cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hecking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.kɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɛ.kɪn/
rhymes: -ɛkɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: He was a devout Methodist and never swore. Once when we had been walking along together Mr Dodds had tripped on a tree root and exclaimed, ‘Ruddy hecking flip!’
ref: 2008, Harry Pearson, Hound Dog Days: One Dog and His Man: A Story of North Country Life and Canine Contentment, Hachette Book Group, →ISBN:
text: You are a hecking great wedding guest.
ref: 2013, Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 535 Easy(ish) Steps, Grand Central Life & Style, →ISBN:
text: What a hecking mind game @-@
ref: 2019 March 20, Drew Perron, “8FOLD: Mancers # 7, "Blood Magic"”, in rec.arts.comics.creative (Usenet):
text: Plus, there’s really no downside to treating your colleague as if he is unable versus willing to read social cues, since you’re not building a life with him, you’re just getting a job done and getting the heck on the hecking elevator.
ref: 2020 January 5, The Sheboygan Press, volume 114, number 20, page 6C:
text: JUST THROW THE HECKING BALL![…]If your idea of heaven is being surrounded by hecking good boys (and girls) then you've come to the right place.
ref: 2021, Charlie Ellis, Love Is a Cockapoo: A Dog-tastic Celebration of the World’s Cutest Breed, Summersdale Publishers:
text: but i need my hecking reddit updooterinos
ref: 2024 February 24, Skoomaseller, Warframe Forums:
glosses: Alternative form of heckin'.
hecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.kɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɛ.kɪn/
rhymes: -ɛkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heck
vestibulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a vestibule.
Vestinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vestinians
Senses: glosses: A member of the Vestini.
Vestinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vestinian
vetoistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vetoistic
form: most vetoistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to vetoism.
vetoistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vetoistical
form: most vetoistical
Senses: glosses: Relating to vetoism.
veuglaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vəˈɡlɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: veuglaires
Etymology: From Middle French veuglaire, from Middle Dutch Vogheler (literally “fowler”), the surname of a maker.
Senses: glosses: A wrought-iron cannon, part of the artillery of France in the Middle Ages.
veuglaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veuglaire
vigilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vigilate
vigilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vigilate
Vilela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of Argentina.
Vilela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Lule-Vilela language, indigenous to northwestern Argentina.
savior complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savior complex
Christ complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christ complex
granarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granarchists
Etymology: Blend of gran (“grandmother”) + anarchist.
Senses: examples: text: The anti-live exports campaigns saw animal rights move out of the anarcho-punk ghetto and become a street movement which ranged across generations (the so-called granarchists with their eldritch scream of “Eeeevil”).
ref: 2006 May 5, “Dover And Out: They Think It's All Dover...It Is Now”, in Weekly SchNEWs, Brighton, England, page 1:
text: Joan used her advancing age to her advantage with the media and as one of Cambridge's wonderfully infamous 'granarchists', she staged sit-ins, hunger strikes and chained herself to #railings.
ref: 2017, "Obituary: Joan Court", Viva!Life, Spring 2017, page 33
text: But what if feeding pigeons reveals contours of a large-scale affective militancy among older people in the public space? When as "granarchists" they pursue their publicly condemned practice of feeding the pigeons, old women really do take on joggers, park wardens, and the like.
ref: 2020, Fahim Amir, Being and Swine: The End of Nature (As We Knew It), unnumbered page:
glosses: An older woman who espouses radical or militant political views.
wikipedia: Emma Goldman
vinaigrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vinaigrous
form: most vinaigrous
Etymology: From French vinaigre (“vinegar”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The fair Palace Dames publicly declare that this Lafayette, detestable though he be, is their saviour for once. Even the ancient vinaigrous Tantes admit it; […]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Lafayette”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 275:
glosses: vinegary
vineity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: paneity
glosses: The quality or state of being wine.
granarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granarchist
beglassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: be-glassed
Etymology: From be- + glass + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: If the child of five needs glasses to prevent injury to the eyes and to the health, the chances are that at a later age the double injury will not be avoided except by glasses. All the nonsense about “bespectacled children” and a “beglassed nation” must be contemptuously put down. If the facts are as stated, pride and prejudice must have no voice in the matter.
