cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anthroposophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænθɹəˈpɑsəfi/
ipa: /ˌænθɹəˈpɒsəfi/
Etymology: From anthropo- + -sophy, from Renaissance Latin anthroposophia (attested in Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, d. 1535, and Thomas Vaughan, d. 1666), popularized from the 1910s via German Anthroposophie (Rudolf Steiner, 1861–1925).
Senses: glosses: Knowledge or understanding of human nature.
raw_tags: as used before Rudolf Steiner
examples: text: Anthroposophy was having definite effects. I couldn't take any of this to heart. Other-worldliness tinged it all and every little while my spirit seemed to dissociate itself.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 223:
glosses: A philosophy founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner (also capitalized as Anthroposophy), postulating the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development.
Derived terms: anthroposophic
anthroposophist
hoard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɹd/
ipa: /hɔːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ho(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /hoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: horde
homophone: whored
Forms: form: hoards
Etymology: From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewdʰ- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”). For the meaning development compare Russian сокро́вище (sokróvišče, “treasure”) related to Russian скрыва́ть (skryvátʹ, “to hide, to conceal”).
Senses: examples: text: a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money
text: Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]
ref: 1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
text: Occasionally Scots and Irish coins are also found. The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.
ref: 1968, Seaby's coin and medal bulletin, numbers 593-604, page 198:
glosses: A hidden supply or fund.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
Derived terms: bookhoard
dishoard
gender hoard
goldhoard
hoard-bug
hoardful
hoard-house
hoardsome
hoard-ward
larderhoard
ring-hoard
scatterhoard
unhoard
word-hoard
hoard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɹd/
ipa: /hɔːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ho(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /hoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: horde
homophone: whored
Forms: form: hoards
form: hoarding
form: hoarded
form: hoarded
Etymology: From Middle English horden, from Old English hordian, from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀdōn.
Senses: examples: text: The days have vanish’d, tone and tint,
⁠And yet perhaps the hoarding sense
⁠Gives out at times (he knows not whence)
A little flash, a mystic hint; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 66:
text: Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]
ref: 1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
text: When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
ref: 1914, Margaret Bird Steinmetz, Leaves of Life:
glosses: To amass, usually for one's own private collection.
glosses: To save or reserve in one's mind for a future need or use.
Synonyms: engross
uphoard
amass
Derived terms: hoarder
hoard out
hoard up
Related terms: hoarder
hoardy
hoard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɹd/
ipa: /hɔːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ho(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /hoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: horde
homophone: whored
Forms: form: hoards
Etymology: From Middle English hord, whorde, from Anglo-Norman hurde and Old French hourd, hourt (“barrier, palisade”), from Middle Dutch horde, from Old Dutch *hurd, from Proto-West Germanic *hurdi (“wickerwork, braiding of branches, hurdle, scaffolding, military company”).
Senses: glosses: A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
examples: text: Eventually, the wooden hoards gave way to similar stone constructions called bretèches. These served exactly the same purpose as the hoard, sometimes being built over the same corbel brackets that had once supported hoards[…]
ref: 1993, Christopher C. Henige, Church Fortification in the Périgord:
glosses: A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
glosses: A hoarding (billboard).
Derived terms: hoard house
hoard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɹd/
ipa: /hɔːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ho(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /hoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: horde
homophone: whored
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of horde.
Related terms: horde
landlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlænd.lɔːd/
ipa: /ˈlæn(d).lɔɹd/
Forms: form: landlords
Etymology: From Middle English londlord, landlorde, from Old English landhlāford, equivalent to land + lord. Cognate with Scots landlaird, Middle Low German lantlord (“homeowner, landlord”).
Senses: examples: text: Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie,
Then to haue this difference in degrees:
The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees.
So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
synonyms: word: lessor
word: lease provider
word: leaser
antonyms: tenant
lessee
glosses: A person that leases real property; a lessor.
examples: text: When asked to explain why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar windows.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102:
glosses: The owner or manager of a public house.
examples: text: the lurking presence of “The Landlord”
ref: 2004, Drew Kampion, publisher's blurb for, Stories from the Surf – The Lost Coast:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
Synonyms: sense: person who rents something
word: lessor
sense: owner or manager of a public house
word: publican
Derived terms: head landlord
landchad
landlording
landlordish
landlordism
landlordless
landlordly
landlordry
landlordship
landlord special
nonlandlord
Randlord
slumlord
social landlord
sub-landlord
superior landlord
Related terms: landlady
lessor
rentier
Rachmanism
tenant
caudex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kôʹdĕks
ipa: /ˈkɔːdɛks/
Forms: form: caudices
form: caudexes
Etymology: From Latin caudex (“tree trunk”, “tree stem”); compare codex.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water.
