cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Grigalashvili
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian გრიგალაშვილი (grigalašvili).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Georgian.
nunight
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: 'Would you like to keep this photo in your room? Then you can say nunight to Mummy and Daddy when you go to bed.'
ref: 2022, Sarah Turner, Stepping Up:
glosses: night night; goodnight
deemings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deeming
unhurted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unhurted, equivalent to un- + hurted.
Senses: glosses: Unhurt.
unidle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unidle
form: most unidle
Etymology: From un- + idle.
Senses: glosses: Not idle.
unhurting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hurting.
Senses: glosses: Not causing hurt.
unhurdled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hurdled.
Senses: glosses: Not enclosed with hurdles.
uniconstant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + constant.
Senses: examples: uniconstant isotropy
glosses: Involving or relating to a single constant value.
unifaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + faced.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a prehistoric stone tool: flaked on one surface only.
bifaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + faced.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a prehistoric stone tool: having two sharp cutting edges.
unilobal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + lobal.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to a single lobe.
multilobal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + lobal.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to more than one lobe.
unimbanked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + imbanked.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of unembanked.
Mount Royal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large hill in the centre of Montreal Island, Quebec, Canada, the origin of the name of Montreal.
glosses: A suburban town in Montreal, Quebec, named after the hill.
glosses: A large neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A mountain in the Mount Royal Range, New South Wales, Australia.
unimperial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimperial
form: most unimperial
Etymology: From un- + imperial.
Senses: glosses: Not imperial.
unimplorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + implore + -able.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be implored; deaf to entreaties.
unimpropriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + impropriated.
Senses: glosses: Not impropriated.
unimmerged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + immerged.
Senses: glosses: Not immerged.
uninfixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + infixed.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Without an infix.
Aouellimiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Awellimiden
Senses: glosses: A subgroup of the Tuareg people.
Ahaggar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A subgroup of the Tuareg people.
kakampink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kakampinks
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog kakampink.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of 14th Philippine vice-president Leni Robredo on her 2022 Philippine presidential election campaign.
cousiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cousiny
form: most cousiny
Etymology: From cousin + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "We're a very cousiny people," Mary Harty told me. "One must tread very lightly here: Everyone is kin to everyone else."
ref: 1994, John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil:
text: Besides, I have a Rhett on standby who may live beyond my own backyard, but I know he will always be there to support and comfort me if only in a cousiny sort of way.
ref: 2018, Doreen Kerry, Pathway to the Moon:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of cousins.
cradlemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradlemakers
Etymology: From cradle + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who makes cradles.
cradlemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cradle + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of cradles.
cradlemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cradlemaker
creolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creolisms
Etymology: From creole + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The mixed ancestry of a Creole person.
glosses: A word or phrase that is characteristic of a creole.
creolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creolism
curtainwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From curtain + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a curtain.
cylinderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cylinderers
Etymology: From cylinder + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who cylinders or calenders.
cylinderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cylinderer
cylindroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cylindroidal
form: most cylindroidal
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the form of a cylindroid.
Glucksteins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gluckstein
Gahagans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gahagan
Finnises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Finnis
Shedden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sheddens
form: Shadden
Etymology: Scottish habitational surname from a place in Renfrewshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
Shampine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shampines
Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of Champagne.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Shampines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shampine
Sheddens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shedden
Savos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Savo
Whitehalls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Whitehall
Weigold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weigolds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Weigold.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Troosts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Troost
Weigolds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weigold
Vannucci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vannuccis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Vannucci.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Bolter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bolters
Etymology: From bolter, an occupational surname for a sifter of flour, or for a maker of bolts.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Bolters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bolter
Vannuccis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vannucci
Brattain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brattains
Etymology: Variant of Bratten.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shizuishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 石嘴山 (Shízuǐshān).
