cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
notablest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Ægyptians […] by precious Embalments, depositure in dry earths, or handsome inclosure in glasses, contrived the notablest wayes of integrall conservation.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 5:
glosses: superlative form of notable: most notable
galopade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galopades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gallopade.
galopin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galopins
Senses: glosses: A boy employed in a kitchen.
saises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sais.
liberty of conscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the Emperor Julian useth the same receipt of libertie of conscience, to enkindle the trouble of civill dissention, which our Kings employ to extinguish.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 19, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The 1620 ship brought a small company of brave men and women to plant here liberty of conscience denied them in their homeland.
ref: 2010, Alistair Cooke, The Guardian, 12 June 1957
synonyms: freedom of conscience
glosses: The freedom to follow one's religious or ethical beliefs.
clarkias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clarkia
gambadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gambada
antitau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitaus
Etymology: From anti- + tau.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the antitauon.
antitaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitau
charmoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charmonium
gargarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gargarises
form: gargarising
form: gargarised
form: gargarised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gargarize.
gargarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gargarise
chargon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chargons
Etymology: From charge + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The holon, a quasiparticle produced as a result of electron spin-charge separation.
chargons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chargon
surface plasmons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surface plasmon
supersolidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersolidity
payos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peot.
gaufrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaufrettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French gaufrette.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of waffle.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A crispy fried slice of potato.
roi fainéant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹwɑː ˈfeɪnɪənt/
ipa: /ˌɹwɑː feɪneɪˈɒ̃/
Forms: form: rois fainéants
Etymology: From French roi fainéant (“lazy king”).
Senses: examples: text: Whether it be some Visigothic chieftain raised on a shield above the shoulders of his shouting warriors, some Roi Fainéant of the Merovingian race, a listless, pallid, long-haired kingling, dragged languidly through the streets in a painted wagon by sleek oxen, […] it seems clear to me that we must have some sort of a show, and a pageant, and a ‘barbaric pomp’ of procession.
ref: 1860, George Augustus Sala, Lady Chesterfield's Letters to her Daughter:
glosses: Any of the later French kings of the Merovingian dynasty, considered to have played a merely ceremonial role.
examples: text: He is a King Do-Nothing, a Roi Fainéant, who shirks and evades all the responsibilities of his position […]
ref: 1898, Henry Harland, Comedies and Errors:
text: Although Jacques Chirac more recently gave the role a distinctly sleepy, roi fainéant flavor, it remains a throne more than a mere office.
ref: 2012 May 7, Adam Gopnik, “Vive La France”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A leader with only nominal power.
Mongo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
poncifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poncif
galopades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galopade.
galopins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galopin
gaufrettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaufrette
rois fainéants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roi fainéant
composite particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of composite particle
bedeem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedeems
form: bedeeming
form: bedeemed
form: bedeemed
form: bideme
Etymology: From Middle English bidemen, equivalent to be- + deem. Cognate with Danish bedømme (“to judge, adjuducate, decide”), Swedish bedöma (“to judge”).
Senses: glosses: To condemn.
examples: text: God grant this vision bedeem me any good.
ref: 2003, Simon Barker, Hilary Hinds, The Routledge anthology of Renaissance drama:
glosses: To determine or decide the fate of; doom (one) to; sentence; forebode; foretell.
gégène
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʒeɪˈʒɛn/
Etymology: From French gégène.
Senses: examples: text: It was a view that would not necessarily be shared by Algerians subjected to the gégène or having had their bellies pumped full of water during the Battle of Algiers.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 197:
text: The politicians were helpless. Paras used the gégène no matter how much politicians condemned it.
ref: 2007, Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy, page 162:
text: Refusing to answer questions about the political affiliations of various villagers, he was subjected to the gégène.
ref: 2011, Vincent Crapanzano, The Harkis, page 68:
glosses: A form of electroshock torture, especially as used by the French during the Algerian War of 1954-1962, whereby electrodes are run from a field generator to parts of a victim's body.
bedeal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedeals
form: bedealing
form: bedealt
form: bedealt
Etymology: From Middle English bedelen, bidelen, bidælen, from Old English bedǣlan, equivalent to be- (“off, away”) + deal. Cognate with Old Saxon bidēlian (“to deprive”), Old High German piteilan (“to deprive”).