Related terms: caudicle
codex
chorion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹiɑn/
Forms: form: chorions
form: choria
Etymology: From Late Latin chorion, from Ancient Greek χόριον (khórion, “membrane surrounding the fetus, afterbirth”).
Senses: examples: text: 2002, Rovert E. A. Stewart, Barbara E. Stewart, Female Reproductive Systems, entry in Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, page 425,
The allantois fuses with the chorion, forming a small round area, the allentochorion. This region becomes the placenta (Fig. 3).
text: In this illustration, some license is taken, since the amnion is shown as still separate from the chorion; this is done to illustrate the process of apposition of the amniotic sac to the chorion and to accentuate the interposition of the yolk sac between the amnion and the chorion.
ref: 2006, Ona Marie Faye-Petersen, Debra S. Heller, Vijay V. Joshi, Handbook Of Placental Pathology, page 4:
text: The amnion and chorion begin to develop soon after fertilization and continue to grow until about 28 weeks′ gestation.
ref: 2007, Susan Tucker Blackburn, Maternal, Fetal, & Neonatal Physiology: A Clinical Perspective, page 106:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The protective and nutritive membrane in higher vertebrates that attaches the fetus to the uterus.
examples: text: The chorion has a predominantly lamellar structure, the lamellae being two-dimensional networks of protein fibrils.
ref: 1994, Klaus Urich, Comparative Animal Biochemistry, page 392:
text: Even closely related species may have chorions differing in thickness. In the silkmoths, for example, the chorion of Bombyx is about 25 μm thick while that of Hyalophora is 55 μm thick.
ref: 1998, R. F. Chapman, The Insects: Structure and Function, page 326:
text: 2008, John L. Capinera, Eggs of Insects, entry in John L. Capinera (editor), Encyclopedia of Entomology, page 1290,
In addition to facilitating gas exchange and water conservation, the chorion must, in some cases, allow uptake of water or liquid nutrients from the environment.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer case of an insect egg.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
Coordinate terms: amnion
amnio-
placenta
placento-
Derived terms: word: amniochorion
word: chorial
english: and derivatives therefrom
translation: and derivatives therefrom
word: chorio-
word: chorion frondosum
word: chorionic
word: chorionitis
word: chorion laeve
word: dechorionated
word: dechorionicated
word: dichorion
word: dichorionic
word: endochorion
word: exochorion
word: extrachorion
word: monochorionic
word: monochorionic twin
word: phytochorion
word: subchorionic
lagom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish lagom (“just right”).
Senses: examples: text: Lagom seems to be fighting a losing battle against a world run by the instant gratification of social media, where we all want to be seen and be heard.
ref: 2017, Lola A. Åkerström, Lagom: The Swedish Secret of Living Well, page 178:
text: The typical Scandinavian home is the very essence of lagom. It's neither too sparse nor too fussy, neither overly minimalist nor overdone.
ref: 2017, Niki Brantmark, Lagom (Not Too Little, Not Too Much): The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life, unnumbered page:
text: Not surprisingly, lagom extends to our cuisine as well – the Swedes take great pride in eating healthily, drawing on their own cooking traditions and the seasons' offerings.
ref: 2017, Steffi Knowles-Dellner, Lagom: The Swedish Art of Eating Harmoniously, unnumbered page:
glosses: The philosophy or ethos of trying to achieve balance in one's life.
Related terms: hygge
corticate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin corticatus.
Senses: antonyms: ecorticate
glosses: sheathed in bark or in a cortex
corticate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corticates
Etymology: From Latin corticatus.
Senses: synonyms: bikont
glosses: Any of the common ancestors of Plantae and Chromista (or chromalveolates or other grouping of similar organisms).
Related terms: decorticate
overdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)dɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈdɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: overdoors
Etymology: From over- + door.
Senses: glosses: A decoration, usually a painting, that is placed above a doorway.
overdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)dɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈdɔː(ɹ)/
Etymology: From over- + door.
