cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ur-science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ur-sciences
Etymology: From ur- (“primitive, original”) + science.
Senses: examples: text: It would be natural to suppose that it is classical logic (or some near thing) that lays rightful claim on the status of this ur-science.
ref: 2009, Shahid Rahman, John Symons, Dov M. Gabbay, Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science - Volume 1 - Page 256:
text: The second key distinction is between praxeology and history, which Mises considers the two ur-sciences of human action (Mises [1949] 1996, 30–32); praxeology studies the theoretical and necessary characteristics of action, while history studies its contingent characteristics and manifestations.
ref: 2015, Peter J. Boettke, Christopher J. Coyne, The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics - Page 19:
glosses: Early, original, or foundational science
Synonyms: proto-science
ur-sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ur-science
proto-science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proto-sciences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protoscience.
inceptual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inceptual
form: most inceptual
Etymology: From inception + -ual, modelled after conceptual.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a beginning, creation, or inception; early; first
Related terms: incept
proto-sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proto-science
idiotese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idiot + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: He understood the workings of an idiot's mind and broke down scientific principles in idiotese.
ref: 2002, Cris Burks, SilkyDreamGirl: A Novel:
text: When he spoke, his voice was its usual slurred nonsensical sound. What Stony's mother—not my mother, not anymore, he reminded himself—had called “Village Idiotese.”
ref: 2012, Douglas Clegg, The Halloween Man:
glosses: A form of language simplified to the point where even an idiot can understand it.
vendoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vendor
vendored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vendor
subjunctivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subjunctivizes
form: subjunctivizing
form: subjunctivized
form: subjunctivized
Etymology: From subjunctive + -ize.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To convert to a subjunctive form.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: To treat or discuss in a hypothetical way, as something that could conceivably be the case.
Related terms: subjunctivization
subjunctivized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subjunctivize
subjunctivizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subjunctivize
subjunctivizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subjunctivize
subjunctivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From subjunctive + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of subjunctivizing.
jiang hu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: jianghu
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 江湖 (jiānghú).
Senses: glosses: the subculture of the martial arts community
qualifier: crime fiction
glosses: the subculture of the criminal underworld
Coordinate terms: gangho
gang ho
murim
salad shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salad shooters
Senses: examples: text: Grate 1 carrot or I zucchini in a salad shooter or blender and turn out into the bowl.
ref: 1994, Linda G. Rector-Page, Party Lights: Healthy Party Foods & Earthwise Entertaining, page 154:
text: In every department store you see newlyweds, their honeymoon tans fading, returning sorbet makers and salad shooters, toasters and tea kettles.
ref: 1994 September 24, Cincinnati Magazine, page 38:
text: There is the salad shooter, and for one second McDonald's tried selling cups—yes, cups—of salad: "It's salad you can eat while driving!"
ref: 2014, Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An electric kitchen appliance that is used to slice and shred vegetables in order to shoot or drop out the pieces into a salad bowl.
Hypernyms: salad maker
food processor
electric slicer
punditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punditic
form: most punditic
Etymology: From pundit + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: However, their teachings and wisdom will live on through me and countless others who have also been impacted by their didactical punditic views.
ref: 2013, Clifton Edwards Jr., Jealousy Is Crueler Than The Grave: Helping People, Who've Been Victimized ...:
glosses: Of, or related to a pundit.
Synonyms: punditical
Derived terms: punditically
punditical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punditical
form: most punditical
Etymology: From pundit + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of punditic.
synonyms: word: punditic
punditically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more punditically
form: most punditically
Etymology: From punditic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: But if, indeed, he indulges in half-truths they are often more persuading than most of what his fellow-dramatists punditically offer as truths of fuller blossom.
ref: 1950, George Jean Nathan, The Theatre Book of the Year:
glosses: In a punditic manner.
nooseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nooseless
form: most nooseless
Etymology: From noose + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a noose.
cost-conscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cost-conscious
form: most cost-conscious
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Osborn told the Railway Students, "that the running of the railways is a business. All levels of management and staff must become more cost-conscious and the pursuit of profitability must loom larger in decision-making."
ref: 1962 April, “Talking of Trains: Short-sighted approach to profits?”, in Modern Railways, page 219:
glosses: That has an awareness of costs; that is careful about spending.
raw_tags: of a person
KKB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tagalog KKB, initialism of kani-kaniyang bayad (“going Dutch”, adjective, literally “to each their own payment”).