Senses: glosses: To deprive (of).
gainand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gainand
form: most gainand
form: ganand
Etymology: From Middle English gainand, present participle of Middle English gainen (“to gain, benefit”), equivalent to gain + -and.
Senses: qualifier: Now chiefly UK dialectal
glosses: Appropriate; becoming; fit; suitable; convenient.
Martinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Martino
Dionysia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdaɪəˈnaɪsiə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Διονῡ́σια n pl (Dionū́sia), from Διόνῡσος (Diónūsos, “Dionysus”).
Senses: examples: text: The greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of tragedies and comedies.
glosses: Any of the ancient festivals held in honour of the Olympian god Dionysus, and corresponding to the Roman Bacchanalia.
immiserizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immiserization
misinvestment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misinvestments
Etymology: From mis- + investment.
Senses: glosses: An incorrect or unwise investment.
Related terms: misinvest
malinvestment
misinvestments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misinvestment
misinvest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinvests
form: misinvesting
form: misinvested
form: misinvested
Etymology: From mis- + invest.
Senses: glosses: To invest incorrectly or unwisely
Related terms: misinvestment
misinvests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misinvest
misinvesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinvest
misinvested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misinvest
legplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legplates
Etymology: From leg + plate.
Senses: hypernyms: legharness
meronyms: platelegs
glosses: Plate armour worn on one's legs.
cuissard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kwisɑɹ(d)/
Forms: form: cuissards
form: cuissart
Senses: examples: text: His looks anxiously followed the men as, upon given signals, they disappeared and returned with a fresh supply of cuissards, brassards, gorgets, knee and breast plates, groaning under the weight […]
ref: 1843, Magic, Magic and Mesmerism: An Episode of the Eighteenth Century, and Other Tales, page 212:
coordinate_terms: cuisse
glosses: An armor leg-guard or thigh-guard.
Related terms: cuisse
cuissette
revêtement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revêtements
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of revetment.
microvacation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvacations
form: micro-vacation
Etymology: From micro- + vacation.
Senses: examples: text: With only a few tree silhouettes, and both the freeways and El Camino Real miraculously silent, for just these moments Ralph Sr., appreciative of peace as anybody, could take another of what he'd come to think of as microvacations on an island of time fragile and precious as any Tahiti or one of them.
ref: 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Penguin Books, published 1991, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: A very brief vacation; a momentary respite from the cares of everyday life.
Synonyms: nanobreak
microvacations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvacation
eargasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eargasm
micro-vacation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-vacations
Senses: examples: text: Many writers find that a diversionary activity such as doodling provides a good micro-vacation from writing.
ref: 1984, Alan Ziegler, The Writing Workshop, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, published 1984, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of microvacation.
micro-vacations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-vacation
win through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wins through
form: winning through
form: won through
form: won through
Senses: glosses: to attain one's goal in the end, despite obstacles along the way
It⁺⁶
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Italian augmented sixth chord
Fr⁺⁶
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: French augmented sixth chord
Ger⁺⁶
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: German augmented sixth chord
scima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cyma.
syma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cyma.
cymae inversae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyma inversa
cymæ inversæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyma inversa
cymae rectae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyma recta
cymæ rectæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyma recta
cymae reversae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyma reversa
cymæ reversæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyma reversa
spaulder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔl.dɚ/
Forms: form: spaulders
Etymology: Probably from Middle English spaulde (“shoulder”), from Anglo-Norman espalde, Old French espaule (ultimately from Latin spatula), + English -er. However, compare spallière, ultimately from the same Latin source.
Senses: coordinate_terms: pauldron
epauliere
espauliere
glosses: A piece of plate armour that protects one's shoulder, generally covering less than the pauldron which developed later.
Related terms: epaulette
spaulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaulder
middlescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of middle age + adolescence.
Senses: examples: text: Or was I a broken-down college professor living out a spasm of middlescence on the golden coast of Califomia?
ref: 1988, Josiah Thompson, Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye, Fawcett Crest, published 1989, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: The period or condition of middle age, especially as a time of transition comparable to adolescence.
gainsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gain-saw
Etymology: From Middle English gainsawe, ȝeinsawe, equivalent to gain- + saw (“a saying”). Compare gainsay.