Senses: examples: text: I again entered civilization at Shih-tsui-tzu (officially called Shih-tsui-shan), a wretched town of 700 or 800 houses in a barren sandy plain. Three or four miles further south, however, I entered a very fertile region, between the Yellow river and the rugged A-la-shan, watered by five canals, which are supplied with water from the Yellow river, and which distribute it through countless irrigation channels over the surrounding fields.
ref: [1911 March, George Pereira, “A Journey Across the Ordos”, in The Geographical Journal, volume XXXVII, number 3, London: Royal Geographical Society, page 264:
text: Moving west from Paotowchen there is only one highway, which many camel trains from Kansu follow in winter, but which is almost deserted in summer when the Yellow River is ice free. This road leads through Santaoho, a Roman Catholic Mission village near the elbow of the river, through Shihtsuishan, where there is a carefully guarded pass and a large garrison, and on into the populous Ninghsia district of Kansu, altogether an eighteen day journey of about 1,300 11 through thinly settled country in which a pestilence would travel with difficulty and in which it could have been most effectually checked at any of half a dozen points.
ref: [1918 April, Rodney Gilbert, “Pneumonic Plague in China”, in Asia, volume XVIII, number 4, American Asiatic Association, page 344, columns 2, 3:
text: In Shizuishan, Ningxia's northernmost city, there was only one mainly Yihewani mosque before 1949, later destroyed in 1966.
ref: 1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
text: Tuesday morning’s explosion occurred at a small coal mine when 20 miners were working underground in the city of Shizuishan in the northwestern region of Ningxia, the official Xinhua News Agency said. State broadcaster CCTV had said in the morning that the blast had killed 19 people, but later reported 18 deaths.[…]
Calls to the Shizuishan city government Wednesday rang unanswered.
ref: 2016 September 28, “Explosion kills 18 in ‘illegal’ coal mine in northern China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2022:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
Bechlers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bechler
Brattains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brattain
Bartolinis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bartolini
Zhongwei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔŋˈweɪ/
enpr: jo͝ongʹwāʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中衛 /中卫 (Zhōngwèi).
Senses: examples: text: The Central Weather Bureau in Taipei pinpointed the epicenter of the August 16 earthquake on the Chinese mainland at a spot in the vicinity of Chungwei, Ninghsia province.[…]
Chungwei is located on a railway near the Great Wall. It is close to the boundary of Kansu. The earthquake was powerful enough to damage the ancient wall, according to seismologists.
ref: [1976 August 22, “Second quake”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.
ref: 1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:
text: At Zhongwei we disembarked to visit a place named Shapotou, which means "at the head of a sandy slope." The name describes the location, the edge of the Tengger, a shamo where dunes creep along the foothills of the Xiangshan, an east-west mountain range.
ref: 1982, The Desert Realm, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:
text: The new projects approved by the commission include a rail link between Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province in central China, and the city of Zhongwei in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the northwest, state media reported.
ref: 2006 July 3, David Lague, “China devotes funds to impoverished west - Business - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2023, International Business:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
Guyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͞oʹyüänʹ
Forms: form: Kuyuan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 固原 (Gùyuán).
Senses: examples: text: Pengyang county was administered by Guyuan before 1988. In contrast to Guyuan, Pengyang is relatively wealthy.
ref: 2004, Peter Ho, “The Wasteland Auction Policy in Northwest China: Solving Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty?”, in Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 125:
text: Mr. Zhang said a main goal of moving people from Xihaigu was to turn the hills green, with a parallel planting program. More than two million acres have been converted to forest and pasture land, he said, citing the Guyuan area, where forest coverage was 22 percent last year, up from 4 percent in the 1980s.
ref: 2016 October 25, Edward Wong, “Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2016, World:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
glosses: Synonym of Yuanzhou.
synonyms: word: Yuanzhou
Lingwu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lǐngʹwo͞oʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 靈武 /灵武 (Língwǔ).
