cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dishwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishwaters
Etymology: From dish + water.
Senses: examples: text: The dishwater drained away slowly.
glosses: Water that dishes and cooking utensils have been washed in.
examples: text: This season's offerings are nothing but dishwater.
glosses: Anything dull and lacking interest or flavour.
Derived terms: dishwater blond
dishwater blonde
dishwatery
dull as dishwater
scrubbing brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrubbing brushes
form: scrub brush
Senses: hypernyms: brush
<
tool
coordinate_terms: scrubber#Noun
scrubbie#Noun
scrubby#Noun
;
toilet brush
;
toothbrush
hairbrush
glosses: A short brush with stiff bristles, usually handheld, used for scrubbing floors etc. Sometimes with a broom handle like a push broom.
blokey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blokier
form: blokiest
Etymology: From bloke + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Tennis isn't a blokey sport.
antonyms: girly
posh
glosses: Associated with the mainstream male culture, particularly blue-collar.
Derived terms: blokeyness
blokiness
jollop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒləp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: jollops
Etymology: Alteration of jalap, or julep.
Senses: examples: text: Do you care to know the ingredients of the jollop?
ref: 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 419:
glosses: A strong liquor or medicine.
jollop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒləp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: jollops
Etymology: See jellop.
Senses: glosses: A jellop (“wattle, dewlap”).
Derived terms: jolloped
polymastia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɒlɪˈmæstɪə/
Etymology: From poly- + -mastia (corresponding to Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós, “breast”)).
Senses: examples: text: Viewed in the light of comparative anatomy, polymastia is interesting, as showing a tendency to re-establish the series of mammae seen in other mammalia; but Darwin has lately repudiated atavism as a cause of this malformation
ref: 1878 April 6, “Reviews and notices of books: On Numerical Anomalies of the Breast”, in The Lancet, volume 114, page 500:
text: The warts on its skin, you see, remind one of the extra nipples which every she-witch was supposed to have and that goes back (am I boring you, dear boy? How is your glass?) that goes back to the polymastia or superfluity of breasts of the ancients.
ref: 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 420:
synonyms: polymazia
pleiomazia
pleiomastia
glosses: The fact or condition of having more than two mammae or nipples.
Derived terms: polymastic
budino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budinos
form: budini
Etymology: From Italian budino (“pudding”). Doublet of pudding and boudin.
Senses: examples: text: Some budinos are firmed up with the very Italian addition of semolina, while others are more like a baked custard.
ref: 2012, MasterChef: The Ultimate Cookbook, page 258:
glosses: A sweet Italian dessert dish, usually rich and creamy like a custard or pudding.
incunable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkjuːnəbəl/
Forms: form: incunables
Etymology: From French incunable, from Latin incūnābula (“swaddling-clothes, cradle”).
Senses: examples: text: Nerciat rubbed shoulders with D.H. Lawrence, the Large Paper set of de Sade (Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare) jostled an incunable Hermes Trismegistus, and ten different editions of L'Histoire d'O were piquant bedfellows to De la Bodin's Démonomanie des Sorciers.
ref: 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 435:
glosses: Alternative form of incunabulum.
guv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guvs
form: gov
Etymology: Alternative phonetic spelling of gov, short for governor.
Senses: examples: text: Spare two quid, guv? I 'aven't eaten since yesterday.
text: Right away, guv... I mean, sarge.
glosses: A form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.
examples: We cover up the window so the guvs can't see us.
glosses: A male prison officer.
Synonyms: word: boss
word: guv'nor
sense: to a stranger of comparable status
word: mate
Related terms: guv'nor
governor
thanx
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: X is pronounced /ks/ in English. thanks + -x.
Senses: examples: text: What can I say? THANX It was wild!
ref: 1982 December 25, “Jack In Berserkely (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 14:
qualifier: intentional
glosses: Alternative spelling of thanks.
thanx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: X is pronounced /ks/ in English. thanks + -x.