Senses: glosses: Gainsaying; contradiction.
gainset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gainsets
form: gainsetting
form: gainset
form: gainset
form: gain-set
form: gaynset
Etymology: From Middle English gaynsetten, yensetten (also aȝeynesetten (“to oppose”)), equivalent to gain- + set. Cognate with archaic German gegensetzen (“to oppose”) (whence entgegensetzen), German Gegensatz (“opposition”).
Senses: examples: text: This humour aideth the vnderstanding with two qualities, and gainsetteth it selfe only with one.
ref: 1594, Carew, Huarte's Examamination of Men's Wits vi. 73:
text: Sith I doe not take vpon mee but to write bare Annotations, I leaue it to the Readers conſideration, who may ſee, now more then euer, that the world continueth the building of Babel: that is, men madly gainſet their owne wiſedome and power againſt the wiſedome and power of God; […]
ref: 1625, original 1584-1603, Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas, William Lisle, S. Goulart Senlisien, La Seconde Semaine, page 50:
text: An t'Man up it Mooin in hiz letter sent wurd,
 This wor ta begin Febrewerry Twenty-Thurd,
Shud yo like to see it - put yersen e moshan,
An ax't gainset way tut North Pacifick Oashan;
If ankshas yo feel to be there before nooin,
Yo mun tack a cheap trip e somebody's baloon;[…]
ref: 1841, Charles Rogers, The Bairnsla Foaks' Annual: Be Tom Treddlehoyle, page 11:
roman: And the Man up in the Moon in his letter sent word,
This was to begin February Twenty-Third,
Should you like to see it - put yourself in motion,
 And ask the gainset^([sic]) (opposite) way to the North Pacific Ocean;
If anxious you feel to be there before noon,
You must take a cheap trip in somebody's balloon; […]
text: Forsooth some gainsetting say: active life is more fruitful; for it does works of mercy, it preaches and works other such deeds; […]
ref: 1914, original between 1305 and 1350, Richard Rolle, Frances Margaret Mary Comper, The Fire of Love:
glosses: To set over against; oppose.
gainspeaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gain-speaker
Etymology: From gain- + speaker.
Senses: examples: text: To this was appended "A Brief Rehearsal of the Belief of the Good-willing in England which are named the Family of Love, With the Confession of their upright Christian Religion against the false Accusation of their Gain-speakers."
ref: 1575, Strype, Annals:
glosses: A gainsayer; opponent.
gainspeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gain-speaking
Etymology: From gain- + speaking.
Senses: glosses: A speaking against; opposition.
Related terms: gainspeaker
here be dragons
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Evidence of the use of this term as a notation on actual historical maps is lacking. The only known appearance of an equivalent phrase in any language on a historical map is of Latin HC SVNT DRACONES (“here are dragons”), placed on the east coast of Asia, on the Hunt-Lenox Globe, which dates from c. 1510. The phrase is simply a variation on HIC SVNT LEONES ("here are lions"), the classical phrase used by medieval cartographers to denote unknown territories on maps.
Senses: examples: text: It's like in those old maps of the world, where the mapmakers wrote, "Here be dragons" on the unexplored parts of the globe.
ref: 1994, Steven Henry Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering, page 11:
text: The awakening world scrawled ‘Here Be Dragons’ across the unknown territory.
ref: 2004, Nornie Campbell, No Dragons Here, page 253:
text: When the old seafarers encountered uncharted territory, they would find those blank areas on the map marked with the phrase “Here be Dragons” and the image of a sea serpent or a similarly ferocious creature.
ref: 2011, Susie Vrobel, Fractal Time: Why a Watched Kettle Never Boils, page 255:
glosses: A fanciful notation, commonly attributed to historical maps, held to indicate either the belief that unknown dangers exist in a certain location on the map, or that actual dragons can be found there.
examples: text: Here be dragons in the shape of London landladies, owners of small hotels ('B. & B.') in the streets off the lower end of Euston Road. . .
ref: 1962, Geoffrey Fletcher, The London Nobody Knows, page 16:
text: . . . let me go into what was the unknown, ‘Here-be-Dragons’, hinterland of science, to find out what made scientists tick. . .
ref: 1987, Ritchie Calder, reported in New Scientist, Vol. 114, No. 1559, May 7, 1987, p. 61
text: Speaking of money... here be dragons... Do you charge?
