cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Roubaix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹuˈbeɪ/
/ɹoʊˈbeɪ/
Senses: glosses: A city in Hauts-de-France, France.
examples: text: The basal conglomerate of the Deadwood formation occurs as numerous lenticular beds irregularly distributed along a belt about two miles wide extending from the vicinity of Roubaix to Blacktail Gulch.
ref: 1970, Lewis H. Shapiro and John Paul Cries, Ore Deposits in Rocks of Paleozoic and Tertiary Age of the Northern Black Hills, South Dakota, U.S. Geological Survey Numbered Series 70-300, page 27
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.
rouelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rouelles
Etymology: Borrowed from French rouelle.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: steak (especially of veal, cut across the leg)
examples: text: Louis IX. of France compelled every Jew, man, woman, and child, to wear a “rouelle,” or wheel of conspicuously-coloured stuff on the breast and back of the dress, that the Hebrew might be known at a distance.
ref: 1870, John Henry Blunt, editor, Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology, London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, page 378:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: Jewish badge
yellow patch
coordinate_terms: Judenstern
yellow star
glosses: A round badge that Jews were legally obligated to wear in public.
Proto-Baltic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The reconstructed ancestor of the Baltic languages, descended from Proto-Balto-Slavic.
double trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: shooting
glosses: An event in which two clay targets are simultaneously released in front of the shooter.
grapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæpəɹ/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: grappers
Etymology: Related to grapple.
Senses: examples: text: 1997, Professor Department of History Sydney Anglo, Sydney Anglo, Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy, Oxford University Press on Demand
Likewise , if the jouster's spear were tied with 'thonge' or 'grappers', he should be ejected ignominiously.
text: [Grappers] were first introduced in the early fourteenth century and became standard after the introduction of the lance-rest in the late 1300s. A description of the grapper as it was configured in 1446 is provided in an anonymous French manuscript as follows: Item, the said grappers are intentionally full of sharp little spikes like little diamonds, similar in size to little ...
ref: 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Nor was the danger entirely at the point of the lance. An inexpert lancer, because the grapper transmitted much of the shock to the feltlined lance arrest secured to the right side of his breastplate, might be flung from saddle […]
ref: 2014, Karl Edward Wagner, Dark Crusade, Gateway, →ISBN:
text: It's got a lance rest to fit the grapper to. It makes the whole breastplate take the shock, and not just his arm. You brace the end against your side; that'll give you firmer balance, see?” Noel nodded, and Tobin sprang away.
ref: 2015, Deborah Chester, Time Trap, Diversion Books, →ISBN:
text: But do not joust (to break) fifty or sixty or one hundred lances as you are accustomed to do. To avoid such unpleasantries as severe injuries […] The grapper or (in its earlier name) grate was affixed to the lance behind the grip.
ref: 2020, Alan V. Murray, Karen Watts, The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas D'armes, 1100-1600, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 80:
synonyms: grate
glosses: A metal ring or leather strap on the base of a lance behind the grip, designed to stop the lance from moving backward by catching on the lance rest or on the lancer's chest and arm when the lance was tucked into the armpit.
examples: text: We fastned grappers in her, and soe towed her a head.
ref: 1625, John Glanvill, Voyage to Cadis, page 61:
text: Without the help of vellicles, hooks, or grappers.
ref: 1676, Henry More, Remarks upon two late ingenious Discourses, page 145:
text: Then began a sore battle on both parts: archers and cross-bows began to shoot, and men of arms approached and fought hand to hand, and the better to come together they had great hooks and grappers of iron to cast out of one ship into another, and so tied them fast together.
ref: 1905 (quoting an older work?), Essentials in Medieval and Modern History, page 230
text: […] we sailed in towards the city, and let fall our grappers [grappling irons] betwixt the island and the Main, right over against the goodly Garden Island.
ref: 1910 (quoting an older work?), Voyages and Travels, Ancient and Modern, page 161
glosses: A grappling hook or grappling iron.
medal table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medal tables
Senses: examples: text: And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.
ref: 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal, Guardian Unlimited:
glosses: A visual depiction or ranking of the number of medals won by certain teams at a multi-event competition, especially the Olympic Games.
medal tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medal table
bravoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bravo
branch water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branch-water
Etymology: First recorded in 1835; branch (“creek”) + water, a stream of clean drinkable water.
