cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crispito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crispitos
Senses: examples: text: Crispitos. Also known as buñuelos in many Mexican restaurants, these are favorites around my house. All you need are some flour tortillas, a little cinnamon, and some sugar to make this dessert.
ref: 2010 May 11, Stephanie Manley, CopyKat.com's Dining Out At Home Cookbook: Recipes for the Most Delicious Dishes from America's Most Popular Restaurants, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Particular favorites include grilled cheese, chicken crispitos, chicken patties on Saturdays, and name-yourown omelets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The new waffle makers are also a breakfast hit. There is a clambake every fall[…]
ref: 2011 03, Jessie Sawyer, Sarah Connell, Bates College 2012, College Prowler, →ISBN:
text: Or maybe the delicious (but probably toxic) fumes from the crispitos had overloaded my brain. I was wrong. Way wrong. Something dripped down my upper lip and into my mouth as a metallic taste hit my tongue.
ref: 2016 04, Noa Gavin, Nick Scott, Practical Applications for Multiverse Theory: A Novel, Inkshares, →ISBN:
text: CRISPITOS Should you have the great fortune to even find a Crispito, it will likely have aged for a few hours under a heat lamp. Don't worry—aged Crispitos are the best ones.
ref: 2017 October 3, T. Edward Nickens, Will Brantley, The Total Redneck Manual: 221 Ways to Live Large, Weldon Owen International, →ISBN:
text: When you hear my snazzy music played if you fall down and worship like I ordered then fine, but if you don't it's off to the fiery furnace, and there will be just enough left of you to stuff a half dozen fiery hot crispitos.
ref: 2019 June 8, Ward Ricker, Holy Hustle: A Bible Parody: Containing all 66 books of both the Old and the New Hustles, Ward Ricker, →ISBN, page 508:
glosses: A food consisting of a crispy fried or baked tortilla rolled tightly around a filling (typically a savory filling such as meat, corn, and/or cheese, but sometimes a dessert filling), similar to a taquito.
crispitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crispito
nanoalloyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nanoalloy
nanoalloying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nanoalloy
HAZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HAZs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of heat-affected zone.
HAZ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hazel (eye color).
HAZs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HAZ
microalloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microalloys
Etymology: From micro- + alloy.
Senses: examples: text: For microalloys the boundary can be treated as a thin layer of the segregating element including segregating impurities. In the case of nanoalloys, the segregation pattern can involve a significant part of the whole grain.
ref: 2020, Florent Calvo, Nanoalloys: From Fundamentals to Emergent Applications, page 194:
glosses: An alloy made with very small quantities of elements.
examples: text: Today, the use of niobium as a microalloy is estimated to account for about 95% of production.
ref: 1992, Advanced Materials & Processes, volume 142, page 34:
glosses: An element used in very small quantities in an alloy.
microalloy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microalloys
form: microalloying
form: microalloyed
form: microalloyed
Etymology: From micro- + alloy.
Senses: examples: text: The purpose of this step is to microalloy the aluminum and gold metallizations into the silicon to insure the lowest possible contact resistance […]
ref: 1978, T. F. Leedy, Yan M. Liu, Microelectronic Processing Laboratory at NBS (volume 13, page 23)
glosses: To add elements to an alloy in much smaller quantities than normal.
microalloys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microalloy
microalloys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microalloy
microalloyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microalloy
Bronner's acid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Broenner's acid
form: Brönner's acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 2-aminonaphthalene-6-sulfonic acid.
Badische acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 2-aminonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid.
unsalient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsalient
form: most unsalient
Etymology: From un- + salient.
Senses: glosses: Not salient.
protocause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protocauses
Etymology: From proto- + cause.
Senses: glosses: The cause of another cause.
glosses: The cause of all causes; prime mover.
money won is twice as sweet as money earned
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From a line spoken by Paul Newman (as Eddie Folson) in the 1986 film The Color of Money.