Senses: examples: text: Thanx and a tip of the slumber cap to jules henry marr
ref: 1967 July 15, “Hatlo’s They’ll Do It Every Time”, in Florence Morning News, 44th year, number 196, Florence, S.C., page 11:
text: Please accept my thanx and gratitude as a small token of appreciation.
ref: 1995, Tupac Shakur, letter to Lori; published in Molly Monjauze, Gloria Cox, Staci Robinson, editors, Tupac Remembered: Bearing Witness to a Life and Legacy, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2008, →ISBN:
text: I, Stephen Repace, leave my thanx to all the teachers who helped me get through high school in a fun and exciting manner, without you I’d be lost.
ref: 2002 June 5, “Senior Wills”, in The News-Ledger, 38th year, number 42, West Sacramento, Calif., →OCLC:
text: My thanx also to contributors and research participants whose pieces were unable to be included, only because of word limits: […]
ref: 2005, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, “Acknowledgements”, in When Our Children Come Out: How to Support Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Young People, Sydney, N.S.W.: Finch Publishing, →ISBN, page 231:
text: Since I’ll be walking over hill and dale etc I won’t get a chance to write so please drop a note to H & V, Cindy E. and Joan expressing my thanx for their BD greetings and why I can’t write now—have much to do and little time.
ref: 2008, Evelyn Sweet-Hurd, His Name Was Donn: My Brother’s Letters from Vietnam, Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 213:
qualifier: intentional
glosses: Alternative spelling of thanks.
appeasement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpiːz.mənt/
Forms: form: appeasements
Etymology: From Middle English appesement, from Old French apaisement.
Senses: examples: text: This decision is the end of any attempts at appeasement in our land; the end of urging us to get along with the dictators, the end of compromise with tyranny and the forces of oppression.
ref: 1941, Roosevelt, Franklin, White House Correspondents' Dinner:
text: Senator, Saturday on television, you said that you had always thought that Quemoy and Matsu were unwise places to draw our defense line in the Far East. Would you comment further on that, and also address to this question: couldn't a pull-back from those islands be interpreted as appeasement?
ref: 1960 October 7, Edward P. Morgan, 50:55 from the start, in Presidential Candidates Debate, via C-SPAN:
text: What’s crucial is that the Taiwanese people preserve their individual freedom and the planet does not endure a third world war. The best way for the United States to pursue those goals is by maintaining America’s military support for Taiwan while also maintaining the “one China” framework that for more than four decades has helped keep the peace in one of the most dangerous places on earth.
Hawks will call this appeasement. So be it. Ask them how many American lives they’re willing to risk so the United States can have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
ref: 2021 May 5, Peter Beinart, “Biden’s Taiwan Policy Is Truly, Deeply Reckless”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2021:
glosses: The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace.
Derived terms: antiappeasement
reappeasement
Related terms: appease
appeaser
air out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: airs out
form: airing out
form: aired out
form: aired out
Senses: examples: text: If you air out your sleeping bag after you use it, it will smell better the next time you get in.
glosses: To expose to air; to leave open or spread out, as to allow odor or moisture to dissipate.
glosses: To discuss in the open; to address an issue or conflict that has long been avoided.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To shoot up a location, particularly inside a building
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw passes, especially long and high passes.
like a cat on a hot tin roof
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: A simile developed from the behaviour of a cat observed on a hot tin roof.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Jumpy, nervous.
wikipedia: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
HE-double-hockey-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The word hell spelled out, referring to the fact that capital "L" resembles a hockey stick.
Senses: examples: text: His voice rose about an octave, actually just short of a scream, and he said something to the effect that "it's an HE-double-hockey-sticks-week at work."
ref: 2002, Eric G. Stephan, R. Wayne Pace, Powerful Leadership: How to Unleash the Potential in Others and Simplify Your Own Life:
text: He's made the mother's life a living HE-double-hockey-sticks, my daughter says.
ref: 2003, Susan Neville, Iconography: A Writer's Meditation:
text: She knew Kate didn't have a snowball's chance in HE-Double hockey-sticks, with Angelina's Zee-Zee and Bud's Mister Dobson winning everything.
ref: 2005, Mike Joens, Blood Reins: A Detective Sandra Cameron Mystery:
glosses: Hell.
Related terms: HE-double-toothpicks
deader
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dead + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.
text: Oldwick drew the pistol from his shirt. "If he has made up his mind to kill me," he thought. "I can't see that it will make any difference in the long run whether I infuriate him or not. The beggar can't kill me any deader in one mood than another."
ref: 1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed:
text: The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot...
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street:
glosses: comparative form of dead: more dead; or at least more evidently dead.
deader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaders
Etymology: From dead + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.
text: "No, nor drink. And Mr. Bender, he was the fust to go, and then Indian Pete, and then Mrs. McGregor, and then Johnny Hones, and then, dearie, your mother."