Senses: examples: text: Pour me some bourbon and branch water.
text: To make their beverage even more attractive, the Americans mixed their alcohol not only with the usual branch water, but also with black chewing tobacco, red peppers, Jamaica ginger, black molasses, and other strong substances.
ref: 1958, The Blackfeet; Raiders on the Northwestern Plains, by John Canfield Ewers, page 258
text: I play no favorites as between coffee and tea-—I am a Bourbon and branch-water man myself—but I suggest that in History's long view the Greensboro Coffee Party may loom as large as the Boston Tea Party.
ref: 1960, Flying Magazine - May 1960 - "Doughnuts and Democracy" by Marion A. Wright, at Page 278
text: Tully ordered Tennessee whisky, assented to the supposition that the gentleman didn't want mixer, ice, or chaser. "Yes sir — always say, If the good Lord wanted branch water in liquor, He would have put it there."
ref: 1962, Joyleg, By Ward Moore, Avram Davidson, page 30
glosses: Plain water, especially when mixed with alcoholic beverage.
Semper Gumby
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A play on the official Latin motto semper fidelis, with reference to Gumby, an animated clay character.
Senses: glosses: always flexible
ruralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rural + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ruralization.
Semper Gumbi
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Semper Gumby.
rouelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rouelle
semilethal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + lethal.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: lethal to at least half of all affected organisms
raw_tags: of a trait
Derived terms: semilethal dose
semilethal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semilethals
Etymology: From semi- + lethal.
Senses: glosses: A semilethal trait.
freehanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more freehanded
form: most freehanded
form: free-handed
Etymology: From free + handed.
Senses: examples: text: ...they waved aside the tumblers of wine the young officer was pourin' out for 'em so freehanded, and said they should rather be excused.
ref: 2000, Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: Generously.
examples: text: Herrera and I were handicapped in the sense that we couldn't use the sight on our M-79s...We had to aim freehanded
ref: 2010, Jack Solitario, One Avenue of Approach, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Unassisted.
examples: text: I am ordered over there with a few others. We all shoot standing and freehanded...This regained freedom of action makes us unable to feel the danger we are in.
ref: 2007, Professor Alan Kramer, Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War., →ISBN:
glosses: In an unconstrained manner.
freehanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: free-handed
Etymology: From free + handed.
Senses: examples: text: I traced around the cap of a pen to get some of the inner curvature I was looking for, and even freehanded a few of the transitions.
ref: 2008, David Sabol, Kam Ghaffari, Wood Carving Basics, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: simple past and past participle of freehand
Iden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in southeastern England.
glosses: A municipality of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Ito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Itos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 伊藤 (Itō) or Japanese 伊東 (Itō).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese. The 6th most common surname in Japan.
Derived terms: Golabi-Ito-Hall syndrome
sneks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snek
mox nix
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑks ˌnɪks/
Forms: form: mox-nix
Etymology: An alteration of German macht nichts (“doesn't matter”) that originated among American soldiers stationed in Germany after World War II.
Senses: examples: text: When they want to do something, they do it! Whether we've funded it, whether we'll support it—mox nix. They do it!
ref: 1969, Creighton Abrams, “1969”, in Lewis Sorley, editor, Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968–1972, published 2004, →ISBN, page 330:
ref: 1983, Ian Skidmore, Forgive Us Our Press Passes, →ISBN, page 21:
text: No, I get it. Small matter. Mox nix.
ref: 2005, James Carroll, Secret Father: A Novel, →ISBN, page 264:
text: I thought it resembled me more than Hartwick but mox nix—it was ours.
ref: 2011, Ritch Gaiti, Tweet: One Guy Can't Change the World—Good Thing that Glebe Didn't Know That, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: it doesn't matter; no worries
mox nix
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑks ˌnɪks/
Forms: form: mox-nix
Etymology: An alteration of German macht nichts (“doesn't matter”) that originated among American soldiers stationed in Germany after World War II.