Senses: glosses: It is more enjoyable to obtain money by gambling than to obtain it by working.
wikipedia: The Color of Money
Tobias acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the German chemist Georg Tobias.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 2-amino-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid.
sexpo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexpos
Etymology: Blend of sex + expo
Senses: examples: text: Though most sexpo exhibs were reluctant to talk last week, it's clear that porno jitters are again vibrating in Manhattan, this time generated not by threatened police action, but by a series of anonymous bomb threats which gained sudden credibility last Tues night (9) when two pipe bombs exploded during performances at the Doll Theatre at Seventh Ave. at 48th St. and at Hollywood Twin Theatre on Eighth Ave. near 48th.
ref: 1971, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session [-Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session], Part 11, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 6894:
text: 3:45-5:45pm - there's a sexpo. dildos, vibrators, costumes, plastic vaginas, whips, cuffs, sex games, […]
ref: 2009, Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash, page 60:
text: During one of my mother's recent visits to Australia to see me, I suggested we go to the sexpo exhibition. She agreed, although without knowing exactly what she was agreeing to.
ref: 2016 August 1, Maria Katsonis, Lee Kofman, Rebellious Daughters, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Some surgeons in Australia promote their practices at annual sexpo exhibitions held in the main cities. Breast and buttock augmentation and female genital cosmetic surgery, the latter often advertised as a “designer vagina,” predominate at such events, with photographs of the various body parts labeled with phrases such as “enhance your pleasure” (for genital cosmetic surgery), “enhance your assets,” and “tighten yout tush.”
ref: 2021 May 4, Lindy McDougall, The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: An exhibition of sex toys or other sexual goods and services.
sexpos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexpo
boregasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːɡaz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈboɹ.ɡæ.zəm/
Forms: form: boregasms
Etymology: From bore + -gasm.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone started laughing and, just like that, we all went from being on the verge of a boregasm to off the nut!
ref: 2017 January 10, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 85:
text: “Keep it up, I might just have a boregasm.” “Boregasm?” Rian repeated skeptically. “It's like when you reach peak boredom. Which I'm going to. Any second now.”
ref: 2018 August 6, Jess Anastasi, The Empty Night, Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:
text: But when she starts talking about insurance, my eyes cross as I achieve boregasm. Insurance-speak is not for the faint of heart.
ref: 2019 January 8, Melissa Leong, Happy Go Money: Spend Smart, Save Right & Enjoy Life, ECW Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The result of or act of reaching the apex or climax of boredom; filling one’s capacity for boredom.
boregasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boregasm
boregasms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boregasm
harasshole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harassholes
Etymology: Blend of harass + asshole.
Senses: examples: text: The blonde touched Max's arm. "It's all right . . . he can't fire me, 'cause I quit. . . . I'm tired of workin' for this sexual-harasshole." "Good call," Original Cindy said. Max shrugged and put the guy down. He was leaning over the counter, red-faced, choking, when the three women strolled out onto the street together.
ref: 2002 November 5, Max Allan Collins, Dark Angel: Before the Dawn, volume 1, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 100:
text: It was just one of those moments where you're a harasshole because you can be. Because even though I was a swollen, sullen, man-hating self-loather, I knew I was still hotter than anything a smelly hippie could hope to have.
ref: 2013 May 31, John Vorhaus, The Texas Twist, Prospect Park Books, →ISBN, page 168:
text: I have a trove, including such treasures as sadlarious, disastrophe, cumulolingus, and the very much needed harasshole, which describes a guy – you know the guy – the one with the authority hard-on who always gives you such grief.
ref: 2013 October 2, John Vorhaus, Comedy Writing 4 Life, Bafflegab Books, →ISBN:
text: Screen Grabs. If a harasshole comes at you via text message or social media, screen grab everything for your records, ensuring that the phone number or social media handle is in frame.
ref: 2021 April 6, Adrienne Lawrence, Staying in the Game: The Playbook for Beating Workplace Sexual Harassment, Penguin, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: An objectionable harassing person.
restraintless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more restraintless
form: most restraintless
Etymology: From restraint + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without restraint.
constraintless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more constraintless
form: most constraintless
Etymology: From constraint + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without constraint or constraints.
yoko-tobi-geri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 横飛び蹴り.
