cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mississippi State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: MSU
coordinate_terms: Ole Miss
glosses: Ellipsis of Mississippi State University.
Missouri State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: MSU
coordinate_terms: MU
Mizzou
glosses: Ellipsis of Missouri State University.
KYSU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: KSU
Kentucky State
coordinate_terms: UK
UKY
Kentucky
glosses: Initialism of Kentucky State University.
Kentucky State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: KSU
KYSU
coordinate_terms: UK
UKY
Kentucky
glosses: Ellipsis of Kentucky State University.
UKY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: UK
Kentucky
coordinate_terms: KSU
Kentucky State
glosses: Initialism of University of Kentucky
vapor barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapor barriers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vapor retarder.
synonyms: word: vapor retarder
vapor barriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapor barrier
ethot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of e-thot.
ethots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethot
Nuerland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nuer + -land.
Senses: glosses: The homeland of the Nuer people.
hamfists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hamfist
hamfists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamfist
hamfist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hamfists
form: hamfisting
form: hamfisted
form: hamfisted
Etymology: From ham + fist.
Senses: examples: text: We had an open race and clocks were being read in the clubroom and I had the dubious pleasure of opening the clocks and taking out the ribbons, reckon I’d never make a clock ‘fixer’ the way I was hamfisting through the job, the old Toulets and Benzings were OK but it happened!!
ref: 1972, “Scottish Racing Section”, in Britain’s Year Book of Pigeon Racing, Weybridge, Surrey: Pigeon Racing News & Gazette, →OCLC, page 227:
text: Heyoka, dressed in outlandish masks, or sporting phallic false noses, proceeded to impede and obstruct the cooking, neglecting to singe off the dog’s hair, hamfisting the butchering.
ref: 2006 November 15, Kingsley M. Bray, “Crying for a Vision”, in Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life (The Civilization of the American Indian Series; 254), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, pages 44–45:
text: Burikko refers to a girl who likes to act all cutesy or innocent, usually adult women who fawn on men affectedly and act like little girls. […] (There is no satisfactory English equivalent, and I don’t believe in hamfisting things just to seem like a ‘better translator’.[…])
ref: 2015 January 21, Estelulu [pseudonym], “Translator Notes”, in Sakura Ageha, Otome Game no Burikko Akuyaku Onna wa Mahou Otaku ni Natta, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2019, page 3:
text: It’s pretty seismic to just suddenly shift out to Charles III rather than Carolus. If the Royal Mint wants to have a discussion and say actually all coins need to be in English from now on, so be it. But don’t sort of hamfist [it] by putting the two and trying to fudge it.
ref: 2022 October 7, India McTaggart, quoting Gregory Edmund, “Vale, Carolus: Latin name for King Charles dropped from new coins”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To handle crudely.
hamfisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hamfist
Strasburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Strasbourg (“French city”).
Derived terms: Strasburgh turpentine
fishstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishstocks
Etymology: fish + stock
Senses: glosses: The fish living in a particular body of water.
Related terms: livestock
fishstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishstock
Japanesish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Japanesish
form: most Japanesish
Etymology: From Japanese + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The cover and the ten full-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley are the most extraordinary combinations of original individuality and Japanesish suggestion that I ever saw.
ref: 1894, Book News, volume 12, page 238:
text: Japanesish furniture
ref: 1971, Nikolaus Pevsner, Edward Hubbard, Cheshire (page 40)
glosses: Synonym of Japanesey.
synonyms: word: Japanesey
untrifled with
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not trifled with.
recessable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recess + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be recessed.
avosetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avosettas
Senses: glosses: The avocet, especially the pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta).
avosettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avosetta
nana nap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nana naps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanna nap.
nana naps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nana nap
spaghetti bowl effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaghetti bowl effects
Etymology: First used by Jagdish Bhagwati in a 1995 paper: "US Trade policy: The infatuation with free trade agreements".
