York Times:
text: But for some, objectivism stuck. Perhaps her most significant early follower was Alan Greenspan, later to serve as chairman of the US Federal Reserve for 19 years.
ref: 2017 April 10, Jonathan Freedland, “The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist Ayn Rand, endorsing logical reasoning and self-interest.
Derived terms: logical objectivism
neo-objectivism
nonobjectivism
schizont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizonts
Etymology: From German Schizont, from the present participle of Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “divide”). By surface analysis, schizo- + -ont.
Senses: glosses: A cell that divides by schizogony.
Derived terms: macroschizont
megaloschizont
microschizont
schizonticidal
payphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: payphones
form: pay phone
Etymology: From pay + phone.
Senses: examples: text: I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab.
text: You called me from a payphone / They still got payphones / It costs a dollar a minute / To tell me you're getting sober
ref: 2020, “Kyoto”, in Punisher, performed by Phoebe Bridgers:
glosses: A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.
Synonyms: word: tickey box
Related terms: telephone booth
telephone box
telephone kiosk
call collect
COCOT
coin-op
collect call
drop a dime
payphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payphone
interdenominational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + denominational.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical
topics: lifestyle
religion
coordinate_terms: nondenominational
glosses: Of, relating to, or between different denominations or churches.
Derived terms: interdenominationalism
interdenominationally
strigil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪd͡ʒɪl/
rhymes: -ɪdʒɪl
Forms: form: strigils
Etymology: From Latin strigilis.
Senses: examples: text: In another corner, more bone hinges and bronze fittings indicated another cupboard, this time containing a range of rather more prized possessions: the statuette of Venus, a glass swan, a terracotta Cupid, plus some rock-crystal jewellery, a broken horse bit, a couple of strigils (used for ‘scraping down’ after exercise) and various bits and pieces of bone and bronze, including two lamp-stands.
ref: 2010, Mary Beard, chapter 3, in Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town:
glosses: A grooming tool used to scrape away dead skin, oil, dirt, etc.
strigils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strigil
zarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zarfs
Etymology: Likely from Ottoman Turkish ظرف (zarf), from Arabic ظَرْف (ẓarf).
Senses: examples: text: In presenting the coffee, the servant holds the foot of the zarf with his thumb and first finger. In receiving the fingán and zarf, he makes use of both hands, place the left beneath and the right above at the same instant.
ref: 1860, Edward William Lane, “V: Domestic Life”, in An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, page 138:
text: Cenk Girginol, a Turkish coffee consultant and author of the book Coffee: From the Soil to the Cup, says zarfs began to be used at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century. […] By the 19th century, goldsmiths in Geneva were making zarfs to export, according to the Khalili Collections. Recent auctions and museum collections show zarfs that were made in France, Syria, Iran and Switzerland. A zarf in the Louvre's collection, covered in emeralds and diamonds, was owned by Abdul Hamid II, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
ref: 2025 September 17, James Doubek, “What to know about zarfs, the fanciest way to drink coffee”, in Word of the Week, NPR, retrieved 17 Sep 2025:
glosses: An ornamental container designed to hold a coffee cup or teacup and insulate it from the hand of the drinker.
zarfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zarf
taberna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabernas
Etymology: From Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna.
Senses: glosses: A type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.
taberna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabernas
Etymology: From Spanish taberna, from Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna.
Senses: examples: text: When King Philip II made Madrid his capital in 1561, the taberna was already well established. The city's streets teemed with people—from lowlife and riffraff to cloaked royalty and aristocrats seeking anonymity in the crowds—and in the finest democratic tradition, all took part in the life of the tabernas.
ref: 1994 April 3, Penelope Casas, “Madrid's Timeless Taverns”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
hypernyms: tavern
restaurant
<
establishment
coordinate_terms: taverna
osteria
trattoria
bistro
glosses: A tavern in Spain.
get hitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets hitched
form: getting hitched
form: got hitched
form: got hitched
form: gotten hitched
Senses: examples: text: They're gonna get hitched next Saturday.
text: His parents flipped their lids when the two lovebugs got hitched. Jonnie couldn't stand the fact that her beautiful young son, gone so long over seas, had now tangled up with an older woman, and even worse, an older divorced woman […]
ref: 2009, Dee Kassabian, My Four Fathers and Other Short Stories, page 45:
glosses: To get married, to wed.