Senses: glosses: A karate kick performed while leaping sideways.
harassholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harasshole
hoof-and-mouth disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of foot-and-mouth disease.
synonyms: word: foot-and-mouth disease
carnophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin carnis (“meat”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the ascetic idealists Emerson and Thoreau, Melville abandoned Pauline-Christian carnophobia and accepted man's body as part of his essential being.
ref: 1987 July 1, Tetsumaro Hayashi, Herman Melville: research opportunities and dissertation abstracts, McFarland & Co Inc, →ISBN:
text: Carnophobia Anyone? About Eating Meat. Meat is a dead food. Not because the animal is no longer alive, but because meat is a "fiberless" food.
ref: 1999, Marsha A. Petty, The Silent Plague - Constipation, Mo' Better Health, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Such carnophobia aside, the aliens were surely right to be puzzled. Thinking meat, dreaming meat, conscious meat, meat that understands. It seems unlikely, to say the least.
ref: 2016, Andy Clark, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page xiv:
text: ‘He seems to have an aversion to telling the truth.’ ‘And an aversion to meat so he told me when I finally caught up with him.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘He suffers from Carnophobia. The fear of meat.’ ‘You're kidding?’ ‘No. I looked it up. It exists all right but whether Nugent really suffers from it is another matter. I went to his flat. Had the devil of a job getting him to come to the door, but when I bellowed through the letterbox and asked him to look through the window he recognized me and let me in.’
ref: 2015 December 20, Pauline Rowson, Fatal Catch: An Andy Horton Police Procedural, volume 12, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: A strong fear or dislike of meat.
truxillic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truxillic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several crystalline stereoisomeric cyclic dicarboxylic acids with the chemical formula (C₆H₅)₂(CH)₄(CO₂H)₂.
Related terms: truxillate
truxinic acid
truxillic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truxillic acid
truxillate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truxillates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of truxillic acid.
truxillates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truxillate
snoregasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɔːɡaz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈsnoɹ.ɡæ.zəm/
Forms: form: snoregasms
Etymology: Blend of snore + orgasm, or snore + -gasm.
Senses: examples: text: […] therapists deal with wives not being satisfied by husbands who perform quickly, get their orgasm, and go to sleep, “leaving her frustrated and deciding whether to kill him or bring herself to climax” having a “snorgasm” (Schnarch, 1991, p. 18).
ref: 1999, David C. Edwards, chapter 7, in Motivation and Emotion, SAGE, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: A very unsatisfying or obviously fake orgasm.
examples: text: That night I have a snoregasm. I might have dreamt about Irene. I don't want to throw my underpants in the laundry, because she might see the dried stain.
ref: 2014 August 7, Jakob Ejersbo, Liberty, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Both parents were still in bed, the mother as quiet as a corpse, the father snoring so loudly that anyone listening might have thought he was having a “snoregasm.” Clifford wrote his parents a note: “I have left to explore Tucumcari while the weather is cool.”
ref: 2014 November 14, Anthology, Tremors - Short Fiction By California Writers, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2023:
text: Or episodes where the sleeper has sex without waking up: sexsomnia – or, as some call it, snoregasm. This is not the same as a wet dream, which is not classified as a sleep disorder. Parasomnic episodes may seem dramatic but they are almost always harmless.
ref: 2020 September 24, Anders Bortne, Sleepless: A Thousand Wakeful Nights, One Solution, Sandstone Press Ltd, →ISBN:
qualifier: potentially literal
glosses: A wet dream.
examples: text: This is the cafeteria, and there's the cafeteria lady. Hi. And that's our American flag... Tina, no offense, but this tour is giving me a snoregasm. Show me something good.
ref: 2012 May 13, Loren Bouchard, “Bad Tina” (1:53 from the start), in Bob's Burgers, season 2, episode 8, spoken by Tammy Larsen (Jenny Slate):
text: “A total snoregasm,” Shelby said. “And where were you yesterday? I called you a thousand times!” Riley opened her mouth but Halloran cut in with a sharp look.
ref: 2014 January 1, Hannah Jayne, See Jane Run, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Anything that is very boring.
snoregasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snoregasm
snorgasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snorgasms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snoregasm.
snorgasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snorgasm
t-dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: t-dicks
form: tdick
Etymology: From T (“testosterone”) + dick (“penis”).