Senses: glosses: shared or split cost (usually for meals together with people, where each one pays their own cost)
KKB
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Tagalog KKB, initialism of kani-kaniyang bayad (“going Dutch”, adjective, literally “to each their own payment”).
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the cost (e.g. of a meal) together with people is to be shared or split.
windwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more windwards
form: most windwards
Etymology: From wind + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: The sequence of the manoeuvre is the followingː Head up to close-hauled, cleat the jib, shoot up head to wind to slow down, bear away with jib backed, release mainsheet, steer windwards delicately til the boat settles down.
ref: 2015, Alexander Meyer, Learn to Sail with Captain Sailnator:
glosses: Alternative form of windward.
tenth-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛnθ ɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more tenth-rate
form: most tenth-rate
Senses: examples: text: I started off by saying that this is such a tenth-rate film that I don't believe that it would disturb anybody's faith.
ref: 1979, Malcolm Muggeridge, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, BBC2
text: If there was a saying that said 'the devil has all the tunes that sound like a tenth-rate Justin Timberlake B-side, and he performs them in the style of a marionette puppet being operated by a heroin addict' then there might be a case.
ref: 2007, Stuart Heritage, Britney Spears At The MTV VMAs: The Vagina-Heavy Fall-Out:
glosses: Of extremely poor quality, godawful.
Synonyms: sense: of poor quality
word: crummy
sense: of poor quality
word: cruddy
sense: of poor quality
word: drecky
sense: of poor quality
word: worthless
sense: of poor quality
word: trashy
sense: of poor quality
word: two-bit
sense: of poor quality
word: manky
word: crappy
word: shitty
word: grody
word: lousy
word: grotty
word: miserable
Related terms: first-rate
second-rate
third-rate
fourth-rate
rocktronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of rock + electronic
Senses: examples: text: Now we have Tweekend, where CM furthers its rocktronic hand, assisted by guests like Tom Morello and Scott Weiland.
ref: 2001, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 96, page 68:
text: Blending elements of rock 'n' roll past into his futuristic rocktronic soundscapes, Humphrey works each of his songs with its own personality, creating through his catalog a sonic reality unto itself, impossible to recreate […]
ref: 2012, Jake Brown, Behind the Boards:
glosses: Blending elements of rock music and electronic music.
Qenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qenites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kenite.
Qenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qenite
Kenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kenites
form: Qenite
Senses: glosses: Any member of a nomadic clan in the ancient Levant, according to the Hebrew Bible.
Kenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kenite
fraction bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraction bar
Las Anod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized city in Khatumo, settled by the reer darawiish.
turning gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turning gears
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jacking gear.
synonyms: word: jacking gear
jacking gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacking gears
Senses: glosses: A device, placed on the shaft of an engine, or the rotor of a turbine, allowing it to be slowly turned manually
Synonyms: turning gear
pigroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigroots
Etymology: From pig + root.
Senses: glosses: An area of soil where pigs have turned up the ground with their snouts looking for worms, insects, and plant roots to eat.
glosses: Any plant of the genus Sisyrinchium.
examples: text: Howie showed his objection to the early hour with a few pigroots—he impressed the television people but merely caused the sure-seated Maddie to laugh.
ref: 2015, Fiona McCallum, Return to the Adelaide Hills, page 418:
glosses: An instance of pigrooting
pigroot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pigroots
form: pigrooting
form: pigrooted
form: pigrooted
Etymology: From pig + root.
Senses: examples: text: I put my hand over the saddle and grabbed the monkey or jug handle (a strap fitted to the offside top of the saddle and used to help you get mounted fast — if the horse pigroots you can hold on to this to stop yourself coming off) and slowly started to pull myself aboard.
ref: 1998, Bob Flatt, Bull from the bush: Australian outback yarns, page 24:
glosses: To stick its rump in the air and lower its forequarters.
raw_tags: of a horse or other steed
Lindelöf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lindelöfs
Etymology: From Swedish Lindelöf Literally, “lime tree leaf”.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lindelof: A surname from Swedish.
Derived terms: Picard-Lindelöf theorem
Lindelöf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: After the Finnish mathematician Ernst Leonard Lindelöf.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Such that any open cover has a countable subcover.
raw_tags: of a topological space
Derived terms: Lindelöf space
kikay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog kikay.