Senses: examples: text: If you don't have time to do this don't worry about it because it's mox nix to me (mox nicht—makes no difference).
ref: 1947, H. W. Kale, “Letter of July 5, 1947”, in Mark William Falzini, editor, Letters Home: The Story of an American Military Family in Occupied Germany 1946–1949, published 2004, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Frankly it's mox-nix to me.
ref: 2004, Kenneth Stiers, The Rapanui Code, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Mox nix to me if you cover for him.
ref: 2006, William P. Singley, Bragg, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: unimportant, irrelevant
Kamakura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
ancrée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ancré
form: anchory
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Anchored (“having the extremities turned back”).
Related terms: moline
sarcelly
cydere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyderes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cider.
cyderes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cydere
astroarchaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + archaeology.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the first truly scientific essay in astro-archaeology was by the remarkable William Chapple of Exeter[.]
ref: 1989, John Michell, A Little History of Astro-Archaeology, page 13:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: archaeoastronomy
Derived terms: astroarchaeological
Nusayris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nusayri
second-storey men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second-storey man
num locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of num lock
mountain units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain unit
maritime republic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maritime republics
Senses: glosses: Any of several city-states of Italy and Dalmatia which established colonies and trading posts across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea during the Middle Ages.
Hyponyms: Amalfi
Ancona
Gaeta
Genoa
Pisa
Ragusa
Venice
bireflectances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bireflectance
layered intrusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of layered intrusion
corn-cob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn-cobs
Senses: examples: text: It had a slender stem several feet high, and from its top stood up a single tongue of flame, an intensely red flower of the size and shape of a small corn-cob.
ref: 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company, page 539:
glosses: Alternative spelling of corncob.
corn-cobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She and her husband managed to fix up a false floor in one of their rooms in which they fed the roosters; so whenever a picket came in sight her call would bring the whole family out of the woods and clearing into the refuge, where they remained peacefully amongst corn-cobs till the danger had passed.
ref: 1881, Thomas Hughes, Rugby, Tennessee, Macmillan and Co., page 58:
glosses: plural of corn-cob
comes into being
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come into being
coming into being
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come into being
came into being
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come into being
fulldo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fulldoes
form: fulldoing
form: fulldid
form: fulldone
form: fuldo
form: full-do
form: full do
Etymology: From Middle English fuldon, from Old English fuldōn (“to complete, perform; arrange”), from Proto-West Germanic *fulladōn (“to do fully, fulfil, complete, perfect”), equivalent to full- + do. Cognate with West Frisian foldwaan, Dutch voldoen, German Low German vulldoon, German volltun (“to fulldo”).
Senses: examples: text: "[...] and no more to counterfeyte the fole, for it is Goddis wyll and commaundement, for he hath forgyuen you all your synnes, for by caus ye haue made satysfacyon and full done your penaunce:" […]
ref: 1591, Thomas Lodge, Robert the Deuyll:
text: Yet willing to full-do their too-falne lot […]
ref: 1655, Richard Verstegan, A restitution of decayed intelligence in antiquities:
text: "Then," said the ambassador to the carpet-spreader, "Taki, by my head, is that all? you, who ought to be a fulldone man, do I hear this of you?
ref: 1835, James Justinian Morier, Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, in England:
text: How is it that I feel that I may not yet write it? I can answer only: because here I am full doing but not with that one.
ref: 2002, Kurt H. Wolff, A Whole, a Fragment:
text: The most key why that Jesus has to be God is that if He is not God, His death would not have been fuldoing to yield the penalty for the sins of the world (1 John 2:2).
ref: 2012, Yahoo! Canada Answers, Is Jesus God? Did Jesus ever claim to be God?:
glosses: To accomplish; fulfill; complete.
turkey trot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey trots
form: turkey-trot
Senses: examples: text: From the direction of "The Yellow Lantern" […] arose the strident notes of a tinny piano beating blatantly the measure of a turkey trot.
ref: 1919, Frank L. Packard, chapter 9, in The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale:
text: Still, music fans who feared that rockabilly might eventually go the way of the turkey trot can take heart.
ref: 1985 Sept. 30, Guy D. Garcia, "People," Time
glosses: A dance popular in the first two decades of the 20th century, consisting of exaggerated bird-like movements performed to fast-paced ragtime music.
glosses: A footrace held on or around Thanksgiving Day.
turkey trot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: to turkey trot
form: turkey trots
form: turkey trotting
form: turkey trotted
form: turkey trotted
form: turkey-trot
Senses: examples: text: The old men on the Exchange play golf all day, and the young ones turkey-trot all night.
ref: 1914, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 4, in The Auction Block:
glosses: To dance a turkey trot.
