cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
concisely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concisely
form: most concisely
Etymology: From concise + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He concisely explains that Whig histories tend to "praise revolutions [for history of science, we could read novelties, ideas or individuals] provided they have been successful, emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present".
ref: 2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In a concise manner, briefly, without excessive length.
Synonyms: sense: in a concise manner
word: in summarization
sense: in a concise manner
word: briefly
sense: in a concise manner
word: summarily
sense: in a concise manner
word: in short
sense: in a concise manner
word: in a word
sense: in a concise manner
word: to sum up
pithily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pithily
form: most pithily
Etymology: From pithy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Essays are written on causes—they might be more pithily turned on consequences.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: In a pithy manner, concisely and to the point.
hydrogen spectral series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogen spectral series
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several series of spectral lines of hydrogen that correspond to quantum transitions between the various allowed energy levels of the hydrogen atom.
Related terms: Lyman series
Balmer series
Paschen series
Brackett series
Pfund series
respire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspʌɪə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspaɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: respires
form: respiring
form: respired
form: respired
Etymology: From Middle English respiren, borrowed from Old French respirer or Latin respīrō (“to blow back, breathe out”), from re- (“back”) + spīrō (“to breathe, blow”).
Senses: synonyms: word: breathe
word: draw breath
word: inbreathe
word: spire
word: suspire
glosses: To breathe in and out successively.
examples: text: The breath of heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet, / With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.
ref: 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 10–11:
text: Second Day.—Hold the breath five seconds. Respire, and hold the breath ten seconds. Respire, and hold the breath fifteen seconds.
ref: 1888, Edmund Shaftesbury, Lessons in Artistic Deep Breathing for Strengthening the Voice, page 23:
synonyms: word: breathe
word: draw breath
word: inbreathe
word: spire
word: suspire
glosses: To breathe in and out successively.
To recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.
examples: text: All living things respire or breathe. To many of us this means that they take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide.
ref: 1964, H. Webb, M. A. Grigg, Modern Science, Book 3, page 155:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: breathe#Verb
glosses: To take up oxygen and produce carbon dioxide (as animals do), or vice versa (as plants do).
examples: text: It is my opinion, that these animals, while they continue in the state of larvae, respire water and not air; and that they inspire the water, not by the mask, but by their posterior part, through which also they discharge it.
ref: 1799, M. Lesser, Insecto-Theology: Or, a Demonstration of the Being and Perfections of God, from a Consideration of the Structure and Economy of Insects, page 327:
text: They were the last moments he might ever respire near her, who was then doubtless wrapt in peaceful sleep, whilst he wandered distracted without.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: To (inhale and) exhale; to breathe.
glosses: To recover hope, courage, or strength after a time of difficulty.
Derived terms: photorespire
respirable
respiratory
respiring
respiro-
Related terms: respiration
respirability
respirableness
respirative
respire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspʌɪə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspaɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English respiren, borrowed from Old French respirer or Latin respīrō (“to blow back, breathe out”), from re- (“back”) + spīrō (“to breathe, blow”).
Senses: examples: text: He cast to suffer him no more respire,
But gan his sturdie sterne about to weld,
And him so strongly stroke, that to the ground him feld.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: Rest, respite.
bite stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bite sticks
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small wooden stick used in orthodontistry, which the patient bites on when the bands of the braces are fitted.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A piece of equipment used to determine whether or not a stone is a biter.
hydrogen sulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹədʒ(ə)n ˈsʌlfaɪd/
ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹədʒən ˈsʌlfaɪd/
Forms: form: hydrogen sulphide
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic gas, H₂S, smelling like rotten eggs and used in analytical chemistry and industry.
Synonyms: word: rotten egg gas
word: swamp gas
Related terms: Kipp's apparatus
hydrogen sulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of hydrogen sulfide.
suspiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspirations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin suspīrātiō, suspīrātiōnem (“sighing”).