Senses: hypernyms: macroclitoris
glosses: The clitoris of a trans man, enlarged by masculinizing HRT (clitoromegaly).
Related terms: bottom growth
abative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:abative.
glosses: Abating.
dike up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dikes up
form: diking up
form: diked up
form: diked up
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of dyke up.
dykes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dyke up
dyking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dyke up
dyked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dyke up
dikes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dike up
diking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dike up
diked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dike up
looks like something the cat brought in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look like something the cat brought in
looking like something the cat brought in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look like something the cat brought in
looked like something the cat brought in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look like something the cat brought in
wordplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordplayers
Senses: examples: text: A favorite among wordplayers is the antonymous pair find in and find out.
ref: 1961, Evan Esar, Humorous English: A Guide to Comic Usage, Jocular Speech and Writing, and Witty Grammar, New York, N.Y.: Horizon Press, →LCCN, page 122:
text: As M. M. Mahood has demonstrated in Shakespeare’s Wordplay (1957), hundreds of puns appear in his work. Only the author of Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) challenges him for first place among wordplayers in British literature.
ref: 1991, Robert F. Fleissner, Shakespeare and the Matter of the Crux: Textual, Topical, Onomastic, Authorial, and Other Puzzlements, The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page v:
text: One of the things that wordplayers like to do is create new words by blending two existing words.
ref: 2015, Andy Seed, The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: One who engages in wordplay.
wordplayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordplayer
wheelchair-user
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelchair-users
Senses: examples: text: For wheelchair-users there are separate pockets fitted to the chair arm which take the burden off clothes.
ref: 1962 March 23, James N. Miller, “Design Easy-to-Fit Garb for Disabled”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, eighty-third year, number 70, Asbury Park, N.J., page 26:
text: Known as “space shoes” to the researchers, a revolutionary type of boot to enable wheelchair-users with rheumatic feet to walk without pain is being developed at St. Stephen’s Hospital, Chelsea.
ref: 1966 June 3, “‘Space shoes’ pioneered at St. Stephen’s”, in Chelsea News, West London Press, number 5,512, page one:
text: Elevated dining areas without ramp access don’t allow wheelchair-users to be customers.
ref: 2023 January 30, Sarah Grochowski, “Permanent restaurant patios go to public debate next month”, in Vancouver Sun, page A3:
glosses: Alternative form of wheelchair user.
wheelchair-users
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelchair-user
brain-scanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain-scanners
Senses: examples: text: Surgery is the only cure, but with the information the brain-scanner gives, the surgeon can operate with more exact knowledge, making for a greater degree of success.
ref: 1963 April 18, Gerard G. Neuman, “You and Your Problems: Brain Tumor Causes Husband’s Problems”, in Arlington Heights Herald, Arlington Heights, Ill.:
text: Psilocybin mushrooms’ power to throw open the doors of perception is well documented in ancient legend and modern song. But not until now have high-tech brain-scanners captured the process by which psilocybin causes a sudden shift in human cognition.
ref: 2012 January 24, Melissa Healy, “Mushrooms’ magic lies in tuning out”, in Wisconsin State Journal, 172nd year, number 24, page A6:
text: We do not need a tranche of dementia clinics, consultants and brain-scanners; we need to find again social workers, GPs and hospital physicians who can build personal relationships with patients, their families and communities – often over years.
ref: 2013 December 14, David Zigmond, “Those caring for people with dementia do not know where to turn”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 49,315, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of brain scanner.
brain-scanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain-scanner
brainscanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainscanners
Senses: examples: text: The brainscanner, which formed the basis of the medical electronics division, offered EMI an opportunity to market one of the most significant British inventions since the second world war. The UK is often accused of failing to exploit its own inventions, and letting others make off with the best ideas and turn them into money. In the case of the brainscanner, however, EMI was determined to make the most of it.
ref: 1980, Multinational Business, The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd, page 43:
text: The brainscanner reveals more of the living human brain than any other instrument. […] The British-designed EMI brainscanner is introduced to give cross-sectional X-rays compiled from views taken all around the brain. […] The technique of computerized axial tomography—the process upon which the scanner depends—was originated by EMI researchers in 1967 and made available to the medical profession in the form of a brainscanner in 1972.
