cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trickeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trickerations
Etymology: From trickery + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: "What trickeration?" I inquired. "Atom bomb shelters." said Simple. "Harlem landlords have no intention of building bomb shelters for their roomers.
ref: 1965, Langston Hughes, “Bomb Shelters”, in Simple's Uncle Sam:
text: "I'm a victim of trickeration. I think I'm destined to be investigated until I die," he says, [....]
ref: 1995, Peter Heller, Bad Intentions: The Mike Tyson Story, page 210:
text: Rather, he hoped there was some legal trickeration he could deploy to get a retroactive water right filed and end-run the opposition.
ref: 2005, Jeff Hull, Pale Morning Done: A Novel, page 214:
glosses: Trickery.
back-cloth star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-cloth stars
Senses: glosses: An actor who stands upstage, forcing the other actors to face him and turn their backs to the audience, in order to draw more attention to himself.
bayram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayrams
Senses: examples: text: The two bayrams were occasions for family visiting and public celebrations.
ref: 2017, Douglas A. Howard, A History of the Ottoman Empire, page 126:
glosses: In Turkic cultures, a nationally celebrated festival or holiday, whether secular or religious.
bird in the bosom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a bird in the bosom
Senses: glosses: A secret pledge that one makes for another.
spivs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiv
bird of one's own brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a bird of one's own brain
Senses: glosses: One's own idea or conception.
soucouyants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soucouyant
certiorari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɝʃəˈɹɛəɹaɪ/
ipa: /ˌsɝʃəˈɹɛəɹi/
ipa: /ˌsɝʃəˈɹɑɹi/
ipa: /ˌsɜːʃəˈɹɛəɹaɪ/
ipa: /ˌsɜːʃəˈɹɛəɹi/
ipa: /ˌsɜːʃəˈɹɑːɹi/
Forms: form: certioraris
Etymology: From the present passive infinitive of Latin certiōrō (“to make certain”), from the words used at the beginning of these writs when they were written in Latin: certiorārī volumus (“[we] wish to be made certain”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A grant of the right of an appeal to be heard by an appellate court where that court has discretion to choose which appeals it will hear.
topics: law
glosses: A grant of review of a government action by a court with discretion to make such a review.
Derived terms: word: cert.
word: cert
word: cert pool
word: certworthiness
ambushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.bʊʃt/
Forms: form: ambusht
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ambush
ambushed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.bʊʃt/
Forms: form: more ambushed
form: most ambushed
form: ambusht
Senses: glosses: Having been the target of an ambush.
glosses: Having been subjected to a shock for which one is unprepared.
ambushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ambush
ambushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: ambushings
Senses: glosses: An ambush.
pudency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pudencies
Etymology: From Latin pudentia, from Latin pudet (“it shames”).
Senses: examples: text: Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain’d
And pray’d me oft forbearance; did it with
A pudency so rosy the sweet view on’t
Might well have warm’d old Saturn […]
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
text: 1780, Thomas Holcroft, Alwyn, London: Fielding & Walker, Volume I, Letter 4, p. 58,
He has no respect to the timidity or pudency of youth or sex, but will say the most discouraging, as well as the rudest things, and receives pleasure in proportion to the pain he communicates.
text: Maidens laugh and weep; Composure
Is the pudency of man.
ref: 1883, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet”, in Poems, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 302:
text: The youthful artist working in any medium is prone to be impatient of the prejudices of Anglo-Saxon pudency.
ref: 1906, Elizabeth Bisland, chapter 2, in The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, volume I, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 62:
glosses: Modesty.
Related terms: impudence
pudent
pudic
wimble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪm.bəl/
ipa: [ˈwɪmbl̩]
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: wimbles
form: whimble
Etymology: From Middle English wymble, wymbel. Compare Middle Dutch wimmel, Middle Low German wimel, wemel.
Senses: glosses: Any of various hand tools for boring holes.
wimble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪm.bəl/
ipa: [ˈwɪmbl̩]
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: wimbles
form: wimbling
form: wimbled
form: wimbled
Etymology: From Middle English wimblen, from the noun (above). Compare Middle Low German wemelen.