Senses: examples: text: nor windy suspiration of forced breath
ref: c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 1, scene 2; republished as Hamlet, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992, →ISBN, page 9:
text: and the assistance of the inward Intercostal Muscles in deep Suspirations, when we take more large gulps of Aire to cool our heart overcharged with Love or Sorrow […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 80
glosses: The act of breathing, not necessarily for a sustained period (compare respiration, which is sustained).
Related terms: suspire
nonstandard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑnˈstændɚd/
Forms: form: more nonstandard
form: most nonstandard
form: non-standard
Etymology: From non- + standard.
Senses: synonyms: unstandard
antonyms: standard
glosses: Not standard.
examples: text: The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
 (91) England put themselves in a position [whereby that they took a lot of credit for tonightʼs game] (Ron Greenwood, BBC radio 4)
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 9, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 486:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: word: substandard
glosses: Not conforming to the standard variety, or to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.
Derived terms: nonstandard analysis
nonstandard appreciable
nonstandard dialect
nonstandard item
nonstandardly
nonstandard method
nonstandardness
nonstandard number
nonstandard unit
nonstandard variety
nonstandard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑnˈstændɚd/
Forms: form: nonstandards
form: non-standard
Etymology: From non- + standard.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards.
ref: 2008, Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista, page 438:
glosses: Something that is not standard.
drawmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawmasters
Etymology: From draw + master.
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The person who assigns teams to different sheets, sets starting times, assigns players to teams in casual play, etc.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The person who determines the post positions for races.
draw raise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draw raises
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot in which the played stone pushes a stone straight forward into the house
front of the house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The portion of the house closer to the hog line.
Related terms: front of house
front ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front rings
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The 12-foot diameter circle outermost in the house.
Synonyms: 12-foot
in-turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in-turns
Senses: examples: text: For a right-handed thrower, an in-turn is clockwise, and the opposite for a lefty.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot in which the handle of the stone is rotated across the body.
measure stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measure sticks
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Equipment used to determine which of two or more stones is closest to the center when they are too similar to know with visual inspection
out-turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out-turns
Senses: examples: For a right-handed thrower, an out-turn is counter-clockwise, and the opposite for a lefty.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot in which the handle of the stone is rotated away from the body.
Related terms: turn out
turnout
shot rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot rocks
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The rock in the house closest to the button.
split the house
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splits the house
form: splitting the house
form: split the house
form: split the house
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To use the strategy of drawing to a different area of the house to prevent one's opponent from taking out both stones.
swingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈswɪŋi/
Forms: form: swingier
form: swingiest
Etymology: From swing + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the swingy, shooty theatrics of Bionic Commando
ref: 2007, The Official Xbox Magazine: Issues 75-78:
text: Which is not to say that a long rope of pearls is the obvious solution—too long and too swingy and you risk looking like you're on your way to a costume party dressed as a flapper.
ref: 2011, Karen Karbo, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel, page 169:
glosses: Having a swinging motion.
examples: text: Fly has a swingy rhythm and some swell guitar work in its instrumental interludes.
ref: 1942, Billboard, volume 54, number 15:
glosses: Characteristic of swing music.
examples: text: […] redrawing the congressional maps to add at least slightly more Republican votes to the potentially swingy districts of freshmen […]
ref: 2013, Larry J. Sabato, Barack Obama and the New America:
text: The more than 2 million ballots that remained uncounted on election night are down to 6,037 votes in Lake County, a small but swingy region north of the San Francisco Bay area.
ref: 2018 July 6, David Weigel, “The votes from California’s primary are finally in. Here’s what we learned.”, in The Washington Post:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Having many swing voters.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Allowing stones to curl more than usual.
raw_tags: of ice
topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Inconsistent in performance.
glosses: Variable in mood; liable to having mood swings.
monopathophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + pathophobia.