"Then mother's a deader too," cried the little girl, dropping her face in her pinafore and sobbing bitterly.
"Yes, they all went except you and me...
ref: 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:
glosses: One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
as hell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It's cold as hell in here!
text: It was icy as hell on the road that morning, and as I put my brakes on, the van just kept going.
text: Kim's phony as hell.
text: The neighbor's dog is loud as hell.
text: With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Two thousand years of waiting for their Messiah, and they're still persistent as hell.
ref: 2001, Dan Brown, Angels and Demons:
text: Just annoying as hell, as obnoxious as hell, and as effective as hell.
ref: 2004, James W. Huston, Secret Justice:
text: Even though he was frightened for them, even though he was scared as hell to fail them, it felt so good to know these people cared when he hurt!
ref: 2004, Teralee E. M. Bird, Seraphim Trilogy Book One; What the Herald Angel Sang:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To a great extent or degree; very.
examples: text: My Soul forſakes her vain Delight, / and bids the World farewel, / Baſe as the Dirt beneath my Feet, / And miſcheivous as Hell.
ref: 1707, Isaac Watts, “Parting with Carnal Joys”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 87:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, hell.
Synonyms: sense: to a great extent or degree
word: as
sense: to a great extent or degree
word: as all hell
sense: to a great extent or degree
word: as a motherfucker
sense: to a great extent or degree
word: as anything
sense: to a great extent or degree
word: as fuck
sense: to a great extent or degree
english: minced oath, less vulgar
translation: minced oath, less vulgar
word: as heck
sense: to a great extent or degree
word: as shit
Derived terms: hot as hell
Related terms: as all hell
the hell out of
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Susan Powter (1993), Stop the Insanity! Eat, Breathe, Move, Change the Way You Look and Feel-Forever: “How about eliminating all the stupid choreography you've got us doing—which doesn't do a damn thing, other than confuse the hell out of most people....”
text: 2004: William Upski Wimsatt Adrienne Brown, How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power
There were days where we would just pick up our coats, leave one person in the office, and head into an area that was weak and door-knock the hell out of it.
text: Rachel Reiland (2004), Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder: “Am I supposed to be like my mother? Crying all the time, manipulating the hell out of him, out of us?”
text: Now that you're above ground, your suit radio has reestablished connection with the Normandy. Time to get the hell out of here.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: UNC: Espionage Probe:
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
Related terms: scare the X out of
adit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.dɪt/
Forms: form: adits
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aditus (“entrance, access”), from ad (“to, up to”) + itus (“going, departure”).
Senses: examples: text: The Old Mine is currently entered through an upper adit as the main is no longer accessible.
ref: 2006, Mike Hetman, IronMiners.com https://web.archive.org/web/20060819234527/http://www.ironminers.com/ironmines/old-mine-1.htm
text: The adit sloped downwards into the bowels of some long-fallen building, following a passage that had silted up when the city had first been buried.
ref: 2008, Iain M. Banks, Matter, page 445:
coordinate_terms: shaft
mineshaft
;
portal
glosses: A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.
hummin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hummin
form: most hummin
Senses: examples: text: That aad fellas house was hummin!
glosses: Totally stinking.
Mkwaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
mnemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Senses: examples: text: Even after producing such astonishing "proofs" of Semon’s mnemic theory, the amphibians in Kammerer’s lab were allowed no rest.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 39:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mnemenic.
mnemenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or relating to memory
Related terms: mnemonic
HAHO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
parachuting
glosses: Acronym of high altitude, high opening.
Related terms: HALO
meas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: When piece meas 2½" (6.5 cm) on RS, knit until 3 sts rem, k2tog, k1.
ref: 1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 106:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Abbreviation of measures.
agad
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: O here a' comes—Ah my Hector of Troy, vvelcome my Bully, my Back; agad my heart has gone a pit pat for thee.
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 11:
glosses: Obsolete form of egad.
mnemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈniːmɪst/
Forms: form: mnemists
Senses: glosses: mnemonist
mnemonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mnemonists
Senses: glosses: Someone able to perform feats of memory, especially by using mnemonic techniques.