Related terms: foxtrot
turkey-trot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey-trots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turkey trot.
turkey-trot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: to turkey-trot
form: turkey-trots
form: turkey-trotting
form: turkey-trotted
form: turkey-trotted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turkey trot.
capital good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital goods
Senses: examples: text: Some of the products of the economy are capital goods. For simplicity and as an aid to intuition, I assume that capital goods and consumption goods do not overlap: the m consumption goods are useless as means of production, and the n capital goods yield no direct utility.
ref: 2004, Fabrio Petri, General Equilibrium, Capital And Macroeconomics: A Key To Recent Controversies In Equilibrium Theory, page 84:
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: producers' good
coordinate_terms: consumer good
glosses: A durable item that is used in the production of other goods or services.
Related terms: means of production
stilliard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stilliards
Etymology: Compare halliard/halyard.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of steelyard (“portable scale”).
stilliards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stilliard
blood from a turnip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blood from a stone.
death wishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death wish
deonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deonyms
Etymology: From de- + -onym (“name”). Compare Italian deonomastica (“words of a language that are derived from given names, last names, ethnonyms, and toponyms”), from de- + onomastica.
Senses: examples: text: [...] increased occurrence of deonyms. Among them, nearly half come from trade names (company names, brand names or product names). This chapter aims to study deonyms deriving from trade names. An attempt will be made to understand why these proper names have[…]
ref: 2013 August 19, Oliviu Felecan, Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 172:
text: In linguistics, such terms that have managed the transformation from a proper brand name to a generic name are called deonyms […] The field of deonyms is not limited to brand names: The verb “röntgen,” for example, is derived from the discoverer of the rays named after him and is also a deonym. Some[…]
ref: 2021 October 25, Doris Berger-Grabner, Strategic Retail Management and Brand Management: Trends, Tactics, and Examples, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 318:
text: A third name for common words from proper nouns is the lexical type deonyms (with the study of deonyms referred to as deonomastics) (cf., e.g., La Stella 1984). For this chapter, eponym shall be defined as 'word going back to a proper noun (e.g. anthroponym, toponym, ethnonym)'. The chapter will focus on highly lexicalized words[…]
ref: 2025 March 31, Joachim Grzega, The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
glosses: A term which derives from a proper name (a proper noun), such as a brand name, a given name, a surname or a place name.
deonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deonyms
Etymology: From Latin deus (“god”) + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: A similar phenomenon occurs often, and also in connection with old Celtic toponyms which, if deonyms, were often suppressed by the growing might of the Church, […] [these other] deonyms serve to prove the Pelasgians spoke an Indo-European language far[…]
ref: 1963, Congrès international d'études gauloises, celtiques et protoceltiques, Actes:
text: It is a known fact that many Greek deonyms are not based [on] Hellenic roots (just as the oldest Sumerian place and river [name]s are neither Sumerian nor Semitic […]
ref: 1979, The Journal of Indo-European Studies:
text: The Anglo-Saxon root Tues is related to the Teutonic deonym Tiwas, in turn related to the Latin Deus, the Baltic Dievas, and the Sanskrit Deva.
ref: 2012 December 6, C. Musés, Destiny and Control in Human Systems: Studies in the Interactive Connectedness of Time (Chronotopology), Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Synonym of theonym.
synonyms: word: theonym
deonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deonym
Bayonne hams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bayonne ham
vetchlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vetchling
live loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live load
snow loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow load
digital footprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital footprints
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, a positive digital footprint can enhance a person's reputation.
ref: 2012, Nicholas Croce, Enhancing Your Academic Digital Footprint, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 6:
text: A person's digital footprint is essentially a digital first impression. As I mention in Chapter 1, a child's digital footprint includes all information related to that child posted online.
ref: 2013, Amy Lupold Bair, Raising Digital Families For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: What you most likely found through researching your digital footprint before you branded yourself is that you are a very creative individual who used a vast number of new media tools and technologies […]
ref: 2015, James Cohen, Thomas Kenny, Producing New and Digital Media […] , CRC Press, →ISBN, page 239:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
synonyms: digital exhaust
digital shadow
glosses: Digital evidence of a person's activities and interactions with others on the Internet, TV, mobile devices, etc.