Synonyms: sense: get married
word: get married
sense: get married
word: wed
sense: get married
word: tie the knot
hitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hitch
Related terms: get hitched
plucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pluck
plucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Forms: form: pluckings
Senses: examples: text: Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […].
ref: 2007 April 27, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: An act in which something is plucked.
raw_tags: of pluck
examples: text: Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934
ref: 1937, Archibald Dixon Shamel, Carl Schurz Scofield, David A. Savage, Wheat Requirements in Europe:
glosses: A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
examples: text: Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]
ref: 1959, E. A. Apps, Printing Ink Technology, page 415:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
Derived terms: ripe for the plucking
pandar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpændə/
rhymes: -ændə
homophone: panda (UK)
Forms: form: pandars
form: pander
Etymology: From Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus, from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros). (See also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.)
Senses: examples: text: From my exceſſe of moyſture, vvith ſuch coſt, / And can you yeeld no other retribution, / But to deuoure your maker, pandar, ſponge, / Impoyſner, all grovvne barren?
ref: c. 1607–1621 (date written), [Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher; Philip Massinger], The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1621, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature D2, recto:
glosses: A person who furthers the illicit love affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male.
Derived terms: pandarize
pandar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpændə/
rhymes: -ændə
homophone: panda (UK)
Forms: form: pandars
form: pandaring
form: pandared
form: pandared
form: pander
Etymology: From Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus, from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros). (See also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.)
Senses: examples: text: That degenerate aſſembly even pandared to the libidinous epicuriſm of this many-wived tyrant; and outraged, at his command, the rights of decorum, of juſtice, and of nature.
ref: 1795, Paul Dunvan, Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston, page 397:
text: […]not to be confounded by all the efforts of interested writers, who would abuse the valuable immunities of the press to the wretched purposes of venal detraction, and a lucrative pandaring to the morbid tastes of the public.
ref: 1827, Law of Libel—State of the Press: The Quarterly Review, volume 35, London, page 608:
text: He had, during many years, earned his daily bread by pandaring to the vicious taste of the pit, and by grossly flattering rich and noble patrons.
ref: 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume 2, published 1858, page 456:
glosses: To pander (assist in the gratification of).
Related terms: demagogism
motivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motivation
nub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌb/
ipa: /nʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: nubs
Etymology: Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob.
Senses: glosses: The innermost section of a chrysalis in a silk cocoon.
synonyms: nubbin
glosses: A small knob or lump.
examples: text: What do you think is the nub of the problem?
text: Very often, of course, the rambling and disjointed humorous story finishes with a nub, point, snapper, or whatever you like to call it.
ref: 1895 October 3, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “How to Tell a Story”, in How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published 1898, →OCLC, page 4:
text: But surely the males are no problem? Aha...no we're approaching the nub.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 115:
synonyms: word: crux
word: gist
word: bowels
word: brass tacks
word: core
word: crux
word: essence
word: gist
word: drift
word: guts
word: gravamen
word: heart
word: heart and soul
word: heartstring
word: heartstrings
word: inwardness
word: kernel
word: marrow
word: meat
word: moral of the story
word: nitty-gritty
word: nub
word: nuts and bolts
word: pith
word: punctum saliens
word: quintessence
word: soul
word: spirit
word: stuff
word: substance
word: tenor
glosses: The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.
examples: text: “ — and then rub her nub with the bridge of your nose, right where the nerve will drive her straight to the ceiling!”
ref: 2007, Melissa MacNeal, Hot for It, →ISBN, page 198:
text: When he used his fingers to rub her nub, he didn't have to wait anymore. She exploded for the second time that morning,...
ref: 2008, Arianna Hart, A Man for Marley, →ISBN, page 82:
text: He stroked her, using her movements to increase the pressure on her nub, catching her between his fingers.
ref: 2010, Beverly Rae, Wild Cat, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: The clitoris.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pointing stick.
examples: text: A nub is a passage of blank verse that Shakespearean actors have sometimes relied upon when they forget their lines. It doesn't have to make any sense, but it must sound plausible. To alert the other actors on stage that the speaker is in difficulty, the word nub is used in the first line.
ref: 2009, David Crystal, Walking English, Overlook Press, page 183:
text: To an audience a clever nub can pass for Shakespeare himself.
ref: 2013, Heathcote Williams, Nubbing, Cold Turkey Press:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.