ref: 1982, The Timetable of Technology, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Books, →ISBN, pages 111, 193, and 205:
text: They are evaluating a system developed by British Telecom in which images on the brainscanner at the hospital are transmitted via the public telephone system to their television set, using electronic “black boxes.” By using a slow-scan television technique, a picture is transmitted every 30 seconds from the black box connected to the brainscanner and appears on the TV screen.
ref: 1984 August, “Brainscan Diagnosis by Telephone”, in Amateur Radio, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of brain scanner.
brainscanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brainscanner
brain scanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain scanner
inrode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inrodes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of inroad.
FMFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FMF
perswasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perswasive
form: most perswasive
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of persuasive.
FFMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FFM
disswade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disswades
form: disswading
form: disswaded
form: disswaded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of dissuade.
cuckcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckcake
supream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: supreamer
form: more supream
form: supreamest
form: most supream
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of supreme.
appeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: appeers
form: appeering
form: appeered
form: appeered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of appear.
council housing estate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: council housing estates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of council estate.
synonyms: word: council estate
council housing estates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of council housing estate
sloath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloaths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sloth.
wearisom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wearisom
form: most wearisom
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wearisome.
after-event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-events
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes it may bee requisite, in respect of after-euents: as if I sweare and vowe to God, to keepe some certaine spare and so straite a diet; as (through weakenesse and infirmities after happening) I can not possiblie obserue, without apparent daunger of the losse of my life.
ref: 1593, Richard Cosin, chapter 2, in An Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, London, page 22:
text: What I have promised to my wife, is a Law to me, prudence and after-events not controuling.
ref: 1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 130:
text: Adeline thought little about it at the time; but often—oh! how often—did her memory dwell upon those accents, and recal that beloved voice, when after-events came thickening like briers in her path of life.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 118:
text: Looking back now we all seem, with the wisdom of the after-event, to discern a kind of hush rather resembling the sort of tired selfishness that comes among a group of children towards the end of a picnic when they have eaten too much, played too much, and have become, because of submissive nurses and indulgent relations, too certain of their own importance.
ref: 1928, Hugh Walpole, chapter 2, in My Religious Experience, London: Ernest Benn:
glosses: Alternative form of afterevent.
after-events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of after-event
dove-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dove-like
form: most dove-like
Senses: examples: text: Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss[…].
ref: 1635, John Donne, His parting from her:
text: While he went on, and learnedly perplext / The genuine Meaning of his choſen Text, / I caſt my Eyes above him, and explor’d / The Dove-like Form upon the ſounding Board. / That Bird, thought I, was put there as a Sign / What Kind of Spirit guides a good Divine: […]
ref: a. 1764, John Byrom, “An Answer to some Enquiries, concerning the Author’s Opinion of a Sermon preached at⸺ upon the Operation of the Holy Spirit”, in Miscellaneous Poems, Manchester: […] J. Harrop, published 1773, page 204:
text: She had her pets as well as he, and her life and that of her future partner promised to be as dove-like as possible.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 118:
text: As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!
ref: 1914, Thomas Allibone Janvier, At the Casa Napoleon, page 140:
glosses: Alternative form of dovelike.
flower-bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower-beds
Senses: examples: text: I have a great notion that he lived in the Isle of Wight, somewhere near Brading, in a thatched cottage, half-covered with myrtles, and with such flower-beds in front!