Senses: glosses: The fear of a definite disease.
tee line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tee lines
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The line that goes across the house intersecting with the middle of the button, splitting it into two halves.
wobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wobblers
Etymology: From wobble + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which wobbles.
examples: text: Towns fell to him like so many houses of cards; and the fall of each town represented not only an accession to the prestige of the Royalist commander but a physical accession of strength as the wobblers flocked to the successful army.
ref: 2005, Alfred H. Burne, The Battlefields of England:
glosses: A person who is undecided, and might go to either side.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A stone that rocks from side to side as it travels because it is not resting on its running surface.
topics: law
glosses: A case that could go either way depending on factors that cannot be controlled.
topics: law
glosses: A class of crime that can be charged as a lower penalty or a higher penalty, e.g. a crime punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony at the discretion of the prosecutor.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fishing lure made to resemble a prey fish and that wobbles in the water; plug, minnow.
synonyms: wobbly
glosses: A sudden unexpected outburst of anger or rage; a tantrum.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a Salafi.
examples: text: A wire "Wobbler" holds a card for counter display
ref: 1958 May 19, “Irish offers sales kit”, in Billboard, page 18:
text: Yesterday saw the launch of the initiative, which will use advertising “shelf wobblers” that usually publicise special offers to encourage Bristol shoppers to bring back their plastic bottles for recycling.
ref: 2006 February 28, “Recycling message hits supermarket shelves in Bristol”, in LetsRecycle.com:
topics: advertising
business
commerce
marketing
retail
hyponyms: shelf stopper
glosses: A small publicity notice which appears to float at eye level, being attached to a fixture by a flexible arm.
glosses: The end of the roll in a roller mill for shaping steel.
glosses: A boiled leg of mutton.
Synonyms: sense: sudden outburst of anger
word: tantrum
Derived terms: foot-wobbler
shelf-wobbler
wobbler disease
wobbler syndrome
wobblette
curmur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəːˈmɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /kɚˈmɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: curmurs
form: curmurring
form: curmurred
form: curmurred
Etymology: From Scots curmur, likely onomatopoeic, similar to murmur.
Senses: glosses: To murmur or rumble.
glosses: To experience indigestion or flatulence; to fart.
curmur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəːˈmɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /kɚˈmɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: curmurs
Etymology: From Scots curmur, likely onomatopoeic, similar to murmur.
Senses: glosses: An instance of curmurring.
Related terms: curmurring
Mora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Kanabec County, Minnesota, United States. Named after Mora, Sweden, see also Swedish Mora.
glosses: A census-designated place, the county seat of Mora County, New Mexico, United States.
Derived terms: Mora County
Mora River
Mora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surnames of the German inventors, Franz Morell and Erich Rasche.
Senses: glosses: bioresonance therapy
curmurring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curmurrings
Etymology: From Scots curmur.
Senses: glosses: A low-pitched murmuring, grumbling sound.
glosses: Flatulence.
curmurring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Scots curmur.
Senses: glosses: Producing a murmuring or grumbling sound.
glosses: flatulent; afflicted by indigestion.
convoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: convokes
form: convoking
form: convoked
form: convoked
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French convoquer, from Latin convocare, from con- (“with”) + vocō (“to call”). Doublet of convocate.
Senses: examples: text: Hail thou,—of leisure sweet the sire!—
Who, round the bright, domestic fire,
Dost link fond hearts in strongest ties,
And kindle hopes, and mingle sighs,
Or 'neath the taper's glancing light
Convoke the banquet's festive rite.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Winter, page 125:
text: The dream makes such an impression on the king that he convokes his council of state, whose members are thoroughly alarmed by his report.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 111:
glosses: To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
glosses: To call together.
Derived terms: convocation
convoker
reconvoke
Related terms: invoke
snuggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snuggle
snuggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snugglings
Senses: glosses: A snuggle.
thersitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thersitical
form: most thersitical
form: Thersitical
Etymology: After Thersites, a minor character in the Iliad who slandered and mocked Agamemnon.
Senses: glosses: Scurrilous, grossly defamatory
glosses: Caustic, obscenely and tactlessly abusive
Related terms: Thersitean
thersite
vicenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪs.əˈnɛəɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: vicenarians
Etymology: From vicenary + -ian, from Latin vīcēnārius (“vicenary”), from vīcēnus (“twenty each”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming adjectives and related nouns”).