Derived terms: nubber
nubby
nubcake
nublet
nublike
nub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌb/
ipa: /nʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: nubs
form: nubbing
form: nubbed
form: nubbed
Etymology: Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball weakly.
glosses: To push; to nudge.
glosses: To beckon.
examples: text: In Shall we Shog?, Globe artistic director Mark Rylance hilariously found himself having to nub the Quarto version of Hamlet's speech to the players.
ref: 2009, David Crystal, Walking English, Overlook Press, page 184:
glosses: To extemporize a passage of Shakespearean blank verse
nub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌb/
ipa: /nʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
ipa: /nuːb/
ipa: /nub/
rhymes: -uːb
ipa: /nʌb/
ipa: /nʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: nubs
Etymology: Variant spelling of noob.
Senses: examples: text: He can’t even make himself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? What a nub.
glosses: Alternative spelling of noob.
Derived terms: nublet
pull my finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls my finger
form: pulling my finger
form: pulled my finger
form: pulled my finger
Senses: examples: text: Bob: "Oh, how do you play this game?"
text: Charlie: "Well, Bob, just pull my finger."
text: Could there be a more romantic gift than a remote-controlled fart machine or a pull-my-finger pen?
ref: 2006, Marsha Collier, Santa Shops on EBay, page 89:
glosses: A phrase used when playing a prank regarding flatulence, in which someone is asked to pull the finger of the person playing the prank, who simultaneously flatulates so as to suggest a causal relationship between the pulling of the finger and the ensuing expulsion of gas.
Related terms: pull the other one, it's got bells on
pull my finger out
Latvians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latvian
Letton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Walford, Letton and Newton parish, north Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3770).
glosses: A small village and civil parish in west Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3346).
glosses: A surname.
moral objectivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: ethical objectivism
glosses: The position that certain acts are objectively right or wrong, independent of human opinion.
I never did
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: 185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
‘Why, good gracious, Amy, what ever brought you here?’
‘I wanted to see you, Fanny dear; and as I am going out all day to-morrow, and knew you might be engaged all day to-day, I thought—’
‘But the idea, Amy, of you coming behind! I never did!’
text: "Well, I never did!" she exclaimed in a scandalized whisper. "Trying to set fire to the 'ouse — oh, fie".
ref: 1939, Scribner's Magazine:
glosses: An exclamation of great surprise.
Related terms: well I never
well, I never
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of great surprise.
Synonyms: I never did
fancy that
well, well, well
dovish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌvɪʃ/
Forms: form: more dovish
form: most dovish
form: doveish
Etymology: From dove + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a dove; dove-like.
examples: text: According to Kathleen A. Francovic, director of surveys for CBS News, it was the “war and peace” issue that seemed to separate the sexes in 1980, with women predictably perched on the dovish side.
ref: 1982 December 10, Ann Hulbert, “What Gender Gap?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Doubtless an expression of frustration at the UN secretary general, who has long been too dovish for Bush administration tastes.
ref: 2006 July 18, Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, page 3:
text: Caillaux bypassed his Foreign Office in order to impose his own dovish agenda on the negotiations with Berlin […].
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 210:
text: It is entirely possible, for example, that Cameron’s dovish views on China, criticised by many, will not survive now that he is back in office.
ref: 2023 November 15, Helene von Bismarck, “In Europe, we can’t help laughing at David Cameron’s return – but we welcome it too”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: irenic
word: pacific
word: anti-bellicist
word: dovelike
word: dovish
word: irenic
word: irenical
word: non-violent
word: pacific
word: pacifist
word: pacifistic
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: unaggressive
antonyms: hawkish
glosses: Peaceful, conciliatory.
examples: text: The Federal Reserve's statement on recent inflation was interpreted as dovish by the market.
text: A dovish policy keeps unemployment close to 6 percent and lets the price level swing more widely to absorb economic shocks.
ref: 1985, Price Stability and Public Policy, page 143:
text: By appearing more dovish than the central bank actually is, the trade-off it faces between stabilization of inflation and stabilization fo the output gap is likely to worsen.
ref: 2010, Jordi Galí, “The New-Keynesian Approach to Monetary Policy Analysis: Lessons and New Directions”, in Volker Wieland, editor, The Science and Practice of Monetary Policy Today, page 15:
topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: hawkish
glosses: Disfavoring increasing interest rates; inclined against increasing interest rates.
Derived terms: dovishly
dovishness
tarnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑɹˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: tarnations
Etymology: From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.