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 331:
text: One field was bare, its surface of an ochreish colour deeper than that of clay, broken and smoothed as perfectly as the surface of the most carefully tended flower-bed.
ref: 1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac:
text: He stopped short and looked at the brick wall of the terrace, faced with shallow arches, meagrely clothed by a few unthriving creepers, with an ill-kept narrow flower-bed along its foot.
ref: 1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes:
text: We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an eminence, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
glosses: Alternative form of flowerbed.
flower-beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower-bed
truck-drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truck-driver
tea-table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea-tables
Senses: examples: text: 'I will leave you to yourselves, gentlemen,' said the provost, rising; 'when you have done with your crack, you will find me at my wife's tea-table.'
ref: 1824, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Redgauntlet:
text: “Ah!” said Mr. Powell, helping himself freely, “very wholesome. Rather a change of scene this for your inmate, Mr. Floyer,” he added, looking around at two chairs and a stool, which were pressed into the service of the tea-table, and which were indeed all that the room afforded.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 165:
text: […] after we have removed some of the dust of our journey, we sit down to a well-spread tea-table, on which a noble Cornish pasty holds the post of honour.
ref: 1854, Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, W. & R. Chambers:
text: There were beautifully arranged tea-tables under the deodars at Annandale, where the Grand Stand is now; […]
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Cupid’s Arrows”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 56:
text: She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea-table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.
ref: 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Bag”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: Alternative form of tea table.
tea-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea-table
parafeminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + feminism, coined by Amelia Jones.
Senses: examples: text: Parafeminism encourages women to become equal to men by becoming more pleasing to them.
ref: 2013, Michael Trask, Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America, page 201:
text: Understanding gender 'as a question rather than an answer', contextual, nonprescriptive and inherently intersectional, parafeminism sheds 'some of the closures and limitations' of the second wave […]
ref: 2017, Alexandra M. Kokoli, The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice, page 61:
glosses: A variety of feminism that seeks to better the conditions of women but considers men and women to be fundamentally different.
wikipedia: Amelia Jones
fourth-wave feminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A period of feminist activity that began around 2012 and is characterized by Internet activism, intersectionality, and a focus on sexual abuse and sexual harassment.
Coordinate terms: first-wave feminism
second-wave feminism
third-wave feminism
tea-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea-pots
Senses: examples: text: They left early, yet the evening had seemed interminable; and considering that Emily was niched between an inlaid table, on which stood a shepherd in a yellow jacket offering a China—Chinese I mean—rose to a shepherdess in green and pink—and a tea-pot, all exquisite Dresden specimens—and an old lady, of whose shawl and shoulders Emily had the full benefit, […]
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 253:
text: [O]ur friend was a hearty toper in the days of his Whiggery, but no sooner turned one of the tautest of Tories, than he took to the tea-pot. It seems a thing against nature.
ref: 1832 September, John Wilson, W[illia]m Maginn, J[ohn] G[ibson] Lockhart, James Hogg [et al.], Noctes Ambrosianæ […], volume V, number LXII, New York, N.Y.: Redfield […], published 1854, →OCLC, page 76:
text: […] a glance at the well-ordered tea-table, the shining cream-jug, the hissing urn, the tea-pot, already in operation, and the gentle and lovely aspect of two ladies, had their influence—he sat down.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IV, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: The proprietor of the house cowered over a bed-candle and a furtive tea-pot in the back drawing-room.
ref: 1855, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “An Old Friend”, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 128:
text: As he became more popular, household objects were brought into requisition for his instruction in a copious vocabulary; and whenever he appeared in the Yard ladies would fly out at their doors crying ‘Mr Baptist—tea-pot!’ ‘Mr Baptist—dust-pan!’ ‘Mr Baptist—flour-dredger!’ ‘Mr Baptist—coffee-biggin!’ At the same time exhibiting those articles, and penetrating him with a sense of the appalling difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
text: Here are the slanderings, too, going on at home; for, while the husbands are assembled, it would be hard if the wives were not to do the same; and the very least that is to be expected is, that the tea-pot should keep pace with the porter-pot […]
ref: 1862, William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women:
text: And the young lady, with a laugh, sat down, looking so pleased, and good-natured, and merry, that even old Tamar was fain to smile a glimmering smile; and little Margery actively brought the tea-caddy; and the kettle being in a skittish, singing state, quickly went off in a boil, and Tamar actually made tea in her brown tea-pot.
ref: 1864, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, ““Jenny, Put the Kettle On.””, in Wylder’s Hand. […], New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […], published 1865, →OCLC, pages 88–89:
glosses: Alternative form of teapot.