Senses: examples: text: Melissa is a vicenarian at twenty-one years of age and a hairdresser.
ref: 2009, Iggy Pintado, Connection Generation, →ISBN, page 81:
text: « Excellent! » uttered the renowned scientist, visibly contented with the positive attitude of the developer, « I'm glad you mention this, because we feel you're that one-of-a-kind talent we've been looking for » he announced, staring at the appreciative vicenarian for a moment, « this last interview is just a mere formality to make sure we're still on the same wavelength, and to give you one last chance to change your mind, so...» he said, pausing for suspense as he stopped to turn to the eager candidate, readying himself to officialize their partnership, « unless you're about to tell me that you're not interested anymore, I'd like to welcome on my team » he proposed, extending his right hand towards the techie.
ref: 2011, 2206 : Window Onto A New World, page 72:
text: I must make the most of us both being vicenarians before you stagnate.
ref: 2013, Corri Lee, Blazed, →ISBN, page 75:
text: The admiration for the global brands by the vicenarians is one such sign.
ref: 2019, Ishan Bajpai, Temptation Road, →ISBN:
synonyms: twentysomething
glosses: A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties.
Synonyms: word: twentysomething
word: quarterlifer
word: vicenarian
Hypernyms: word: young adult
Coordinate terms: tricenarian (30–39)
quadragenarian (40–49)
quinquagenarian (50–59)
sexagenarian (60–69)
septuagenarian (70–79)
octogenarian (80–89)
nonagenarian (90–99)
centenarian (100–199)
supercentenarian (110+)
Related terms: teenager
Thebaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /θɪˈbeɪ.ɪk/
Forms: form: thebaic
Etymology: From Latin thebaicus.
Senses: examples: text: priests, monks, missionaries who, by way of this strange detour via Ireland, brought the spirit of Thebaic asceticism to Europe; […]
ref: 1957, Heinrich Boll, translated by L. Vennewitz, Irish Journal:
glosses: Theban; of or pertaining to Thebes, especially in the context of the Coptic scriptures.
examples: text: Thebaic extract, half a dram.
ref: 1791, William Lewis, The Edinburgh New Dispensatory:
glosses: Of or pertaining to opium.
Thebaic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /θɪˈbeɪ.ɪk/
Forms: form: thebaic
Etymology: From Latin thebaicus.
Senses: glosses: The Sahidic dialect of the Coptic language.
Thebaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /θɪˈbeɪ.ɪk/
Forms: form: Thebaics
form: thebaic
Etymology: From Latin thebaicus.
Senses: glosses: An opium-based medication or tincture such as laudanum.
twentysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twentysomethings
form: twenty-something
form: 20-something
Etymology: From twenty + -something.
Senses: examples: text: This is the twentysomething generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing.
ref: 1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time:
text: A 2025 phenomenon involving teenagers and masturbatory twentysomethings with limited education and experience given the authority to tell five-star generals, former presidents, cabinet secretaries, academics, and ambassadors how to do their jobs.
ref: 2025 March 24, David Gardner, “‘You’ve Been Doged!’ Now Musk’s Goons Have Their Own Word”, in The Daily Beast:
synonyms: vicenarian
glosses: A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties.
twentysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: twenty-something
form: 20-something
Etymology: From twenty + -something.
Senses: examples: text: You may feel as inexperienced as a twentysomething woman just starting out, but it’s not too late to make changes.
ref: 1993, Esther M. Berger with Connie Church Hasbun, “Introduction . . . Finances, Femininity, and Fear”, in Money Smart: Secrets Women Need to Know about Money Matters—from Saving to Planning to Investing, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published October 1994, →ISBN, page 25:
text: The members of The Dope Show are pretty normal looking twentysomething guys and gals with nothing to prove.
ref: 2008 March 27, Deanna Uutela, “Sweet Dope”, in Ted Taylor, editor, Eugene Weekly, volume XXVII, number 13, Eugene, Ore.: What’s Happening Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, column 4:
text: Coristine is one of a team of teenage and twentysomething software engineers, apparently conscripted by Musk in his largely unchecked war against bureaucracy.
ref: 2025 February 7, Josie Ensor, “Meet Elon Musk’s ‘baby-faced assassins’ leading Doge takeover”, in The Times:
glosses: Aged between twenty and thirty.
twentysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: twenty-something
form: 20-something
Etymology: From twenty + -something.