Synonyms: mnemonicalist
mnemonicist
dentro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛn.tɹoʊ/
Forms: form: dentros
Etymology: Blend of demo + intro
Senses: examples: text: Vote for any demo released during the last six months before the release of the next issue of Yahoo (7.6.1994 - 7.1.1995). All non-party dentros and dentros competed ^([sic]) in a demo competition at a party belong to this category.
ref: 1995, Antti Piirainen, “Yah #4 vote sheet”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
text: And if we leave the conspiracy theory for a moment, it was a long time since I saw a TBL demo/dentro/intro, or have I missed something?
ref: 1999, Cruxis, “scary rumour about win2k (billy selling your cpu?)”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
text: I left the amiga group Plague and joined LSD about 1992, i released a dentro under their name (Anyone know how i can find it again, i think it was simply called LSD dentro)...
ref: 2001, Matrix, “Looking for certain demo/intro i released under LSD & DCS.”, in alt.emulators.amiga (Usenet):
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A production that is classified somewhere between a demo and an intro.
mobilisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mobilisable
form: most mobilisable
form: mobilizable
Etymology: From mobilise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be readily mobilised.
mobilizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mobilizable
form: most mobilizable
form: mobilisable
Etymology: From mobilize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be readily mobilized.
mobilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊbɪlʌɪz/
Forms: form: mobilizes
form: mobilizing
form: mobilized
form: mobilized
form: mobilise
Etymology: From French mobiliser.
Senses: glosses: To make something mobile.
glosses: To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.
glosses: To get ready for war.
raw_tags: of troops
Derived terms: countermobilize
demobilize
mobilizability
mobilizable
mobilizee
mobilizer
remobilize
Related terms: mobile
mobility
mobilization
move
mobilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobilizations
form: mobilisation
Etymology: From French mobilisation or mobilize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: a national mobilization to fight climate change
text: It's produced tremendous activism and backlash: there's been all sorts of demonstrations and mobilizations in civil society, there's been examples from the people from the Administration being heckled in a restaurant or not served in a restaurant, there's been a growing crescendo of conversation about what that means.
ref: 2018 June 26, Chris Hayes, quotee, “How bad is it, really? Ezra Klein evaluates life in the Trump era: transcript & podcast”, in Why Is This Happening?:
glosses: The act of mobilizing.
examples: text: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a key piece of legislation overhauling the country’s mobilization rules.
ref: 2024 April 16, Olga Voitovych, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Christian Edwards, “Zelensky signs law overhauling Ukraine’s mobilization rules”, in CNN:
glosses: The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another.
Derived terms: comobilization
countermobilization
lipomobilization
mobilizational
premobilization
remobilization
retromobilization
Related terms: mobile
mobility
mobilize
move
mollying-bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollying-bitches
Senses: glosses: a male homosexual
mobilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobilisations
form: mobilization
Etymology: From French mobilisation or mobilise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: the act of mobilising
Derived terms: demobilisation
mobilisational
remobilisation
mobilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊbɪlaɪz/
Forms: form: mobilises
form: mobilising
form: mobilised
form: mobilised
form: mobilize
Etymology: From French mobiliser.
Senses: glosses: To make something mobile.
glosses: To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.
examples: text: All Whitby is mobilising against the economy plan, alleging that loss of railway facilities would turn the port into a "ghost town"; [...].
ref: 1964 March, “News and Comment: Whitby closure in October?”, in Modern Railways, page 158:
text: And there were justified fears for the future of the Swanage branch, although enthusiasts were already mobilising themselves to take it over.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:
glosses: To become made ready for war.
Derived terms: mobilisable
Related terms: mobilisation
mollying-cull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollying-culls
Senses: glosses: A male homosexual.
samovar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæməvɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: samovars
Etymology: From Russian самова́р (samovár, “self-boiler”); from само́ (samó, “self”) + вари́ть (varítʹ, “boil, cook”).
Senses: examples: text: Come on now with the samovar ─ and make haste sorting the letter-bag.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 107
text: Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor.[…]Elsa made her drink a glass of vodka. Then she fetched the samovar from the kitchen, and made tea.
ref: 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's Business:
text: “Chumley. The beverage situation around here is reprehensible.” “Oh, good morning, sunshine.” “Surely our massive conglomerate parent company could spring for a samovar of coffee.” “Yeah, or like a big coffee dispenser.” “That's what a samovar is.” “Are there other black nerds, or is it just you and Urkel?”
ref: 2006 October 11, Tina Fey, “Pilot” (2:15 from the start), in 30 Rock, season 1, episode 1, spoken by James "Toofer" Spurlock (Keith Powell):
glosses: A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.