ref: 1902 September 13, American Medicine, page 402:
text: Why do people who wear eyeglasses or spectacles insist upon keeping them on when photographed? That simple detail will ruin the otherwise most successful portrait ever taken. And yet the beglassed one clings to her glasses nine times out of ten.
ref: 1906 June 30, “As It Is In Paris: Catherine Talbot Tells of a New Musical Fad, How to Sit For a Portrait, and Describes Some Smart Negligees”, in The Mansfield News, twenty-second year, number 99, Mansfield, Ohio, page twelve:
text: So I bowed out, while the monocled lady fastened the beglassed eye upon me and the grey haired man commented: “We are all good friends of the prince, and believe in him—”
ref: 1933 January 20, “In New York”, in The Sumter Daily Item, volume LXXVII, number 82, Sumter, S.C., page two:
text: They were: the dark yell leader (with the blonde, beglassed daughter of Merced police chief);
ref: 1937 October 28, “Have You Heard?”, in Merced Express, volume LXIII, number 44, Merced, Calif., page two:
text: We were greeted by a tall, beglassed mortician, who looked at us and smiled.
ref: 2013 May 15, Dave Bidini, “The mourning after, with help from Garbo”, in National Post, volume 15, number 164, page A11:
glosses: Synonym of bespectacled.
synonyms: word: bespectacled
examples: text: From then until the time for closing a constant stream of delighted visitors marched through the great beglassed structures.
ref: 1915 April 5, “Great Crowds Admire Shows in the Parks; Oakland and Northside Conservatories Meccas for Flower Lovers. Weather of Day Perfect”, in The Pittsburgh Post, 73rd year, number 208, page one:
text: Aunt Ora, who always had her hats “created” by her own milliner, wandered with Mother Q., into one of Hollywood’s lush, beglassed, eating establishments.
ref: 1952 January 24, Fran Quigley, “Quips and Quotes”, in The Chappell Register, volume 65, number 43:
text: […]a new bridge across the Danube, and the elegant beglassed and befountained Hotel Metropol.
ref: 1960, The Atlantic, page 24:
text: Always standing on stilts, their buildings are dangerously beglassed from top to bottom, without sense, necessity, grace, style or character.
ref: 1960, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, The Shining Brow: Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, N.Y.: Horizon Press, page 263:
text: Not till many years later did labor skates compete with modernistic, beglassed, bemarbled headquarters for their greater glory.
ref: 1970, Len De Caux, Labor Radical: From the Wobblies to CIO, a Personal History, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, page 141:
glosses: Covered with glass, such as a building with a façade comprised primarily of windows.
be-glassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Why, why do people who wear pinc-nez or spectacles insist upon keeping them on to be photographed in? asks a critic. Anything more disastrous cannot be imagined. That simple detail will ruin the otherwise most successful portrait ever taken. And yet the be-glassed one clings to her glasses nine times out of ten and will not be parted from them.
ref: 1906 June 19, “How to Dress When Facing the Camera”, in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 67, number 169, picture section, page 3:
text: Victor, who wears glasses herself on occasion, scoffs at the idea of hiding the be-glassed visage under a brimmed hat.
ref: 1939 November 12, Isabella Taves, “Glamour with Glasses”, in The Detroit Free Press, 109th year, number 192, part three, page 10:
text: Bryan Tewell Hughes is slight, white, be-glassed and in possession of a baggy sweater and armpit-length hair that evidently sways with the wind.
ref: 2002 April 11, The Bellingham Herald, “Take five”, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of beglassed.
ferroelectric shutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferroelectric shutters
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A shutter consisting of a slab of ferroelectric crystal located between polarizers whose planes are at right angles
ferroelectric shutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferroelectric shutter
hand-in-cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: handicap
glosses: An old English trading game where two players want to trade possessions. An umpire decides whether the items have the same value, and if not, what the difference is. Both players and umpire then put some forfeit money in a cap. The players put their hands in the cap, and then remove them either open, to signal agreement with the valuation, or closed, to signal disagreement. If both players agree, the difference in valuation is paid, the items are traded, and the umpire collects the forfeit. If both players disagree, the items are not traded, and the umpire collects the forfeit. If one player agrees and the other does not, the items are not traded, and the player who agreed to the valuation collects the forfeit.