Senses: examples: text: “What have you been doing?”
“Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying ‘Hoosh!’ to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds, and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson’s Wonderfuls with a dibble.”
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 10, in Far from the Madding Crowd:
glosses: To truss hay with a wimble.
examples: text: 1692, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, London: Lackington et al., 1820, Volume 4, p. 39,
[…] a foot soldier had hid himself […] and being greedy of prey, crept into the vault, and cut so much of the velvet pall that covered the great body, as he judged would hardly be missed, and wimbled also a hole thro’ the said coffin that was largest […]
text: My body heavier & heavier, my head a stone, & within an insistent voice wimbling away […]
ref: 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Freshwater Crayfish”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, IV, p. 343:
glosses: To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.
Related terms: auger
gimlet
wimble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪm.bəl/
ipa: [ˈwɪmbl̩]
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: more wimble
form: most wimble
Etymology: Related to whim.
Senses: examples: text: He was so wimble, and so wight,
From bough to bough he lepped light,
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, “March, Aegloga Tertia”, in The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, page 9b:
text: 1579, Edward Hake, Newes out of Powles Churchyarde, London: John Charlewood and Richard Jhones, “The first Satyr,”
And casting backe mine eye, I spyde
a pretie wymble lad,
Who saluing of his mate, dyd aske
what newes were to be had.
text: Be not affright, sweete Prince; appease thy feare,
Buckle thy spirits up, put all thy wits
In wimble action, or thou art surpriz’d.
ref: 1602, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida, London: Mathewe Lownes and Thomas Fisher, act III:
text: 1614, John Davies, The Shepheards Pipe, London: George Norton, “An Eclogue between yong Willy the singer of his natiue Pastorals, and old WERNOCKE his friend,”
Then nought can be atchieu’d with witty shewes,
Sith griefe of Elde accloyen wimble wit;
text: 1755, Moses Mendez, “The Squire of Dames” Canto 1, Stanza 27, in Robert Dodsley (editor), A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Volume 4, p. 135,
Man throws the wimble bait, and greedy woman bites.
glosses: active; nimble
Related terms: lick-wimble
stupra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuprum
stuprate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stjuːˈpɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈstjuːpɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈstuːpɹeɪt/
Forms: form: stuprates
form: stuprating
form: stuprated
form: stuprated
Etymology: From Latin stupratus, past participle of stuprare (“to ravish”).
Senses: examples: text: he bethought himselfe what course Iupiter tooke to stuprate Calisto
ref: 1624, Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion:
glosses: To ravish; to debauch.
believing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English bilevyng, belevand, bileveand, belefand, from Old English *belēfende, ġelīfende, ġelȳfende. Equivalent to believe + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of believe
believing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: believings
Etymology: From Middle English bilevinge, belewynge, equivalent to believe + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of having faith, trust, or confidence in.
examples: text: Some believings are believings with simple certainty; others are more or less uncertain; still others are believings with a reassured certainty, perhaps after a time during which they were uncertain.
ref: 2004, Dermot Moran, Lester E. Embree, Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, volume 2, page 337:
glosses: Belief.
Derived terms: unbelieving
seeing is believing
believing is seeing
brobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brob
believed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of believe
brobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brob
stive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /staɪv/
Etymology: Apparently from a Middle Dutch noun related to stuiven and cognate to German Staub (“dust”).
Senses: examples: 1867, The British Farmer's Magazine, Volum LII, New Series, page 231,
The removal of the heated air, steam, stive, and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.
glosses: The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
Derived terms: stive-box
stive-room
stive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /staɪv/
Forms: form: stives
form: stiving
form: stived
form: stived
Etymology: From Middle English stīven.
Senses: examples: 1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64,
Let your cucumbers be ſmall, freſh gathered, and free from ſpots; then make a pickle of ſalt and water, ſtrong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ſkim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] .
glosses: To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.
stive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /staɪv/
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stew.
stive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /staɪv/
Forms: form: stives
form: stiving
form: stived
form: stived
Etymology: Related to Italian stivàre, Portuguese estivar.