Senses: examples: text: Savings deposits of some of the commune peasants in Wuchung and Lingwu counties, where people of the Hui nationality live in compact communities, increased by more than 30 percent and 100 percent respectively last year. In four people's communes in Lingwu County where 92 percent of the population is of the Hui nationality, total grain output last year topped 1976 by 70 percent and considerable progress was made in the diverisfied^([sic – meaning diversified]) economy.
ref: 1978 January 27 [1978 January 27], “Grain Production, Bank Savings Increase in Ningsia”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 19, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 1:
text: The stone implements unearthed along with Hetao Man are very small in size. In spite of some similarities, they are markedly different from those found at Shuidonggou in Lingwu County in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Therefore, the stone implements of these two sites should not be classified together into a “Hetao Culture” (Ordos Culture).
ref: 1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:
text: Our hardest day now lay ahead. The road made a big detour to the south via Lingwu, crossing the Yellow River by the only bridge for many miles before turning north again for Yinchuan, the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
ref: 1987, Robin Hanbury-Tenison, “Between the Desert and the Green”, in A Ride Along the Great Wall, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150:
text: Yongning county is only 12.9 percent Hui, a relatively small minority in contrast to neighboring Lingwu county in the southeast, which is 47 percent Hui, and southern Jingyuan county, which is 97 percent Hui (the highest concentration of Hui in one county in China, see Map 2).
ref: 1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
text: For the next two centuries, Nestorian Christianity, known as Jing Jiao (“Resplendent Religion”) in Chinese, spread within the empire, with churches in cities as far apart as Lingwu (in present-day Ningxia), Chengdu and Guangzhou.
ref: 2018 March 21, Wee Kek Koon, “What happened to China’s early Christians and why did the Nestorian doctrine die out?”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2018:
glosses: A county-level city of Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
Bartniks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bartnik
Barbians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Barbian
do someone one better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does someone one better
form: doing someone one better
form: did someone one better
form: done someone one better
Senses: examples: text: - Could you drive me to the station please?
- I'll do you one better and lend you my car keys: you can drive yourself anywhere.
glosses: To do more than somebody asked for or expected.
Related terms: go one better
McCaskey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCaskeys
form: McCoskey
form: McKaskey
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Ascaidh (“son of Ascadh”), from a pet form of the Old Norse personal name Ásketill.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Soneses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sones
McCaskeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCaskey
Planases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Planas
Bogans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bogan
octogenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octogenary
Hortonville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Horton + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A community in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hamilton County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A village in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Otero County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Sullivan County, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.
glosses: A village in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States.
Giffords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gifford
Broughton Gifford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8764).
centenarying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of centenary
centenaried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of centenary
Jeumont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France, on the border with Belgium.
hundredmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hundredman
centgrave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centgraves
Etymology: From German Zentgraf, from Latin cent- (“100”) + German -graf (“-grave”).
Senses: glosses: The overseer of a hundred (zent) in medieval France and Germany.
glosses: Synonym of hundredman: the overseer of a hundred in medieval England.
synonyms: word: hundredman
extra: the overseer of a hundred in medieval England
Synonyms: sense: Frankish administrator
word: centenary
sense: Frankish administrator
word: hundredman
centgraves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centgrave
wind farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind farmer
Saint-Germain-des-Fossés
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
dynamo theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamo theories
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proposed mechanism, involving a rotating, convecting, and electrically conducting fluid, by which a celestial body generates and maintains a magnetic field over astronomical time scales.
dynamo theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamo theory
Langeais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
matelotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matelotages
Etymology: Borrowed from French matelotage.
Senses: glosses: A social practice of same-sex civil union among seafarers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
glosses: An instance of such a union.
matelotages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matelotage
novennia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novennium
Spok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spoks
Etymology: Perhaps borrowed from Czech Špok.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Ancenis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, part of Ancenis-Saint-Géréon, Loire-Atlantique department, Pays de la Loire, France.
Varades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Loireauxence, Loire-Atlantique department, Pays de la Loire, France.
sexenniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexennium
Saint-Georges-sur-Loire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Saint-Georges-sur-Loire, from saint Georges (“Saint George”) + sur (“on”) + Loire (“the river Loire”).