Senses: glosses: A flirtatious girl or woman.
glosses: A girl or woman interested in beauty products and fashion.
Derived terms: kikay kit
kikay kit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kikay kits
Etymology: From Tagalog kikay + kit.
Senses: glosses: A soft case in which a woman's toiletries and cosmetics are stored.
inertial mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inertial masses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The mass of an object measured as its resistance to being accelerated by an applied force; it is equal to its gravitational mass.
Synonyms: english: in Einsteinian and Newtonian gravitation
translation: in Einsteinian and Newtonian gravitation
word: gravitational mass
Hypernyms: mass
Coordinate terms: word: gravitational mass
word: gravitational mass
word: active gravitational mass
word: weight
gravitational mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravitational masses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The mass of an object as measured by its interaction with gravity; it is equal to its inertial mass.
Hypernyms: mass
Hyponyms: active gravitational mass
Coordinate terms: weight
Derived terms: active gravitational mass
Related terms: inertial mass
active gravitational mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active gravitational masses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The mass of an object measured via the gravitational force that it exerts
Hypernyms: gravitational mass
mass
Coordinate terms: inertial mass
weight
Related terms: word: gravitational mass
passive gravitational mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passive gravitational masses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The mass of an object measured via the gravitational force experienced by it in a known gravitational field
Synonyms: english: in Einsteinian and Newtonian gravitation
translation: in Einsteinian and Newtonian gravitation
word: inertial mass
Hypernyms: gravitational mass
mass
Coordinate terms: inertial mass
Related terms: active gravitational mass
weight
zodiacal dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The dust that makes up the zodiacal cloud and gives rise to the zodiacal light
zodiacal cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zodiacal clouds
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A cloud of dust, lying in the plane of the ecliptic, that gives rise to the zodiacal light.
wave plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wave plates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of waveplate.
walled plain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪn
Forms: form: walled plains
Etymology: From walled + plain.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A large impact crater that has a relatively flat floor, surrounded by a wall
visual magnitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual magnitudes
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The apparent magnitude of a star in the central part of the spectrum of visible light
violent relaxation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violent relaxations
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The dynamic change in the trajectory of the stars of a galaxy induced by the collective interactions of all the other stars.
vertical circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical circles
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A great circle on the celestial sphere, perpendicular to the horizon, that passes through the zenith and nadir
St. Thomas bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: St. Thomas beans
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Entada phaseoloides, found in Oceania and East Asia.
Synonyms: match-box bean
Queensland bean
snuff box sea bean
velocity dispersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velocity dispersions
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The statistical dispersion (about a mean) of the velocities of the stars in a galaxy (or galaxies in a cluster)
velocity curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: velocity curves
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A graph of the orbital speeds of the stars of a galaxy with respect to their distance from the galaxy's centre
Synonyms: rotation curve
three body problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three body problems
form: three-body problem
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The problem of calculating the motion of three celestial bodies that interact with each other gravitationally
Related terms: two-body problem
tangential velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tangential velocities
Senses: glosses: The instantaneous velocity (speed) of a body moving along a circular (or elliptical) path
sunskirter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunskirters
Etymology: From sun + skirter.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sungrazer.
synonyms: word: sungrazer
solar maximum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar maxima
Senses: glosses: The part of the sun's 11-year cycle during which the number of sunspots and solar flares is at a maximum.
Coordinate terms: solar minimum
solar minimum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar minima
Senses: antonyms: solar maximum
glosses: The part of the Sun's 11-year cycle during which the number of sunspots and solar flares is at a minimum.
Hypernyms: minimum
Hyponyms: Dalton Minimum
Maunder Minimum
Spörer Minimum
siderophyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siderophyres
Senses: glosses: A form of stony-iron meteorite that contains bronzite and tridymite minerals
infinit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infinit
form: most infinit
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of infinite.
parselene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parselenes
Senses: glosses: A bright spot in the sky due to the refraction of the moon's image by ice crystals
Related terms: parhelion
juraments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jurament
megaregolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaregoliths
Etymology: From mega- + regolith.
