cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
drouthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: drouthier
form: more drouthy
form: drouthiest
form: most drouthy
Etymology: From drouth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1951 June, Herman L. Wascher, R. S. Smith, R. T. Odell, Soil Report 74: Iroquois County Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture, page 13,
The drouthy sandy soils are not well adapted to the grain crops that grow throughout the summer but may be used for wheat or rye, the deep-rooting legumes, or timber.
text: 1993, Thomas Foti, The River's Gifts and Curses, Jeannie Whayne, Willard B. Gatewood, The Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox, page 45,
That clay will not allow rainwater to penetrate far and will not give up much water to plants, so the site is a drouthy one for plants.
text: 1962 [1948], Paul R. Beath (editor), Louise Pound (editor of 1962 edition), Febold Feboldson: Tall Tales from the Great Plains, page 58,
Febold was always a good-natured cuss, but he really got peeved one year when the weather got hotter and drier and drouthier every day.
text: 1886 was the drouthiest year in over a generation, and the wells had dried up, and the black land on Tobe Pickett's farm had cracks in it wide enough to swallow a jackrabbit.
ref: 2007, Francis E. Abernethy, “Legends of the Trail”, in Kenneth L. Untiedt, editor, Folklore in Motion: Texas Travel Lore, page 61:
glosses: Droughty, dry.
examples: text: At parting, they bestowed a cup on him of a miraculous make, for it was ever full of wine, let the drinker be ever so drouthy.
ref: 1835, Egerton Brydges, editor, Notes on Comus: The Poetical Works of John Milton, volume 5, page 252:
text: A drouthier pair of mortals could not have been found anywhere, and, at the first draught, each emptied his cup to the bottom!
ref: 1866, Mayne Reid, The Scalp Hunters: Or, Adventures Among the Trappers, page 187:
text: "[…]Help yoursel' to some wine, Mr. Birkenshaw, for it's drouthy work talking."
ref: 1899, John Buchan, A Lost Lady of Old Years, published 2013, unnumbered page:
glosses: Thirsty.
Derived terms: drouthiness
forest green tree frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forest green tree frogs
Senses: glosses: A tropical lowland frog (Rhacophorus arboreus) whose habitat range is mostly restricted to Japan's Honshū
Els
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of El
Gif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gifs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of GIF.
Rea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: Rae
homophone: Ray
homophone: Re
homophone: Rhea (one pronunciation)
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A minor city in Andrew County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A river flowing through the city of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, which flows into the River Tame; in full, River Rea.
glosses: A river in Shropshire and co/Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Teme; in full, River Rea.
glosses: A river in Fiordland, Southland region, New Zealand, which flows into Bradshaw Sound; in full, Rea River.
Related terms: Rea Brook
toku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of tokusatsu.
periodize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪəɹɪəˌdaɪz/
Forms: form: periodizes
form: periodizing
form: periodized
form: periodized
Etymology: From period + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To divide (history) into periods.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: To split (a training program) into segments of a few weeks or months, so that training begins at lower intensity and is gradually increased to high intensity.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To form a periodic function from (a non-periodic function).
Derived terms: reperiodize
unperiodized
Related terms: period
periodization
renette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: renettes
Etymology: From Latin rēnes (“the kidneys, reins”) + -ette (“small”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
nematology
zoology
glosses: A specialized excretory cell in some nematode worms.
reintegrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reintegrative
form: most reintegrative
Etymology: From re- + integrate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to reintegration.
Derived terms: reintegrative shaming
resinata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: retsina (type of Greek wine)
revocative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There is often uncertainty about the date on which the revocative edict was promulgated. Some documents mention October 15, 1685 others October 18 and still others October 22, 1685. The revocative edict itself gives no date but refers only to October 1685.
ref: 1988, Pieter Coertzen, The Huguenots of South Africa, 1688-1988, page 36:
glosses: Revocatory; tending to revoke or recall.
huffiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of huffy: most huffy
huffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of huffy: more huffy
otherish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more otherish
form: most otherish
Etymology: From other + -ish. Cognate with Dutch anders (“different”).