Related terms: carbon footprint
divinisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divinisations
Etymology: From divine + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: [W]here would they be now if it had not been for Israel, and the stern check which Israel put upon the glorification and divinisation of this natural bent of mankind, this attractive aspect of the not ourselves?
ref: 1873, Matthew Arnold, “Religion Given”, in Literature & Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. […], →OCLC, section 3, page 37:
glosses: Alternative spelling of divinization.
walk a mile in someone's shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks a mile in someone's shoes
form: walking a mile in someone's shoes
form: walked a mile in someone's shoes
form: walked a mile in someone's shoes
Etymology: From walk + a + mile + in + [possessive pronoun] + shoes. Originally, and still chiefly, found in admonitions not to judge a person until one has walked a mile in that person's shoes.
Senses: examples: text: It's likely that he didn't begrudge what he had paid Marshall though, because he thought he had finally found a medical person who had walked a mile in his shoes.
ref: 1994, Colin Escott et al., Hank Williams: The Biography, Little, Brown and Company, published 1995, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: To experience what someone has experienced.
Related terms: the shoe is on the other foot
which foot the shoe is on
errants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of errant
ethnoastronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnoastronomies
Etymology: From ethno- + astronomy.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The anthropological study of skywatching in contemporary societies.
exoplanetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exoplanet + -ology.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The search for, and study of, exoplanets
Synonyms: planetary science
exomoonology
focalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: focalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of focalization.
road hogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road hog
Hellenophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hellenophone
Etymology: From Helleno- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: No need to emphasize the fact that the Hellenophone people – metallarii as well as the other inhabitants of mining territories – were both numerous and prominent.
ref: 2004, Slobodan Dušanić, “Roman mining in Illyricum: historical aspects”, in Gianpaolo Urso, editor, Dall’Adriatico al Danubio: l’Illirico nell’età greca e romana: atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 25-27 settembre 2003, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, →ISBN, page 265:
text: First, the earliest Christians in Africa of whom we have evidence are Punic, and not part of the cultured elite who might have contact with Hellenophone culture.
ref: 2014, Alistair C. Stewart, “The Causes of Monepiscopacy”, in The Original Bishops: Office and Order in the First Christian Communities, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, →ISBN, page 314:
text: Butterfield (2009) stresses the dialogic nature of the formation of an English vernacular, which emerged from a Francophone environment that embraced England along with France: again, there are thought-provoking parallels with the Hellenophone environment from which a vernacular Latin literature emerged.
ref: 2016, Denis Feeney, “Notes”, in Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 327:
glosses: Greek-speaking
Hellenophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hellenophones
form: hellenophone
Etymology: From Helleno- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: The Orthodox, separated from Rome, are divided into two factions which differ in language and origin, and live in enmity: on one side, the Hellenophones, many of whom are natives of the Greek kingdom; on the other, the Arabophones, subject to the khedive or natives of Syria; all these have a patriarch of Greek tongue and race whose official residence is in the town, near the church of St. Sabas.
ref: 1907, Jules Pargoire, “Alexandria”, in Charles G[eorge] Herbermann, Edward A[loysius] Pace, Condé B[enoist] Pallen, Thomas J[oseph] Shahan, John J[oseph] Wynne, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume I (Aachen–Assize), New York, N.Y.: Robert Appleton Company, →OCLC, page 300, column 1:
text: A third group of Hellenophones were those Dawkins studied in the twenty Cappadocian villages located about the regions of Nigde and Kayseri.
ref: 1971, Speros Vryonis, Jr., “The Byzantine Residue in Turkish Anatolia”, in The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 449–450:
text: Thus, faulting Robert Browning’s translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon for being “interlingua,” “a centaur-idiom” that imposes the vocabulary, syntax, and phonology of ancient Greek on his own Victorian English, George Steiner (the trilingual critic who pointedly titled a 1972 volume of essays on language and literature Extraterritorial) pronounced it “a no-man’s-land in psychological and linguistic space”—hence a text treacherous for both Hellenophones and Anglophones because it occupies a space outside either language.