Senses: glosses: A commune in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France.
quinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinity
Rundkvist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rundkvists
form: Rundqvist
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Rundkvist.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Thornquist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thornquists
Etymology: From Swedish Thörnqvist, an ornamental surname from a variant of torn (“thorn”) + kvist (“twig”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Rundqvist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rundqvists
form: Rundkvist
form: Rundquist
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Rundqvist.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Mortara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and comune in Lombardy, Italy.
face piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face pieces
form: facepiece
Etymology: From face + piece.
Senses: glosses: The part of a respirator or gas mask that covers the nose, mouth, and sometimes the eyes.
glosses: The unattractive face of a person.
face pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face piece
Villa San Giovanni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, a comune and port in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy.
flash gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash guns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flashgun.
flash guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash gun
Lianyun'gang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The 45th Division was dispatched to Haizhou to strengthen the defense line of Northern Jiangsu. The officers’ families, including Yuechun, followed; they lived in Lianyun’gang^([sic – meaning Lianyungang]), a nearby seaport by the Yellow Sea, where the Nationalist Government still had hopes that American marines might yet land to come to their aid.
ref: 2006, Robert K. Wen, chapter 5, in Dream of Spring and Autumn: A Novel (Fiction), New York; Lincoln; Shanghai: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: Misspelling of Lianyungang.
Nagqu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nägʹcho͞o
Etymology: From Tibetan ནག་ཆུ (nag chu).
Senses: examples: text: The Dalai Lama gave few details about the boy or how he was discovered. He said only that the child was born in the Lhari district in Nagqu four months after the previous Panchen Lama died in January 1989.
ref: 1995 May 15, “Tibet Buddhists Call Boy, 6, Reincarnation of No. 2 Monk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2010, Section A, page 6:
text: Youdon was arrested in her hometown of Tsarang Township, Amdo County in Tibet’s Nagchu region.
ref: [2022 July 14, Sangyal Kunchok, Nawar Nemeh, “Tibetan Woman Arrested for Dalai Lama Photo”, in Tenzin Dickyi, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2022:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Bei'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)beɪˈɑn/
ipa: /-æn/
enpr: bāʹänʹ
Forms: form: Beian
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北安 (Běi'ān).
Senses: examples: text: Inside back: Wheat harvest at the Pei-an County State Farm, Heilungkiang province.
ref: [1972 January, China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: Han and originally from Bei’an, a city further south in Heilongjiang known for its high-security jail, large psychiatric facility and a preponderance of criminal gangs, he was now running his own English school in Heihe.
ref: 2014, David Eimer, “Along the Amur”, in The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China, Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 297:
glosses: A county-level city of Heihe, Heilongjiang, China.
Namcha Barwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nǔmʹchǔ bǔrʹvǔ
Forms: form: Namjagbarwa
Senses: examples: text: Today, with nearly all the great peaks already climbed (except Namcha Barwa, 25,700 feet, which the Chinese are reserving for themselves, having tried and failed three times so far), mountaineers try for new and harder routes, as well as faster times, forever narrowing the safety margin.
ref: 1985 March 7, Michael Kernan, “Call of the Climb”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2023:
text: Namcha Barwa (7782 m) finally fell to the Japanese efforts. Two Japanese-Chinese expeditions recceed the peak in 1990 and 1991.
ref: 1998, Soli Mehta, Harish Kapadia, “Sikkim and Assam Himalaya”, in Exploring the Hidden Himalaya, 2nd revised and updated edition, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: A mountain in Mêdog, Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
nigger lottery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger lotteries
Etymology: From nigger + lottery.