Senses: examples: text: This likens the insect to another otherish human―not impossibly cruel this time, but impossibly brilliant.
ref: 2007, Charlotte Sleigh, Six legs better: a cultural history of myrmecology:
glosses: Pertaining or belonging to another kind; different.
examples: text: About the word "altruistic" and the suggestion of "otherish," the real meaning of the difficulty about a word for "regard to others," is that we do not want it.
ref: 1884, James Hinton, The law-breaker and the coming of the law:
glosses: Concerned with or directed toward others; selfless.
grass of Parnassus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: parnassia
glosses: Bog star, any of the genus Parnassia of plants.
Sandal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sand halh.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3418).
Synonyms: english: according to Wikipedia, but both Sandal and Sandal Magna appear on maps
translation: according to Wikipedia, but both Sandal and Sandal Magna appear on maps
word: Sandal Magna
obelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obelions
form: obelia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀβελός (obelós) + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Obelion is a nearly constant existing anthropological landmark. It is defined as the midpoint between both Foramina parietalia (for typical venous Emissaria connecting veins of galea with Sinus sagittalis sup.). Obelion is located on Suturus sagittalis.
ref: 1993, Wolfgang Seeger, The Microsurgical Approaches to the Target Areas of the Brain, page 56:
text: The sagittal border usually runs directly posteriorly from the rounded frontal angle for about two-thirds of its length. This is the position of the obelion, and there may be a parietal notch in the bone (Fig. 4.37) after which the serrations on the border become more fringe-like as it slopes away towards the rounded occipital angle at the posterior fontanelle.
ref: 2004, Louise Scheuer, Sue Black, The Juvenile Skeleton, page 104:
text: 2006, Simon W. Hillson, Robert G. Franciscus, Trenton W. Holliday, Erik Trinkaus, 6: The Ages at Death, Erik Trinkaus, Jiří Svoboda (editors), Early Modern Human Evolution in Central Europe: The People of Dolní Věstonice and Pavlov, Human Evolution Series: Volume 12, page 32,
Significant suture closure is found in the lambda, obelion, anterior sagittal, and midcoronal locations, and complete obliteration is found in the bregma, pterion, and sphenofrontal locations.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A craniometric point on the sagittal suture between the parietal foramina near the lambdoid suture.
Derived terms: obeliac
obelions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obelion
craniometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craniometries
Etymology: From cranio- + -metry.
Senses: examples: text: But regardless of what they made of phrenology, those who saw craniometry as a means of measuring the relative weight of intelligence and emotion in psychological makeup were generally sceptical as to whether, as Blumenbach and Camper believed, humanity had branched from one ancestral pair into varietal types as a result of colonising different continents.
ref: 2020 October 5, Paul Turnbull, “Thinking About Craniometry- The Racial Turn”, in Paul Turnbull:
text: Similarly, some forensic companies have started to engage in “DNA phenotyping” – e.g. predicting skin color and facial features based on DNA data – something that’s best understood as 21st century re-run of long-debunked craniometry.
ref: 2025 March 31, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, “Sunsetting openSNP - a personal retrospective”, in Bastian Greshake Tzovaras:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: cephalometry
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anthropometry
coordinate_terms: cephalopelvimetry
pelvimetry
glosses: The practice of taking measurements of the skull.
Derived terms: craniometric
craniometrical
Related terms: craniometer
craniometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to craniometry or craniometrics
parietals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parietal
Wake Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wake Islanders
Senses: examples: text: On the other side of the coin is the story of a fluttery lady visitor who glanced at a flag over the air terminal. ‘My goodness!”’ she said. “Isn’t that wonderful—to see flying up there the same tattered flag that the marines refused to surrender to the Japanese?”’
The Wake Islander beside her just smiled. He didn’t trouble to explain that the marines did surrender, flags and all, or that the terminal colors are tattered because the wind blows a lot. This was near the end of the month, almost time for the new flag which goes up every thirty days.
ref: 1956 January 28, William L. Worden, “Exiles on a Pinpoint”, in The Saturday Evening Post, page 84:
text: On January 20, the Nitta Maru departed Yokohama and headed toward the Japanese-controlled Chinese port at Shanghai. During the voyage, the Japanese committed an atrocity that no Wake Islander learned about until later.
ref: 2003, John Wukovits, Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island, New American Library, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 207:
glosses: someone from Wake Island.