Senses: examples: text: His chamber being commonly ſtived vvith Friends or Suiters of one kind or other, vvhen he gave his legs, armes, and breſt to his ordinary ſervants to button and dreſſe him vvith little heed, […] then the Gentleman of his Robes throvving a cloak over his ſhoulders, he vvould make a ſtep into his Cloſet, and after a ſhort prayer, he vvas gone: […]
ref: c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 18:
text: And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.
ref: 1836, T. S. Davis, editor, Kitchen Poetry: Every Body’s Album, volume 1, page 172:
text: "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.
ref: 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, published 1871, page 284:
glosses: Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.
witch doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch doctor
shrinking violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ ˈvaɪələt/
ipa: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ ˈvaɪlət/
ipa: /-lɪt/
ipa: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ ˈvaɪələt/
ipa: /ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ ˈvaɪlət/
Forms: form: shrinking violets
Etymology: Possibly from the inconspicuous nature of the violet (genus Viola) flower and plant. The term appears to have been first used in the literal sense in the early 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: June, no shrinking violet she, crossed the room and introduced herself to the newcomers.
text: Little Johnny Jones, he was a US pilot / And no shrinking violet was he / He was mighty proud when World War III was declared / He wasn't scared, no siree!
ref: 1965, “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)” (track 1, side 2), in That Was the Year That Was, performed by Tom Lehrer:
glosses: A very shy or timid person, who avoids contact with others if possible.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
Synonyms: shy person
Related terms: wallflower
God speed
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: 3 [Citizen]. Neighbours, God ſpeed. / 1 [Citizen]. Giue you good morrovv ſir.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 184, column 2:
text: Duke. God ſpeed father. / 1. Mad[man]. God ſpeed the Plough, thou ſhalt not ſpeed me.
ref: 1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, “The Honest Whore, […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker […], volume II, London: John Pearson […], published 1873, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 80:
glosses: Alternative form of Godspeed.
God speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: God speeds
Senses: examples: text: Then Chriſtian took his leave of his Friend, and he again bid him God ſpeed.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 18:
text: Ber[inthia]. Speed her vvell. / VVor[thy]. Ay, but there muſt be more than a God ſpeed, or your Charity vvon't be vvorth a farthing.
ref: 1696 November (first performance), [John Vanbrugh], The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger: […], [London]: […] Samuel Briscoe […], published 1697, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 90:
glosses: Alternative form of Godspeed.
cake walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake walks
form: cake-walk
Senses: examples: text: It is called the cake-walk. A large cake is prepared for the occasion, and, when the invited guests arrive on the gala evening, each young man selects a partner for the walk. After a great deal of merriment and confusion, the couples take their places on the floor and begin to march around the room singing a hymn (for the church-members are not allowed to indulge in secular music) to a good marching tune, while the matrons and married men look on and criticise the promenaders, join in the chorus, and beat time with hands and feet. When tired at last of the walking-match, the cake is duly awarded to the most graceful couple, by whom it is carried home after the supper which closes the entertainment.
ref: 1881, A.L. Bassett, “Our monthly gossip”, in Lippincott's magazine, volume 28, page 208:
glosses: A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century.
examples: text: ... each of the marchers took his place beside the number nearest to him.
ref: 1945, Robert L. Kilzer, “Cake-Walk Earns Money for Student Activities”, in Educational Reading Service: School activities, volume 18, page 340:
glosses: From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number wins a cake.
examples: text: The three mile run was a cake walk for "Blondy" Romig, of Penn State.
ref: 1922, New York Athletic Club, “Easy for Romig”, in The Winged foot, volume 33, page 38:
glosses: Something extremely easy.
cake walks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cake walk
sandboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandboys
Etymology: From sand + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Up and down the street not a child was to be seen. A sandboy with a donkey cart was the sole human arrangement in it.
ref: 1880, George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie, Hurst and Blackett:
glosses: A boy who sells sand.
examples: text: Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach his rooms as jolly as a sandboy.
ref: 1910, O Henry, “The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball”, in The Trimmed Lamp:
text: Craw was happy as a sandboy, he reported: quite his former vile self, but a bit dazed to be bearded by Luke without warning.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 23:
glosses: A proverbially happy or jolly person.