ref: 2018, Steven G. Kellman, “Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments”, in Rachael Gilmour, Tamar Steinitz, editors, Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature), New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, section “No Man’s Land”:
glosses: A person who speaks Greek
dyskoimesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of dyssomnia
towel-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towel-horses
form: towel horse
form: towelhorse
Senses: examples: text: At seven in the morning we rise, and on pushing aside the window-slides in front of us, we perceive that a small tub has been placed on the open balcony in front of our room, while beside this stands a large vessel of water covered with ice, and that a towel hangs from the pendent towel-horse, for Mr. Sakata has explained that we were unprepared for spending the night from home.
ref: 1882, Christopher Dresser, Traditional Arts and Crafts of Japan, Courier Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 80:
text: I found that old washerwoman-dress that he came home in yesterday, hanging on a towel-horse before the fire.
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, C. Scribner's Sons, page 273:
text: I forget whether a chest of drawers or a towel-horse was the real offender.
ref: 1913, Octavia Hill, edited by Charles Edmund Maurice, Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters, London: Macmillan & Co., page 191:
glosses: towel rack
overcontribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcontributions
Etymology: From over- + contribution.
Senses: glosses: A contribution in excess of a standard or expectation.
glosses: Practice of overcontributing.
dyssomnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsˈsɒmnɪə/
Forms: form: dyssomnias
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A difficulty in falling asleep, or in remaining sleeping
overcontribute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcontributes
form: overcontributing
form: overcontributed
form: overcontributed
Etymology: From over- + contribute.
Senses: glosses: To contribute in excess of a standard or expectation.
of all things
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Especially; more than other things.
examples: text: He reached into his pocket and pulled out, of all things, an ice cream cone.
text: Well, of all things! Who would have expected him to propose to her on stage?
text: “Well, of all things!” cried the equally astonished Jane. “And here I have been wasting whole reams of perfectly good imagination picturing you in Baltimore—the very idea!” And she threw her arms about her friend once more, and kissed her a dozen times.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 111:
text: Mother went a little pale. “Preposterous!” she said. “I don’t know what’s got into you!” She fiddled with her bouffant, almost as if she was nervous. “Your father, in a rock band of all things! First that exercise book full of outrageous stories, and now this!”
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: Liverpool needed a break and they got it at the beginning of the second half, from, of all things, a misplaced City pass. Aké was the culprit, undercooking his attempt to go back to Ederson and seeing Núñez steal in. He toed it away from the goalkeeper and was promptly cleaned out by him.
ref: 2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Surprisingly.
raw_tags: used as a sentence adverb
Related terms: of all
of all people
of all places
antierosion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + erosion.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Countering erosion.
phenoxyethanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenoxyethanols
Etymology: From phenoxy + ethanol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound, a glycol ether often used in dermatological products.
phenoxyethanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenoxyethanol
unbedraggled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbedraggled
form: most unbedraggled
Etymology: From un- + bedraggled.
Senses: examples: text: With wings unweighted by sordid gain and unbedraggled with the mud and dirt of the valley, they have risen into the clear skies of God[…]
ref: 1905, Robert Francis Coyle, The church and the times: sermons:
glosses: Not bedraggled.
dramshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dramshop
dramshopkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dramshopkeepers
Etymology: From dramshop + keeper.
Senses: glosses: The shopkeeper of a dramshop.
dramshopkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dramshopkeeper
liberatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberatresses
Etymology: From liberator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: he had run over to Laura, his liberatress, to thank her for his recovered freedom
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: A female liberator.
undizzied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undizzied
form: most undizzied
Etymology: From un- + dizzied.
Senses: examples: text: Following, with eyes undizzied, the long curve, / The long slow outward curve, into the abyss
ref: 1930, Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon:
glosses: Not made dizzy.
antisplash
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + splash.