Wake Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wake Islander
lambdoid suture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambdoid sutures
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A dense, fibrous connective tissue joint on the posterior aspect of the skull that connects the parietal and temporal bones with the occipital bone.
lambdoid sutures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambdoid suture
crack onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cracks onto
form: cracking onto
form: cracked onto
form: cracked onto
Senses: glosses: To flirt with; to approach and speak to (someone), seeking romance, love, sex, etc.
Synonyms: chat up
hit on
obeliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obeliac
form: most obeliac
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, pertaining to, or situated near, the obelion.
ochlesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ochleses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄχλος (ókhlos, “multitude, crowd”) + -esis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Crowd-poisoning; a disease occasioned or aggravated by overcrowding, especially due to lack of ventilation.
ochleses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ochlesis
crowd-poisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowd-poisonings
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disease occasioned or aggravated by overcrowding, especially due to lack of ventilation.
crowd-poisonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowd-poisoning
kayser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaysers
Etymology: Named after Heinrich Kayser.
Senses: glosses: A unit of wavenumber in the CGS system of units, equivalent to the number of waves in one centimeter.
wikipedia: Heinrich Kayser
Derived terms: millikayser
langley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langleys
Etymology: Named in 1947 after Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906).
Senses: glosses: A unit of heat transmission in the CGS system of units. It is equivalent to 41,840 J/m² in SI units. Symbol: Ly.
carry over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries over
form: carrying over
form: carried over
form: carried over
Etymology: Attested since the 17th century; listed for instance in Elisha Coles' 1676 dictionary as a translation of transfer, thereby possibly a calque of Latin transfero; compare Dutch overdragen, German übertragen.
Senses: examples: text: We carried her over the bridge.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see carry, over.
examples: text: The rent was carried over to December.
glosses: To transfer (something) to a later point in time.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: To carry; to transfer an excess quantity to the next column of digits.
examples: text: The chicken will carry over before it is served.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To continue cooking after being removed from a heat source.
examples: text: Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor.
ref: 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To transfer.
glosses: To induce to join an opposing party or faction.
Derived terms: word: carryover
cart off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carts off
form: carting off
form: carted off
form: carted off
Senses: examples: text: Los Angeles is under permanent lockdown, and daily health checks are mandatory, the sick carted off to the ominous Q-Zone by armed sanitation workers in yellow hazmat suits.
ref: 2020 December 10, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The first movie inspired by the pandemic is here, and it sucks”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2020:
glosses: To transport away.
cash up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cashes up
form: cashing up
form: cashed up
form: cashed up
Senses: glosses: to count the money taken by a business at the end of the day.
glosses: to count the cash contents of a cash register, after taking the till, and compare it to the expected amount (calculated by adding the float to the amount of cash received and then subtracting the change given and cash refunds paid out).
glosses: to earn money
Derived terms: cashed up
cast aside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts aside
form: casting aside
form: cast aside
form: cast aside
Senses: examples: text: But the row highlighted the fall from grace of the ethnically diverse women Sarkozy once promoted but later cast aside, who are now rebelling. The former young sports minister, Rama Yade, outspoken and hugely popular, has not only quit the government: she has left Sarkozy's party.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of discard.
synonyms: word: discard
cashes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cash out
cashing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cash out
cashed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cash out
quarter-evil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The increased demand for this preparation within the last few weeks tends to show the intimate connection between the disease quarter-evil and rainfall.
ref: 1901, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Quarter-evil Vaccine”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 1, page 1:
glosses: symptomatic anthrax, blackleg
quercin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: quercus (“oak”) + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of tannic acid extracted from acorns and oak-bark.
Synonyms: quercic acid
quercinic acid
quercins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quercin
tit juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: breast milk
kacha
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kacha
form: most kacha
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kutcha.
kacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kutcha.
free transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free transfers
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: Bosman transfer
glosses: The signing of a player without paying a fee to another club.
naphtol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphtols
Senses: examples: text: This was used as a soap with hot water to cleanse the scalp once daily, a small portion of lather being allowed to dry on the scalp. At a later date a solution of naphtol in alcohol, twenty grains to the ounce (4 per cent.), was employed […]
ref: 1883, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences:
glosses: Archaic form of naphthol.
naphtols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphtol
narcism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Syncopic form of narcissism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of narcissism.
nasolacrimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌneɪ.zə(ʊ)ˈlak.ɹɪm.əl/
ipa: /ˌneɪ.zoʊˈlæk.ɹəm.əl/
rhymes: -ækɹɪməl
Forms: form: nasolachrymal
Etymology: From naso- + lacrimal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the nose and the lacrimal apparatus.