Senses: examples: text: What in tarnation is going on?
text: I am Offul maazed. Wheer in tarnations es that theer plaguy girl?
ref: 1901, Alien, Another Woman's Territory, page 311:
text: Them city fellers liked to died when they see me come in the office ! I says to 'em: "Had a tarnation of a time finding this place.
ref: 1965, Benjamin Albert Botkin, A treasury of New England folklore: stories, ballads, and traditions:
text: "Now who in tarnation is Uncle Jobe?" asked Pa.
ref: 1989, Patrick D. Smith, The River is Home ; And, Angel City, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Then where in tarnation is it?
ref: 1999, John O'Connor, The Hound of the Baskervilles, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.
examples: text: I would say more, but RADLEY's come up to tell me I must go and meet that tarnation BANCROFT.
ref: 1848, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Mark Lemon, Punch - Volumes 12-15, page 162:
text: I felt sort of odd all over, and I hadn't the least notion what could ail me; it warn't a very tedious feeling, though, but it seemed as if I was a dreaming yit, and all about that tarnation little Miss Miles.
ref: 1854, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 70:
text: The year before that the young tarnations got up into the tower one night and hooked a rope onto the bell and stretched it across the campus into Professor Robert's barn.
ref: 1928 September, F. Ray Ritchie, “The Worm Turns”, in Boys' Life, volume 18, number 9, page 39:
glosses: Someone or something that causes trouble; troublemaker.
Derived terms: what in tarnation
tarnation
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑɹˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.
Senses: examples: text: "Tarnation! You all right?" "Hell, no, I ain't all right!"
ref: 2002, T. T. Flynn, Prodigal of Death: A Western Quintet, →ISBN, page 41:
text: “They contain the precise description of the place where the nuggets are hidden.” “Tarnation! Is that true?"
ref: 2008, Marlies Bugmann, Karl May, Winnetou III, page 338:
text: “Tarnation,” Jasper murmured, his attention turning to the thing in the Aether bubble.
ref: 2013, Kady Cross, The Girl With The Iron Touch, →ISBN:
text: “Oh, what in the Sam Hill are you a-wearing? I thought I was supposed to be Twain.” “I say you are incorrect, sir. I believe we decided I would be Twain.” “Twin Twains? That dog won't hunt.” “Uh, Mr. Clemens?” “Mmhmm. That's me.” “No, I'm Twain. Switch costumes, you ignominious pretender.” “You're more stubborn than a senate mule.” “Grits, grits, grits!” “Tarnation!” “Fancy pants, big-city lawyer.” “I say you are incorrect, sir.”
ref: 2023 September 21, Grace Parra Janney, “Something Borrowed, Something Green” (9:35 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero):
glosses: Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.
tarnation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑɹˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: more tarnation
form: most tarnation
Etymology: From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.
Senses: examples: text: Now you go 'long back to the house, Marm Winthrop, and if riding 'longside of a popish priest don't speerit me into the bottomless pit, I'll be blamed if I don't go some day into his church and find out what all that tarnation lingo means.
ref: 1876, The Catholic Record - Volume 11, page 78:
text: It started over nothing, and would have come to nothing but for that tarnation liquor.
ref: 1894, Macmillan's Magazine - Volume 70, page 343:
text: Hello stranger, this is a fine fix you got into, getting a tarnation fever out in the Rockies, but my wife is the best hand at sick folks you ever see.
ref: 1921, Gilbert Guest, A Bridal Trip in a Prairie Schooner, page 128:
glosses: Bothersome; devilish.
examples: text: Some time in the month o' August, I think it wur, I found myself in London wi'out a tarnation cent.
ref: 1803, The Castle of the Pyrenees; Or, the Wanderer of the Alps.:
text: My love the strongest, a tarnation sight.
ref: 1838, The Old American Comic Almanac:
text: I allow now, if I had asked you to loan me a handful of dollars, you might have looked as glum as a beaver in a trap ; but there's a tarnation difference between that and a civil question on the road.
ref: 1861, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Norman Sinclair, page 213:
glosses: Generic intensifier.
tarnation
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑɹˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: more tarnation
form: most tarnation
Etymology: From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.