Gabi-Gabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gabi Gabi
form: Gabigabi
form: Kabi-Kabi
form: Kabi Kabi
form: Kabikabi
form: Gubbi Gubbi
Etymology: The native word for no, reduplicated.
Senses: glosses: An Australian Aboriginal people of southwest Queensland.
Gabi-Gabi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gabi Gabi
form: Gabigabi
form: Kabi-Kabi
form: Kabi Kabi
form: Kabikabi
form: Gubbi Gubbi
Etymology: The native word for no, reduplicated.
Senses: glosses: Their language.
mooncusser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooncussers
Etymology: From moon + cusser: the strategy would not work on a moonlit night, so the would-be pirate might be expected to curse the Moon.
Senses: glosses: A land-based pirate who, on dark nights along dangerous coasts, would demolish any legitimate lighthouses or beacons, erect a decoy signal fire in a different, deliberately misleading location, and then, after having induced a shipwreck, subdue any survivors and plunder the wreckage for valuables.
Synonyms: wrecker
mangal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋɡəl/
ipa: /-ˌɡæl/
ipa: /-ˌɡɑːl/
other: /-ˈɡæl/
other: /-ˈɡɑːl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
rhymes: -æŋɡæl
rhymes: -æŋɡɑːl
rhymes: -ɡɑːl
Forms: form: mangals
Etymology: From Portuguese mangal, from Portuguese mangue (“mangrove”) + Portuguese -al (“-al”)
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
synonyms: mangrove
glosses: A tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves or similar shrubs and trees.
mangal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋɡəl/
ipa: /-ˌɡæl/
ipa: /-ˌɡɑːl/
other: /-ˈɡæl/
other: /-ˈɡɑːl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
rhymes: -æŋɡæl
rhymes: -æŋɡɑːl
rhymes: -ɡɑːl
ipa: /mæŋˈɡæl/
ipa: /mɑŋ-/
ipa: /-ˈɡɑl/
other: /ˈmæŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɡæl
rhymes: -ɡɑl
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
ipa: /ˈmæŋɡəl/
ipa: /-ˌɡæl/
ipa: /-ˌɡɑːl/
other: /-ˈɡæl/
other: /-ˈɡɑːl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
rhymes: -æŋɡæl
rhymes: -æŋɡɑːl
rhymes: -ɡɑːl
Forms: form: mangals
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish mangal, from Arabic مَنْقَل (manqal).
Senses: glosses: A Middle Eastern-style barbecue (cookout), or the barbecue (grill; cooking apparatus) it is cooked on.
yirra
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈjɜrə/
/ˈjɪrə/
Forms: form: jinne
form: jirr
form: jirra
form: jirre
Etymology: From Afrikaans jere, a minced oath or alteration of Heere or Here (“Lord, God”, interjection), derived from Heer (“Lord”).
Senses: examples: text: We’re going to have a hell of a drought. Yirra it’s tough being a farmer!
ref: 1987, Marguerite Poland, Train to Doringbult, page 11:
glosses: An exclamation used to express shock or exasperation.
ngulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of sword used for executions by Bantu people.
one-dimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more one-dimensional
form: most one-dimensional
form: onedimensional
Senses: examples: text: A straight line is one-dimensional.
glosses: Having length, but no width, height or depth.
examples: text: Such one-dimensional characters have always existed in the theatre along with more recognizably human characters.
ref: 1972, Hardie Albright, Stage direction in transition:
text: In contrast to this are the flat, one-dimensional characters found in fables.
ref: 1999, Kimberly Kimbell-Lopez, Connecting with traditional literature:
glosses: Lacking depth or believability; flat.
glosses: Lacking personal depth and substance; conceited, vain, shallow, superficial.
Coordinate terms: five-dimensional
four-dimensional
n-dimensional
three-dimensional
two-dimensional
zero-dimensional
Derived terms: one-dimensionally
quasi-one-dimensional
Corea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːə
Senses: examples: text: All China was formerly divided by the Chineſe Emperour Xunus into 12 Provinces; afterwards the Emperour Yua, who took upon him the Government after the death of Xunus, about 260 years before the Incarnation of our Saviour, reduced all China into Nine Provinces, which only at that time comprehended the Northern Parts of China, and had for their Confines the River Kiang. But after that they had Conquered the Southern parts by degrees, and had ſomewhat civilized the Inhabitants, the whole Kingdom of China was divided into 15 Provinces : Amongſt theſe alſo they reckon the Province of Leaotung, which is ſituated on the Weſt of Peking, where the great Wall begins, and the Hanging Iſland of Corea; both which pay Tribute to the Emperour.