Derived terms: nasolacrimal canal
nasolacrimal duct
nasolacrimal sac
lacrimal apparatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrimal apparatuses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
ophthalmology
physiology
sciences
glosses: The system containing the orbital structures for the production and drainage of tear.
Hyponyms: lacrimal gland
lacrimal lake
lacrimal punctum
lacrimal duct
lacrimal canal
lacrimal canunculus
lacrimal sac
tear sac
nasolacrimal duct
tear duct
lacrimal apparatuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacrimal apparatus
iatraliptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: iatroleptic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the application of remedies by rubbing, especially by rubbing in oil or balm.
Related terms: iatraliptics
iatrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iatro- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Medical science.
iamatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴαματο- (íamato-), stem of ἴαμα (íama, “remedy”), related to ἰάομαι (iáomai, “to heal”) + -logy.
Senses: synonyms: acology
glosses: The science of remedies, or of therapeutics.
Derived terms: iamatological
ichorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ichor + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or relating to ichor.
ichthyotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ichthyotic
form: most ichthyotic
Senses: glosses: Relating to or affected with ichthyosis.
Jiminy Cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: jiminy cricket
form: Jiminy Crickets
form: jiminy crickets
form: Jimminy Cricket
form: jimminy cricket
form: Jimminy Crickets
form: jimminy crickets
Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of Jesus Christ. The cartoon character was named for the minced oath, which is recorded from the early 1800s onwards.
Senses: glosses: An expression of annoyance or surprise.
wikipedia: Jiminy Cricket
Derived terms: word: by Jiminy
word: jiminy
word: Christmas
english: probably
translation: probably
word: Jiminy Christmas
Simbirsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Ulyanovsk (till 1924), the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin (born Vladimir Ulyanov).
blow me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: When she told him to get lost, he said, "Blow me, bitch!"
text: Some things never happen, he reminds himself. But this one always does, says the still small voice of mortality. Blow me, Laney tells it.
ref: 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 226:
synonyms: suck my balls
suck my cock
bite me
bite my ass
eat my shorts
kiss my ass
get lost
glosses: An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party (with a metaphorical connotation of fellatio).
examples: text: With a look of disdain, he exclaimed: “Blow me, your shirt! Why in 'ell didn't you use mud?”
ref: 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 44:
synonyms: word: wow
word: I'll be blowed
word: blow me down
word: crikey
word: gosh
word: blow me tight
word: blow me over
word: blow me pink
glosses: Ellipsis of blow me tight.
eat shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats shit
form: eating shit
form: ate shit
form: eaten shit
Senses: examples: text: Finally, for my 13th birthday, I got a skateboard — a Black Knight with those cool black urethane wheels. I cut my teeth on that board — and ate shit on it many, many times.
ref: 2009, Laura Thornhill, The Skateboarder's Journal - Lives on Board:
synonyms: faceplant
glosses: To fall and land on one's face.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: To experience a catastrophic breakdown.
raw_tags: of an object
glosses: To do something disgusting or strongly undesirable.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: When he started insulting people's mothers, the bouncer made him eat shit.
glosses: To be soundly defeated.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, shit.
eat shit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: eat shit !
Senses: examples: text: "I fucked your sister!" "Eat shit!"
glosses: An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party.
eat shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats shit
form: eating shit
form: ate shit
form: eaten shit
Etymology: Calque of Spanish comer mierda (“to waste time”) in the context of Cuban Spanish
Senses: glosses: To do nothing of importance; to idle.
fuck someone's brains out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fucks someone's brains out
form: fucking someone's brains out
form: fucked someone's brains out
form: fucked someone's brains out
Senses: examples: text: The first time we have sex with someone […] does not have to be the go-ahead signal to set up house together. Too many lesbians […] end up at a later date thinking, "I should have just fucked her brains out and walked away."
ref: 1987 February 8, Ann Fry, “On Pre-Meditated Sex vs. Making Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 29, page 7:
text: I fucked her brains out… for eleven seconds.
ref: 2013, Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street, spoken by Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio):
synonyms: hump someone's brains out
glosses: To sexually penetrate (or be penetrated) in a vigorous but pleasurable manner.
rock out with one's cock out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rocks out with one's cock out
form: rocking out with one's cock out
form: rocked out with one's cock out
form: rocked out with one's cock out
Senses: examples: text: We are going to rock out with our cocks out in Vegas, fellas!
glosses: To enjoy oneself immensely, to party.