Senses: examples: text: He was so tarnation black you couldn't see him except in the middle of the day.
ref: 1855, John Diprose, Diprose's New Sixpenny Comic Song-Book, page 57:
text: Since Britannia ruled the waves, I guess it's a tarnation queer thing that she didn't rule 'em straighter.
ref: 1867, John Cordy Jeaffreson, A Book about Lawyers - Volume 2, page 242:
text: Well, that's tarnation strange !
ref: 1883 -, John Thomas Dicks, Dicks' standard plays, page 48:
text: I know it is lonesome for you, but I will be with you again in time and then we can and will have a "tarnation good time."
ref: 2009, Dennis M. Larsen -, Slick as a Mitten: Ezra Meeker's Klondike Enterprise, page 29:
glosses: Very; extremely.
vetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vet
vetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Only vetted nominees make it to committee hearings.
glosses: Having undergone an investigation and been approved.
varsity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɑː.sɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈvɑɹ.sɪ.ti/
ipa: [ˈvɑɹsɪɾi]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)sɪti
Forms: form: varsities
Etymology: First attested in the mid 17th century. Clipping of univarsity, reflecting an archaic pronunciation of university.
Senses: examples: text: […] and then to lyrically proclaim that, not only was it a way they had in the Varsity to drive dull care away, but that the same practice was also pursued in the army and navy for the attainment of a similar end.
ref: 1853, Cuthbert Bede [pseudonym; Edward Bradley], “Mr. Verdant Green’s Morning Reflections are not so pleasant as his Evening Diversions”, in The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, London: Nathaniel Cooke, […], →OCLC, page 71:
glosses: university
examples: text: There were sixteen of them in all, for the most part upper classmen who had failed to make the varsity the year before, with a sprinkling of sophomores and two freshmen.
ref: 1903, Ralph Henry Barbour, C. M. Relyea, Weatherby's Inning: A Story of College Life and Baseball, New York: D. Appleton and Company:
text: A small Pennsylvania university has only one varsity program: e-sports. Is this the future of college athletics?
ref: 2019 November 13, Luke Winkie, “Why Colleges Are Betting Big on Video Games”, in The Atlantic:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.)
Derived terms: intervarsity
junior varsity
varsity letter
varsity jacket
NIFOC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of naked in front of computer.
Moses basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moses baskets
Etymology: From Moses + basket, after the biblical story of Moses being placed in a basket and set afloat on the Nile (Exodus 2:1-10).
Senses: glosses: A basket for holding a newborn, a kind of bassinet designed to be set upon a stand.
hit a snag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits a snag
form: hitting a snag
form: hit a snag
form: hit a snag
Senses: examples: text: Their plans to finish the garden that weekend hit a snag when an unseasonal snowfall dropped several inches on what should have become the pumpkin patch that day.
text: Ms. Harris opted for buying hair and getting a beautician to make it into a two “forever wigs,” right for her face and head measurements. Even so, she hit several snags. When her wigs arrived, one was just too full.
ref: 2020 September 24, Cynthia Greenlee, “Now’s the Time for Wigs. If You Can Get the Hair for Them.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To encounter an unexpected problem or delay.
unseasonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unseasonal
form: most unseasonal
Etymology: From un- + seasonal.
Senses: examples: text: An unseasonal rainstorm took everyone by surprise.
glosses: Not normal, appropriate, or expected for the season or time of year.
unseasonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unseasonally
form: most unseasonally
Etymology: From unseasonal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They had an unseasonally warm winter and everything seemed to bloom early that year.
glosses: Not in keeping with the season; not expected, normal, or usual for the time of year.
Synonyms: unseasonably
shan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æn
Forms: form: more shan
form: most shan
form: shand
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps from shand (“worthless”). Alternatively, perhaps of Romani origin.
Senses: examples: text: Here man! that's pure shan that like
glosses: unfair, harsh
glosses: poor, low-quality
Synonyms: sense: unfair
word: lenns
sense: unfair
word: unfair
sense: unfair
word: unjust
Related terms: shanny
allometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæləˌmɛtɹɪ/
Etymology: From allo- + -metry.
Senses: examples: text: Some organs may grow faster than the rest of the body so that their size increases not only in absolute terms, but also relatively to the rest of the body, which is positive allometry; or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body, and so decrease in relative size, which is negative allometry.
ref: 1983 May 5, Paul Harvey, Tim Clutton-Brock, “The Survival of the Theory”, in New Scientist, volume 98, number 1356, London: New Science Publications, →ISSN, page 313:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Disproportionate growth of a part of a living organism in relation to the whole.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The science studying the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism.
Derived terms: hyperallometry
hypoallometry
Related terms: allometric
organ pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organ pipes
Etymology: From organ + pipe.
Senses: examples: text: In an inner mountain land where none hath come he hath carved his organ pipes out of the mountains, and there when the winds, his servants, come in from all the world he maketh the melody of Limpang-Tung.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: A tuned metal or wooden tube connected mechanically or electrically to an organ console.
glosses: An organ pipe cactus.