Derived terms: handicap
cemeterian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cemeterians
Etymology: From cemetery + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The cemeterians sympathize deeply with Mrs. Caton on account of her making such a bad shot.
ref: 1874 November 4, “In General”, in St. Albans Daily Messenger, volume XI, number 745 (whole 4045), St. Albans, Vt.:
text: The American Cemetery Association, founded in 1887, is a national trade association of cemeterians consisting of approximately 1100 members.
ref: 1972, In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1972: Brief Amicus Curiae on Behalf of American Cemetery Association, page 2:
text: Jim retired from Rockwell-Meritor of Newark (30 years), was the fiscal officer of Reading Township for 28 years and the cemeterian of Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery for 30 years.
ref: 2021 August 25, “Obituaries”, in Times Recorder, volume 157, number 237, Zanesville, Ohio, page 4A:
glosses: A cemetery superintendent.
cemeterians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cemeterian
galeid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galeids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the former shark family Galeidae.
galeids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galeid
galliardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more galliardly
form: most galliardly
Etymology: From galliard + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a galliard manner.
Gallified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gallified
form: most Gallified
Senses: glosses: Made French.
Related terms: Gallic
gamahe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamahes
Etymology: From French gamahé, gamaieu, gamaheu, variants of camaïeu.
Senses: glosses: A talisman bearing a word, number or diagram rather than an image.
gamahes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamahe
gambodic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: gamboge resin
Giocondan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Giocondan
form: most Giocondan
Etymology: From Gioconda + -n.
Senses: examples: text: Probably Mrs. Le Brunn noticed my reaction, because she continued with her somewhat Giocondan smile:[…]Mrs. Le Brunn, again with her Giocondan smile, explained:[…]
ref: 1936, B[oris] B[asil] Bogoslovsky, The Ideal School, The Macmillan Company, pages 140 and 145:
text: According to a journalist for the Spanish magazine Ranking he was ‘Cultured, extroverted in small circles, shy before the large public, cold as ice... “Machiavelli reincarnated”, but his quasi-giocondan smile reveals a certain human essence.’
ref: 1995, Henry Mintzberg, James Brian Quinn, Sumantra Ghoshal, The Strategy Process: European Edition, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 549:
text: Nearly all female smile, which now seemed common on women’s faces even when encountering male strangers, had for him turned into giocondan leers.[…]The future, he surmised, had perpetually been just around the corner, beckoning with the smile of a giocondan pay-off.
ref: 1999, Patrick R. Penland, Shakedown Lifestyle: Rapelling Memory Mountain, toExcel Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 20 and 31:
text: He responds with a wink, she with a Giocondan smile.
ref: 2001, William Page, William Page: Greatest Hits, 1970-2000 (Greatest Hits Series; number 14), Pudding House Publications, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Vianka watched him with her Giocondan smile, while he stared at her, unable to comprehend what she had just said.
ref: 2002, Christopher Michalski, transl., The Last Winter, 1stBooks, translation of original by Juan Carden, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 22:
text: ...or shall we merely smile a giocondan smile and assert that we are neither tang nor not-tang both tang and not-tang
ref: 2002 October 20, Boris Fuller, “GREAT FUN guess who this is”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet):
synonyms: Mona Lisan
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the Mona Lisa.
Related terms: Joconde
joconde
clerkism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clerk + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The tendency to report or document things as they were told to one, without judging or doubting.
gangism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gang + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] our Western culture will certainly be in for individuation in its worst forms — political gangism, racketeering gangism, banker-broker gangism, rebate subterfuge, ruthlessly untruthful advertising, […]
ref: 1935, James Wroten Woodard, Reification and Supernaturalism as Factors in Social Rigidity, page 194:
text: Everything about these youths seemed to indicate gangism. In interviewing one of the women's other children who was younger than the particular son who had come it at a later time, I asked if the brother had any gang affiliation.
ref: 1998, Joyce T. Henderson, Why African American Youth are Attracted to Non-Christian/Non-Traditional Religions and Sects, page 25:
glosses: The criminal or antisocial behaviour of gangs.
gangdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gang + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: […] discovery of the Rosetta Stone of crime — the bank accounts of gangdom. With this indispensable evidence, Johnson unrelentingly broadened the attack.
ref: American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook 1949 (page 67)
glosses: The realm or sphere of criminal gangs.