Senses: glosses: A layer of fractured bedrock beneath the lunar regolith
daughter isotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughter isotopes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of daughter nuclide.
synonyms: word: daughter nuclide
Ae star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ae stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star of spectral type A that shows emission lines in its spectrum
Related terms: Be star
Be star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Be stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star of spectral type B that shows emission lines in its spectrum
Related terms: Ae star
wedge salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedge salads
Senses: glosses: A salad made from a head of lettuce halved or quartered, with other ingredients on top.
wedge salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedge salad
Dewey, Cheatem and Howe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dewey, Cheatham and Howe
form: Dewey, Cheetham and Howe
form: Dewey, Cheetem and Howe
Etymology: A jocular play on the phrase Do we cheat 'em? And how!, suggesting an unscrupulous, greedy law firm.
Senses: glosses: A generic name for a law firm, or occasionally any financial institution.
Synonyms: word: Sue, Grabbit and Runne
undeadness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undead + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: If survival is not a remnant or leftover as it is in undeadness, the conditions of life appear all the more pressing since survival is not a substrate of human existence but an ontological necessity.
ref: 2016, Joseph Anderton, Beckett's Creatures: Art of Failure after the Holocaust, page 199:
glosses: The state or condition of being undead.
Alphecca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ælˈfɛkə/
Forms: form: Alphekka
Etymology: From Arabic الفَكَّة (al-fakka).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a binary star in the constellation Corona Borealis, about 75 light years away
Synonyms: Alpha Coronae Borealis
Gemma
Gnosia
Asteroth
SMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SM
culicifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culicifuges
Etymology: From culicine + -fuge.
Senses: examples: text: The “treatment” involved coating the exposed arm from the wrist to the elbow with the alleged culicifuge.
ref: 1919 June 14, “Mosquitoes and Culcifuges”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, page 1770:
glosses: An agent that repels culicine mosquitoes.
hindthought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪndθɔːt/
Forms: form: hindthoughts
Etymology: From hind + thought.
Senses: examples: text: Forethought, however, is much more satisfactory than hindthought.
ref: 1911, Frederick Frye Rockwell, Home Vegetable Gardening, →ISBN:
text: It is done almost automatically, without hindthought, and such a press exists in other countries too.
ref: 1995, Europe Versus Intolerance, →ISBN, page 233:
text: “Blind obedience to a government without forethought or, in your case, even hindthought is an abomination to free thought,” said Ethan, smiling.
ref: 2007, Raymond Rodrigues, Memoir of a Green Mountain Boy, →ISBN:
text: And if I understand you at all: these are all voluntary and self-imposed tendencies with you—for as much as they are not symptoms (about which I have a heap of painful hindthoughts).
ref: 2015, Rudolph Binion, Frau Lou: Nietzsche's Wayward Disciple, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Consideration or questioning of events or decisions after they have occurred.
Related terms: hindsight
second thoughts
hindthoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hindthought
racial grievance industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the racial grievance industry
Senses: examples: text: Too, it will discuss how American business has long been subject to blackmail by the racial grievance industry in the name of social justice; as well as the many other ways in which the regime of racial preferences has sowed division, corruption, and resentment in this country.
ref: 2013, Harry Stein, Why We Won't Talk Honestly About Race:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The activists, academics, and organizations whom conservatives allege to be using race issues to acquire power or money.
Holbeinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Holbeinian
form: most Holbeinian
Etymology: From Holbein + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Change Thackeray's spirited devil into a dancing skeleton with an answering grin, and you have a picture that would fit into a medieval, or Holbeinian, Dance of Death.
ref: 2000, Siegbert Salomon Prawer, W.M. Thackeray's European Sketch Books, →ISBN, page 127:
text: His letters to Anne translate social codes of French diplomacy, Holbeinian portraiture, and Erasmian epistolary friendship into performances of personal desire.
ref: 2006, Seth Lerer, Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Mercator replaced Ziegler's stiff, artificial rivers and lakes with fluid, Holbeinian waters, while the Bavarian's sea - so tormented and heavily worked that it always threatened to inundate the land -- was substituted by patches of placid hatching cruised by ships and improbable fish.
ref: 2010, Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet, →ISBN:
topics: art
arts
glosses: In the style of Hans Holbein the younger.
examples: a Holbeinian circuit
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Including every edge exactly once and where, for all x and y, the edges (x,y) and (y,x) have opposite parities.
certified public accountant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certified public accountants
Senses: synonyms: CPA
glosses: An accountant who has met certain legal requirements to provide certain accounting services.
anti-conspiratorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-conspiratorial
form: most anti-conspiratorial
Etymology: From anti- + conspiratorial.