Senses: examples: text: an overdoor lamp unit
glosses: Located above a door.
convenor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convenors
Etymology: From convene + -or.
Senses: examples: text: With nearly 40 people, the team is getting too large to meet in anyone's apartment for support meetings. With difficulty we break into smaller groups meeting on different nights. Later called "pods," these groups of eight to ten people are facilitated by two convenors.
ref: 1988 February 7, Marea Murray, “Battles Joined: Oddysey of a Lesbian AIDS Activist”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 9:
glosses: One who assembles people for an official or public purpose.
glosses: A lecturer who takes on the mantle of managing a specific course.
Derived terms: convenorship
corbelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corbelled
form: most corbelled
Etymology: From corbel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having corbels.
pyrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyrotic
form: most pyrotic
Senses: glosses: Caustic.
glosses: of, or having to do with heartburn.
pyrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrotics
Senses: glosses: A caustic substance or remedy.
karst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: käst
ipa: /kɑːst/
enpr: kärst
ipa: /kɑɹst/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)st
homophone: cast
homophone: caste (non-rhotic, trap–bath split)
Forms: form: karsts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Karst. The German term and the Slovene placename Kras (the Karst Plateau) are from Proto-Slavic *korsъ, from Italo-Dalmatian carsus (cf. Italian carso), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“hard; rock”). More at Karst.
The metathesis in the Slovene term precludes German borrowing from Slovene.
Senses: examples: text: In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming.
ref: 1978, M. M. Sweeting, “The Karst of Kweilin, Southern China”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 144, number 2, page 200:
text: The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed.
ref: 2009 May 29, “Katherine Harmon”, in Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008^([ScientificAmerican.com]):
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
wikipedia: Karst Plateau (Italy-Slovenia)
Derived terms: endokarst
epikarst
exokarst
glaciokarst
karstic
karstification
karstify
karstology
karst spring
palaeokarst
paleokarst
phytokarst
pseudokarst
thermokarst
shabrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃəˈbɹæk/
Forms: form: shabracks
form: shabraque
Etymology: From Turkish çaprak, Ottoman Turkish چاپراق.
Senses: examples: text: Oudet and Papilette, two of the best sub-officers in the regiment, were at their head. When I had them formed up in fours, all in silver grey and upon chestnut horses, with their leopard skin shabracks and their little red panaches, my heart beat high at the sight.
ref: 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard:
glosses: The saddlecloth of a cavalry horse.
WCG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌdʌbəljuːˌsiːˈd͡ʒiː/
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of wide color gamut.
glosses: World Cyber Games
glosses: Worldwide Church of God
malefic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛfɪk/
Forms: form: more malefic
form: most malefic
Etymology: From Latin maleficus.
Senses: examples: text: Wormwood [...] was associated with the rites of St. John's Eve, when a crown of the plant was made from its sprays for apotropaic purposes, to ward of malefic spirits.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 1:
text: I would have liked to know whether he thought this was due to the climate, the diet, or simply malefic djinns.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 96:
synonyms: word: evil
word: maleficent
word: malevolent
word: abandoned
word: arrant
word: bad
word: bad apple
word: bad seed
word: baleful
word: baneful
word: base
word: dark
word: deleterious
word: depraved
word: despicable
word: detrimental
word: devilish
word: diabolical
word: evil
word: flagitious
word: harmful
word: ill-intentioned
word: ill-natured
word: immoral
word: incorrigible
word: iniquitous
word: iniquous
word: injurious
word: knavish
word: malefic
word: maleficent
word: malevolent
word: malicious
word: malign
word: malignant
word: nefarious
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: niding
word: nithing
word: no-good
word: peccaminous
word: pernicious
word: reprehensible
word: reprobate
word: satanic
word: scathful
word: sinful
word: sinister
word: sordid
word: sullen
word: ungodly
word: unholy
word: vicious
word: vile
word: villainous
word: wicked
word: wrong
glosses: Having an evil or harmful influence; baleful.
Derived terms: malefically
malefic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛfɪk/
Forms: form: malefics
Etymology: From Latin maleficus.
Senses: examples: text: In the previous condition of overcoming, it was notable that while the malefics could only maltreat by overcoming through a superior sign-based square, the benefics could bonify by overcoming through a superior square or trine.
ref: 2017, Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune, page 471:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: benefic
glosses: A malefic planet.
grot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑt/
ipa: /ɡɹɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: grots
Etymology: From grotto, by shortening, or French grotte.