tea-pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea-pot
tea pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea pots
Senses: examples: text: You may make this syllabub at home, by having new milk made as warm as from the cow, and pouring it out of a tea pot, or any other vessel with a spout, holding your hand very high.
ref: 1800, H. Glass [Hannah Glasse], Maria Wilson, “Syllabubs, Blanc-mange, Flummery, &c.”, in The Complete Confectioner; or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a Simple and Speedy Method of Understanding the Whole Art of Confectionary; …, London: […] J. W. Myers, […], for West and Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 184–185:
text: We have reduced our entire line of Brown Tea Pots—Yellow Bowls and Cookingware.
ref: 1886 February 1, The Sun, volume XCVIII, number 66, Baltimore, Md.:
text: Although she was a rich lady, she maintained some of her peasant mannerisms, like bringing out her age-greasened basket tea cosy which held the old tea pot and four cups inside.
ref: 1988, Catherine Dai, Bound feet, page 200:
glosses: Alternative form of teapot.
tea pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea pot
Chicago principles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initially adopted by the University of Chicago following a report issued in 2014.
Senses: glosses: A set of guiding principles intended to demonstrate a commitment to freedom of speech and freedom of expression on college campuses in the United States, and according to which even disagreeable and offensive ideas are eligible for discussion.
sex bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex bolts
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Chicago screw
glosses: A type of fastener comprising a mated pair of screw and post; the post is a nut with a barrel-shaped flange and protruding boss that is internally threaded.
sex bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex bolt
Chicago piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicago pianos
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The Thompson submachine gun.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A 1.1-inch anti-aircraft gun.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A multiple 2-pounder gun pom pom anti-aircraft gun.
Chicago pianos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chicago piano
principle of contradiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of law of noncontradiction.
synonyms: word: law of noncontradiction
broadly speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Speaking in broad terms.
Related terms: generally speaking
Dilbert principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dilbert principle
Etymology: Introduced in the Dilbert comic strips, as a satirical take on the Peter principle.
Senses: glosses: The theory that incompetent people in an organization tend to be promoted to a level at which they can do less harm to productivity.
wikipedia: Dilbert
aufbau principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the aufbau principle
form: Aufbau principle
Etymology: From German Aufbau (“build-up, construction”).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: aufbau rule
glosses: The rule stating that, in the ground state of an atom or ion, electrons fill subshells of the lowest available energy, followed by subshells of higher energy.
1,6-Cleves acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve, with functional groups numbered per IUPAC nomenclature.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1-aminonaphthalene-6-sulfonic acid.
Related terms: 1,7-Cleves acid
1,7-Cleves acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve, with functional groups numbered per IUPAC nomenclature.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1-aminonaphthalene-7-sulfonic acid.
Related terms: 1,6-Cleves acid
naphthionic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 1-aminonaphthalene-4-sulfonic acid.
stand-point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stand-points
Senses: examples: text: The Church unavoidably stands in the midst of this universal cultivation and science, and all the problems which they moot present themselves necessarily to all the members of the Church, who are scientifically instructed, and necessitate them to seek a solution from the stand-point of their religious consciousness.
ref: 1849, J[ohn] D[aniel] Morell, The Philosophy of Religion, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 423:
text: The border-land where the white and black races meet in common debauch, the aptly-named black-and-tan saloon, has never been debatable ground from a moral stand-point.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Color Line in New York”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:
text: Perfected first, from the stand-point of correct engineering, by proper turns radio, impedance and shielding—then, in our latest models, given the finishing touches of outward beauty that the more critical eye demanded.
ref: 1922 December, “The New ‘All-American’ Audio Frequency Transformers [advertisement]”, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Radio News, volume 4, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, →OCLC, page 1221:
glosses: Archaic form of standpoint.
stand-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stand-point
freshwater drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freshwater drums
Senses: glosses: Aplodinotus grunniens, a fish endemic to North and Central America.