Senses: examples: text: So is "black" another word to chalk up on the PC banned list? These niggers are obviously taking lessons from their kin in America, look at their faces, they are thinking of nothing but hitting the "nigger lottery", as we call it here.
ref: 2009 November 5, Jesse, “Negroes in UK mad abot^([sic]) being called black”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):
text: Atkinson's mother is seeking more than $75,000 in the wrongful death suit. Here come dat Nigger Lottery cash..........the lawyer will get over half!
ref: 2012 August 20, John Doe, “Re: Nigger Mammy Suing Kroger For Death of it's^([sic]) Feral Bastard Nigger Spawn”, in free.spirit (Usenet):
text: Just an example on how ludicrous negroes are. The[y] walk around in their daily lives looking to hit what we call the "nigger lottery". They are always a hair trigger away from suing something or somebody, and the easiest path for that is to cry "racism".
ref: 2013 February 7, Jesse, “Negroes sue racist rabbit”, in alt.france (Usenet):
text: The boy’s parents, who are also only identified by their first names, announced plans to sue the Los Angeles Unified School District on Monday.[…]Nigger hoping for Nigger Lottery as usual....
ref: 2013 June 29, Reaper G, “Re: Feral Nigger Raped During Gym Class At Barack Obama Prep”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
text: Durham, NC niggersow Diana Mems has 45 different mugshots because among all its niggercrimes it has caused 31 automobile accidents because it cuts in front and slams on the brakes in order to get nigger lotteries. The niggersow was well known by citizens on social media and law enforcement because niggersow Mems had the license plate “STAYUMBL,” that it has since changed. We all know horsenostril niggers do this nationwide to get nigger lotteries and this is why filthy niggers SHOULD NOT be allowed to drive.
ref: 2019 April 4, Rick Wolfe, “Nigger caused 31 wrecks in Nig Carolina”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):
glosses: The act, practice or result of a black person seeking damages in response to a crime committed against them.
Related terms: ghetto lottery
nigger lotteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger lottery
padded mailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padded mailers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of padded envelope.
synonyms: word: padded envelope
padded mailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padded mailer
Karimojong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Karamojong.
lived the dream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of live the dream
Niloto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nilo-.
Yalong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: yäʹlo͝ongʹ
rhymes: -ʊŋ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雅礱 /雅砻 (Yǎlóng).
Senses: examples: text: Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yang-tsze-keang at Han-yang-Foo, in Hoopih,—and the Ya-lung-keang, which rises in Kokonor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yang-tsze-keang, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.
ref: [1832 June, “Ta-tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le Ming-che Tsing-lae.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:
text: Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of cansiderable^([sic – meaning considerable]) length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yangtsze keäng at Hanyang foo, in Hoopih,—and the Yalung keäng, which rises in Koko-nor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yangtsze keäng, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.
ref: [1833 [1832 June], “Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le Mingche Tsinglae.”, in The Chinese Repository, 2nd edition, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:
text: A bridge over the Yalong River in Ganzi County, in Sichuan Province.
ref: 2008 April 3, Michael Benanav, “Caught Between a Crackdown and a Tibetan Welcome”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2008, Travel:
text: I was just a few kilometres outside Garze on the Yalong River, which started its journey on the Qinghai plateau and ended over 1,300 kilometres later when it poured into the Yangtze in the very southernmost corner of Sichuan.
ref: 2016, Richard Loseby, chapter 10, in A Boy of China (Non-fiction), HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: A river in Sichuan, China.
Beian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 北安 (Běi'ān), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).
Senses: examples: text: Born in Beian, Heilongjiang Province in northeast China, Zhang graduated from Northeast Forestry College with a senior degree.
ref: 2013 December 18, Keira Lu Huang, “Anti-corruption expert Zhang Yi takes control at China's state asset watchdog”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2013, China Insider:
glosses: Alternative form of Bei'an.
Yumen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹmǔnʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 玉門 /玉门 (Yùmén).