raw_tags: in similes
Derived terms: happy as a sandboy
jolly as a sandboy
bag of rations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags of rations
Senses: glosses: A fussy or overly zealous military superior.
ploughmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ploughman
plowmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plowman
graminoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graminoid
form: most graminoid
Etymology: From Latin grāmen (“grass”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: resembling the grasses
graminoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graminoids
Etymology: From Latin grāmen (“grass”) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Graminoids adapted to mesic sites dominate the understory.
glosses: A plant with elongate leaves and minute flowers, such as a grass, sedge or rush.
thin end of the wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the thin end of the wedge
form: small end of the wedge
form: thin edge of the wedge
Senses: examples: text: The MP told parliament that legalising cannabis would be the thin end of the wedge.
text: This is known as the 'thin end of the wedge' argument raised by people who don't want to lose the protection of restrictive covenants. The 'thin end of the wedge' means that when you drive a wedge into something, you use the thin end first because it's easier than using the thick end.
ref: 2018 August 14, April Stroud, Making Sense of Land Law, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Something that if allowed or accepted to a small degree would lead to systematic encroachment.
Related terms: give them an inch and they'll take a mile
Wahlen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wahlens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wahlen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
radgin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of radge
radged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of radge
vests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vest
vests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vest
voice vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice votes
Senses: examples: text: The anti-gay amendment was initially defeated in the House on a voice vote. But it was later approved by a large margin on a roll call vote, suggesting that many congressmen feared negative reactions from constituents in an election year.
ref: 1980 August 16, Bennett Klein, “House Passes Anti-Gay Clause”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 1:
glosses: A vote that is held by members calling out aye or nay, used in cases where result is not contested or at least not close and a count is not needed to determine if the motion passes.
Synonyms: acclamation
Coordinate terms: english: types of vote
translation: types of vote
word: vote § Hyponyms
diœcious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: …several of the Medusæ, probably all, are diœcious…
ref: 1840, Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 18, page 136:
text: Low, creeping, heath-like shrubs, with small, crowded, entire, evergreen, leaves, and minute, axillary, diœcious flowers.
ref: 1878: George Bentham, Handbook of the British flora, p415 (Brook)
text: These berries will remain from December to July, that is, about eight months of the year. The Aucuba is diœcious. About a hundred years ago a traveller first brought some of these evergreens to England…
ref: 1879, Catherine M. Buckton, Town and window gardening, 16 lectures, page 91:
text: Heads many-flowered ; the flowers all tubular, perfect and similar, or rarely imperfectly diœcious. Scales of the ovoid or spherical involucre imbricated in many rows, tipped with a point or prickle.
ref: 1879, Asa Gray, Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & co., page 273:
text: Scalibregma inflatum is diœcious, and not hermaphrodite, as described by Danielssen. The gonads are formed by proliferation of the cells covering the septum by which the nephrostome is attached to the body-wall.
ref: 1927: Arthur Everett Shipley, Juan Rivera Reyes, J. Antonio Gil Conca, and Spain Servicio de Publicaciones Agrícolas, Desinfección y procedimientos higiénicoterapéuticos de los granos y sus…, volume 72, p302 (Ministerio de Fomento)
glosses: Alternative spelling of dioecious.
verbal authority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I acted by verbal authority, even though I couldn't be sure my superior would confirm I'd been authorized.
glosses: Right or permission authorized verbally rather than in writing.
ploughman's lunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ploughman's lunch
futurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futurist
rafie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɑːɹˈfi/
Forms: form: rafies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ralphie.
fretless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fret + -less.