Senses: examples: text: She took me to her elfin grot, / And there she wept, and sigh'd full sore, / And there I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four.
ref: 1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci:
glosses: A grotto.
grot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑt/
ipa: /ɡɹɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: grots
Etymology: Back-formation from grotty.
Senses: glosses: Any unpleasant substance or material.
glosses: A miserable person.
Derived terms: grotbag
grotsky
grotto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɒt.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɑ.toʊ/
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: grottos
form: grottoes
Etymology: From Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin grupta, from Classical Latin crypta. Doublet of crypt.
The Philippine sense is from the holy cave in Lourdes, France.
Senses: glosses: A small cave.
examples: text: ...But, while we are waiting for the temple, can you not show us the altar?—we want to see your grotto."
Pope desired nothing better than to show his new toy, and led the way to the pretty and fanciful cave, which was but just finished.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Pope’s Villa”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: An artificial cavern-like retreat.
glosses: A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
examples: text: An earlier attempt to organize a grotto in the Indiana, PA, area in the mid-1970s failed to succeed, but from it developed the informal Chestnut Ridge Explorers Association.
ref: 1987, National Speleological Society, NSS News, volumes 45-46, page 331:
text: By the mid-1940s members of local grottos (regional clubs of cavers within the National Speleological Society) were exploring Porcupine Cave (Bloch, 1946).
ref: 2004, Anthony D. Barnosky, Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene: The Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado:
text: The answer to the question, “Are there any caves in Arizona?” was always the laconic “None to speak of,” with emphasis on the “to speak of.” This secrecy dovetailed with the cave conservation ethic promoted by the local caving grotto.
ref: 2008, Neil Miller, Kartchner Caverns: How Two Cavers Discovered and Saved One of the Wonders of the Natural World:
glosses: A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
glosses: A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.
glosses: A garden or roadside shrine with a small cave containing a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (usually Our Lady of Lourdes and sometimes paired with a water feature)
Derived terms: grot
grottoed
grottolike
grottowork
Santa's grotto
ICBW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I could be wrong.
bulla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”). Doublet of bill and bull (“papal bull; bubble”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
(usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.
coordinate_terms: vesicle
vesicula
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
glosses: In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
glosses: Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
examples: text: auditory bulla;   ethmoid bulla
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several hollow structures as features of bones.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several hollow structures as features of bones.
The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance).
Derived terms: bullectomy
Related terms: bullous
bulla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullas
Senses: glosses: A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.
Spansule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spansules
Etymology: Blend of span + capsule, originally a proprietary name.
Senses: examples: 1971: Huge white spansules. I went into the men's room to eat mine. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005, p. 66)
Dexedrine Spansule, a long-acting formulation of dextroamphetamine sulfate most commonly used to treat ADHD
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A capsule designed to release drugs at a steady rate over a period of hours; a sustained-release capsule.
intravascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to anything inside blood vessels, including the internal surface of veins and arteries.
Derived terms: disseminated intravascular coagulation
intravascularly
schroff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹɒf/
rhymes: -ɒf
Forms: form: schroffs
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian صراف (sarâf) or Urdu صراف (sarrāf), from Arabic صَرَّاف (ṣarrāf).
Senses: glosses: A banker or moneychanger.
examples: text: Pay your bill at the schroff.
glosses: Alternative form of shroff: A cashier's office or booth.
protogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an early or original race or lineage; primitive.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to crystalline or fire-formed rocks.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to intercellular spaces formed within undifferentiated plant tissues.
gigajoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːl
Forms: form: gigajoules
form: giga-joule
Etymology: From giga- + joule.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of energy equal to 10⁹ joules. Symbol: GJ
Ukraina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We call upon the workers throughout the world to insist that the people of Ukraina, Finland and the Russian border provinces, now under the heel of junkerdom, must receive freedom and self-determination.
ref: 1918 July 2, New York State Socialist party, Chicago Daily News, Chicago, Ill., →OCLC; quoted in Philip S[heldon] Foner, “NY State SP Endorses Soviets”, in The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Impact on American Radicals, Liberlals, and Labor: A Documentary Study, New York, N.Y.: International Publishers, 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, “The First Year: November 1917 to November 1918” section, page 110:
text: Ukrainian proper, the “Ukrainian dialect of the Ukrainian language,” is spoken in the outer forest fringe and in the parkland from the environs of Lvov (Lemberg) to the eastern limits of Ukraina and in all places colonised by natives of this belt. A line drawn from Kiev to Lvov may be regarded as the central axis of this dialect before its steppeward expansion. It coincides with the political and cultural axis of medieval (13-16th centuries) Ukraina.