Related terms: rock out
win back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wins back
form: winning back
form: won back
form: won back
Senses: examples: text: He lost $1000 in one hand, and spent most of the night trying to win it back.
text: A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
ref: 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611:
glosses: To win (something) that one has previously lost.
examples: text: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama talks with Renee Montagne about his call for Democrats to reach out to evangelical Christians. Republicans have long laid claim to that powerful voting block. He believes that Democrats can win them back with issues like the drive to end poverty.
ref: 2006 July 14, “Obama Works to Win Evangelicals Back for Democrats”, in npr:
text: "The short-term contract comes with the expectation that AWC will continue to win back the confidence of passengers, with a particular focus on more reliable weekend services, continued reductions in cancellations, and improvements in passenger information during planned and non-planned disruption."
ref: 2023 April 5, Mel Holley, “Network News: Avanti contract extended, but 'still more work to do'”, in RAIL, number 980, page 6:
glosses: To regain favour (with).
examples: text: John, my ex-boyfriend, said he wanted to see me again, so I told him how much I wanted him in an effort to win him back.
glosses: To get (someone) to be one's partner, after having been apart.
your place or mine
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A question proposing sexual intercourse: shall we go to your home or mine to have sex?
suck my cock
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party.
Synonyms: bite me
eat my shorts
eat shit
fuck off
fuck you
kiss my ass
screw you
smoke my pole
smoke one's pole
suck my balls
suck my dick
suck my penis
suck my Richard
Related terms: suck cock
suck someone's cock
smoke one's pole
synchyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synchysis
flight paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flight path
overcatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcatches
form: overcatching
form: overcaught
form: overcaught
Etymology: From over- + catch.
Senses: examples: text: She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught ,
That in the very dore him overcaught
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To overtake.
glosses: To catch too many; to overfish.
simultaneous death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simultaneous deaths
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law of wills, the death of two persons, each of whom would inherit the estate of the other if deemed to have survived the other, where such deaths occur within a time period set by statute (typically 120 hours), because of which the law treats each person as if they had died before the other in determining the distribution of estates.
simultaneous deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simultaneous death
laughing doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughing dove
œthels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of œthel
electrostatic precipitators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrostatic precipitator
cardiac tamponades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiac tamponade
domovoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domovoys
form: domovoi
Etymology: From Russian домово́й (domovój).
Senses: qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: A type of house sprite from Slavic mythology.
Synonyms: english: Ukrainian folklore
translation: Ukrainian folklore
word: domovyk
Related terms: dvorovoy
vodyanoy
domovoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domovois
Senses: qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: Alternative spelling of domovoy.
islets of Langerhans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: islet of Langerhans
Etymology: Translating French îlots de Langerhans; named after Paul Langerhans, the German anatomist who discovered these regions in the pancreas.
Senses: examples: text: Edward Sharpey-Schäfer determined that the substance necessary for carbohydrate metabolism was produced in the Islets of Langerhans, naming this new substance ‘insuline’ after the Latin insula (island).
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 545:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Distinctive regions of tissue in the pancreas, which contain its endocrine cells.
overbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbreaks
form: overbreaking
form: overbroke
form: overbroken
Etymology: From Middle English *overbreken, from Old English oferbrecan (“to transgress, violate”), equivalent to over- + break.
Senses: examples: text: This proved wise as the south and west walls of the winder chamber overbroke badly and blocky ground was encountered in the area set aside for the electrical equipment.
ref: 1958, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings - Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Issues 183-188:
glosses: To cave in near the edge of an excavation.
examples: text: He was never able to overbreak his rheumatism.
glosses: To get over; recover from.
overbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbreaks
Etymology: From Middle English *overbreken, from Old English oferbrecan (“to transgress, violate”), equivalent to over- + break.