Gaonim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaon
gaoloresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaoloress
garlandwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From garland + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: […] and the young man's eyes absently followed the windings of the oak leaves which ran beneath the mantel-shelf garlandwise, framing in the centre a tablet bearing this legend, […]
ref: 1880, Bertha Behrens, Lizzie of the Mill, page 36:
glosses: In an arrangement resembling a garland.
gardenwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From garden + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: […] a large and commodious building, having in the rear a grave yard laid out gardenwise remarkable for the neatness with which it is kept.
ref: 1851, Wilson's Hudson River Guide, page 32:
glosses: In the manner of a garden.
gardevin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardevins
Etymology: From French garder (“to keep, guard”) + vin (“wine”).
Senses: glosses: A large bottle or jug for holding wine.
glosses: A case for holding wine bottles.
gardevins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gardevin
garlicmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garlicmongers
Etymology: From garlic + monger.
Senses: examples: text: […] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.
ref: 2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood:
text: In the real world a network of middlemen handled goods of all kind: even in the apparently simple world of horticulture leekmongers and garlicmongers bought up sacks of vegetables and passed them on to retailers.
ref: 2018, Jon Stobart, Vicki Howard, The Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing:
glosses: A seller of garlic.
garlicmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garlicmonger
Autopac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Manitoba
glosses: Vehicle insurance provided by the Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation.
go down like a sack of potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down like a sack of potatoes
form: going down like a sack of potatoes
form: went down like a sack of potatoes
form: gone down like a sack of potatoes
form: drop like a sack of potatoes
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To fall hard and fast; to fall ungracefully.
gasteralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Differentiate in parallel columns, gastric ulcer and gasteralgia.
ref: 1911, West Virginia, Public Documents, volume 2, page 64:
glosses: Alternative form of gastralgia.
gasteromycetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Gasteromycetes.
Parental Accompaniment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Manitoba
glosses: A former film classification advising that viewers under 15 years of age be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
qualifier: Saskatchewan
glosses: A former film classification advising that viewers under 14 years of age be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
sweat like a hooker in church
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweats like a hooker in church
form: sweating like a hooker in church
form: sweated like a hooker in church
form: sweated like a hooker in church
form: sweat like a whore in church
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To sweat profusely; to produce a lot of perspiration.
Synonyms: sweat like a pig
sweat like a whore in church
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweats like a whore in church
form: sweating like a whore in church
form: sweated like a whore in church
form: sweated like a whore in church
form: sweat like a hooker in church
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To sweat profusely; to produce a lot of perspiration.
Synonyms: sweat like a pig
school division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school divisions
Senses: examples: text: The system of Free Schools may also be commended upon the ground of its tendency to promote unity and mutual affection among the inhabitants of each school division.
ref: 1851, E. Ryerson, Annual Report of the Normal, Model and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year 1850, Toronto: Lovell and Gibson, page 204:
synonyms: school district
qualifier: historically Ceylon
glosses: An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.
Related terms: school board
gastrotrichan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Gastrotricha.
gastrotrichan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrotrichans
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Gastrotricha.
gastrotrichans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrotrichan
Gaulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Gaul + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gaulish.
synonyms: word: Gaulish
school divisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school division
JDAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪˌdæm/
Forms: form: JDAMs
Senses: examples: text: “The crater and surrounding damage is also not consistent with a JDAM aerial bomb. The hole on the ground occurred from kinetic energy.”
ref: 2023 October 18, Manisha Ganguly, Emma Graham-Harrison, Jason Burke, Elena Morresi, Ashley Kirk, quoting Marc Garlasco, “Al-Ahli Arab hospital: piecing together what happened as Israel insists militant rocket to blame”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Joint Direct Attack Munition.
JDAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JDAM
frigify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: frigifies
form: frigifying
form: frigified
form: frigified
form: frigefy
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin frīgēficō, frīgēficāre, causative of Classical frīgeō.