ref: 1931, D[mitry] S[vyatopolk-]Mirsky, “The Two West Russian Nations”, in Russia: A Social History, London: The Cresset Press, published 1942 (2nd impression), →OCLC, chapter III (White Russia and Ukraina (XIIIth-XVIIIth Centuries)), page 63:
text: The soil covering of Ukraina presents in general a great variety, comprising the podzoline soils on one hand, and a series of sub-types of chernozyoms, up-to^([sic]) the southern and chestnut ones on the other. This variety of soils in Ukraina depends upon many factors; […]
ref: 1931, Contributions of the Ukrainian Institute for Soil Research, volume 3, Kharkiv, →OCLC, page 39:
text: I read him part of my story, about leaving our beautiful Home—Ukraina—next to Kharkov in Minutka.
ref: 2005 May 29, Nadia Olijnyk, diary; quoted in Paul Longley Arthur, “Memories without Place”, in Paul Longley Arthur, editor, International Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Global Context, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y., 2013, →DOI, →ISBN, chapter 9 (Unearthing the Past: Dwikozy Revisited):
glosses: Rare form of Ukraine.
ef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
Forms: form: efs
form: eff
Senses: examples: text: I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
ref: 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
Derived terms: english: probably
translation: probably
word: efavirenz
word: eff
ef
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
Forms: form: eff
Senses: examples: text: Captain Tom would have hired him to hunt down his own child, ef Rosebud hadn’t interfered.
ref: 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of if, representing dialectal English.
titter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈtɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: titters
form: tittering
form: tittered
form: tittered
Etymology: First attested in the 1610s. Probably from Middle English *titeren, *titren (attested in Middle English titering (“hesitation, vacillation”)), probably a frequentative of Middle English titten (“to waver”), related to Old Norse titra (“to shake, shiver, quiver”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to snicker”).
Senses: examples: text: 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn Part First: The Sicilian's Tale - King Robert of Sicily
A group of tittering pages ran before.
text: "Thou coxy, cackling candle!" said Catweazle. "Why dost thou titter?"
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 70:
text: Nor had the joke been a vulgar one: it was the kind of elegant pleasantry that the minister of foreign affairs might have told the crown prince at a garden party a generation ago, causing the surrounding listeners to titter with delight.
ref: 1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 363:
glosses: To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.
glosses: To teeter; to seesaw.
Synonyms: snicker
laugh
Derived terms: teeter
tittersome
titter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈtɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: titters
Etymology: First attested in the 1610s. Probably from Middle English *titeren, *titren (attested in Middle English titering (“hesitation, vacillation”)), probably a frequentative of Middle English titten (“to waver”), related to Old Norse titra (“to shake, shiver, quiver”), dialectal Swedish tittra (“to snicker”).
Senses: examples: April 21, 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
There was a titter of […] delight on his countenance.
glosses: A nervous or somewhat repressed giggle.
Derived terms: titter-totter
titter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈtɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: titters
Etymology: Probably related to tit and titty.
Senses: examples: text: Flesh Gordon 2 - I remember that this one was chock full of big titters. Many of them looked like the natural variety, as well.
ref: 1995 February 21, Agent_69 [username], “big breast video list”, in alt.sex.breast (Usenet):
text: there was an old lady from raleigh
who was so doggone nasty by golly
just squeezin her titters
you'd pick up some critters
and bathe twice in one month for your folly
ref: 1999 March 13, MrMalo [username], “Re: State Capitals”, in alt.jokes.limericks (Usenet):
text: “The poor dear, even her titters are weighted down with melancholy,” Pearle said to Mable.
“I don't know what you're talking about. Her titters look perky enough to me,” Mable replied.
ref: 2013, Dorothy St. James, Oak and Dagger, Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN:
glosses: A woman's breast.
micromanage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: micromanages
form: micromanaging
form: micromanaged
form: micromanaged
Etymology: Back-formation from micromanagement, equivalent to micro- + manage.