Senses: examples: text: The overbreak depends on several factors. Foremost among them are the following: Spacing between the joints. Shattering effect of blasting on the rock located beyond the payline.
ref: 1946, Karl Terzaghi, Rock Defects and Loads on Tunnel Supports, page 49:
text: The presence of faults and joint structures in stope walls within the ore body has resulted in overbreak of ore into adjacent stopes.
ref: 2001, W.A. Hustrulid, Richard Bullock, Underground Mining Methods: Engineering Fundamentals and International Case Studies, page 248:
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Rock or earth excavated beyond the planned extent; caving in of material near the edge of an excavation.
Related terms: underbreak
neurohormones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurohormone
pyurias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyuria
pyuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyurias
Etymology: From py- + -uria.
Senses: examples: text: Pyuria may result from suppuration in any part of the urinary system, or from an abscess opening into the urinary tract.
ref: 1903, Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro, Manual of Medicine, page 516:
text: The Sternheimer-Malbin stain is useful in diagnosis of pyelonephritis, and of even more help in differential diagnosis of the pyurias.
ref: 1955, John Henry Cunningham, Oswald Swinney Lowsley, The Year Book of Urology, page 122:
text: 2003, Rabih O. Darouiche, Chapter 15: Infection and Spinal Cord Injury, in Vernon W. Lin, Diana D. Cardenas, Frederick Frost, Nancy C. Cutter, Robert Waters, Spinal Cord Medicine: Principles and Practice, page 202,
The nonspecificity of the finding of pyuria, like bacteriuria, can also hamper the diagnosis of UTI. Pyuria reflects an inflammation of the uromucosal lining and may signal the transition from bladder colonization to symptomatic UTI. However, pyuria can also be caused bt a variety of noninfectious conditions […] .
text: 2006, Vicki Figen, Chapter 31: Dysuria and Pyuria, in Peter Manu, Raymond E. Suarez, Barbara J. Barnett (editors), Handbook of Medicine in Psychiatry, page 287,
Pyuria is the presence of white blood cells (WBCs) in the urine. Pyuria alone does not indicate a urinary tract infection (UTI).
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of pus in the urine.
pengo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pengos
form: pengoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pengő.
pengos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pengo
countlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From countless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Noriega's routine measures, countlessly repeated in nineteenth-century Ancash, did not in themselves cause the revolt of 1885.
ref: 1997, Mark Thurner, From two republics to one divided, page 83:
glosses: Too numerously to be counted; without end.
rialto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rialtos
form: rialtoes
Etymology: By extension from the marketplace activity of the Rialto in Venice.
Senses: examples: text: Since word of semaglutide’s slimming effects hit the diet-culture rialto, people have been clamoring for it. In 2022, the FDA listed semaglutide drugs as in shortage. People who couldn’t wait for the real thing began to turn to specialized pharmacies that cook up Ozempic knock-offs as if it were bathtub gin, sometimes with tragic results.
ref: 2025 January 13, Virginia Heffernan, “The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell. Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut, will it have to betray its first patients—type 1 diabetics?”, in Wired:
glosses: A marketplace, literally or figuratively.
Rialto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A central area of San Polo sestiere, Venice, Veneto, Italy.
glosses: A comune in Savona province, Liguria, Italy.
glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Derived terms: rialto
sexploitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sexploitational
form: most sexploitational
Etymology: From sexploitation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Oddly enough, though, they rarely object to, and often perpetrate, that semi-pornographic variety of sexploitational photographs used to arouse prurient interest for the purpose of merchandising a variety of products[…]
ref: 1969, Popular Photography, volume 65:
text: But this photo does not really represent the sexploitational posing of the beautiful woman as tease: this is the pose of a self-assertive woman wearing the semiotic signs of masculinity atop her nude body – a tie, low-slung jeans.
ref: 2002, Linda Hutcheon, The politics of postmodernism, page 155:
glosses: Featuring or pertaining to sexploitation.
disaccharidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disaccharidases
Etymology: From disaccharide + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: Lactase is a disaccharidase that breaks down lactose into glucose and galactose.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of glycoside hydrolases, enzymes that break down disaccharides into monosaccharides
disaccharidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disaccharidase
purple drank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From purple + drank.