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A multiplication of free trade agreements, supplanting multilateral World Trade Organization negotiations as an alternative path toward globalization.
spaghetti bowl effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaghetti bowl effect
rim tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rim tapes
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tape that is put on the wheelrim to protect the inner tube.
publicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The occupation of a publicist, journalism
complete and utter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That movie was complete and utter trash. Do not watch it!
text: The office had been established in connection with the Act passed by Lord Cairns, which it was well known was a complete and utter failure.
ref: 1803, Great Britain. Parliament, William Cobbett, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 710:
text: I only knew that I had given her my confidence, that complete and utter confidence which neither wisdom nor power alone, can command.
ref: 1896, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, volume 7, page 350:
text: Then a period of complete and utter nothingness - not a thought, not a vision, not a sound, nothing.
ref: 2017, Michael Wise, On the Toss of a Coin, page 13:
glosses: Used to intensify; absolute; total.
Related terms: completely and utterly
New Zion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community in Northfield parish, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A historic district in Fayette County and Scott County, Kentucky.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clarendon County, South Carolina, United States.
goofballness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goofball + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That is pretty good advice to me because no one is going to fix my goofballness unless I do it.
ref: 2005 November 30, Charles M. Callahan, Dealing With It: A Life, Infinity Publishing, page 13:
text: Anyone who knows me knows I am a complete goofball, and really have no problem with embarrassing myself or those around me, so to have my son play along and share in my goofballness is so touching.
ref: 2014 May 24, Kim Goldman, Can't Forgive: My 20-Year Battle with O.J. Simpson, BenBella Books, pages 246-247:
text: I had always thought I was the only goofball who had to be totally prepared for my goofballness. But Carson had to be totally prepared for his goofballness too! I felt like, Yeah for us!
ref: 2021 October 5, Margaret Finnegan, Susie B. Won't Back Down, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, page 200:
glosses: The state of being a goofball.
grey phalarope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey phalaropes
Senses: examples: text: ‘Where's your field-glass, quick! Damned if that's not a grey phalarope.’
ref: 1935, Olaf Stapledon, Odd John, Gollancz, published 2012, page 119:
glosses: The phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius, having grey plumage during the winter. Compare red phalarope.
Pereviz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕrĕvēzʹ
ipa: /pɛɹɛvˈiːz/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Переві́з (Perevíz). Compare Perevoz and Pieravoz.
Senses: glosses: A village in Dzvinkove starostynskyi okruh, Boiarka urban hromada, Fastiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded a. 1702.
glosses: A village in Liutenka rural hromada, Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1690.
Related terms: Malyi Pereviz
Perevizka Balka
Velykyi Pereviz
aurum coronarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tax or tribute levied on conquered peoples.
pongamia oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: poonga oil
glosses: An oil pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Millettia pinnata), found in Asia and the Pacific. Among its uses is for lamp oil, soap, and biodiesel
car-crash song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car-crash songs
Senses: examples: text: One week will find Moody playing 10 car-crash songs in a row (a la “Teen Angel”).
ref: 1980 February 10, Marc Zakem, “Marc Zakem on music: Bob Moody is spinning some ‘oldies’ over at WAKY Radio”, in The Courier-Journal, volume 250, number 41, Louisville, Ky., →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 13, column 1:
text: There’s a McCartney impersonator singing A Day In The Life over Skype, and karaoke tracks of car-crash songs whose lyrics Schwebel processed through Google Translate into other languages, then back to English, as though looking for secret clues.
ref: 2012 April 28, Kate Wallace, “A day in the life”, in Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, N.B., →ISSN, →OCLC, page S3, column 1:
text: There’s a bit of chit-chat to set up each themed medley: silly songs (no end of them), boy songs (Everly Brothers classics), girl songs (He’s So Fine), sweet-16 songs (so many), car-crash songs (Teen Angel, Leader of the Pack), and so on.
ref: 2012 July 13, Pat Donnelly, “Theatre review: Hudson musical revue is an audience-pleaser”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C4, column 5:
glosses: Alternative form of car crash song.
car-crash songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car-crash song
car crash songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car crash song
chudjak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chudjaks
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chud
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Balto-Slavic *wájas
Proto-Slavic *vojь
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-āˀkas
Proto-Slavic *-akъ
Proto-Slavic *vojakъ
Polish wojakbor.