Senses: examples: text: […]then frigify it, & reſerve it in a pot, & drinck heerof thrice a vveecke, at Even, and at Morne, a ſpoone full, this corrobarateth the Braynes, and is adiuvable to the Memorye, and cauſeth Sleep.
ref: 1599, “For the Rheumes”, in Oswaldus Gabelhover, translated by Charles Batrus, The Boock of Phyſicke […] , volume 1, Dorte: Isaac Caen, page 10:
text: I saw at once that modern conventionalities would not be able to frigify such a mass as was here thrown together[…]
ref: 1859, Bayard Taylor, “The Court of King Otho”, in Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion to Crete, G. P. Putnam, page 66:
text: Is It true, though fathomless, that at certain depths thy cold is so intense as to frigify any animal submerged?
ref: 1880 January 15, “First Special Excursion to the Lakes”, in Otago Daily Times, number 5586, supplement, page 1:
glosses: To make cold or frigid.
frigifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frigify
frigifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frigify
frigified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frigify
frigefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frigefies
form: frigefying
form: frigefied
form: frigefied
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frigify.
frigefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frigefy
frigefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frigefy
frigefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frigefy
vaxident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaxidents
form: vaxxident
form: vaccident
Etymology: Blend of vaccine + incident or blend of vaccine + accident.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An unexpected medical incident occurring after the administration of a COVID vaccination.
Related terms: clotshot
vaxidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaxident
packing parka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packing parkas
Senses: glosses: An amauti.
packing parkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packing parka
Front de libération du Québec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A militant Quebec sovereigntist group active between 1963 and 1971.
Derived terms: FLQ
FLQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Front de libération du Québec.
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Senses: glosses: A Canadian democratic socialist political party active between 1932 and 1961 which served as the predecessor of the New Democratic Party.
Derived terms: CCF
gangsterical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gangsterical
form: most gangsterical
Etymology: From gangster + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Cocteau's famous essay on Indirect Criticism is retranslated; there are a pretty baby story by Gertrude Stein and gangsterical stories in the pungent style practised by our American cousins.
ref: 1971, Ireland To-day, Kraus Reprint Company, page 89:
text: Three, South Africa is attempting by its gangsterical display of fire-power, to serve notice to the frontline states and other progressive forces in Africa that it means to persist in its nefarious ways.
ref: 1981, Nigeria, Bulletin on Foreign Affairs, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs., page 88:
text: When the Founding Fathers masterfully framed the U.S. Constitution, they conceived and masterfully created a nation of laws—not a plutocracy where self-serving and gangsterical political ruffians governed as was the case in the immediate flag-independent post-colonial Africa in the 1960s, including the Cameroons.
ref: 2012 March 9, H. Baté Agbor-Baiyee, A Long and Restless Journey in Pursuit of Happiness with Empty Hands of Faith: An Authoritative Resource for Bushfallers, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page xix:
glosses: Synonym of gangsterly.
synonyms: word: gangsterly
dines and dashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dine and dash
dined and dashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dine and dash
dining and dashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dine and dash
hakaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaː.kaʊ̯/
Forms: form: har gow
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 蝦餃 /虾饺 (haa¹ gaau²). Compare Tagalog hakaw.
Senses: examples: text: King Chef (2F Main Mall, 0932 323 1871) serves healthy food and authentic Cantonese cuisine in a fine dining setup. For Father's Day, treat the whole family to its dim sum platters! It has a roasted platter which includes soyed chicken, roast duck, barbecued pork asado, fried five-spice roll, and soyed cucumber with century egg. Another option is the steamed dim sum platter, where you can devour a spread of hakaw, pork & shrimp siomai, Japanese siomai, beancurd roll, and Taosi spareribs.
ref: 2022 June 18, “Go on a Binondo food trip this Father's Day at Lucky Chinatown”, in Manila Bulletin, Manila: Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2022:
glosses: a traditional Cantonese shrimp dumpling
Related terms: suahe
seal on a bedsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seals on a bedsheet
form: seals on bedsheets
Senses: examples: text: The flag of Quintana Roo is nothing but a seal on a bedsheet.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
vexillology
glosses: A simplistic flag that consists of a seal or a coat of arms on a monochrome background.
POS terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POS terminals
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of payment terminal.
synonyms: word: payment terminal
POS terminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of POS terminal
helpefull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helpefull
form: most helpefull
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of helpful.
credit card terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit card terminals
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of payment terminal.
synonyms: word: payment terminal
credit card terminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit card terminal
Baháʼu'lláh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bəˈhɑːʊˌlɑː/
Forms: form: Bahá'u'lláh
form: Baha'u'llah
form: Bahā'u'llāh
form: Bahā'allāh
form: Baha'ullah
form: Bahaullah
form: Baha' Allah
form: Baha Ullah
form: Beha Ullah
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian بَهَاءُاللّٰه (bahā'u-l-lāh), from Arabic بَهَاءُ ٱللّٰه (bahāʔu llāh, literally “glory of God”).