ref: 1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 6:
text: I would take the ſame method if I was to go to diſcover the North Eaſt Paſſage. I would winter about Japan, Corea, or the North Eaſt part of China; and taking the Spring and Summer before me, I would make my firſt trial on the Coaſt of Tartary [...]
ref: 1699, William Dampier, A New Voyage round the World, page 274:
text: The Mantchews, thus maſters of Corea, endeavoured to compel their new ſubjects to ſhave their heads, after their manner, and to adopt the Tartar dreſs.
ref: 1788, Jean-Baptiste Grosier, translated by unknown, A General Description of China, page 245:
text: The Amnok, called also the Yalu, is a fine river which divides Corea from Manchuria.
ref: 1888 April 7, “'The Hermit Land.'”, in Chambers's Journal (Fifth Series), volume V, number 223, →OCLC, page 209:
text: In the latter country it is mostly black and known as Whitby jet, while in Corea and Japan it is red in color and opaque.
ref: 1922, Elizabeth F. Parker, Amber, page 12:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Korea.
bas relief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bas reliefs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bas-relief.
mangel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangels
Senses: glosses: The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin.
examples: text: For many days the animals had nothing to eat but mangels.
glosses: A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed.
Derived terms: mangel beet
syphilitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: One can try hunting syphilitic treponemes directly by having skin irregularities […] biopsied and subjected to a silver-staining test.
ref: 1988 April 16, Mike Smith, “AIDS and Syphilis”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or infected with syphilis.
Synonyms: word: luetic
syphilitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syphilitics
Senses: examples: text: It was a syphilitic who lived alone in the shanty between the hole and the railroad yard, coming up to the street only to beg money for food and disinfectant with which to soak his rags.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 337:
glosses: A person with syphilis.
Synonyms: word: luetic
blow one's own horn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows one's own horn
form: blowing one's own horn
form: blew one's own horn
form: blown one's own horn
Senses: synonyms: blow one's own trumpet
glosses: Alternative form of toot one's own horn.
downselect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downselects
form: downselecting
form: downselected
form: downselected
Etymology: From down- + select.
Senses: examples: text: We need to check with Quality Assurance before we downselect the test equipment vendor.
glosses: to narrow the field of choices, especially, to choose a supplier from candidates under consideration
Related terms: shortlist
vapidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vapidly
form: most vapidly
Etymology: From vapid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The three bored, interchangeable booth babes winked and flirted vapidly; he had already forgotten their names.
synonyms: insipidly
pointlessly
glosses: In a vapid manner; not inspiring; in a manner unlikely to make an impression.
proviso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈvaɪzoʊ/
Forms: form: provisos
form: provisoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin proviso (“it being provided”), ablative singular neuter of provisus, past participle of providere (“to provide”); see provide.
Senses: examples: text: Now, with all these provisos in mind, what’s the best way to put spinach to work? All due respect to Popeye, a can may not be the tastiest way to introduce it to your table.
ref: 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN:
text: The biggest change in the governance of American horse racing was tucked into a 2020 federal spending bill. That proviso ultimately created the national Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, or HISA – a move that, after three previous legislative attempts, found support from federal lawmakers after a particularly deadly season at a California racetrack.
ref: 2023 June 10, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Allison Gordon and Pamela Brown, “As horse racing’s best trainers rake in millions, records show they’ve violated rules aimed at keeping the animals safe”, in CNN:
text: The writing has been on the wall that Americans’ support for mass deportation was subject to all kinds of caveats and provisos.
ref: 2025 July 13, Aaron Blake, “Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring”, in CNN:
glosses: A conditional provision to an agreement.
Related terms: provide
provision
provisional
proviso quod
picaroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picaroon
picaroons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of picaroon
weather deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather decks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship's deck which has no overhead protection, which is open to the weather; a ship's uppermost deck.
bench memo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bench memos
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal research memorandum drafted by a law clerk to assist a judge in deciding a case.
law clerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: law clerks
Senses: glosses: A clerk who assists a judge with legal proceedings. Depending on the court, such positions may be professional careers or may be temporary positions for graduating law students.
Related terms: clerkship
enrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enrol
glosses: simple past and past participle of enroll
enrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enroll
glosses: present participle and gerund of enrol
enrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enrollings
Senses: glosses: An enrolment.