Senses: examples: text: Rich oil has been found in the vicinity of Yumen County north of the Chilien, and a new oil city has been built there.
ref: 1958, Chun-heng Wang, “The Shensi-Kansu-Chinghai Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 202:
text: Irrigation systems expanded agriculture, and Yü-men, in the early 1960s, was rapidly growing into a transport and petroleum centre, with refineries, by-product plants, and oil-well machinery plants.
ref: [1964, Joseph Earle Spencer, “YÜ-MEN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 23, →OCLC, page 926B, column 1:
text: After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.
ref: 1973, Rewi Alley, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:
text: Yumen is in a high-altitude corner of the poor northwestern province of Gansu. A single oil field is its gushing but fragile economic base.
ref: 2008 April 17, “Many of China's 'resource' towns are dying”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2021, International Business:
glosses: A county-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China, formerly a county.
Altyn Tagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Uyghur ئالتۇن تاغ (altun tagh, “golden mountain”).
Senses: examples: text: The water used in irrigating the soil is led from the Chargalyk-daria, which flows from the neighbouring Altyn-tagh mountains, an elevated range south of Lob-nor.
ref: [1879, N. Prejevalsky, chapter II, in E. Delmar Morgan, transl., From Kulja, Across the Tian Shan to Lob-nor, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 76:
text: THIS is a personal story, with a physical background stretching from the River Don in Russia across Siberia, down through Mongolia and Northwestern China to the lofty, inhospitable Altyn Tagh, first step to the Kunlun ranges bordering Tibet.
ref: 1942 October 4, Jane Spence Southron, “Secret Army; THE GOLDEN HORDE. By La Selle Gilman. 466 pp. New York Smith & Durrell. $2.75.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2023:
text: Tibet is awash in superlatives. It is the highest country on earth and the most mountainous, with three-quarters of the country’s territory lying at 16,000 feet or higher, a full three miles above sea level. It’s ringed by world-class mountain ranges on three sides. In the north, the Altyn Tagh range separates Tibet from China’s Xinjiang province and the Gobi desert.
ref: 2011, Stephan Talty, “An Examination of Prior Memories”, in Escape from the Land of Snows (History), New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:
text: From the Qaidam basin, trains will tunnel through the Altyn-Tagh — a mountain range that separates the eastern Tarim basin from the Tibetan plateau.
ref: 2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2020:
glosses: A mountain range in Central Asia.
Synonyms: Altun
Dollery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dollerys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
FFPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FFP
Greater Khingan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: khǐng-gänʹ
Senses: examples: text: "I swear the real Jonathan Marl is miles away in the Great Khingan Range in the gulag at Pokotu."[…]
"What about Jonathan?"
"That he was being held prisoner in Manchuria, Pokotu in the Great Khingan Range to be exact."
ref: [1984 December, Gloria Vitanza Basile, chapter 26, in The Sting of the Scorpion (Global 2000 Trilogy), volume III (Fiction), New York: Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 463, 464:
text: The north Eurasian plain is not only Russia's geographical setting, but also her fate. From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge expanse of flat, open territory dominates the Eurasian continent.
ref: 2001 July 8, Geoffrey Hosking, “"Russia and the Russians: A History"”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023, First Chapter:
text: The second outbreak is in the remote Greater Khingan Mountains in Inner Mongolia, where 210 of the 222 wild boar raised on the farm died, the ministry said in a separate statement. The rest have been slaughtered, it said.
ref: 2019 February 24, Ben Blanchard, Hou Xiangming, “China reports two new African swine fever outbreaks”, in Himani Sarkar, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 25 May 2024, ワールド:
text: The Company’s current facility is located in Tahe County, Heilongjiang Province, near the Greater Khingan Range, in close proximity to its suppliers.
ref: 2022 January 31, “CN Energy’s Subsidiary Completes New Manufacturing Facility”, in AP News, archived from the original on 30 May 2022:
glosses: A mountain range in Manchuria, China.
Related terms: Outer Khingan
farm cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farm cats
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: barn cat
glosses: A domestic cat, usually of a mixed breed, that lives primarily outdoors, in a feral or semiferal state on agricultural properties and is expected to provide pest control by hunting rodents.
barn cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barn cats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of farm cat.
synonyms: word: farm cat
barn cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barn cat
farm cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farm cat
semi-feral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semiferal.
lambing season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambing seasons
Senses: glosses: The season in which a ewe gives birth to a lamb.
googie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: googies
Etymology: From Irish and Scottish Gaelic gugaí/gogaí/gogaidh, a nursery word for an egg.