Senses: synonyms: Baháʼ
glosses: A title given to Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí (1817–1892), Persian religious leader, prophet-founder of the Baháʼí Faith.
Related terms: Baháʼí
Baháʼí Faith
Newent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuːənt/
Etymology: Recorded as Noent in 1086 (DB).
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7225).
Baháʼ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bahá'
form: Baha'
form: Baha
form: Beha
Etymology: From Arabic بَهَاء (bahāʔ, “splendor, glory”).
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Baháʼu'lláh.
Derived terms: Baháʼí
Baháʼism
Baháʼist
Baháʼite
Poes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Poe
Carmenate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carmenates
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Carmenate. This surname is predominantly found in Cuba.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Casali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Casalis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Casali.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Casalis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Casali
Carmenates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carmenate
Cazeau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cazeaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Cazeau. This surname is predominantly found in Haiti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Caris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carises
Etymology: Various origins:
* A variant spelling of Carras.
* Borrowed from Dutch Caris, a reduced form of the personal name Macarius.
* An Americanized spelling of German Karas, Gareis or Gehres.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Carises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Caris
Cazeaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cazeau
Bussie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bussies
Etymology: Variant spelling of Bussey.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Corallo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Corallos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Corallo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Corallos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Corallo
Bussies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bussie
Cutillo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cutillos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Cutillo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
DiBari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: DiBaris
form: Dibari
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Di Bari.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
DiBaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DiBari
Cutillos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cutillo
DeRienzo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: DeRienzos
form: Derienzo
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian De Rienzo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Duguid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duguids
Etymology: A Scottish surname from Middle English du (“to do”) + gud (“good”), a nickname for a well-intentioned person or a dogooder.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Duguids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Duguid
DeRienzos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DeRienzo
Einspahr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Einspahrs
Etymology: A surname of German origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ellerby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ellerbys
form: Ellerbee
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Ælfweard, which is composed of the elements ælf (“elf”) and weard (“guard”), + Old Norse býr (“farmstead; settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA162389).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ799146).
glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: New Ellerby
Old Ellerby
Ellerbys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ellerby
Einspahrs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Einspahr
sockmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sockmaster
mesoionics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoionic
McWhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McWhans
Etymology: Side form of McQueen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Wroughton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wroughtons
Etymology: Perhaps from Old Norse hverfr (“shifty, changeable”), referring to a local river, + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Swindon district, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1480).
glosses: A habitational surname.
Wroughtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wroughton
McWhans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McWhan
Ozamiz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Meronyms: 50th District, Aguada, Bacolod, Bagakay, Balintawak, Banadero, Baybay San Roque, Baybay Santa Cruz, Baybay Triunfo, Bongbong, Calabayan, Capucao C., Capucao P., Carangan, Carmen, Catadman-Manabay, Cavinte, Cogon, Dalapang, Diguan, Dimaluna, Doña Consuelo, Embargo, Gala, Gango, Gotokan Daku, Gotokan Diot, Guimad, Guingona, Kinuman Norte, Kinuman Sur, Labinay, Labo, Lam-an, Liposong, Litapan, Malaubang, Manaka, Maningcol, Mentering, Molicay, Pantaon, Pulot, San Antonio, Sangay Daku, Sangay Diot, Sinuza, Stimson Abordo, Tabid, Tinago, Trigos — barangays of Ozamiz
glosses: A city in Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
methoxyflavone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methoxyflavones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any methoxy derivative of a flavone
methoxyflavones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methoxyflavone
Knoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Knochs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Knoch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
scapulohumerus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The scapula and humerus; the seven muscles that connect the humerus to the scapula
Related terms: scapulohumeral
Knochs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Knoch
Westburys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Westbury
miting de avance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog miting de abanse, from Spanish mitin de avance, the first word of which derives from English meeting.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A final campaign rally done by candidates of one political party usually the night before an election.