Senses: glosses: Preventing splashing.
yakless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yak + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But yaks are not found in Turkey, only in Afghanistan and Pakistan and so these fine people were rendered yakless in their new home.
ref: 1989, Hotel & Catering Review, volume 19, page 42:
text: He says he’s got nothing against the Rose d’Or, it’s just that since he did the Himalayas he finds the Alps a bit too small and there aren’t enough yaks. He says it is a well-known fact that ice-caves are one of the most yakless environments on earth.
ref: 2005 May 23, Ronald Wolfe, “Programme for change – Rose d’Or awards”, in The Stage:
text: The hooded Lin and Jonathan — yakless now — were leading the way. Up ahead was another gorge with its own small, rather unreliable-looking wooden bridge. Two yeti were carrying the unconscious O'Connell on a stretcher Lin had made […]
ref: 2008, Max Allan Collins, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Berkley Boulevard Books, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: Without a yak or yaks.
meandric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meander + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a meander.
Related terms: meandric number
meandric number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meandric numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of distinct meanders of a given order.
multicaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multicache
hypercoaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercoasters
Etymology: From hyper- + coaster.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of megacoaster.
synonyms: word: megacoaster
hypercoasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercoaster
screenee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screenees
Etymology: From screen + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who undergoes screening.
screenees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screenee
gobsmack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gobsmacks
form: gobsmacking
form: gobsmacked
form: gobsmacked
Etymology: Back-formation from gobsmacked and gobsmacking.
Senses: glosses: To astonish, to render temporarily stuck for words.
gobsmacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gobsmack
alamethicins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alamethicin
hypomagnesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + magnesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: magnesium deficiency
Related terms: hypomagnesic
microstorage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + storage.
Senses: glosses: storage in microscopically small form, as on microfilm or microfiche
microstimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microstimulation
spaceshifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From space + shifting.
Senses: glosses: The broadcasting of electronic media from one device to another.
Related terms: placeshifting
time shifting
rejectingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rejectingly
form: most rejectingly
Etymology: From rejecting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One way of achieving this goal is to select partners who are likely to act rejectingly, such as someone who is unlikely to show sustained relationship satisfaction or commitment.
ref: 2004, Harry T. Reis, Caryl E. Rusbult, Close Relationships: Key Readings, page 544:
glosses: So as to reject.
overcontributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcontribution
overcontributed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcontribute
overcontributes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcontribute
overcontributing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcontribute
overconstraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overconstrain
overconstrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overconstrain
overconstrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overconstrain
overconsumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overconsumers
Etymology: From overconsume + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who consumes too much.
overconsumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overconsumer
nonhappening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhappenings
Etymology: From non- + happening.
Senses: glosses: failure to occur
glosses: something that does not happen; a nonevent or anticlimax
nonhappenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhappening
nonreturner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonreturners
Etymology: From non- + returner.
Senses: glosses: One who does not return (to a previous location, way of life, etc.).
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A partially enlightened person.
nonreturners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonreturner
nonruling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ruling.
Senses: examples: the nonruling communist party
glosses: Not ruling; not in power.
scarlatiniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scarlatiniform
form: most scarlatiniform
Etymology: From scarlatina + -iform.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: resembling scarlatina
legionnaire hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legionnaire hats
Etymology: From the type of cap worn by the French Foreign Legion.
Senses: glosses: A type of peaked cap with a distinctive extension on the back to protect the wearer's neck against sunburn.
retention line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retention lines
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A future-dated line of text put in to an airline reservation system or GDS to delay the booking being moved to archives.
douchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːʃi/
rhymes: -uːʃi
Forms: form: douchier
form: douchiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of douchey.
Derived terms: douchiness
Party of No
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Party of No
Etymology: Coined in United States political commentary since 2008.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The Republican Party of the United States.
jive-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jive-ass
form: most jive-ass
form: jiveass
Etymology: From jive + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: He's failed at every jive-ass money hustle he's ever tried.
ref: 2010, Hot Tub Time Machine, 00:07:35
text: You a damn' fool, you jive-ass turkey!
glosses: Of or related to jiving, characterized by dishonest foolishness or low-class hustling.
jive-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jive-asses
form: jiveass
Etymology: From jive + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: The other guy, Private Appleton, White calls a “Detroit jive-ass” with a chip on his shoulder for everyone.
ref: 2002, A Bad Attitude: A Novel from the Vietnam War, by Dennis Mansker, page 88
glosses: Synonym of jive turkey.
synonyms: word: jive turkey
longneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longnecks
Etymology: From long + neck.