Senses: synonyms: twentyodd
glosses: Between twenty and thirty.
Jack the lad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after English thief, shoplifter, burglar, highwayman and gaol-breaker Jack Sheppard (1702–1724).
Senses: examples: text: You seem to think you’re a bit of a Jack the lad, don’t you?
glosses: An irresponsible young man, seeking personal pleasure and gratification without any regard to responsibilities. A rogue.
thirtysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirtysomethings
form: thirty-something
form: 30-something
Etymology: From thirty + -something.
Senses: glosses: A tricenarian: a person in their thirties, a person aged between 30 and 39 years (inclusive).
Synonyms: tricenarian
thirtysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: thirty-something
form: 30-something
Etymology: From thirty + -something.
Senses: examples: text: In the outer reaches of the Magasphere, it would be fair to say the advent of the first pope from the US has not been greeted with unbridled enthusiasm. Take Laura Loomer, the thirtysomething influencer and conspiracy theorist, whose verdict on Leo XIV was as instant as it was theologically uninformed: “Anti-Trump, anti-Maga, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis.”
ref: 2025 May 21, Julian Coman, “Maga Catholics are on a collision course with Leo XIV. They have good reason to fear him”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:
glosses: Between 30 and 39 years of age.
thirtysomething
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: thirty-something
form: 30-something
Etymology: From thirty + -something.
Senses: examples: text: At this point, page thirtysomething, I gave up on real people and began concentrating on Mr. Patterson's other people.
ref: 1993 January 31, Sidney Zion, “He Died With His Pants Down”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:
glosses: Between 30 and 39.
humation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humations
Etymology: Latin humatio, French humare "to inter", compare French humus "earth"
Senses: glosses: burial, internment, inhumation; by association, death
Related terms: exhume
posthumous
licked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: more licked
form: most licked
Senses: examples: text: But the mineral-rich blood is what gives the stew its ballast and faintly metallic hint of a licked knife.
ref: 2018 March 12, Ligaya Mishan, “Filipino Food Finds a Place in the American Mainstream”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2023:
text: The CDC estimates that one in six Americans gets a foodborne disease every year. And you know what? I'm probably two or three of them. I can't remember a time in my life before I licked the beaters clean. Tempting a stomachache for the sweet, gritty satisfaction of a licked beater has always been a game of roulette that I'm willing to play.
ref: 2021 December 29, Rachel Gutman-Wei, “A Very Radical, Very Delicious Take on Risk Management”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022:
glosses: Having been the target of a lick; touched by a tongue.
examples: text: The numbers of deaths, the number of hospitalisations, are currently very low. That doesn't mean that we have got it totally licked, it doesn't mean that Covid is over.
ref: 2021 April 26, Andrew Sparrow, quoting Boris Johnson, “UK Covid: Boris Johnson 'corrupting standards of public life', says Labour's Rachel Reeves – as it happened”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2022:
glosses: Utterly beaten.
Derived terms: lickedy
prelicked
unlicked
licked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lick
darlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darling
darlings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of darling
dastards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dastard
-ence
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /əns/
[ən(t)s]
Forms: form: -ance
form: ⠰⠑
Etymology: From Middle English -ence, from Old French -ence, from Latin -entia. Compare Old English -ende, -endu (“-ing, -ence”).
Senses: examples: dependence
compellence
glosses: Same as -ance; having the state or condition of.
synonyms: word: -ance
extra: having the state or condition of
fiberboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiberboards
form: fibreboard
Etymology: From fiber + board.
Senses: examples: text: MDF and HDF – or medium-density fiberboard and high-density fiberboard – are two of the trendiest materials in woodworking these days.
ref: 2019 September 20, “MDF vs HDF: Understanding Differences and Best Uses in Woodworking”, in Forest Plywood:
glosses: A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, and used in building or making furniture.