Senses: examples: text: The second major perspective is structuralist and anti-conspiratorial, and treats the primary function of the state as guaranteeing accumulation.
ref: 1989, Graeme Duncan, Democracy and the Capitalist State:
glosses: Against conspiracies.
glosses: That is not prone to believe in conspiracy theories.
fallibilistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fallibilistic
form: most fallibilistic
Senses: glosses: Of, or related to fallibilism.
Derived terms: fallibilistically
fallibilistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fallibilistically
form: most fallibilistically
Etymology: From fallibilistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a fallibilistic manner.
predatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more predatorially
form: most predatorially
Etymology: From predatorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a predatory manner.
falsefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more falsefully
form: most falsefully
Etymology: From falseful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Here, we identify that the syntactic reduction introduces an error and falsefully declares some specifications as unrealizable.
ref: 2011, Sharon Barner, Ian Harris, Daniel Kroening, Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 6th International Haifa ...:
glosses: In a falseful manner: falsely.
falseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more falseful
form: most falseful
Etymology: From false + -ful.
Senses: glosses: False.
Derived terms: falsefully
good looker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good lookers
form: good-looker
form: goodlooker
Senses: examples: text: Both of these sows have the quality and finish and are noted for their width of back, good hams, good bone and are good lookers.
ref: 1917, American Swineherd, volume 34:
antonyms: bad looker
glosses: A physically attractive individual, animal, or object.
Synonyms: sense: physically attractive person
word: beautiful person
Related terms: good-looking
good looks
good lookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good looker
betamax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betamaxes
Etymology: Genericized trademark from Betamax. The food is named from their resemblance to the cuboidal videocassettes.
Senses: glosses: a Betamax (videocassette tape)
glosses: coagulated chicken blood that is boiled, cut in to cubes, skewered and grilled to be sold as a street food
futured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From future + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] alternative upon alternative presenting an incomprehensible, many-futured state which is being rearticulated daily […]
ref: 1974, Richard Duke, Gaming: the future's language, page 4:
glosses: Having a (specified kind of) future.
governmentalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governmentalizations
Etymology: From governmental + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The action or result of governmentalizing.
governmentalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governmentalization
gold star gay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold star gays
Etymology: From gold star + gay, from gold star awards for being outstanding.
Senses: examples: text: Visualize [Alfred] Kinsey's famous het-homo continuum. Bisexuality begins the minute we step off the zero, heterosexual end. We don't hit unambiguous dry land again until we get to Six,^([sic]) at the other side of the ocean where gold-star gays and lesbians dwell.
ref: 1991 February 24, Carol A. Queen, “The Queer in Me”, in Loraine Hutchins, Lani Kaahumanu, editors, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, 1st edition, Boston: Alyson Publications, →ISBN, pages 19–20:
text: While I'm totally comfortable being a "Gold Star Gay" I do find it emasculating that most bottoms I've been with have been all the way with those of the fairer sex.
ref: 2012 January 25, Tristan Timothy, “Never Gonna Get It: Gay Dating in the City”, in Maximillian Corwell, editor, David Magazine, number 680, Atlanta, page 12:
text: Andy Cohen prides himself on being a “gold star gay,” which means he’s never hooked up with a woman.
ref: 2016 November 15, Chancellor Agard, “Andy Cohen talks almost losing gold star gay status in threesome”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2024:
text: “She's trying to challenge my status as a gold star gay,” Beau said. “I swear, she thinks if she flashes her tits at me enough, I'll actually want to do something with them.”
ref: 2019, Lynn Townsend, Got the Blues, JMS Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A gay man who has never had sex with a woman.
Coordinate terms: gold star lesbian
good looks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: visual attractiveness
Related terms: good-looking
Viredaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Viredaz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Sly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Sylvester.
glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Sly syndrome
Palmachnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palmachniks
Etymology: From Palmach + -nik.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the Mossad people differed from the Palmachniks in several ways: a. age - the Mossad people were usually older than the Palmachniks; b. background - most of the Mossad people had themselves immigrated from Europe, while the Palmachniks were mostly Palestine-born […]
ref: 1998, Aviva Halamish, The Exodus Affair: Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for Palestine, page 76:
glosses: A member of the Palmach.
Palmachniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palmachnik
pigroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigroot
culicifuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culicifuge
megachallenges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megachallenge
barium star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barium stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of giant stars whose spectra show the presence of s-process elements (such as barium)
guide star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guide stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A reference star that is used to maintain the alignment and tracking of a telescope (as the Earth rotates)
Related terms: pole star
reference star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reference stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star whose identity, position and magnitude are accurately known.
Related terms: guide star
interlegibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + legibility.
Senses: examples: text: Doesn't this misplacement rule out the character of difference; doesn't it relocate the place of contradiction and by consequence rule out the interlegibility of reality?
ref: 2018, John Baldacchino, Post-Marxist Marxism: Questioning the Answer:
glosses: The quality of being interlegible.
runaway star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runaway stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star that has a high velocity relative to its surroundings (typically the result of a supernova in a binary star system).
interlegible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interlegible
form: most interlegible
Etymology: From inter- + legible.
Senses: glosses: Of scripts or languages: mutually legible.
quiet as a snowflake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of silent.
synonyms: word: silent
shell star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A rapidly-rotating star that has an equatorial circumstellar disc of gas
standard star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: standard stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of reference star.
synonyms: word: reference star
metathalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + thalamic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the metathalamus.
lop off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lops off
form: lopping off
form: lopped off
form: lopped off
Etymology: See lop.
Senses: examples: text: TPE's Manchester Airport-Newcastle has both ends lopped off to become Manchester Victoria-York.
ref: 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52:
glosses: To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
Synonyms: sense: to cut off
word: snead
Related terms: defalcate
pizza boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza boy
cheese monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese monkeys
Etymology: From cheese-eating surrender monkey, a term coined in a 1995 episode of The Simpsons.
Senses: examples: text: > Ahem, I'm not French ;-)
Darn, right you're not! You used to be a pure cheese monkey. Now, you're simply pure spud.
ref: 2003 March 13, Orchid, “OT: naked war protests”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022:
text: You'll notice a common cause among all international liberals--the sheep fucker in Australia (192 Day Road, Sydney), the cheese monkey in France, John Kerry--they're all together somehow, all operating along similar lines of force. Is it love of America that unites them? No? Then what is it?
ref: 2004 June 20, Jones, “OK, so no WMD and now no link between Iraq and Al-q. My question is........”, in rec.music.beatles (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022:
text: Republicans don't deny Bush has isolated the USA. However, they say "Fuck the world. Fuck the UN. The French are surrendering cheese monkeys. The Canadian are cheeseheads, the .... "
ref: 2004 September 18, Roedy Green, “Bush isolates more and more the USA in front of the world”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022:
text: > Vive la France!
>
Viva for the cheese monkeys? That's how you must have call them in 2003.
ref: 2007 May 7, dapra, “The French Revolution”, in us.military.army (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022:
text: So what I'm gonna propose as governor of this state is that we plan a massive invasion force and go ahead and invade France. Because if there's one country we can beat in a goddamn arm-wrestle it's them limp-wristed patronizing cheese monkeys.
ref: 2013, Jock Cranley, quotee, Grand Theft Auto V, scene: Blaine County Talk Radio:
glosses: A French person.
wikipedia: The Simpsons
space-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more space-based
form: most space-based
Senses: examples: text: While this study focuses on the implications of space-based global strike for future U.S. military capabilities, its fundamental objective is to provoke a debate within the U.S. defense establishment[…]
ref: 2001, Larry G. Sills, Space-based Global Strike: Understanding Strategic and Military Implications, page 19:
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
qualifier: facility; etc; facility; etc
glosses: Based in (or beginning from) space (especially in orbit, but sometimes on a planet or moon).
raw_tags: of a weapon
Related terms: spaceborne
visceropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visceropathies
Etymology: From viscero- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the bowels
XDK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: development
glosses: Initialism of Xbox Development Kit.
mudkicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudkickers
Senses: examples: text: She was three-quarter Kelsey with mossy glossy hair, She was a stompdown mudkicker and her mug was fair.
ref: 2004, Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Whenever we'd be laying around late at night and we'd hear a toilet flush somewhere in the building, Mike would say “Uh, uh, there's one of them mudkickers again,” and he'd run up and chase them out, yelling “G'wan, you didn't pay no room rent around here, scat!"
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House:
text: Within a month the Michigan mudkicker found her new master and the naive young pimp was stuck with a brace of howling crumb crushers.
ref: 1971, Iceberg Slim, Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: Alternative form of mud-kicker.