Senses: glosses: Of a stringed instrument, not having frets on the fingerboard.
examples: text: You would live longer and happier if you would only be quiet and fretless.
ref: 1895, Virginia Reed, Daily Cheer for All the Year, Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs & Co., →OCLC, page 18:
text: Will the fretless world be happy or will restless nature shout / For some old-time fret or worry just to rave and kick about?
ref: 1907 August, J. W. Foley, quotee, “The Menace of Reform”, in Texas Medical News, volume 16, number 10, Austin: Texas Medical News Publishing Co., →ISSN, page 525:
text: Is it not worth while to try and approximate, if we cannot hope to attain, the ideal of fretless, fussless, and unworrying poise?
ref: 1913, George Lincoln Walton, Calm Yourself, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: Without worries.
fretless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fretlesses
Etymology: From fret + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Read's creations have covered just about all of bass-dom, from vintage-style 4-strings to 32-position fretlesses to 25-fret 8-strings tuned F♯BEADGCF.
ref: 2003, Jim Roberts, American Basses, San Francisco: Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 150:
text: No other machine can produce sounds which are so often described as 'singing', 'purring', 'humming', and 'ringing'. But this array of mellifluous notes doesn't come cheaply: even those who have mastered the fretless to moderate levels of proficiency have been obliged to spend many hundreds of hours on techniques which fretted-bass players either take for granted or simply do not require.
ref: 2006, Adrian Ashton, The Bass Handbook, San Francisco: Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Many fretlesses, especially less expensive models that mimic a fretted counterpart, have fretted-bass nut slots.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Hererra, “ASK BP”, in Chris Jisi, editor, Bass Player Presents The Fretless Bass, Milwaukee: Backbeat Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A stringed instrument without frets on the fingerboard.
rafies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rafie
oscillations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oscillation
rarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rarfs
Etymology: Diminutive of ralphie, rafie.
Senses: glosses: An idiot
negative Nancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative Nancies
form: negative Nancys
form: Negative Nancy
form: negative nancy
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Sara Jane Sluke, Vanessa Torres, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Stress for Teens
"Be wary of being a Negative Nancy."
text: "You're being negative Nancy today,"
ref: 2002, Angela Winters, Dangerous Memories - Page 133
text: "Finally, if you tell a Negative Nancy about your secret plans, she might doubt that you'll get your heart's desire."
ref: 2008, B. Jain Publishers, Cosmic Love - Page 15
text: “Don’t worry about the basement Bobbys or negative Nancys,” read the sign held by Morgan Morrison, 28, the mother of a second grader who “lost her mask on the second day.”
ref: 2020 August 12, Richard Fausset, “925 Quarantined for Covid. Is This a Successful School Reopening?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020:
glosses: A person who is considered excessively and disagreeably pessimistic.
Synonyms: Debbie Downer
negative Ned
negative Nelly
whining Willy
rarfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rarf
skuds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skud
barking spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barking spider
barking spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barking spiders
Senses: glosses: An Australian spider, Selenocosmia crassipes, which makes a "hissing" sound (stridulation) when disturbed.
glosses: An instance of audible flatulence; a fart.
fine-grained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fine-grained
form: most fine-grained
Etymology: From fine + grained.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of fine particles.
glosses: Having a fine, smooth texture.
examples: text: “It’s been long needed — and they’ve done a very good job,” said Ewan Birney […]. “This will improve our fine-grained understanding of variation, and then that research will open new opportunities toward clinical applications.”
ref: 2023 May 10, Elie Dolgin, “Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Highly detailed.
Synonyms: subtle
Hypernyms: grained
Derived terms: fine-grainedness
chafes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chafe
chafes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chafe
stotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stottin
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stot
stott
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stotts
form: stottin
form: stotted
form: stotted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stot.
stotts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stott
cry blue murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries blue murder
form: crying blue murder
form: cried blue murder
form: cried blue murder
Senses: examples: text: If told that they could not stay up late the children would cry blue murder.
glosses: To make an unwarranted fuss.
crying blue murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cry blue murder
cries blue murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cry blue murder
cried blue murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cry blue murder
cries wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cry wolf
crying wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cry wolf
cried wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cry wolf
thin edge of the wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But the great difficulty was the getting in the thin edge of the wedge; when once they had anything to do with price they must apply it to everything.
ref: 1877, The Analyst, page 381:
text: But at last the thin edge of the wedge of reform had been pushed in.
ref: 1903, Albert Shaw, The American Monthly Review of Reviews, page 196:
text: the thin edge of the wedge was further widened by the fact that a socialist party [...] broke precedent [...].
ref: 1996, Dale Belman et al., Public Sector Employment in a Time of Transition, page 247:
glosses: Alternative form of thin end of the wedge.