Senses: examples: text: The employees complained that their boss was micromanaging when she insisted that they account for their time in fifteen-minute intervals.
text: As GBR is intended to operate at arm's length from government while also being responsible for implementing a 30-year strategy, it is hoped that the industry will be less micro-managed by ministers and officials at both the DfT and within the Treasury.
ref: 2022 November 30, Cara Murphy, “A new mindset for GBR”, in RAIL, number 971, page 44:
glosses: To manage, direct, or control a person, group, or system to an unnecessary level of detail or precision.
godforsaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɒd.fə(ɹ)ˈseɪ.kɪn/
Forms: form: more godforsaken
form: most godforsaken
form: god-forsaken
form: god forsaken
form: Godforsaken
form: God-forsaken
Etymology: From god + forsaken.
Senses: glosses: Abandoned by a deity or god.
examples: text: I wanted nothing more than to get out of that godforsaken place without delay.
synonyms: miserable
terrible
glosses: Desolate, boring and depressing.
raw_tags: of a location
Derived terms: godforsakenly
godforsakenness
wind up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪnd ˈʌp/
Forms: form: wind ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wind-up.
twisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twist
twisting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪstɪŋ/
Forms: form: twistings
Senses: examples: text: She was oblivious of all around her, and her facial twistings and scrunchings were droll.
ref: 1984, Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School:
text: Tracing Emerson’s famous twistings and turnings, Mr. Poirier argued that even when he seemed most complacent […] Emerson cannot be taken at face value.
ref: 2009 August 23, Alexander Star, “Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading”, in New York Times:
text: Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.
ref: 2021 July 14, “Network News: Network Rail engineers raise Machynlleth bridge”, in RAIL, number 935, page 27:
glosses: gerund of twist
examples: text: Twisting benefits an insurance agent while damaging the customer. The agent benefits because the commission earned on the sale of a new health insurance policy is substantially higher than that earned on the renewal of an existing policy.
ref: 1985, The Federal Reporter (second series, volume 756, page 219)
glosses: The disreputable practice of selling unnecessary insurance to a customer in order to earn commission.
Derived terms: arm-twisting
twisting balloon
twisting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪstɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.
glosses: Having many twists
Derived terms: twistingly
ADW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of assault with a deadly weapon.
glosses: Initialism of advance-deposit wagering.
B&E
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of breaking and entering; burglary in general.
DL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DLs
form: D.L.
form: D. L.
form: dl
form: d/l
form: D/L
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: UL
glosses: Initialism of download.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of light destroyer, a variant of the destroyer type of warship.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of destroyer leader, a variant of the destroyer type of warship.
glosses: Initialism of driver's license.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of disabled list.
glosses: Initialism of down low.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Initialism of distribution list.
glosses: Initialism of diaper lover.
examples: text: Before Transformer models, the attention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs.
ref: 2021, Savas Yildirim, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, Mastering Transformers […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 26:
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of deep learning.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
coordinate_terms: NL
glosses: Initialism of day letter.
DL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: D.L.
form: D. L.
form: dl
form: d/l
form: D/L
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Delhi: a union territory of India.
DL
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: DLs
form: DLing
form: DLed
form: DLed
form: DL'd
form: DL'd
form: D.L.
form: D. L.
form: dl
form: d/l
form: D/L
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: UL
glosses: Initialism of download.
examples: text: After 7 years of being in a rot league, I have learned that "day to day" in baseballese means "at least a week, maybe more, and maybe after the week, then we may DL him."
ref: 1996 June 3, Joe in MA [username], “Re: Jim Edmonds' return date?”, in rec.sport.baseball.fantasy (Usenet):
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To place on the disabled list.
DT's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: delirium tremens, symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.
glosses: dick togs, the style of men's swimwear.http://www.anu.edu.au/ANDC/pubs/ozwords/October_2003/speedos.html
delirium tremens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dēlīrium tremēns (literally “trembling madness”), coined by Thomas Sutton in 1813.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: DT
word: phrenitis
glosses: A psychosis of chronic alcoholism, usually due to alcohol withdrawal, which can be fatal. Symptoms include sweating, tremors, terrifying hallucinations, insomnia, restlessness, disorientation and anxiety.
4F
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4Fs
form: 4-F
Etymology: From the Selective Service Classification code.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: 4Fer
glosses: A military draftee rejected for being physically unfit.
HUAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: HCUA
Senses: glosses: Acronym of House Un-American Activities Committee.
buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌd.i/
ipa: /ˈbʌd.i/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾ.i]
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: buddies
Etymology: First appears c. 1788, in the writings of Charles Dibdin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from *bruddy, *bruthy, a child-talk alteration of brother. Alternatively, perhaps from British colloquial butty (“companion”), also the form of an older dialect term meaning workmate, associated with coal mining. Itself believed derived from 1530 as booty fellow, a partner with whom one shares booty or loot. Alternatively, compare Scots buddo, bodda (“buddy, kiddo, dear”), related to Icelandic budda (“purse"; also "short, stout person”).
Senses: examples: text: They have been buddies since they were in school.
text: He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 23:
synonyms: word: bud
word: mate
word: babber
word: billy
word: bredrin
word: bruv
word: bud
word: buddo
word: buddy
word: butty
word: chaver
word: china
word: chuck
word: chum
word: cock
word: cocker
word: cobber
word: compadre
word: comrade
word: companion
word: cove
word: crony
word: dawg
word: dude
word: duck
word: fam
word: fettler
word: friend
word: geez
word: geezer
word: gink
word: good old boy
word: homeskillet
word: homie
word: kith
word: lover
word: marrow
word: mate
word: matey
word: mucker
word: old bean
word: pal
word: pardner
word: peeps
word: shag
word: sport
word: surry
word: tovarish
word: wantok
glosses: A friend or casual acquaintance.
examples: text: drinking buddies
text: training buddies [mentor/mentee]
synonyms: companion
partner
glosses: A partner for a particular activity.
examples: text: Hey, buddy, I think you dropped this.
synonyms: mate
fellow
glosses: An informal and friendly address to a stranger, usually male; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.
buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌd.i/
ipa: /ˈbʌd.i/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾ.i]
rhymes: -ʌdi
Etymology: First appears c. 1788, in the writings of Charles Dibdin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from *bruddy, *bruthy, a child-talk alteration of brother. Alternatively, perhaps from British colloquial butty (“companion”), also the form of an older dialect term meaning workmate, associated with coal mining. Itself believed derived from 1530 as booty fellow, a partner with whom one shares booty or loot. Alternatively, compare Scots buddo, bodda (“buddy, kiddo, dear”), related to Icelandic budda (“purse"; also "short, stout person”).
Senses: examples: text: I found some earphones in the pocket, buddy must have been pissed.
text: Buddy's loaded. 'Got like three houses.
qualifier: Maritime English
glosses: A person far removed from the conversation.
Derived terms: accountability buddy
asshole buddy
battle buddy
birthday buddy
blow buddy
blow-buddy
blowbuddy
bosom buddy
bud
buddy bench
buddy block
buddy booth
buddy boy
buddy breathe
buddy-buddy
buddy cop
buddy film
buddyhood
buddyish
buddy list
buddy memory allocation
buddy movie
buddyness
buddy pack
buddy parent
buddy parenting
buddy pod
buddy punching
Buddyroll
buddyroo
buddyslash
buddy store
buddy system
buddy taping
buddy up
buddy wrapping
bus buddy
buttbuddy
butt buddy
cuddle buddy
cut buddy
cyberbuddy
double buddy
e-buddy
fuck buddy
quit buddy
study buddy
trollbuddy
buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌd.i/
ipa: /ˈbʌd.i/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾ.i]
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: buddies
form: buddying
form: buddied
form: buddied
Etymology: First appears c. 1788, in the writings of Charles Dibdin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from *bruddy, *bruthy, a child-talk alteration of brother. Alternatively, perhaps from British colloquial butty (“companion”), also the form of an older dialect term meaning workmate, associated with coal mining. Itself believed derived from 1530 as booty fellow, a partner with whom one shares booty or loot. Alternatively, compare Scots buddo, bodda (“buddy, kiddo, dear”), related to Icelandic budda (“purse"; also "short, stout person”).
Senses: examples: text: If you are being formally buddied, have a good chat with your buddy and find out their interests -- these should more or less match your own.
ref: 2007, Philip Briggs, Danny Edmunds, Mozambique: The Bradt Travel Guide, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: To assign a buddy, or partner, to.