Derived terms: english: low density fiberboard
translation: low density fiberboard
word: LDF
english: medium density fiberboard
translation: medium density fiberboard
word: MDF
english: high density fiberboard
translation: high density fiberboard
word: HDF
Related terms: chipboard
hardboard
particleboard
waferboard
urinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtə/
ipa: /ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtɚ/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
Forms: form: urinators
Etymology: From Latin ūrīnātor (“diver”), from ūrīnārī + -tor (suffix forming a (masculine) agent noun). Ūrīnārī is the present active infinitive of ūrīnor (“to plunge under water, dive”), possibly from ūrīna (“urine; water (?)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“to moisten; to flow”).
Senses: examples: text: But above all, the diſcovery of ſubmarine treaſures is more eſpecially conſiderable, not only in regard of what hath been drowned by wrecks, but the ſeveral precious things that grow there, as Pearl, Coral Mines, with innumerable other things of great value, which may be much more eaſily found out, and fetcht up by the help of this [a submarine], than by any other uſual way of the Urinators.
ref: 1680, J[ohn] Wilkins, “Concerning the Possibility of Framing an Ark for Submarine Navigations. The Difficulties and Conveniences of Such a Contrivance.”, in Mathematical Magick: Or, The Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanichal Geometry. In Two Books. […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for Edw[ard] Gellibrand […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Dædalus: Or, Mechanical Motions), page 189:
text: [Y]ourſelf, in the ſecond tome of Uſefulneſs, have twice told them what you know of the ſkill of ſome urinators. And it is more than ten years ſince his majeſty's urinator, Mr. Curtis, publiſhed in the Gazette, how he had practiſed, and was furniſhed with inſtruments divers, and ſhipping, to recover permanent goods which are loſt by ſhipwreck; which minds me how eaſy it were, and advantageous for our merchants, in all their voyages, to be furniſhed with ſuch urinators; [...]
ref: 1682 July 6, J[ohn] B[eale], “[Letter to Robert Boyle, sent from Yeovell, June 26, 1682 (Julian calendar)]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, new edition, volume VI, London: Printed for W. Johnston, […], published 1772, →OCLC, pages 445–446:
text: In Feb. 166¾. he [Robert Hooke] contriv'd a way to ſupply freſh Air to the Urinator under the Diving Bell by a Chain of Buckets and a Leaden Box for his Head, when he went out of the Bell to be ſupply'd with freſh Air from the Bell, &c.
ref: 1705, “The Life of Dr. Robert Hooke”, in Richard Waller, editor, The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke, M.D. S.R.S. Geom. Prof. Gresh. &c. Containing His Cutlerian Lectures and Other Discourses, Read at Meetings of the Illustrious Royal Society. […], London: Publish’d by Richard Waller, R[oyal] S[ociety] Secr[etary]; printed by Sam[uel] Smith and Benj[amin] Walford, (printers to the Royal Society) […], →OCLC, page x:
glosses: A diver, especially someone who searches for things underwater.
Related terms: urinant
busily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more busily
form: most busily
Etymology: From Middle English busily, busiliche, bisili, bisiliche, equivalent to busy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But these sweet thoughts do ever refresh my labours,/ Most busil'est when I do it.
ref: 1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, scene i
text: Look at the little fellows, mere bundles of fluff, paddling along so busily and sturdily.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5:
text: Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:
glosses: In a busy manner; actively.
burnished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burnisht
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burnish
burnished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: burnisht
Senses: examples: text: The frame of burnish'd steel, that cast a glare
From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.
ref: 1700, John Dryden, "Palamon and Arcite", in Fables, Ancient and Modern
text: The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Henchmen had placed, as was their habit, each warrior's gear and trappings above his pile of skins. Thus you could see the burnished helmet of each warrior set in readiness above his head. It was the Viking habit.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33:
glosses: Polished, made shiny by rubbing (especially with a burnisher).
examples: text: Mor. Miſlike me not for my complexion,
The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne,
To whom I am a neighbour,and neere bred.
Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne,
Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles,
And let vs make inciſion for your loue,
To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt,his or mine.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 167:
glosses: Blazing, bright.