English Wojak
blend
English chudjak
Blend of chud (“a person, usually male, who holds sociopolitical views seen as reactionary”) + Wojak.
Senses: examples: text: The WWI aviator to chudjak pipeline
ref: 2023 August 24, u/RA_inmyopinion04, “moustache”, in Reddit, r/ComedyHell, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025:
text: and for his achievement he gets to be portrayed as the chudjak 40 years later
ref: 2024 March 15, u/Safakkemal, “stanisrule”, in Reddit, r/19684, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025:
text: The "Hitler did nothing wrong" guy looking like a ChudJak is so fucking funny.
ref: 2024 September 5, @KarnesMellagio, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025:
text: >the White House is posting chudjaks
ref: 2025 July 10, @restoreorderusa, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025:
glosses: An image of a young man with glasses, often featured in memes, created as a caricature of a typical /pol/ user.
chudjaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chudjak
supernormals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supernormal
Percies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Percy
pay by bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A technology allowing customers to make online payments directly from a bank account, without using a credit card or debit card.
glisé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of coulé.
synonyms: word: coulé
QP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quadratic programming.
Platt calibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Platt scaling.
synonyms: word: Platt scaling
valve amplifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valve amplifiers
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: tube amplifier
glosses: A type of amplifier that uses vacuum tubes to increase the power of a signal.
valve amplifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valve amplifier
tube amplifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tube amplifiers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of valve amplifier.
synonyms: word: valve amplifier
tube amplifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tube amplifier
debarreth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debar
quicker sighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of quick sighted: more quick sighted
quick sighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quick sighted
form: quicker sighted
form: most quick sighted
form: quickest sighted
Senses: examples: text: And if the Prieſt at any time talked of the Ghoſts below, and a Life after this, it was only to keep Men to their Superſtitious and Idolatrous Rites; Whereby the uſe of this Doctrine was loſt to the credulous Multitude; And its belief to the quicker ſighted, who ſuſpected it preſently of Prieſt-craft.
ref: 1695, [John Locke], The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil, […], →OCLC, page 286:
text: But for all that no body, I think, will imagine them deep Naturaliſts, or ſolid Metaphyſicians; no body will deem the quickeſt ſighted amongſt them to have very enlarg’d Views in Ethicks or Politicks, […]
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, § 3, page 11:
text: Princes read history, as well as subjects. They are quick sighted enough to make inferences to justify, what they are but too much inclined to, the undue exercise of their power.
ref: 1714 February 15 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Inquiry into the Reasons of the Joy Expressed by a Certain Set of People, upon the Spreading of a Report of Her Majesty’s Death”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XVIII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 162:
text: ‘[…] I never can tell what a man is thinking about, if I cannot see the changing expression of his mouth, which those thickets quite conceal,’ said Annie. / ‘You cannot, then, tell by the eyes; your cousin can—at least I fancy so, by some remarks she has made to me,’ said Bell. / ‘O yes! Clara is very quick sighted,’ Annie answered, coldly.
ref: 1854, [Catherine Helen Spence], “The Return of the Diggers”, in Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia during the Gold Fever […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son […], →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: Alternative form of quick-sighted.
quickest sighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of quick sighted: most quick sighted
quicker-sighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of quick-sighted: more quick-sighted
quickest-sighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of quick-sighted: most quick-sighted
hellthread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellthreads
Etymology: Compound of hell + thread. Compare hellsite. Popularized in the social network Bluesky around 2023.
Senses: synonyms: hellrope
glosses: An excessively long thread on a social media platform.
wikipedia: Bluesky
European pilchard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European pilchards
Senses: glosses: Fish of species Sardina pilchardus, sold as pilchards or, as juveniles, as sardines.