Prostitute.
examples: text: Doesn't matter if these boys are illiterate mudkickers or college boys. They'll still aim that musket and do their best to kill that scoundrel over there who might be trying to do the same thing back.
ref: 2012, Jeff Shaara, A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh, →ISBN, page 64:
text: They are just as superstitious as some mudkickers who believe in any kind of signs.
ref: 2011, David Maurer, The Big Con, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of mud-kicker.
Laborer.
consonantless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From consonant + -less.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Lacking consonants.
non-gradable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gradable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be graded.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ungradable
incomparable
uncomparable
antonyms: gradable
glosses: (of an adjective) Describing a quality that cannot normally be varied because it is extreme (e.g. freezing), absolute (e.g. dead), or classification (e.g. nuclear).
non-gradable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-gradables
Etymology: From non- + gradable.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any adjective that is not gradable.
Isabela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʔɪ.sɐˈbɛ.lɐ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Isabela. The province is named after Isabella II of Spain. Doublet of Isabelle.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
glosses: A province of Cagayan Valley, Luzon, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Ilagan.
glosses: A city in Basilan, Mindanao, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Negros Occidental, Visayas, Philippines.
Related terms: Isabela City
Isabela Eastside
Isabela Island
Isabela Proper
carrell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrells
Senses: examples: text: And in every wyndowe iij Pewes or Carrells, where every one of the old Monks had his carrell, severall by himselfe, that, when they had dyned, they dyd resorte to that place of Cloister and there studyed upon there books, every one in his carrell, all the after nonne, unto evensong tyme. […] All there pewes or carrells was all fynely wainscotted and verie close, all but the forepart which had carved wourke that gave light in at ther carrell doures of wainscott. And in every carrell was a deske to lye there bookes on.
ref: 1593 (date written), “The Cloister. The Northe Alley.”, in James Raine, editor, A Description or Breife Declaration of All the Ancient Monuments, Rites, and Customes Belonginge or Beinge within the Monastical Church of Durham before the Suppression. […] (The Publications of the Surtees Society; 15), London: J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, […]; William Pickering, […]; Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, published 1842, →OCLC, page 70:
text: He then returned to his carrell for his own research.
ref: 1952, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter III, in Pnin, 1st Vintage International edition, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Alternative spelling of carrel.
hotsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hot + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: Part hotsheet motel, part longterm transient housing, from the look of it.
ref: 2014, Bill Pronzini, Nothing but the Night:
glosses: That rents rooms by the hour, often for prostitution purposes.
raw_tags: of a motel or a hotel
long-termly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more long-termly
form: most long-termly
form: long termly
form: longtermly
Etymology: From long-term + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Improving the walking access to rural land required thinking long-termly.
ref: 2011, Pete McDonald, Foot-tracks in New Zealand: Origins, Access Issues and Recent Developments:
glosses: In a long-term manner.
longtermly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more longtermly
form: most longtermly
Etymology: From longterm + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of long-termly.
long termly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of long-termly.
cinderella stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinderella stamp
selflove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of self-love.
poster stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poster stamps
Senses: topics: advertising
business
hobbies
lifestyle
marketing
philately
glosses: A label, resembling a postage stamp, issued to advertise or commemorate a product or event.
Hypernyms: cinderella stamp
poster stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poster stamp
railway stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railway stamps
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A stamp issued to pay the cost of the conveyance of a letter or parcel by rail.
railway stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railway stamp
snow groomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow groomers
Senses: glosses: A vehicle used to prepare snow for recreational uses, such as skiing.
snow groomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow groomer
snowgroomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowgroomers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snow groomer.
snowgroomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowgroomer
Tiksi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪksi/
Etymology: From Yakut Тиксии (Tiksii), literally "moorage place".
Senses: glosses: A town of 5,000 people on the Laptev Sea in the Sakha Republic, Russia, southeast of the delta of the Lena River.
TV stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TV stands
Senses: glosses: A stand upon which a television is placed for viewing. The stand can be freestanding or designed to be attached to a wall.
compulsory education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
law
glosses: A period of time in a child's life during which the child must receive schooling as required by law.
liquor licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquor licences
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A permit to sell alcoholic beverages.
liquor licences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquor licence
school ages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school age
mudkickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudkicker
mud-kicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud-kickers
form: mudkicker
form: mud kicker
Etymology: From mud + kicker.