Derived terms: preburnished
unburnished
burnisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnishers
Etymology: From burnish + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tool used to burnish, for making smooth and shiny by rubbing.
generalship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛn(ə)ɹəlʃɪp/
Forms: form: generalships
Etymology: From general + -ship.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: generalcy
glosses: The position or office of a general.
examples: text: George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.
glosses: The term of office of a military general.
examples: text: General Polk stated, with all respect to General Bragg’s great abilities in the direction of organization and discipline, that he had been wanting in the higher elements of generalship in the conduct of the campaign; […]
ref: 1893, William M[ecklenburg] Polk, “The Kentucky Campaign”, in Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and New York: […], page 158:
text: At the same time, awed by the brilliant and daring generalship which had enabled the Russian to capture their city with so small a force, the elders gave him the honorific title of ‘Lion of Tashkent’.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 277:
text: Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 136:
glosses: The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
examples: text: Under my generalship my fine troop of brats picked up every scrap of litter in that lot.
glosses: By extension, leadership, good management.
Derived terms: governor-generalship
transsexualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transsexualisms
Etymology: From transsexual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Transfolk are not covered in any applicable laws like Title VII or the ADA - in fact, transsexualism is explicitly excluded from the ADA. Therefore, you have no causes of action against an employer based on federal law.
ref: 1997, A. Spencer Bergstedt, Transition and Beyond, page 28:
text: Being a transsexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever. Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter of life and death.
ref: 2012, Patrick Slattery, Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era:
glosses: Transsexuality; the state of being transsexual.
Synonyms: word: Harry Benjamin syndrome
word: transsexuality
word: transsexualness
word: transsex
heiress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛəˈɹɛs/
Forms: form: heiresses
Etymology: From heir + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: "Do you know, Julia, that Charles has taken some wild-goose fancy into his head about marrying?"
 "Why, what heiress have you picked up?" asked his sister. "I am sure that I am very glad of it, though I cannot form a guess who it is. I never knew a season so unprofitable in that respect as the present."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
glosses: A woman who has received an inheritance.
Derived terms: coheiress
heiress apparent
heiressdom
heiresshood
heiress presumptive
millionheiress
horsemanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsemanships
Etymology: From horseman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The retired cowboy showed off his horsemanship by doing tricks in the saddle.
synonyms: see at equestrianism
glosses: The skill of horseriding, and sometimes of training and managing horses.
Related terms: horseman
housekeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housekeepings
Etymology: From house + keeping.
Senses: examples: text: Those who with us would have their own little housekeepings and cooking, have not the means, nor perhaps the taste, for such domestic comfort, and take their victuals at the trattoria, or cook-shop.
ref: 1842, Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller, page 474:
glosses: The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
examples: text: The computer program does some general housekeeping involving initializing variables and opening files before beginning the main processing.
glosses: Any general tasks that involve preparation.
examples: text: Thank you all for coming! Just some quick housekeeping before we get underway, the emergency exits are to your left...
glosses: Announcements that must be made before a show or event can begin.
examples: text: "Care not thou about that," said Joliffe; "but tell me, softly and hastily, what is in the pantry?"
"Small housekeeping enough," said Phoebe; "a cold capon and some comfits, and the great standing venison pasty, with plenty of spice — a manchet or two besides, and that is all."
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
glosses: Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
Derived terms: housekeeping bill
nonhousekeeping
fucking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌfʌkɪŋˈʌp/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuck up
goodlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of goodly: more goodly
goodliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of goodly: most goodly
seven minutes in heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A party game for teenagers in which two participants are shut in a closet for seven minutes, giving them the opportunity to kiss, etc.
clock-watching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act or habit of continually checking the time to determine the remaining amount of time one has to work or study.
Related terms: clock-watch
clock-watcher
clock-watching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of clock-watch
pesewa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈseɪwə/
Forms: form: pesewas
Etymology: From Twi Akan pέsεwa (“penny, penny's worth of gold dust”).
Senses: glosses: In the currency of Ghana, one hundredth of a cedi.
must have killed a Chinaman
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Referring to a putative, and otherwise unrecorded, Anglo-Australian superstition that killing a Chinese person brought about bad luck.