Derived terms: buddy-up
buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌd.i/
ipa: /ˈbʌd.i/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾ.i]
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: more buddy
form: most buddy
Etymology: From Middle English buddy, buddi, equivalent to bud + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the dwarfer varieties are full of buddy growths in the early stages and these must be cut down and thrown away.
ref: 1963, John Herbert Goddard, Chrysanthemum Growers' Treasury, page 18:
glosses: Resembling a bud.
IAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IADs
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: internal affairs department
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: intelligent assist device
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Internet addiction disorder.
glosses: Initialism of incontinence-associated dermatitis.
IAD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Dyslexia Association.
Synonyms: IA
IAB
coroner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒ.ɹə.nə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.ə.nɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.ə.nɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɹaʊnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒɹənə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coroners
Etymology: From Middle English coroner, from Old French curuner, from Medieval Latin custōs placitōrum corōnae (“guardian of the crown's pleas”). The function was originally to protect royal properties.
Senses: examples: text: The coroner confirmed the cause of death.
topics: law
glosses: A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths, and who may have (or historically had) additional powers such as investigating cases of treasure trove.
examples: text: A report from the coroner was presented in court.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: The administrative head of a sheading.
Synonyms: sense: medical doctor
word: autopsist
sense: medical doctor
word: autopsier
Hyponyms: sense: who presides over an inquest
word: medical examiner
sense: who presides over an inquest
english: if he or she performs autopsies
translation: if he or she performs autopsies
word: ME
Derived terms: coronership
Related terms: coronial
NMI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: NMIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of non-maskable interrupt.
NMI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no middle initial.
187
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after section 187 of the California Penal Code, which defines the offense of murder.
Senses: glosses: Police code for murder, in the State of California.
examples: text: A code one-eight-seven on Jefferson one-four-eight-nine. Corner store—7-Eleven." A 187 was a homicide, Jefferson, the other side of town. ...
ref: 1992, Ian Slater, WW III: Warshot, page 148:
text: […] and Snoop Dogg blatantly rapped about doing "187 on an undercover cop" on [….]
ref: 2003, Mark Anthony Neal, Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation, page 164:
text: Paco came across a wall that, in the large block letters of local Hispanic gang graffiti, spelled out “187 Domingo.” This was the ultimate threat for Paco [….]
ref: 2004, Malcolm W. Klein, Gang Cop: The Words and Ways of Officer Paco Domingo, page 131:
text: Perp at this address is a possible One-eight-seven P. Request a unit respond Code Three." The RTO came back immediately and put out the call division-wide.
ref: 2004, Stephen J. Cannell, Vertical Coffin, page 256:
text: Respond to a one-eight-seven at nine-eight-six Cove Road North," the dispatcher continued in her heavy southern drawl. "10-4... En route.[….]
ref: 2004, Cash Pawley, Pray for Death, page 21:
glosses: Murder.
buddy system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddy systems
Senses: examples: text: Use the buddy system so that you can look after each other on the trip.
glosses: The practice of working or travelling together with at least one other person, especially when undertaking something potentially risky or hazardous.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of buddy memory allocation.
SRO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I know I'm the best there is
 But all they want is a show
 Well, that's all right, I'll be glad to oblige
 S.R.O., S.R.O.
ref: 1984, “Merano”, Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus (lyrics), Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (music), performed by Murray Head, Ambrosian Singers, and the London Symphony Orchestra:
text: What a pro!
 Herc could stop a show
 Point him at a monster and you're talking S.R.O.
ref: 1997, “Zero to Hero”, David Zippel (lyrics), Alan Menken (music), performed by Lillias White, Cheryl Freeman, LaChanze, Roz Ryan, Vaneese Thomas, and Tawatha Agee:
glosses: Initialism of standing room only.
SRO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SROs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of senior-ranking officer.
glosses: Initialism of school resource officer.
examples: text: Freddie gave him the address of an SRO way uptown on 171st Street, room 306.
ref: 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 222:
glosses: Initialism of single-room occupancy.
glosses: Initialism of solid roundish object.
YA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Initialism of young adult
glosses: Initialism of youth authority.
in the running
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Even if I were looking for a boyfriend, I don't think he would be in the running.
glosses: Of a candidate: potential or likely; worthy of consideration.
examples: text: My favourite singer wasn't eliminated, so she's still in the running!
glosses: Of a competitor or contestant: still eligible and able to win.
Related terms: word: in with a shout
zorched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zorched
form: most zorched
Senses: glosses: Intoxicated.
Synonyms: drunk
stoned