Derived terms: organ pipe cactus
organ pipe mud dauber
timesheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timesheets
form: time sheet
form: time-sheet
Etymology: From time + sheet.
Senses: examples: (sometimes synonymous)
topics: business
synonyms: time check
coordinate_terms: timecard
time card
qualifier: human resources
glosses: A document that allows for the recording of hours worked on various tasks that is used as input for payroll, project accounting or client billing processes.
Related terms: time tracking
organ pipe cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organ pipe cactuses
form: organ pipe cacti
Etymology: From its resemblance to organ pipes.
Senses: synonyms: organ cactus
glosses: A cactus (family Cactaceae) (Stenocereus thurberi, syn. Glandulicereus thurberi), widespread in Mexico.
organ console
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organ consoles
Senses: glosses: The manuals, the pedals and associated stops of an organ, especially a pipe organ.
wikipedia: Wanamaker's
dump job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dump jobs
Senses: glosses: The act of moving a corpse from the place of death and abandoning it in a deserted area, typically to conceal a murder.
glosses: The abandonment of an unfinished task for which the abandoner might be expected to take responsibility, especially in a fashion that makes it likely that one or more colleagues will take on its completion.
glosses: A dump truck.
sephirah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛfɪɹɑː/
ipa: /səˈfiɹə/
Forms: form: sephiroth
form: sephirot
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sefirah.
pipe organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipe organs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The largest of all musical instruments, played from an organ console. The organ produces its sound by sending air through organ pipes- either reed pipes or flue pipes, which are seated on wind chests. The valves controlling each pipe may be actuated electronically or using long wooden poles called trackers.
wikipedia: Salt Lake Tabernacle
Hyponyms: church organ
Derived terms: pipe organist
Bandersnatch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændə(ɹ)snæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Etymology: Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in 1863 (see quotation).
Senses: examples: text: Beware the jabberwock, my son.
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch
ref: 1863, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There:
glosses: An obscure fictional creature mentioned in two of Lewis Carroll's poems.
Related terms: frumious
DCAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Defense Contract Audit Agency.
Shan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃɑn/
/ʃæn/
Forms: form: Shans
form: Shan
Etymology: From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam.
Senses: examples: text: The Thai proper are related to the Shans of Burma, the Siamese of Thailand and the Lao of Indochina. The Chinese segment of the Thai ethnic group is settled in Yünnan Province, where it numbers 580,000. It constitutes the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Autonomous Chou in the southern part of the province and shares the Tehung Autonomous Chou in the west with the Chingpo (Kachin). The Thai of the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Chou speak the Lü dialect, those of the Tehung Chou are more closely related to the Shans of northern Burma.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: Although holding mainly high upland territory in Burma, the Shan themselves live only in the valleys and in stretches of plain. The surrounding hill country is occupied by relatively primitive hill peoples living in economic symbiosis with the Shan, but there is no clear genetic distinction between the Shan and their neighbours. With minor exceptions modern Shan communities are Buddhist. Most Shan are cultivators of rice; they have a characteristic species of feudal political structure. Shan culture probably diffused southward and westward from west-central China from Han times (c. 200 B.C.) onward.
ref: 1968, “SHAN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 344, column 2:
glosses: A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.
Shan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃɑn/
/ʃæn/
Etymology: From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam.
Senses: glosses: The language of this people, of the Kra-Dai language family.
glosses: A state of Myanmar.
Shan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʃɑn/
/ʃæn/
Etymology: From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Shan people or the Shan language.
Derived terms: Shan State
Shan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑn/
ipa: /ʃæn/
enpr: shän
ipa: /ʃɑn/
ipa: /ʃæn/
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝／陕 (shǎn).
Senses: glosses: The Shan Pass: a mountain pass in Shanzhou, Henan, through which the Yellow River flows into the North China Plain.
sourness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sournesses
Etymology: From Middle English sowrenesse, sournesse, from Old English sūrnes (“sourness”), equivalent to sour + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]
ref: 1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
text: Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 226:
glosses: The condition or quality of being sour.
Synonyms: word: acerbitude
word: acerbity
word: acetosity
word: acidity
word: acidness
word: austereness
word: austerity
word: sharpness
word: sourness
word: tartness
Hypernyms: word: flavour
Hyponyms: word: acescence
Related terms: word: sour