Senses: examples: text: On one of the Northern lines there was a lane where a certain train stopped nearly every day for an old dame who was always waiting to send some eggs into town. One day the train stopped for Granny, as usual, and she explained to the driver that owing to circumstances over which she had no control she could raise eleven "googies" only on that occasion.
ref: 1890 April 12, The Nepean Times, Penrith, NSW, page 9, column 2:
glosses: An egg.
googies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of googie
glosses: plural of googy
sacks o' shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sack o' shit
gold over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: golds over
form: golding over
form: golded over
form: golded over
Senses: examples: text: “Are you goin' to have the letters golded over? " "Yes, cut deep and golded over.”
ref: 1896 August 8, Annie Eliot, “With a Difference”, in New Outlook, volume 54, page 252:
text: 'Fore we left Chicago, I and some of the fellas went out and bought a pair of them little baby shoes, which we had 'em golded over and give 'em to Magrew for a souvenir, and he took it all in good spirit.
ref: 1969, Veronica Geng, In a Fit of Laughter: An Anthology of Modern Humor, page 292:
text: Ben asked , "He's getting a tooth pulled?" “No, sir, no sir, getting another tooth golded over ... like mine."
ref: 1998, Will Cade, The Gallowsman, page 12:
glosses: To cover with gold; to gild.
golds over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gold over
golding over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gold over
golded over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gold over
U.S. America
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the U.S. America
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of United States of America.
Burgerland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From burger + -land, from the popularity of fast food in the country.
Senses: glosses: The United States of America.
Related terms: Eagleland
Gringoland
Yankeeland
Yankland
USAmerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more USAmerican
form: most USAmerican
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of U.S. American.
USAmerican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USAmericans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of U.S. American.
USAmericans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of USAmerican
US-Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of US-American
dayyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dayyanim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dayan.
Resh Galuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Aramaic [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: Yekum purkan is said every Sabbath but not on festivals occurring on weekdays because the ceremony of honoring the Raysh Galuta ("the Prince of the Exile") took place only on the Sabbath.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 374:
glosses: The exilarch of the Jews in Babylon.
Sefer Torah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sifrei Torah
form: Sepher Torah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה.
Senses: glosses: A scroll of the Torah, a handwritten parchment containing the Pentateuch
neuroqueer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjʊə.ɹəʊˈkwɪə/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʊ.ɹoʊˈkwɪɹ/
Forms: form: more neuroqueer
form: most neuroqueer
form: neuro-queer
Etymology: From neuro- + queer.
Senses: examples: text: Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.
ref: 2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, page 123:
text: Neuroqueer perspectives challenge typical understandings of identity categories through disidentification processes. A neuroqueer project not only questions typical conceptions of gender but also pivots away from normative gender categories altogether.
ref: 2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society, volume 33, number 1, page 124:
text: My conceptualization of neuroqueer technoscience is also strongly influenced by 3 my own experiences as a multiply neurodivergent queer femme.
ref: 2022, Jessica Sage Rauchberg, “Imagining a Neuroqueer Technoscience”, in Studies in Social Justice, volume 16, number 2, page 372:
glosses: Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.
neuroqueer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjʊə.ɹəʊˈkwɪə/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʊ.ɹoʊˈkwɪɹ/
Forms: form: neuroqueers
form: neuro-queer
Etymology: From neuro- + queer.