freshwater drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freshwater drum
views from nowhere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of view from nowhere
border-land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: border-lands
Senses: examples: text: 1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter dated 16 March, 1850, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter , p. ,
some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties
text: The border-land where the white and black races meet in common debauch, the aptly-named black-and-tan saloon, has never been debatable ground from a moral stand-point.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Color Line in New York”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:
text: The old rune-songs may, however, still be heard on both sides of the border-land in Finnish and in Russian Carelia, as also on the shores of Lake Ladoga, in Ingria, and in the neighbourhood of Kajana in Osterbotten.
ref: 1896, Bernard Fredrik Godenhjelm, Handbook of the History of Finnish Literature, page 12:
glosses: Archaic spelling of borderland.
border-lands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of border-land
frictionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frictionizes
form: frictionizing
form: frictionized
form: frictionized
Etymology: From friction + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Then to one grain of this compound add ninety nine grains more of sugar of milk, frictionize as before, and we get the second potency or attenuation, and so on, until the eleventh potency is reached, […]
ref: 1893, The American Monthly Magazine, volume 3, page 219:
text: The thing of supreme importance in this treatment was to instruct the patient to frictionize the gums so persistently with the tooth-brush that no infection of the sulci could take place.
ref: 1912, Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain). Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Proceedings (volume 5, page 67)
glosses: To apply friction to.
frictionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frictionize
frictionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frictionize
frictionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frictionize
friezings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friezing
rage syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare seizure disorder in dogs, characterized by explosive aggression.
fright disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of canine hysteria.
synonyms: word: canine hysteria
canine hysteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: fright disease
glosses: A disorder of dogs, involving senseless barking, fits of running, etc., apparently caused by an ingested toxin.
Dybo's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Soviet accentologist Vladimir Dybo.
Senses: glosses: A law posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages that are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.
synonyms: Dybo's rule
pretonic shortening
glosses: A proposed sound law for some branches of Indo-European which posits that long vowels (often reflecting a sequence of short vowel plus laryngeal) inherited from Proto-Indo-European were shortened when immediately preceding an accented syllable.
paraphilically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paraphilically
form: most paraphilically
Etymology: From paraphilic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a paraphilic manner.
fringed gecko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fringed geckos
form: fringed geckoes
Senses: glosses: Any lizard of the genus Luperosaurus.
fringed geckos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fringed gecko
anthuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthurium
froster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frosters
Etymology: From frost + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A froster and a cake sealer had repeated attacks of dermatitis on returning to their work, although the cause could not be ascertained.
ref: 1941, Oswald Fenton Hedley, Heart Disease in Philadelphia Cardiac Clinics, page 17:
text: Julie was a froster, the glamour job at the factory. She wore her cute white hat cocked at a jaunty angle while working a big white bag of frosting, twisting it rapidly in her hands to create the various designs on top of the gâteaux.
ref: 2016, Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes, Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism, page 88:
glosses: One who applies frosting.
examples: text: To standardize his rapid-freeze process, Birdseye devised an iron container with steel plates. Within them he placed packages of fresh fish in a low-temperature brine refrigerant. Knowing that the public would be wary, Birdseye named the contraption a froster rather than a freezer.
ref: 2004, Nancy Rubin, American Empress, page 140:
glosses: A kind of freezer for food.
frosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of froster
front nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front nines
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: back nine
glosses: The first nine holes of the 18 holes that make up a golf course.
back nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back nines
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: front nine
glosses: The final nine holes of the 18 holes that make up a golf course.
front nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front nine
back nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back nine
fructiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fructi- + -form.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a fruit.
frumerty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹuː.mə.ti/
ipa: /ˈfɹu.mɚ.ti/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frumenty.
blacksnaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blacksnake
shortstuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘Listen, shortstuff,’ Amanda said, ‘this is a crisis situation we have here.’
ref: 1996, Allan Frewin Jones, Parent Trouble (Little Sister), Red Fox, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Listen shortstuff, you think you’re the best thing to ever happen to mankind, but anyone else would burst out laughing at the sight of you.
ref: 2009, James W. Davis, Image as Idea: The Arts in Global Cultures, 2nd edition, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 125:
text: The Kid leant over and whispered in Sam’s ear, ‘Listen, shortstuff, I don’t always get things. I take the wrong end of the stick sometimes.[…]’
ref: 2012, Charlie Higson, The Sacrifice, Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of short stuff.