Senses: examples: text: The infamous purple drank made me dizzy and sick, but I loved its aftertaste.
ref: 2007, Kenny Attaway, Slum Beautiful, page 40:
text: Instead of listening to the message, people find it easier to blame the messenger. Hip-hop may have promoted purple drank, but it did not create it. OxyContin abuse became a national emergency without a backing soundtrack.
ref: 2011, Kenaz Filan, The Power of the Poppy: Harnessing Nature's Most Dangerous Plant Ally, page 211:
glosses: A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.
Synonyms: lean
sizzurp
Texas tea
Babinski reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babinski reflexes
Etymology: After Joseph Babinski (1857–1932), French neurologist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: Babinski's reflex
Babinski's response
Babinski's sign
Koch's sign
glosses: An abnormal plantar reflex in which the hallux moves upwards, indicative of motor neuron damage.
wikipedia: Joseph Babinski
Harrodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Harrodian
form: most Harrodian
Etymology: From Harrod + -ian.
Senses: examples: Harrodian instability in the neoclassical growth model
glosses: Of or pertaining to Roy Forbes Harrod (1900–1978), English economist.
cumberless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cumberless
form: most cumberless
Etymology: From cumber + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Bird of the wilderness,
Blithesome and cumberless, / Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea.
ref: 1831, James Hogg, The Skylark:
text: […]a train of women (with their cumberless retinue) belonging to the prince and the great officers.
ref: 1800, Annual Register, volume 4, page 7:
glosses: unencumbered
discountability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discount + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being discountable.
discount rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discount rate
hackee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackees
Etymology: From its chittering cry when alarmed.
Senses: examples: text: The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.
ref: 1865, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 1, page 600:
text: The hackee, which is pedimanous, tried to climb the bole.
ref: 1894, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: Volume 21, Part 1:
glosses: The chickaree or red squirrel.
glosses: The chipmunk.
hackee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackees
Etymology: From hack + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the absence of identifying marks such as online or offline names and information is crucial when hacking, because the goal is to be unnoticed, not real, nonexistent from the point of view of the other (i.e., the hackee).
ref: 1998, Annette N. Markham, Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space, page 185:
text: Fortunately for the "hackee" company, its computer security professionals found "electronic fingerprints" left by the other firm's personnel during the hacker attack, which led, in turn, to the discovery of the stolen e-mail.
ref: 2003, Michael Chris Knapp, E-commerce: Real Issues and Cases, page 220:
text: She had a hacker. The tables had been turned and she was the hackee.
ref: 2011, Frederick Ramsay, The Eye of the Virgin, page 139:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system has been compromised.
hackees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackee
haddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhædi/
rhymes: -ædi
Forms: form: haddies
Senses: glosses: A haddock.
Related terms: Finnan haddie
haddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haddie
glosses: plural of haddy
hadje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadjes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hajji.
hadjes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hadj
glosses: plural of hadje
habilimented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From habiliment + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey are rich habilimented, their heads rounded vvith a golden caule: their cheekes tinctured vvith Vermillion, their noſes and eares hung vvith Ievvels of price and bigneſſe, and about their faces (tied to the chin) a rope of orient pearle of exceeding value, if not counterfeit: […]
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “A Discourse of the Life and Habit of the Persians at this Present”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 147:
synonyms: word: attired
word: dressed
word: aguised
word: beclad
word: clad
word: clothed
word: dressed
word: habilimented
word: nonnude
word: raimented
word: sarkit
word: togged
word: vested
word: yclothed
glosses: Clothed.
hacqueton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hacquetons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aketon.
hacquetons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hacqueton
haw-haw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haw-haws
Senses: examples: text: One line of steps we traced from the spot to the haw-haw; they were very distinct upon the turf; the heel was toward the haw-haw, the toe toward the spot where the murder was committed.
ref: 1847, George Payne Rainsford James, A Whim and Its Consequences:
text: […] there were three hundred yards or so of meadow ending in a haw-haw, and then a low courtyard wall.
ref: 2015, Matthew De Abaitua, If Then:
glosses: Alternative form of ha-ha (a ditch acting as a sunken fence)
haw-haw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Bless thy simplicity, Tess," said her companions. "He's got his market-nitch. Haw-haw!"