Senses: examples: text: Neuroqueer is a queer/crip response to normative discussions about gender, sexuality, and disability as pathology.
ref: 2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society, volume 33, number 1, page 124:
text: Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.
ref: 2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 188:
text: For a primer on the issue of neuroqueer and its roots in multiple discourse fields from queer aversion therapy to antiautistic hate speech, see Yergeau 2018.
ref: 2022, Peter Kuppers, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, unnumbered page:
synonyms: neuroqueerness
glosses: The state or quality of being neuroqueer.
examples: text: In this regard, the potential of a prosthetic, specialized environment is the always-now —any change could result in neuroqueers backsliding into neuroqueerity.
ref: 2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:
text: For those of us who inhabit the spaces between the cracks, the neuroqueers who wander outside a prescribed notion of “cognitive normalcy,” we know things are not that simple.
ref: 2019, Nadia Erlam, “Cognitive Dispossession: Ecofeminism, Entheogens, and Neuroqueering Drug Policy”, in Chiara Baldini, David Luke, Maria Papaspyrou, editors, Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing, unnumbered page:
text: We affirm that there is nomore important queer project than for neuroqueers, crips, and non-normates more generally to survive with an essential flourish (Peers, 2018) in the face of that which would render our most basic needs undesirable, untenable, unreasonable, or “special.”
ref: 2020, Lindsay Eales, Danielle Peers, “Care haunts, hurts, heals: The promiscuous poetics of queer crip Mad care”, in Journal of Lesbian Studies, volume 25, number 3:
glosses: One who belongs to the neuroqueer community.
neuroqueer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjʊə.ɹəʊˈkwɪə/
ipa: /ˈn(j)ʊ.ɹoʊˈkwɪɹ/
Forms: form: neuroqueers
form: neuroqueering
form: neuroqueered
form: neuroqueered
form: neuro-queer
Etymology: From neuro- + queer.
Senses: examples: text: I believe in the potentialities of autistic stories and gestures, of neuroqueering what we've come to understand as language and being.
ref: 2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:
text: King’s video neuroqueers the dominant popular cultural image of autistic people always having great powers of visual memory by showing a different version of this.
ref: 2018, Anna Reading, “Neurodiversity and Communication Ethics: How Images of Autism Trouble Communication Ethics in the Globital Age”, in Cultural Studies Review, volume 24, number 2, page 120:
text: Listening to autistic narratives reveals possibilities for neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory.
ref: 2021, Kristen L. Cole, “Neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory: listening to autistic object-orientations”, in Review of Communication, volume 21, number 3:
glosses: To make or become neuroqueer.
clamp-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamp-downs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clampdown.
clamp-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clamp-down
neuroqueerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuroqueer + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For Rekers and Lovaas, the etiologies of childhood gender variance or autism were insignificant, for they believed that modifying social conditions by means of behavioral control would mask any traces of neuroqueerness.
ref: 2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:
text: Neuroqueer(ness) represents an array of relationships between neurology and queerness including being both neurodivergent and queer, actively choosing to embody one’s neurodivergence, or queering ones cognitive processes (Walker, 2015).
ref: 2019, Robin Roscigno, “Neuroqueerness as Fugitive Practice: Reading Against the Grain of Applied Behavioral Analysis Scholarship”, in Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, volume 55, number 4, page 406:
text: Neuroqueerness unsettles deficit discourses of autism and dis/ability, which reduce the storying of varied individual experiences into a single clinical narrative.
ref: 2020, Monica C. Kleekamp, “'No! Turn the Pages!': Repositioning Neuroqueer Literacies”, in Journal of Literary Research, volume 52, number 2, page 115:
glosses: The state or quality of being neuroqueer.
Synonyms: neuroqueer
asweddumization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aswaddumization
form: asweddumisation
Etymology: From Sinhalese අස්වැද්දුම (aswædduma) + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Cumaratunga was so furious that he intensified his campaign for revitalizing the traditional practices of asweddumization, so that neglected arable land could be rehabilitated, and a degenerating economy restructured and rejuvenated.
ref: 1992, Alavattāgoḍa Pēmadāsa, Cumaratunga, the Unknown: Hidden Facets of His Scientific Profile, page 115:
glosses: The bringing of land under cultivation.
Jakov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Јаков (Jakov), equivalent to Jacob
Stojan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Стојан (Stojan)