durance vile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In durance vile here must I wake and weep
ref: 1794, Robert Burns, Epistle from Esopus to Maria:
text: Two of the tribe were captured and put in irons, Binmook and Tommy, whose photographs, taken when in durance vile, I have by me still.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 74:
text: That is, Messrs Brown and Hinton would have been in durance vile before the issue could be litigated: the High Court does not give advisory decisions.
ref: 1994 February 19, The Canberra Times, page 15, column 3:
glosses: A long prison sentence.
depictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depiction
death-bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death-beds
Senses: examples: text: Fourth of July was coming; but he soon gave that up—gave it up before he had worn his shackles over forty-eight hours—and fixed his hopes upon old Judge Frazer, justice of the peace, who was apparently on his death-bed and would have a big public funeral, since he was so high an official.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 176–177:
text: It is said that whenever a member of the house of the Arundels of Wardour lies on his death-bed, a pair of large screech-owls fly round the battlements each night till his decease.
ref: 1888 July 14, “Bird Legends”, in Charles Dickens [Jr.], editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume XLIII, number 1024, London: […], page 40, column 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of deathbed.
death bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death beds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deathbed.
flowingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flowingly
form: most flowingly
Etymology: From flowing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She danced flowingly across the stage, as though gravity and friction didn't apply to her.
glosses: In a flowing manner.
flower box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower boxes
form: flowerbox
Senses: glosses: A container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window.
examples: text: 1988, Computer Partners, Inc, Handbook of COBOL techniques and programming standards
To make this easier to do, set up an empty flower box and copy it into your program...
text: […] you might have several lines of comments enclosed in a "flower box".
ref: 1989, Cary N. Prague, James E. Hammitt, dBase IV programming:
text: To end the flower box, type / to specify the end of a multiple line comment.
ref: 2001, Danny Ryan, Tommy Ryan, ASP.NET: your visual blueprint for creating Web applications on the .Net:
text: I then modified the code we had written earlier to include a flower box […]
ref: 2002, John Smiley, Learn to program with Visual Basic.NET:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A comment in source code that spans several lines, serving to introduce the source code that follows, and bordered by asterisks.
Synonyms: planter box
planter
flower boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower box
planter boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planter box
transubstantiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transubstantiate
transubstantiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transubstantiate
transubstantiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transubstantiate
first mate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first mates
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An officer on a merchant ship next in rank to the captain and responsible to the captain for the safety and security of the ship.
Synonyms: chief officer
chief mate
first officer
first mates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first mate
floorperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floorpeople
form: floorpersons
Etymology: From floor + person.
Senses: glosses: The person who works the floor (deals with customers), a floor manager.
glosses: A floorman or floorwoman in a casino.
floor manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor managers
Senses: examples: text: The floor manager will then make a thorough inspection together with the foreman to see that all containers, whether of parts or chain, are properly labeled.
ref: 1919 November 24, Factory: The Magazine of Management, volume 23, page 1044:
text: The 16th matter occurred when an Assistant Floor Manager was walking past Area 3 on the casino floor.
ref: 2007, Labor Arbitration Information System, volume 2, page 142:
text: The floor manager looked at Bob's recent edged creation and liked it well enough to order four more just like it.
ref: 2012, Joe Kertzman, Greatest Loveless Knife Designs:
glosses: A manager who works on the shop floor and may directly interact with customers.
examples: text: Don Pablo do la Guerra, with his handsome aristocratic features, was the floor manager, and gallantly discharged his office.
ref: 1850 June 1, The Spectator, volume 23, page 521:
text: At the Municipal Pier, for example, an investigator learned that when Negro couples went on the dancing pavilion floor the floor manager informed them that they were not dancing properly and took them to one side to acquaint them with the approved style of dancing; no matter how well they danced, they were to be prevented from going on the floor by the manager's judgment of their dancing.
ref: 2004, Ronald H. Bayor, The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, page 547:
text: As Chairman of the relevant committee, Yarborough would ordinarily have been the bill's Floor Manager during the Senate debate; Magnuson might indeed have replaced him, but ironically, Magnuson had not yet returned from a weekend trip to Seattle.