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of ha ha (“laughter”) (sometimes suggesting an upper-class British accent)
haw-haw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: haw-haws
form: haw-hawing
form: haw-hawed
form: haw-hawed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ha-ha (“to laugh”).
halitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halitic
form: most halitic
Etymology: From halite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing or pertaining to halite.
halites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halite
halitotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halitotic
form: most halitotic
Senses: examples: text: The teratoid of overall visage. The twisted and hunched and humped and halitotic.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: Afflicted with halitosis.
humates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humate
huffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: more huffish
form: most huffish
Etymology: From huff + -ish.
Senses: glosses: arrogant; petulant.
Derived terms: huffishly
huffishness
contact ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contact balls
Senses: glosses: A ball used for contact juggling, usually made of glass, plastic or acrylic and significantly larger and heavier than a juggling ball.
money-guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money-guards
form: money guard
Senses: examples: text: Hamid himself also used a money-guard, storing $8 with his employer while waiting for an opportunity to send it down to the family home.
ref: 2010, Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A person who guards money for someone else, often to prevent it from being spent on unscheduled needs.
Synonyms: money-keeper
cryogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryogeneses
Etymology: From cryo- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The combination of thermophysical, physiochemical, physiomechanical processes occurring in freezing and thawing earth materials.
glosses: The geologic processes that create permafrost.
glosses: The process of mediablasting a surface with dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide).
Related terms: cryogen
cryogenic
cryogenics
cryogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryogenesis
learning curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learning curves
Senses: examples: text: We shall return to these personal differences later in discussing the individual features of the learning curves.
ref: 1903 April 24, Edgar James Swift, “Studies in the Psychology and Physiology of Learning”, in The American Journal of Psychology, volume 14, page 210:
glosses: A visualization of the progress of learning as function of experience.
examples: text: Damen told BBC Sport: "The crowd were phenomenal they carried me through the last few metres. I don't think you can ever prepare enough for this event. It's a massive learning curve for me. From here, I'd like to work on my shorter distances and get some speed back."
ref: 2011 April 17, Jessica Creighton, “Mutai and Keitany secure Kenyan London Marathon double”, in BBC Sport:
text: Toronto Transit Corporation had real issues. [...] My boss was removed in a coup three months after my arrival. I stood in and my learning curve went through the roof. Over five years, we went from being a laughing stock to winning awards.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: A measure of how much there is to learn in a restricted amount of time.
learning curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of learning curve
autofade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + fade.
Senses: examples: text: This automatically halts the autofade and returns control to the manual fader.
ref: 1974, Willard F. Bellman, Lighting the stage: art and practice:
text: One of the nicest enhancements on today's cameras is a circuit for fading to black at the end of a shot — autofade.
ref: 1986, John Melville Bishop, Home video production: getting the most from your video equipment:
glosses: Any feature (of a camera, audio mixer, etc.) that fades automatically.
physiomechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From physio- + mechanical.
Senses: glosses: Describing any physical property that is affected by mechanical processes, such as erosion.
glosses: Of or pertaining to both physiology and mechanics.
Related terms: physiochemical
thermophysical
late tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: late tackles
Senses: examples: text: Stepanov was then booked for a late tackle on Andrews and that would late prove very costly.
ref: 2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:
text: Javier Hernandez's attempts to turn in the rebound were foiled by Ashley Cole's reckless late tackle - which left the England defender fortunate to receive only a yellow card from referee Phil Dowd and United puzzled that they were not awarded a second penalty.
ref: 2011 September 18, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A mistimed attempt to take the ball of an opposing player that results in the tackler making contact with the player and not the ball
launch party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: launch parties
Senses: glosses: An event to coincide with the commercial release of a product or service.
lay-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay-ups
Senses: examples: text: Christophe could tell whether Joshua wanted him to pass the ball to him into the inside for an easy lay-up by the set of his mouth.
ref: 2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), pages 52-53:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of layup.
laze around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lazes around
form: lazing around
form: lazed around
form: lazed around
Senses: glosses: To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
Synonyms: laze about
loaf
loaf about
loaf around