Senses: examples: text: It appeared as though someone in the Battalion must have killed a Chinaman, as the weather continued rough and stormy, with strong wind.
ref: 1925, L. M. Newton, The Story of the Twelfth: A Record of the 12th Battalion, page 132:
glosses: A jocular explanation for bad luck.
Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels
Etymology: First attested in Sapper Bert Beros′s 1942 poem Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, and popularised by the Australian wartime press.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the statue is drawn from one of the most famous of all Australian images: the photograph from World War II of a blind, wounded soldier being guided down a jungle track by a Papuan carrier, a ‘fuzzy wuzzy angel’.
ref: 2002, Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, page 251:
text: I want to commend the motion passed this week because it calls for the immediate determination of a new award and medal to be presented to the fuzzy wuzzy angels, who carried stretchers, stores and wounded diggers directly on their shoulders over some of the toughest terrain in the world.
ref: 2008, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates Australia: House of Representatives, volume 135, page 6150:
text: 2012, Peter Williams, Kokoda for Dummies, Australian Edition, page 245,
Chances are the person to whom you′re speaking is the descendant of an indigenous veteran or Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel.
glosses: One of the native people of Papua New Guinea who, during the Second World War, helped escort or stretcher wounded Australian soldiers to field hospitals.
brusk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: brusker
form: more brusk
form: bruskest
form: most brusk
Senses: examples: text: Whether it were the absence of Theodora or some other cause, he was brusk, ungracious, scowling, and silent, only nodding to the Bishop who benignly saluted him, […]
ref: 1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XV, in Lothair. […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 161–162:
glosses: Alternative spelling of brusque.
Derived terms: bruskly
bruskness
sit-down money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sit down money
Senses: examples: text: I have given you examples of some of the reforms we have already put in place which are helping young people, for example, to find jobs instead of getting sit-down money, which they got from Labor.
ref: 1999, Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 9151:
text: 2005 February 21, Australian Broadcasting Commission, The World Today, transcript,
A discussion paper being released today canvasses a number of proposals to transform the payments that have become known as ‘sit-down money’.
text: So far be it from wanting sit-down money. More and more Indigenous leaders are telling me that that is what has destroyed their society.
ref: 2006, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), volume 279, page 63:
text: 2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Café, ReadHowYouWant, Large Print 16pt, page 105,
Meanwhile everyone else in your family is unemployed, getting $400 a fortnight unemployment benefit (which the Warlpiri describe as ‘sit-down money’). As soon as your $600 is in your hand, there are eight people who you are obliged to distribute it to, in the same way that you would have to distribute a kangaroo. When they get paid, they also have to share their sit-down money with each of the others.
glosses: Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginal people.
profiteering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profiteerings
Senses: examples: text: war profiteering
text: Pfizer has made nearly $26bn (£21bn) in revenues in the first three months of the year, the bulk from its Covid-19 vaccine and new pill to treat the virus, prompting fresh accusations of pandemic profiteering.
ref: 2022 May 3, Julia Kollewe, “Pfizer accused of Covid profiteering as first-quarter sales hit $26bn”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically or opportunistically.
Related terms: price gouging
profiteering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of profiteer
popery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poperies
Etymology: From pope + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: "And so plan another escape, through some of the cursed passages with which this relic of popery abounds?"
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 66–67:
text: Popery appears to be making special efforts, at the present time, to reusurp the power which it once possessed in this country, […]
ref: 1854, The Home Friend, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 385:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The teachings, practices and accoutrements of the Roman Catholic Church.
Synonyms: Roman Catholicism § Synonyms
Derived terms: antipopery
Elliott wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elliott waves
Etymology: Named after R. N. Elliott (1871-1948).
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A wave pattern used in some forms of technical analysis of securities prices.
wikipedia: R. N. Elliott
ultramodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramodernists
Etymology: From ultra- + modernist.
Senses: glosses: One who strongly believes in current views, who is extremely modern in ideas or style.
Derived terms: ultramodernistic