Synonyms: sense: Sardina pilchardus
word: true sardine
surrogate activities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrogate activity
windmill pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: common catchfly (Silene gallica)
womancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of womance
womanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of womance
color barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color barriers
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: racial barrier
glosses: An unspoken social code of racial segregation or discrimination, particularly in sports, education, and public service.
color barriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of color barrier
racial barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racial barriers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of color barrier.
synonyms: word: color barrier
racial barriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racial barrier
secondary cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary cells
Senses: glosses: Synonym of storage cell.
synonyms: word: storage cell
secondary cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondary cell
pink windmills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Allionia incarnata, a flowering plant native to much of the Americas.
oral law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oral laws
Senses: glosses: A code of conduct in use in a given culture, religion or community, by which a body of rules of human behavior is transmitted by oral tradition and effectively respected.
oral laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oral law
storage ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storage rings
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of circular particle accelerator in which a continuous or pulsed particle beam may be kept circulating, typically for many hours.
storage rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storage ring
storage location
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storage locations
Senses: examples: text: In most computers an individual storage register is not a separate entity, either physically or conceptually, and the term storage location is more appropriate.
ref: 1965, S. H. Hollingdale, G. C. Tootill, Electronic Computers, page 114:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specific place where data elements are stored and written, usually specifiable by an address.
storage station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storage stations
Senses: examples: text: A centrally located compressor and storage station with distribution to all areas is the most efficient and economical means of providing this service.
ref: 1963, United States, Congress and Senate, Report, Together With Minority Views, page 307:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A facility or system designed to store electrical energy for later use.
storage tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storage tubes
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A class of a cathode ray tube that is designed to hold an image for a long period of time, typically as long as power is supplied to the tube.
storage tuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storage tubers
Senses: examples: text: There is also produced each year at the end of a stalk one new storage tuber.
ref: 1918, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions, Volumes 42-44, page 3:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A modified, thickened plant stem or root that serves as an organ for storing nutrients to support the plant's survival during harsh conditions.
Quartly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
storage tubers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storage tuber
storage locations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storage location
storage tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storage tube
blood dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood doll
blood-doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood-dolls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blood doll.
blood-dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood-doll
storage stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storage station
Waymo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of way + mobility, from the company's mission statement, “a new way forward in mobility”.
Senses: examples: text: A man who blocked and shouted at a driverless Waymo car later brutally beat a bystander who told him to let it go, California police reported.
ref: 2024 July 17, Don Sweeney, “Man brutally beats bystander after standoff with driverless car, California cops say”, in The Sacramento Bee, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025:
glosses: An American company specializing in autonomous vehicles, in particular robotaxis.
Waymo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Waymos
Etymology: Blend of way + mobility, from the company's mission statement, “a new way forward in mobility”.
Senses: examples: text: “Unsafe behavior detected,” the Waymo responds.
ref: 2024 July 17, Don Sweeney, “Man brutally beats bystander after standoff with driverless car, California cops say”, in The Sacramento Bee, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025:
text: Among the most captivating scenes from the initial Los Angeles protests were the scorched Waymo cars, lined up in a row and engulfed in heavy black smoke. Some observers believe the cars were targeted because of their association with Big Tech. Others view the Waymos as hapless victims, because they have no one behind the wheel and easily become paralyzed if an object is placed in their path.
ref: 2025 June 13, Rachel Swan, “If Waymos are ignited during Saturday’s No Kings protest, S.F. officials could let them burn”, in San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2025:
text: “The Waymos are everywhere now and soon we're going to be replaced,” says Erik, who started serving passengers around Silicon Valley in his red Tesla Model 3 during the Covid-19 pandemic.
ref: 2025 July 24, Rafe Uddin, Tim Bradshaw, quoting Erik, “The rocky road ahead for robotaxis”, in Financial Times, page 15:
glosses: A self-driving vehicle from this company.
Waymos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Waymo
plexo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Relating to a plexus.
irreciprocally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irreciprocally
form: most irreciprocally
Etymology: From irreciprocal + -ly or ir- + reciprocally.