ref: 2011, Eric Redman, The Dance of Legislation, page 155:
glosses: One who manages the floor of a dance, club, or other gathering of people.
examples: text: The floor manager came on the set and announced that the unseen director of the show had called cut.
ref: 2004, Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel:
text: The floor manager counted me in and The James Whale Radio Show took to the air on Yorkshire Television in its usual slot.
ref: 2011, James Whale, Almost a Celebrity: A Lifetime of Night-Time:
text: The floor manager will be positioned somewhere out of shot but in JOHN'S eyeline and will hold up a hand with four fingers extended.
ref: 2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started, page 154:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A manager of a television show, responsible for communication between the director and the crew.
Related terms: floorman
floorperson
floor managers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floor manager
floorpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floorperson
flower bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower beds
Senses: examples: text: And strange, too, it is to stand on Primrose Hill, as I did but a day before writing this last chapter, to see the great province of houses, dim and blue through the haze of the smoke and mist, vanishing at last into the vague lower sky, to see the people walking to and fro among the flower beds on the hill, to see the sightseers about the Martian machine that stands there still, to hear the tumult of playing children, and to recall the time when I saw it all bright and clear cut, hard and silent, under the dawn of that last great day. . .
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Epilogue”, in “The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, published 1897, page 103, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of flowerbed.
flower beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower bed
de-thatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de-thatchers
Senses: glosses: A device which removes dead grass clippings from a lawn, often a lawnmower attachment. Frequently inaccurately called a thatcher.
combined studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A course, given at many universities and colleges, in which broad areas of study, rather than limited subjects are taught.
telecamera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telecameras
Etymology: From tele- + camera.
Senses: examples: text: Phil Regan, who has done radio, film and personal appearance work, makes his first appearance before a telecamera.
ref: 1944, Billboard, page 82:
glosses: A television camera, or a video camera more generally.
Related terms: telecinecamera
deciliters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deciliter
decigramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decigrammes
Etymology: From French décigramme. By surface analysis, deci- + gramme.
Senses: glosses: British spelling of decigram.
decibels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decibel
hrm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəɹəm/
text: en-UK
Senses: glosses: Expresses a moment of particular curiosity or thoughtfulness.
Synonyms: aah
ah
er
hmm
umm
deboned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbəʊnd/
ipa: /diˈboʊnd/
Senses: examples: text: This deboned fish will be safe for the cat to eat.
synonyms: boned#Adjective
;
boneless
antonyms: unboned
glosses: Having had its bones removed.
deboned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbəʊnd/
ipa: /diˈboʊnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debone
bring it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From bring it on, from bring on.
Senses: glosses: Used to respond affirmatively and aggressively to a challenge by issuing one in return.
bring it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings it
form: bringing it
form: brought it
form: brought it
Etymology: From bring it on, from bring on.
Senses: examples: text: When we get to the competition next month, you really have to bring it.
glosses: To give one's all in a particular effort; to perform admirably or forcefully.
Synonyms: throw down
giant kettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant kettles
Senses: glosses: A pothole of very large dimensions, as found in glaciers in Norway (pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream).
deadbeat dad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadbeat dads
Senses: examples: text: If the '90s offer one villain by consensus, it is the deadbeat dad, that selfish fugitive condemned by liberals and conservatives alike for his irresponsible behavior and generous contributions to the cycle of welfare dependency.
ref: 1995 April 3, David Van Biema, “Dunning Deadbeats”, in Time:
glosses: A man, especially one who is divorced or estranged from his partner, who fails to provide monetary child support when he is legally required to do so.
glosses: A man who is voluntarily absent and uncaring towards his children, especially one who leaves them entirely in their mother's care.