Senses: glosses: A type of beer bottle with a long neck.
glosses: A longneck eel.
glosses: An apatosaur, or other similar sauropod.
longneck eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longneck eels
Senses: glosses: A type of pelagic fish found in the middle and depths of most oceans, of the family Derichthyidae.
Synonyms: neck eel
long-neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-necks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of longneck.
neck eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neck eels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of longneck eel.
synonyms: word: longneck eel
Lost River Range
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of high mountains located in central Idaho, in northwest United States.
Blue Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountainous region of New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A local government area in this region of New South Wales; in full, the City of Blue Mountains.
glosses: A small mountain range on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.
glosses: A town in Grey County, Ontario, Canada. See The Blue Mountains on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
glosses: A mountain range located in the northeastern Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
glosses: The longest mountain range in Jamaica.
glosses: A mountain range of rugged hills in West Otago, in southern New Zealand.
glosses: A mountain range in the northeastern section of the Aïr Massif, Niger.
glosses: A mountain range in the western United States, located largely in northeastern Oregon and stretching into southeastern Washington.
Related terms: Black Mountains
Green Mountains
jubarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːbəb/
Forms: form: jubarbs
Etymology: From the French joubarbe, jousbarbe, from the Latin Iovis barba (“Jove's beard”).
Senses: glosses: The houseleek.
viginti-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin vīgintī.
Senses: glosses: twenty.
vigintillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigintillion
blind quote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind quotes
Senses: examples: text: There is a key line from Wolman that Isou must have missed (“And their revolts were turning into acts of conformity”); blind quotes from John Ford's Rio Grande and from Saint-Just (“Happiness is a new idea in Europe”).
ref: 1989, Greil Marcus, “The Attack on Charlie Chaplin”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
glosses: A statement from an anonymous or unattributed source.
expiries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expiry
timocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timocrats
Senses: glosses: A supporter of, or ruler in, timocracy.
timocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timocrat
wiggliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wiggly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being wiggly.
reluctations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reluctation
unmould
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmoulds
form: unmoulding
form: unmoulded
form: unmoulded
form: unmold
Etymology: From un- + mould.
Senses: examples: text: place weight on top and when chilled unmould and garnish with watercress or sprigs of parsley .
ref: 1900, Anna Morrison, “Special Christmas Dishes”, in The Delineator, volume 56, page 751:
text: A biodegradable oil and water emulsion release composition for facilitating the unmoulding of hydraulic bonding material comprises , as the oil component , an ester of a hindered polyhydric alcohol having no hydrogen atoms attached to any carbon atom in a beta - position to any hydroxyl group and a straight or branched chain, saturated or unsaturated C4 to C24 monocarboxylic acid.
ref: 2002, David Packham, Mould Sticking, Fouling and Cleaning - Volume 13, page 69:
text: I used a small glass bowl that I filled to the brim, an important point for you do not want the concoction to fall apart when you unmould it.
ref: 2009, Sylvia Tan, Taste: Healthy, Hearty Asian Recipes, page 41:
text: Make sure soaps are completely cold and set before attempting to unmould them .
ref: 2015, Elaine Stavert, Scented Soaps, page 14:
glosses: To remove from a mould.
examples: text: Unmoulding reason's mintage.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: and the restless elements of opinion, throughout every region of debate, moulding themselves eternally, like the billowy sands of the desert, as beheld by Bruce, into towering columns that soar upwards to a giddy altitude, then stalk about for a minute, all a-glow with fiery color, and finally unmould and 'dislimn,' with a collapse as sudden as the motions of that eddying breeze, under which their vapory architecture arose.
ref: 1859, Thomas De Quincey, De Quincey's Writings: Literary reminiscences, page 231:
text: Wipe out the paints, unmould the clay.
 Let nothing remain of that yesterday.'
ref: 2011, Kamala Das, My Story, page 83:
text: Time takes out the sting of pain; our sorrows after a certain period have been so often steeped in a medium of though and passion, that they 'unmould their essence;' and all that remains of our original impressions is what we would wish them to have been.
ref: 2020, Duncan Wu, Tom Paulin, David Bromwich, The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt:
glosses: To change the form of; to reduce or unmake from any form.