Senses: examples: text: They say his farewell was bidden irreciprocally. (i.e., either they or he did not respond to it)
text: Jane irreciprocally knows Mark. (he does not know her)
text: And full well you know (faire Ladies) that where the mindes irreciprocally accorded, no dilligence wanteth for the desires execution: so this amorous couple, made many solemne protestations, untill they should bee friended by opportunity.
ref: 1620, Giovanni Boccaccio, “The Sixth Novell”, in John Florio, transl., The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10), London: Isaac Jaggard, published 22 July 2016 via Project Gutenberg:
text: The present investigation had its origin in the discovery that the ciliary body was irreciprocally permeable to water. Since the movement of water in the transparent and watery tissues of the eye cannot readily be observed, we have been forced to study first the movement of substances that we could see, namely, dyes.
ref: 1938 November 24, Jonas S. Friedenwald, Robert D. Stiehler, “Circulation of the Aqueous: VII. A Mechanism of Secretion of the Intraocular Fluid”, in Archives of Ophthalmology, volume 20, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, V. Transfer of Water, page 780:
text: I’m just saying, no one is irreciprocally forcing it closed. It’s what everyone wants.
ref: 2025 January 5, iyambred, “Is anyone else poly but not open?”, in Reddit, r/polyamory:
glosses: In an irreciprocal manner; by not giving back some expected response.
xylospongium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzaɪləʊˈspʌnd͡ʒi.əm/
ipa: /ˌzaɪləˈspʌnd͡ʒi.əm/
ipa: /ˌzaɪloʊˈspʌnd͡ʒi.əm/
ipa: /ˌzaɪləˈspʌnd͡ʒi.əm/
Forms: form: xylospongia
form: xylospongiums
Etymology: From Latin xylospongium, from Ancient Greek ξῠλοσπόγγῐον (xŭlospóngĭon), diminutive of ξῠλόσπογγος (xŭlóspongos). By surface analysis, xylo- (“wood”) + sponge.
Senses: synonyms: tersorium
sponge on a stick
glosses: A Greek and Roman utensil consisting of a sea sponge fixed to the end of a wooden stick, typically thought to have been used for anal hygiene or as a toilet brush.
xylospongia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylospongium
xylospongiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylospongium
elderlyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of elderliness.
vichaunceller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [1574] My duty in most humble wise remembred unto your honour. Whereas it hath pleased allmyghtie God that I should be chosen this yere the vichaunceller of the Universitie, whereof your honour is most worthie head and singuler patrone, I take it my most bounden dewty to enforme your honour of the state thereof, especially in this tyme of sicknes, knowinge the singuler care the which your honour do bear to the good government and well doinge of the said Universitie.
ref: 1854, James Heywood, Thomas Wright, Cambridge University Transactions During the Puritan Controversies of the 16th and 17th Centuries, volume 1, Bohn, page 166:
glosses: Obsolete form of vice-chancellor.
Igu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
Inba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
Fig Tree Formation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Fig Tree Formation
Senses: glosses: A stromatolite-containing geological formation in South Africa that contains fossils of microscopic life forms of about 3.26 billion years old.
Liujiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Liuzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
karinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karindings
Etymology: From Sundanese karinding.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of Jew's harp, of Sundanese origin, most often made of bamboo or sugar palm branch.
hunting crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunting crops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crop (“an entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding”).
synonyms: word: crop
extra: an entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding
hunting crops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunting crop
unsemely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of unseemly.
rasslin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasslin
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wrestling.
rasslin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rasslin'.
demon face syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Prosopometamorphopsia.
Troper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tropers
Senses: examples: text: As for TV Tropes, I would need to be more familiar with them to identify them in a film. However, I imagine that it's a lot of fun to watch a movie with other Tropers and be calling them out as you identify them. "Loser Protagonist!" "Running Gag!"
ref: 2011 November 17, Suzan, “"Copacabana" TV Tropes page is up”, in alt.fan.barry-manilow (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025:
text: This Troper finds himself using Gintama “Zura ja nai, Katsurada!” as a swear, does this also count as a Gosh Darn It to Heck?
ref: 2019, Rowan Elizabeth Arbuthnott Gardiner, quoting Troper Tales, “Positive and Neutral Attitudes”, in ‘Weeaboo Japanese’: Exploring English-Japanese Language-Mixing in Online Japanese Popular Culture Fandom, thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Philosophy in Linguistics, Auckland: Massey University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2025, chapter 4 (Results), section 2 (Language Attitudes), page 53:
text: Using substantial crowdsourced material, ‘Tropers’ on the popular fan wiki site, TV Tropes (2022), identify the ‘Amoral Afrikaner’ as a trope that traces back to apartheid-era South Africa, for example Lethal Weapon 2 in 1989.