Related terms: weekend dad
Pandora's boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pandora's box
jacksy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacksies
form: jacksie
form: jaxie
form: jaxy
Senses: glosses: Backside
glosses: Buttocks
Mylanta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: 2003 April 6, David X. Cohen, "The Why of Fry", Futurama, season 5, episode 8, Fox Broadcasting Company
Philip Fry: I remember the square-dancing stomachs, although that might have been a Mylanta commercial.
glosses: An antacid medication of aluminum and magnesium hydroxide.
keep one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's head
form: keeping one's head
form: kept one's head
form: kept one's head
form: keep one's head on one's shoulders
Senses: examples: text: If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you . . .
ref: 1895, Rudyard Kipling, If—:
text: The ruffian kept his head, and though the dog's teeth were in his shoulder, he managed to get his right hand free.
ref: 1910, John Buchan, chapter 16, in Prester John:
text: Officials are calling the woman a hero for keeping her head and finding the only way out amid the panic of the smoke and flames.
ref: 2008 March 7, “Mother Throws 7 Kids Out Window To Save Them From Fire”, in CityNews, Canada, retrieved 12 Dec 2009:
glosses: To remain calm, reasonable, level-headed, especially in a situation likely to cause distress.
Related terms: keep one's head above water
killingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more killingly
form: most killingly
Etymology: From killing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to kill; fatally.
examples: text: I should not be able to say how killingly droll I found this.
ref: 1916, William Dean Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, page 152:
glosses: So as to incapacitate with laughter.
French donut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French donuts
Senses: glosses: A beignet.
erhu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɜːhuː/
/ɚˈhuː/
Forms: form: erhu
form: erhus
form: erh hu
form: erh-hu
form: urheen
Etymology: From Mandarin 二胡 (èrhú), from 二 (èr, “two”) + 胡 (hú, “fiddle; short for 胡琴, a family of Chinese vertical fiddles”).
Senses: examples: text: A rugged, handsome woman who can plant five fields in the time it takes others to plant one, Lu reveals her inner self by playing sweet music on the ehru ^([sic]) in a deserted factory site.
ref: 1994 October, Andrea Freud Loewenstein, “No More Happy Endings”, in Gay Community News, page 28:
text: Searches on Craigslist turned up no ads for erhus, wanted or offered, though there was a posting for an instrument found on the Lower East Side (the owner must identify the instrument).
ref: 2009 March 10, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Cherished Instrument Is Gone, and to Its Owner, Loss Is Like a Death”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of bowed spike fiddle having two strings, originating in China as part of the huqin family of string instruments.
ETS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ETSes
Senses: examples: text: Free pollution permits worth €98.5bn were given to energy-intensive sectors […]. This is more than the €88.5bn that the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) charged polluters, mostly coal and gas power stations, for their CO₂ emissions. […] Carbon emissions covered by the ETS have fallen by 37% since it began in 2005, largely thanks to the growth of renewable energy.
ref: 2022 November 29, Damian Carrington, “Big polluters given almost €100bn in free carbon permits by EU”, in The Guardian:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of emissions trading scheme.
examples: text: The evidence clearly showed that ETS increased the risk of SIDS, but the panel couldn’t decide whether that risk was caused by prenatal smoking, postnatal ETS, or both.
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: SHS
glosses: Initialism of environmental tobacco smoke.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of end of term of service or expiration of term of service.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of estimated time of separation.
ETS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Educational Testing Service: the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization, founded in 1947.
so that
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: From Middle English so that, so þat, sa þat, swo þat, swa þat, from Old English swā þæt, equivalent to so + that. Cognate with Saterland Frisian sodät, West Frisian sadat, Dutch zodat, German sodaß, sodass.
Senses: examples: text: He must die so that (as a result) others may/might live.
text: He seized his axe, which he had made very sharp, and as the leader of the wolves came on the Tin Woodman swung his arm and chopped the wolf's head from its body, so that it immediately died.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Indicates result; in order that, with the result that.
examples: text: He tied a complex knot so that others would find it hard to undo.
text: The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
ref: 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
glosses: Indicates purpose; in such a way that, with the intent that.
Synonyms: word: in order that
word: that
Related terms: in order
in order for
in order to
atomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈætəmɪst/
Forms: form: atomists
Etymology: From atom + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: What distinguished the atomists from their opponents was not the belief in tiny particles that make up matter, but the question of what separated them.
ref: 2002, Phillip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 9:
glosses: An adherent of atomism; one who believes matter is composed of elementary indivisible particles.
glosses: An adherent of the atomic theory.