ref: 1993, Incorporated Association of Organists, Organists' Review, Volume 79, Issues 309-312, p. 219
text: Analytical philosophers mark "Here be dragons" on the part of the intellectual map that belongs to phenomenology.
ref: 1997, William R. Everdell, The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought, page 191:
text: In undertaking such a task, I realise that I am venturing into uncharted waters, or at least waters for which only charts of the ‘here be dragons’ variety exist.
ref: 1997, Charles Jones, The Edinburgh history of the Scots language, page 336:
glosses: By extension, used to indicate that which is unknown or uncertain, particularly if it seems to carry some type of risk.
Synonyms: here be monsters
there be dragons
Related terms: non plus ultra
beframe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beframes
form: beframing
form: beframed
form: beframed
Etymology: From be- + frame.
Senses: examples: text: What bearing hath be shown of late toward thee By which thou might'st beframe some estimate Of his mind's placid flow or turbulent?
ref: 1916, James Whitcomb Riley, The complete works of James Whitcomb Riley:
glosses: To frame about; construct; perform.
milkaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪlkəˈhɑlɪk/
ipa: /mɪlkəˈhɔlɪk/
Forms: form: milkaholics
form: milkoholic
Etymology: From milk + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: He's said to be a milkaholic, and to pack a hip-flask of Half & Half.
ref: 1993, Edward Dorn, Way West: Stories, Essays & Verse Accounts, 1963-1993, Black Sparrow Press, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: One who likes to drink milk, particularly an excessive amount.
milkaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkaholic
millionerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millionerds
Etymology: Blend of millionaire + nerd.
Senses: examples: text: With their entry into new high-tech industries, many nerds suddenly became millionerds.
ref: 1998 July 20, Franklin Foer, “Time to re-evaluate the nerd and the nebbish: who's the bigger loser?”, in The Baltimore Sun:
glosses: A wealthy nerd, especially one whose fortune was made in technology.
millionerds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millionerd
gainbirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gain birth
form: gain-birth
Etymology: From gain- + birth. Compare againbirth.
Senses: examples: text: What schal we have ŷen? Jesus said vnto ŷem, Je ŷt hav folowed me in ŷe gain birth when ŷ sõn of man schal sit in ŷe throon of his glorí, [...]
ref: 1550, Sir John Cheke, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, published 1843:
text: One of these is Regeneration, or "the gainbirth" as the fathers were fond of calling it. A Christian is understood to be a new man in Christ Jesus; old things have passed away, all things are become new.
ref: 1903, David James Burrell, Christ and Progress:
text: Elsewhere he wrote: We see in baptism also that Christ, the Holy Ghost, grace, forgiveness of sins, our gainbirth which they call regeneration, do longer remain in them that be baptised than they do remain with the waters wherewith the faithful be washed. For the water is an instrument which God vouchsafeth to use that we may be grafted into Christ by baptism and we may be born again by the Holy Ghost.
ref: 2017, Bryan D. Spinks, Sacraments, Ceremonies and the Stuart Divines:
glosses: Regeneration; rebirth.
gainrising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gain-rising
Etymology: From gain- + rising. Compare againrising.
Senses: examples: text: At that tijm cam the Saddoucais vnto him, who sai theer is no gainrising.
ref: 1550, Sir John Cheke, Gospel of Matthew:
synonyms: againrising
uprist
glosses: A rising again; resurrection.
momic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momics
Etymology: Blend of mom + comic.
Senses: examples: text: They should be called "momics," those housewives who climb comedy-club stages and tell jokes about their kids and dirty laundry.
ref: 1996 March 2, Dick Kreck, “Everything wacky in 'Momville'”, in Denver Post:
glosses: A comedienne whose act focuses on her children and family life.
momics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momic
distomedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: more distomedial
form: most distomedial
Etymology: From distal + medial.
Senses: examples: text: When held vertically close to your nose, the top left quadrant of the right thumb is the most distomedial quadrant.
text: ...fifth joint with about eight distomedial setae;
ref: 1983 December, Jürgen Sieg, “Tanaidomorpha (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica”, in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 13, number 4, The Royal Society of New Zealand, page 397:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to an inside aspect, but also farther away from the center of the body.