ref: 2022, Rachel Lara van der Merwe, “Brothers from another mother: Seeing the uncanny in US popular media depictions of South Africa”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 25, number 5, London: Sage Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 595:
text: Practitioners of this troping, or “anyone who contributes to [TV Tropes],” are called “Tropers.”
ref: [2022, Esther Grace Witte, Transfigurative Access and Journal-Keeping Practice: Theorizing Anti-Oppressive Rhetorical Scholarship, dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (English Language and Literature), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2025, page 53:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of troper (“a contributor to the wiki website TV Tropes”).
Tropers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Troper
thrill of the hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Then, a couple of years ago, Bolle chanced upon a hamper filled with baseball cards at a yard sale. Bolle, 41, bought the treasure chest for $5, and as he was going through the loot, he remembered the thrill of the hunt for cards of his favored Dodgers, and the important role baseball played in his childhood.
ref: 2003 May 8, “It's all in the cards”, in Los Angeles Times, page E38:
text: While stamps vary in price from their street value to the vaulted collectible price for the "Inverted Jenny," which fetched $977,500 at auction, Canupp said his event, which has been held three times a year since 1992, is more about sharing knowledge and the thrill of the hunt than getting rich.
ref: 2011 July 8, “Asheville Stamp and Postcard Show is signed, sealed and delivered”, in Asheville Citizen-Times:
glosses: The anticipation and excitement experienced while searching for something that is difficult to obtain.
Synonyms: thrill of the chase
storage mediums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storage medium
unbargainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: un- + bargainable
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonbargainable.
synonyms: word: nonbargainable
it is as it is
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Well, it is as it is, and must be borne. It shall be borne undespondingly, though not without grief.
ref: 1859 October 5, [Lajos] Kossuth, quotee, “Kossuth and Napoleon [III]”, in The Nonconformist, volume XIX (New Series), number 727, London, →OCLC, page 803, column 2:
text: Well, it is as it is. Thank God. I believe this was ordained. I feel you and I will live to the end of this.
ref: 1916, Katharine Searle, “‘Hatred’”, in Three War Sketches […], Cambridge, Mass.: The Powell Printing Company, →OCLC, page 47:
text: Well, it is as it is. At the same time, is it not true that something strange is happening, along with the bursting of what we have called the second layer, the repressed layer and its spilling over in acts of violence? Isn’t it so that people are turning to “something else”?
ref: 1976 April, James Wyckoff, chapter 8, in Using Pyramid Power!, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, published June 1977 (2nd printing), →ISBN, pages 86–87:
glosses: Synonym of it is what it is.
synonyms: word: it is what it is
undespondingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undespondingly
form: most undespondingly
Etymology: From undesponding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I try to reach, grow weary with the effort, pause, rest, and try again, and this state of things I conceive must continue yielding me luxurious delight until I sink fearlessly and undespondingly into the unknown rest; […]
ref: 1845, [Charlotte Elizabeth Mann], quoting a letter by Robert James Mann, A Sketch of the Life and Work of Robert James Mann, M.D., F.R.C.S., by His Wife, London: […] Edward Stanford, published 1888, →OCLC, page 20:
text: Well, it is as it is, and must be borne. It shall be borne undespondingly, though not without grief.
ref: 1859 October 5, [Lajos] Kossuth, quotee, “Kossuth and Napoleon [III]”, in The Nonconformist, volume XIX (New Series), number 727, London, →OCLC, page 803, column 2:
text: This must needs be in all experiences of life;—I am only thankful that it is not my nature to anticipate the “shady side” while it is my fortunate capability to look upon it undespondingly when it presents itself.
ref: 1869 September 22, Frances E[lizabeth] Willard, “Part Four: 9 October 1868–28 September 1870”, in Carolyn De Swarte Gifford, editor, Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855–96 (Women in American History), Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, published 1995, →ISBN, pages 315–316:
text: [W]e need […] men who can school themselves into the religion of patience and possess the ability which enables us, under all possible circumstances, when we have done our best, to rest undespondingly and trustfully for the result.