Union Jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Union Jacks
form: union jack
Etymology: From union + jack (“ship’s flag”).
Senses: examples: text: When the wedding started I found a spot near Windsor Castle’s entrance, where I could watch the ceremony on a big screen. People who line the roads at weddings are, by definition, the most die-hard royalists, and all the usual figures were out in force: the men bellowing and ringing bells in the hope of convincing a passing American TV crew they are an actual town crier; the men in suits made of Union Jacks.
ref: 2018 May 20, Hadley Freeman, “Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The flag of the United Kingdom, consisting of the flags of England (St. George's Cross), Scotland (St. Andrew's Cross), and Ireland (St. Patrick's Cross, now only used in Northern Ireland) combined.
examples: text: Settlers already fearing the possibility of seeing their 1600, sometimes 1700 percent, profit margins stripped from them by London’s abolitionism saw no other option but to secede from the Union Jack.
ref: 2019, Danny Haiphong, Roberto Sirvent, chapter 3, in American Exceptionalism and American Innocence, New York: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: The British Empire.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The flag, consisting of the flags of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland combined, flown on ships of the government of the United Kingdom.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The flag, consisting of the blue star-studded field in the corner of the national ensign, flown at the jackstaff by ships at anchor.
jujitsuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jujitsukas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jujutsuka.
turning circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turning circles
Senses: examples: text: But the horse has left his mark, for his successor is a mechanical horse designed to a large extent to copy the leading characteristics of the live horse; easy attachment to or detachment from its load, a small turning circle, a small appetite for petrol, but giving a much higher acceleration and speed, and so capable of much greater distances, so that fewer cartage units are required.
ref: 1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The circular path formed by the wheel furthest from the centre of the turn when turning to the maximum extent.
raw_tags: of a road vehicle
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The path followed by a vessel’s center of gravity when it makes a complete turn of 360° with a consistent rudder angle. (FM 55-501)
glosses: A place where a vehicle can turn and face in the opposite direction.
Related terms: cul-de-sac
fainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪntɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪntɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English feinting, equivalent to faint + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of faint
fainting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪntɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪntɪŋ
Forms: form: faintings
Etymology: From Middle English feinting, equivalent to faint + -ing.
Senses: examples: fainting fit
glosses: An act of collapsing into a state of temporary unconsciousness.
barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrel
barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of barrel
blacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæks/
rhymes: -æks
Senses: glosses: plural of black
glosses: A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
examples: text: Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Death”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: that was the full time they vsed to were blackes for the death of their fathers
ref: 1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes:
glosses: Black garments, etc.
blacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæks/
rhymes: -æks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of black
strains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strain
strains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strain
sobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑbz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sob
sobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑbz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sob
indications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indication
scores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔːz/
ipa: /skɔɹz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of score
scores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔːz/
ipa: /skɔɹz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Forms: form: scores
Senses: examples: text: "On the phone you said you want a scores, you think I would come all the way here for a benners you prick!!!"
ref: 2014 February 13, @LIVA_GOTTA, Twitter:
text: What's that smell in the chеst of drawers? / Young boy sellin' them benz and scores / Gotta get rich in desperate cause / Talk about drill, gotta mention moi
ref: 2024 September 5, Central Cee, Einer Bankz, Raye, “Moi”, performed by Central Cee and Raye, Columbia Records:
coordinate_terms: benners
glosses: A bag of cannabis worth £20.
scores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔːz/
ipa: /skɔɹz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of score
saddle sore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle sores
Senses: glosses: A gall, a sore developed by a horse from an ill-fitting or ill-adjusted saddle.
glosses: A sore developed by a horseback rider or a cyclist caused by a saddle.
saddle sore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saddle sore
form: most saddle sore
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a horse with saddle sores, or to a rider who has been riding too long.
samosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmoʊsə/
Forms: form: samosas
form: samose
form: somosa
form: samoosa
form: samuza
form: somasi
form: somaas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani سموسہ (samosa) / समोसा (samosā), from Classical Persian سنبوسه (sanbōsa /⁠sambōsa⁠/), from Middle Persian *sambōsag.
Doublet of sambusa, sambusak, sambuseh, sambuusa, and samsa.