wit-wanton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wit-wantons
Senses: examples: text: All Epicures, Wit-wantons, Atheiſts,[…]
ref: 1613, Iosuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas: His Diuine Weekes and Workes with a Compleate Collection of All the Other Most Delight-full Workes, London: […] Robert Young, translation of original by [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, published 1633, page 584:
text: And how dangerous it is for wit-wanton men to dance with their nice distinctions, on such mystical precipices, where slips in jest may cause deadly downfalls in earnest,[…]
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year MDCXLVIII, volume III, London: […] Thomas Tegg and Son, […]; R. Griffin and Co., […]; Tegg and Co., […]: Also, J. and S. A. Tegg, […], published 1837, page 251:
text: Word-warriors and wit-wantons would waste their breath upon one whose book-hunger has won him so rich a meed,[…]
ref: 1855 September, “English, Past and Present”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume LII, number CCCIX, page 345:
glosses: Alternative form of witwanton.
wit-wantons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wit-wanton
democraticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From democratic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: […] it believes national democracy to be the standard of assessment for the democraticity of the European Union.
ref: 2014 November 3, Serge Champeau, Carlos Closa, Daniel Innerarity, Miguel Poiares Maduro, The Future of Europe: Democracy, Legitimacy and Justice After the Euro Crisis, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 187:
text: It is not that there is more or less democracy on a local or transnational level but that there are different criteria to assess democraticity depending on the institutional level at which we find ourselves.
ref: 2018, Daniel Innerarity, Democracy in Europe: A Political Philosophy of the EU, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:
text: In my view, “democraticity” and legitimacy are thus two analytically distinct properties, such that a regime or representative may be democratically legitimate (popularly endorsed if you will) even as they are not democratic per se.
ref: 2022, Hélène Landemore, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Synonym of democraticness.
synonyms: word: democraticness
Edam-Volendam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Edam-Volendam.
Senses: glosses: A municipality in North Holland, Netherlands, that includes the named places.
stockfishmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockfishmongers
Etymology: From stockfish + monger.
Senses: examples: text: By a charter of 24 King Henry VII., dated 20th September 1508, the stockfishmongers of the City of London were incorporated by the name of “The Wardens and Commonalty of the Mistery of Stockfishmongers of the City of London,” with perpetual succession and a common seal.[…]The stockfishmongers were subsequently, in 1537, incorporated with the Fishmongers’ Company as one company, and in the same year a charter was granted by King Henry VIII. confirming such incorporation. By such incorporation of the two companies the property and the rights and privileges of the stockfishmongers passed to the present corporation of the “Fishmongers of the City of London.”
ref: 1884, City of London Livery Companies’ Commission. Report and Appendix., volume II, London: […] Eyre and Spottiswoode, pages 206 and 210:
text: East Coast ports, with old-established stockfishmongers and “stockfish rows”, hard hit by the collapse of business with Bergen, were naturally foremost in developing the possibilities of Iceland.
ref: 1933, Eileen Power, M[ichael] M. Postan, editors, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century, Routledge, published 2006, →ISBN:
text: St Michael, Crooked Lane provides an example of the small London parish dominated by one trade, in this case the stockfishmongers.
ref: 2006, The Parish in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2002 Harlaxton Symposium:
text: Crowding High Street and its crisscrossing rows and alleys, a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.
ref: 2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood, Kensington Books:
text: In 1392, two citizens of Lynn received a licence to send their ships to Norway to buy stockfish, and two London stockfishmongers stood their sureties. A London guild had no monopoly over its trade, so a stockfishmonger could also trade in other goods if he so wished. Many stockfishmongers were active in the corn trade between eastern English towns and London, which must have grown out of transporting their stockfish from eastern ports to the city.
ref: 2014, The German Hansa and Bergen 1100-1600, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A seller of stockfish.
stockfishmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stockfishmonger
Volendam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town with a harbour in Edam-Volendam municipality, North Holland, Netherlands.
schoolnight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolnights
Senses: examples: text: When you go out in the evening on schoolnights, about what time do your parents want you to get home?
ref: 1969, Travis Hirschi, Causes of Delinquency, University of California Press, published 1974, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 287:
text: Anthony O’Toole wasn’t allowed to go out on schoolnights.
ref: 1990, Paul Quarrington, Logan in Overtime, Doubleday Canada, page 95:
text: “I thought fifth graders had homework most schoolnights.”
ref: 1997, Suzanne Brockmann, Otherwise Engaged, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Alternative form of school night.
schoolnights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolnight
half-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more half-cut
form: most half-cut
Senses: examples: text: Tommy wandered in, calm as you like, a full hour late, reeking of booze. He'd forgotten to put his clock forward, and was clearly still half-cut.
ref: 2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 2, in Radicals, London: William Heinemann:
glosses: Alternative form of half cut (“drunk”).
chocolate teapot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate teapots
Etymology: From useful as a chocolate teapot.