ref: 1884 August 21, a State Official, “The Penal System of New York. III.”, in The Independent, volume XXXVI, number 1864, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page (1063) 7, column 4:
text: I had rather kiss you than the tumbler, my dear / If there’s death in the cup, let us kiss before bier. / Our lips close with a cling / Undespondingly bring, / Then two happiest pairs to a good wassailing.
ref: 1898, “Canto VII.”, in an Apologist, editor, The Epic of Humanity; or, The Quest of the Ideal, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page 382:
text: We are to understand (vidyât) that the state of mind, which ceases to have its connexion with the senses and their objects, and thus breaks loose from pain (tam duhkha san̄yogaviyogam), is called Yoga (yoga san̄jnitam). To this the Yogi must cling (yoktavyah) steadfastly (nischayena) and undespondingly (nirvinna chetasâ).
ref: 1923, R. S. Taki, chapter VI, in De Carmine Dei Deorum; or, On the Song of the God of Gods […], part I (Theology or the Science of God), Andheri, Bombay Presidency: The Sadbhakti Prasârak Mandali, →OCLC, page 395:
text: COURAGE FRIEND! We all loathe CHRISTMAS but it COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR and is soon over / Yours undespondingly / G. B. S.
ref: 1923 February 24, G[eorge] Bernard Shaw, quotee, “Bernard Shaw on Christmas”, in The Living Age, volume 316, number 4103, Boston, Mass.: Living Age Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 490, column 2:
antonyms: despondingly
glosses: In an undesponding manner.
apandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Fusion of the antheridium with the oogonium.
dyaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diaster.
dyasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyaster
pine straw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pīn′ strô′
ipa: /ˈpaɪn ˌstɹɔː/
ipa: /ˈpaɪn ˌstɹɔ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪn ˌstɹɑ/
ipa: /ˈpʌin ˌstɹɔ/
ipa: /ˈpəin ˌstɹɔ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪn ˌstɹɒ/
ipa: /ˈpʌɪn ˌstɹɒ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪn ˌstɹɑ/
ipa: /ˈpʌɪn ˌstɹɑ/
ipa: /ˈpɑen ˌstɹoː/
ipa: /ˈpaɪn ˌstɹoː/
ipa: /ˈpajn ˌsʈɾɔ/
Forms: form: pine straws
Senses: glosses: Fallen pine needles used as mulch.
pine straws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pine straw
straw-coloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more straw-coloured
form: most straw-coloured
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of straw-colored.
unlowerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lowerable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be lowered.
megazooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megazooids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large motile daughter cell of certain unicellular algae.
megazooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megazooid
Quiraing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Quiraing
Etymology: Scottish Gaelic [Term?]
Senses: glosses: A landform on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish escarpment on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, taking the form of a craterous hollow surrounded by a high rampart of rock.
mesochite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The middle layer surrounding the egg in Fucaceae, composed of cellulose and attached at the base.
quadroclops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of quadro- + cyclops
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A creature with four eyes.
Jarresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jarresque
form: most Jarresque
Etymology: From Jarre + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Jean Michel Jarre (born 1948), French composer, performer and record producer known for his pioneering electronic and ambient music and for outdoor musical spectacles with laser displays and projections.
cricetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricetines
Senses: glosses: Any of the subfamily Cricetinae of small rodents; a hamster
pleurotribe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a flower: having the stamens adapted to deposit their pollen upon the sides of insect visitors.
plurannual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Being effectually an annual plant because it is killed by the cold at the end of the season.
pneumatotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of zoospores whose irritability is dependent on the presence of dissolved gases, the products of respiration of the zoospores in the sporangium.
podospermium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podospermia
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of podosperm.
synonyms: word: podosperm
podospermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podospermium
picks and shovels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the expression “When everybody is digging for gold, it's good to be in the pick and shovel business” or a variation thereof.