Senses: examples: text: Homemade samosas are a world away from those dry cardboard triangles sold under the name in supermarkets. Instead, they have delicately flaky and deliciously rich pastry and a generous stuffing that’s easily tweaked to suit all tastes. […] Repeat with the remaining dough balls and filling, making sure each samosa is well sealed.
ref: 2023 June 7, Felicity Cloake, “How to make vegetable samosas – recipe”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: somucha
singada
glosses: A South Asian snack consisting of a deep-fried triangular turnover filled with vegetables (especially potatoes) or meat.
Related terms: sambusa
sambusak
sambuseh
sambuusa
samsa
tegestology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin teges (“covering, mat”) (oblique stem teget-) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The collecting of beer mats or coasters as a hobby.
Related terms: tegestologist
tegestologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tegestologists
Etymology: From tegestology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: someone who collects beer mats or coasters
Related terms: tegestology
blacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Forms: form: blackings
Senses: glosses: A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
glosses: Shoe polish.
examples: text: Instead, the unions persisted in believing they could defeat Murdoch through a unified campaign of picket lines, blackings and boycotts.
ref: 2013, Graham Stewart, Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s:
glosses: A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
blacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of black
Hoppins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoppings
Senses: glosses: A travelling fayre that comes to Newcastle upon Tyne.
hoo man
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Hoo man, slow doon like!"
glosses: An attention grabber.
Synonyms: oi
yo
hey
crasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/
rhymes: -eɪsɪs
Forms: form: crases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”).
Senses: examples: text: Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]
ref: , I.iii.1.2
text: This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis
ref: 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 24:
glosses: One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
glosses: A mixture or combination.
examples: text: When in a crasis, a lene consonant […] is combined with an aspirated vowel, the lene is always changed (except in the Ionic dialect) into the corresponding aspirate […]
ref: 1861, William Edward Jelf, Accidence:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: The contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
crases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪsiːz/
rhymes: -eɪsiːz
Senses: glosses: plural of crasis
humours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humour
humours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of humour
mome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mōm
ipa: /məʊm/
enpr: mōm
ipa: /moʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: momes
Etymology: Ultimately from the name of Momus, god of mirth, through Latin and Old French.
Senses: glosses: A dull or stupid person.
mommick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Apparently a variant of mammock.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as she walks up the porch steps and opens the screen door, she knows that Henry is already home. Amid the noisy mommick, she can sense his humming presence.
ref: 2010, Julianna Baggott, The Madam: A Novel, →ISBN, page 21:
text: "It's all such an awful mommick..." Anne shrugged. "Trapped on a sinking ship..."
ref: 2012, Christine Blevins, The Turning of Anne Merrick, →ISBN:
qualifier: chiefly North Carolina
glosses: A mess, a disorderly state or thing.
Related terms: mammock
monadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μοναδικός (monadikós, “single”), from μονάς (monás, “a unit”); see monad. By surface analysis, monad + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We can refuse to view each of these areas as distinct and monadic categories of identity and we can refuse to study them in isolation from one another.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 142:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: of, relating to, or being a monad
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: univalent
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: of or relating to the Monas genus of microorganisms
examples: text: "The monadic existential quantifier ∃, as in ∃x, may express existence of x in formal logic or mathematics".
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: having an arity of one (taking a single argument or operand)
Derived terms: monadically
monadicity
monadic predicate logic
monadic second-order logic
nonmonadic
Related terms: monad
dyadic
triadic
polyadic
variadic
monarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnˈɑː(ɹ)kɪk/
Etymology: From Middle French monarchique; equivalent to monarch + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to monarchy or to a monarch.
Synonyms: monarchal
monarchial
monarchical
Derived terms: antimonarchic
nonmonarchic
post-monarchic
unmonarchic
monic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From mono- + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a polynomial whose leading coefficient is one.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Monomorphic.
examples: text: If a composition (of morphisms) is monic then, by theorem, the pre-composite of it is monic as well.
text: It is often convenient to view a monic arrow i#58;A#92;rightarrowtailC, defined in Chapter 1, as showing that A is a copy of a part of C, and that i maps the copy on to that part. For example, in Set, the monic arrows are the one-to-one functions and, clearly, if i is one-to-one then A is a copy of a subset of C, namely of the image of i.
ref: 1995, Colin McLarty, “Introduction”, in Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, →ISBN, page 5:
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a morphism: that it is a monomorphism.
Derived terms: nonmonic
monic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: monics
Etymology: From mono- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A monic polynomial.
Monic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Belonging to the branch of the Austroasiatic language family that includes the Mon language.
Derived terms: Proto-Monic