Senses: glosses: Something totally useless.
chocolate teapots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolate teapot
collegeboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collegeboys
Etymology: From college + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Why,you simply can’t imagine the difference between … well,a Russian student for instance and an American collegeboy. O no. It just can’t be conceived. Absolutely impossible. Why,tell me:what does the American collegeboy know?huh? Baseball!
ref: 1933, E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia, Liveright, published 2007, page 326:
text: Collegeboys get jobs on those Grace Line boats to South America.[…]They each passed a couple of remarks about the hot weather; then Ben Noe leaned forward with a little chuckling noise in his throat and asked Glenn, well, collegeboy, how did he like the life of a working stiff.[…]‘That’s my helper, Spike, he’s a good worker even if he is a collegeboy.’[…]All the girls were crazy to meet Glenn, collegeboys from eastern colleges were rare in these parts;
ref: 1967, John Dos Passos, Adventures of a Young Man, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, pages 63, 76, 79, and 150:
text: “Hey ya, collegeboy, keepin’ it sharp?”[…]Collegeboy beams again.
ref: 1994, The Alchemist Review: An Arts Magazine, pages 43 and 46:
text: The collegeboys will laugh. Jeez man, one of them might say, a smug overgrown teenager with an Astros cap, what a freak. White trash, another collegeboy will join in, laughing.
ref: 2016, Toby Vieira, Marlow’s Landing, John Murray, →ISBN:
glosses: A young man who is a student in tertiary education, or one who holds a tertiary degree.
collegeboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collegeboy
boostered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of booster
New Hartley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Seaton Valley parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ3076).
Beckys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Becky
Shaniquas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shaniqua
shufti kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shufti kites
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:shufti kite.
qualifier: RAF slang
glosses: A reconnaissance aircraft.
shits out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shit out
shitting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shit out
shat out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of shit out
shat out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of shit out
Illyrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Illyrologists
Etymology: From Illyrology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A scholar specializing in the history, culture and language of Illyria and Illyrians (Taulantii, Dardanians, etc.).
decollimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decollimations
Senses: topics: broadcasting
engineering
media
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
radio
glosses: Any mechanism in which rays either diverge or converge from parallelism
Illyrologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Illyrologist
decollimations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decollimation
Iturup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Итуру́п (Iturúp), itself from Ainu エツ゚ヲロㇷ゚シㇼ (Etuworop-sir, “island with many capes”). Doublet of Etrof, from the Japanese rendition of the same Ainu toponym, Japanese 択捉 (Etorofu).
Senses: glosses: The largest and northernmost island in the southern Kuril Islands, disputed between Japan and Russia.
Kunashir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kunashiri
Etymology: From Japanese 国後, or Russian Кунаши́р (Kunašír). Ultimately from Ainu クンネ シㇼ (kunne sir), meaning "black island"; or Ainu キナ シㇼ (kina sir), meaning "grass island".
Senses: glosses: The southernmost island of the Kuril Islands, disputed between Japan and Russia.
Shikotan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Шикотан (Šikotan) and Japanese 色丹, both from Ainu シコタン, from シ + コタン (“settlement, island”).
Senses: synonyms: Spanberg
Spanberga
glosses: An island in the Kurils, occupied by Russia but claimed by Japan.
Snowdrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Snowdrops
form: snowdrop
Etymology: From the plant snowdrop. Named for the white-topped caps sported by NCOs and warrant officers in the Royal Air Force Police.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Snowdrop.
qualifier: RAF slang
glosses: A Royal Air Force police officer.
wikipedia: Royal Air Force Police
great heaume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great heaumes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of great helm, heaume.
synonyms: word: great helm
word: heaume
Lent term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lent terms
Etymology: Lent + term.
Senses: topics: education
coordinate_terms: Michaelmas term
Easter term
glosses: The second academic term of the University of Cambridge, and other educational institutions, running from January to March; equivalent to Hilary term at the universities of Oxford and Dublin.
great heaumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great heaume
Lent terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lent term.