Senses: examples: text: By offering advanced AI capabilities, bridging proprietary and public models, providing secure storage solutions and delivering generative AI services, these providers of "picks and shovels" stand to play instrumental roles in shaping the future of enterprise AI.
ref: 2023 June 26, Steven Dickens, “The Picks And Shovels Of The AI Gold Rush”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2023:
text: They’re sort of a classic picks and shovels company that is making money by building the inputs to AI, but not actually training their own frontier models.
ref: 2025 June 13, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The crucial tools or ingredients for a booming industry or enterprise.
hamsicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamsick
magnetic-resonance imaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Magnetic-resonance imaging is certainly an exciting new piece of diagnostic technology with enormous potential.
ref: 1985 January 10, Michael Victor, “Rx: caution on medical marvel”, in The Record, Hackensack, N.J., →OCLC, page A-17, column 2:
text: Imris and Siemens are expected to announce the strengthened collaboration Monday, under which Imris will support sales of Siemens devices for magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and angiography.
ref: 2018 October 8, Joe Carlson, “Minnetonka-based Imris to collaborate with Siemens”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVII, number 187, Minneapolis, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D1, columns 2–3:
text: Focused ultrasound sends sound waves through a patient’s skull, and guided by magnetic-resonance imaging, concentrates them on a specific spot.
ref: 2018 December 22, Ruth Serven Smith, “FDA approves focused ultrasound to treat symptom of Parkinson’s”, in The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A3, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of magnetic resonance imaging.
cryptoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptoblasts
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A preventitious bud.
cryptoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptoblast
Boyarka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Boiarka.
probasid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probasids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of probasidium.
synonyms: word: probasidium
probasids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probasid
everseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛv.əˌsiː.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɛv.ɚˌsi.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: more everseeing
form: most everseeing
Etymology: From ever + seeing.
Senses: examples: text: Here was alſo Argos built, by that all everſeeing Argos, ſo much celebrated by ancient Poets: […]
ref: 1638, Lewes Roberts, “Of Lepanto, and the trade thereof” (chapter CCXLV), in The Merchants Mappe of Commerce, London: […] R. O. for Ralph Mabb, →OCLC, page 188:
text: Oh thou! whose everseeing eye can pierce
The misty shades of night, and penetrate
The deep recesses of the human heart;
ref: 1833, Margaret Miller Davidson, “To the Deity”, in Washington Irving, editor, Biography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, published 1841, →OCLC, page 202:
glosses: Which sees unceasingly; constantly seeing.
Related terms: all-seeing
sieve element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sieve elements
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sieve-tube element.
synonyms: word: sieve-tube element
sieve elements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sieve element
spermagone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermagones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spermogonium.
spermogone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermogones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spermogonium.
spermagones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermagone
spermogones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermogone
poor man's fridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poor man's fridges
Senses: glosses: A clay pot or clay cupboard used to store food or drink and keep it cool.
trenything is possible
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Blend of tren + anything is possible.
Senses: examples: text: Trenything is possible
ref: 2023 March 15, reddit.com, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025:
text: trenything is possible
ref: 2023 July 2, u/brigolo_18, reddit.com, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025:
text: "Lifetime natural " ? Guess trenything is possible if you have myostatin deficiency?
ref: 2025 June 2, u/Graiybeardosrs, reddit.com, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025:
glosses: Used to imply that someone is taking trenbolone or another anabolic steroid to gain muscle.
Kilominx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kilominxes
Etymology: Brand name, by surface analysis, kilo- + -minx.
Senses: synonyms: Flowerminx
glosses: A twisty puzzle in the shape of a dodecahedron that consists entirely of corner and center pieces; effectively the 2×2 version of the Megaminx.
spermatokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: ookinetic
glosses: Tending to produce the male element.
ookinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: spermatokinetic
glosses: Tending to produce the female element.
Kilominxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kilominx
fantasizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantasizing
fantasisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantasising
-minx
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps a back-formation of Pyraminx, coined by Uwe Mèffert.
Senses: glosses: Used in the names of several twisty puzzles.
wikipedia: Uwe Mèffert
Cooper's ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cooper's ligaments
Etymology: Named for Astley Cooper, who described both structures in the first half of the 19th century.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the connective tissue elements in the breast that help maintain structural integrity.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An extension of the lacunar ligament, running on the pectineal line of the pubic bone and serving as the posterior border of the femoral ring.
Cooper's ligaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cooper's ligament