Senses: examples: text: Alexander, who would become Cook's closest associate, gave him a tidbit of trainer science about what he had to do to be able to run the same track with all those experienced mud-kickers: "if you can't sing loud enough just make sure they understand what you say."
ref: 2005, Arthur Kempton, Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: A racehorse.
examples: text: Lay off the broads and the high priced mud-kickers.
ref: 1974, James Vernon Hatch, Ted Shine, editors, Black Theater, U.S.A., page 446:
text: I drove through the Block to see what whore I could test my skills on, and I saw this black mud-kicker standing on the corner of Gay & Baltimore Streets.
ref: 1998, Emory Newkirk, Players of the Block: The World's Famous Block, That Is, →ISBN, page 16:
text: I'd guerilla^([sic]) my Watusi ass into a chrome-and-leather ho den and gattle-gun my pimp-dream shit into some mud-kicker's frosty car.
ref: 2013, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Streetwalker; a prostitute who looks for customers in public places, especially one who works for a pimp.
examples: text: They're army guys, mud-kickers, for God's sakes.
ref: 1998, Keith Douglass, Seal Team Seven 06, →ISBN:
text: Men in three-piece suits sat next to guys wearing hunting-orange sweatshirts and mud-kicker boots, encapsulating the rural community Waxenfelter inhabited for more than a decade.
ref: 2014, Molly Harbarger, “Grady Waxenfelter's love for people shows as more than 700 people attend shooting victim's funeral”, in The Oregonian:
text: The biggest thing is, the people are nice. They remind me of the mid-west, they’re mud-kickers, not farmers — mud-kickers. They understand hard work. I’m a mud-kicker.
ref: 2015, Steve Buffery, “especially-for-ex-athletes Buffalo is our kind of town -- especially for ex-athlete”, in Toronto Sun:
glosses: An unskilled laborer; One who makes his living by outdoor manual labor.
examples: text: And, yes, if you sell pharmaceuticals to farmers, you may show up in a sports coat or pants suit, but you also have a pair of mud-kickers in the trunk, all of which is part of the “dress code” for your market.
ref: 2008, John Ingrisano, The Back to Basics Book of Selling, →ISBN, page 24:
text: He was short, this guy, and wiry, in along, fitted wool coat and fashionable mud-kickers of the kind Clyde wore.
ref: 2011, Cara Diaconoff, I'll Be A Stranger to You, →ISBN, page 248:
text: They go well with my yoked cowgirl shirt and mud-kickers—now off to the mercantile to buy a pair of spurs!
ref: 2013, Brenda Schweder, Vintage Redux, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: A workboot designed for outdoor work, especially one that can be worn on muddy ground.
mud-kickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud-kicker
carrells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrell
mud kicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud kickers
Senses: examples: text: I was determined not to join that contemptible group of aging pimps I had seen through the years and pitied as they went their pathetic way with a wild dream of new glory and a big fast stable of young freak mud kickers.
ref: 1971, Robert Beck, “From a Steel Box to a Wicked Young Girl”, in The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, section 25:
text: "Well, that won't be so bad, will it? I mean you're a whore."
"Hell, yes, I'm a damn good one. I'm a mud kicker. In the streets I make more money by accident than most bitches make on purpose."
ref: 1974, Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Nam:
text: “Cause you seemed so interested in my business, I thought maybe you were looking for a real mud kicker.” She said, boastfully.
ref: 2005, David Franklyn Bowens, Tweekin': Inside the Crack Game, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Alternative form of mud-kicker.
mud kickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud kicker
Zêzere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Zêzere.
Senses: glosses: A river in Portugal
destructedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From destructed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The three times The definition of a pastness [of an object] is: that state of destructedness [which exists] in the next period after the time of an object — the object being a [functioning] thing that is other [than its own pastness].
ref: 1989, Snow Lion Publications, Cutting Through Appearances: The Practice and Theory of Tibetan Buddhism:
glosses: The state or condition of being destructed.
nonmorbidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + morbidly.
Senses: examples: text: Remember, the point of surgery is to level the playing field for my patients and give them the same tools that will work for you, the nonmorbidly obese individual.
ref: 2010, Michael A. Snyder, Full:
glosses: In a nonmorbid manner; not morbidly.