Derived terms: distomedially
distomedially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distomedially
form: most distomedially
Etymology: From distomedial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a distomedial direction.
housey-housey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Reduplicated diminutive house + -y. See house (“the game of bingo”)
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the day they passed lying on their beds yarning, or reading stories by Victoria Cross, or playing cards or housey-housey.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 122:
glosses: Lotto or bingo, especially when played for money.
momoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑmˌwɑː(r)/
ipa: /ˈmɒm-/
Forms: form: momoirs
Etymology: Blend of mom + memoir.
Senses: examples: text: So-called momoirs, first-person accounts exploding some of the sentimentality about motherhood, include Andrea J. Buchanan's "Mother Shock" and Muffy Mead-Ferro's "Confessions of a Slacker Mom."
ref: 2006 December 17, Lizzie Skurnick, “Chick Lit, the Sequel: Yummy Mummy”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A memoir written by or about a mother.
archrivalry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archrivalries
form: arch-rivalry
form: arch rivalry
Etymology: From archrival + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: The archrivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox is probably the most famous in baseball.
text: Although the Swedish track season is only a month old, the arch-rivalry has already produced three other world's records.
ref: 1944 July 1, Briton Hadden with Henry Robinson Luce, Time, volume 44, Time Inc.:
glosses: The relationship between two or more archrivals. The term usually applies to two archrivals.
archrivalries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch-rivalries
form: arch rivalries
Senses: glosses: plural of archrivalry
billyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of billy-oh.
momoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momoir
arch-rivalry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch-rivalries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archrivalry.
arch rivalry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arch rivalries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archrivalry.
arch-rivalries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arch-rivalry
arch rivalries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arch rivalry
Tommies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tommie
glosses: plural of Tommy
swinging the lead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swing the lead
chimneysweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimneysweeps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chimney sweep.
chimneysweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimneysweep
municide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: municides
Etymology: muni(cipality) + -cide
Senses: examples: text: If he succeeds, it will be only because a lot of legislators want to see if Chicago really is foolish enough to commit municide, or whatever it's called when a city kills itself economically.
ref: 1986 May 12, “No To A City Income Tax”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: The demise of a city through economic collapse or disincorporation.
municides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of municide
Indo-Portuguese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Indo-Portuguese
form: most Indo-Portuguese
Etymology: From Indo- + Portuguese.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to India and Portugal.
Indo-Portuguese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Indo- + Portuguese.
Senses: glosses: Any of various Portuguese-based creoles spoken in India and Sri Lanka.
therewhilst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From therewhile with genitive -s.
Senses: examples: text: there is nothing may so justly distaste a subject from putting himselfe in paine and danger for the service of his Prince then therewhilst to see him given to lazinesse, to base and vaine occupations, and to have care of his conservation, seeing him so carelesse of ours.
ref: , II.21
glosses: Therewhile.
marlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marler
girolle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girolles
Etymology: Borrowed from French girolle.
Senses: examples: text: The dominance of the squeaky-clean white button has given way to a far wider range: brown chestnuts and flat-capped portobellos, and pearly-white oysters, which really do look a bit like the oyster shells they’re named after, carotene-orange girolles, flavour-bomb dried shiitake and porcini, or delicate enoki, with their long, skinny legs and tiny caps, which are often sold in packages with buna and shiro shimejis and labelled “exotic”.
ref: 2015 November 14, Yotam Ottolenghi, “Shroom for manoeuvre: Yotam Ottolenghi’s mushroom recipes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: chanterelle (mushroom)
cuissards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuissard
revêtements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revêtement
gingivites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gingivitis
girolles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girolle
mansionization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mansion + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: "Mansionization," Faith said. "It's happening all over the country. Even in Aleford. Remember that sweet little Cape on River Street? Now it's a six-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bath Colonial on steroids, with great room, gym, home theater, and wine cellar."
ref: 2003, Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Lighthouse, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: The practice of demolishing smaller, older houses in a neighbourhood and replacing them with new ones that occupy the maximum amount of lot space possible and dwarf surrounding dwellings.
cour d'honneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cours d'honneur
Etymology: From French cour d'honneur.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A three-sided ceremonial courtyard, created by flanking the main central block, or corps de logis, with symmetrical advancing secondary wings containing minor rooms.
Synonyms: court of honor
grand prior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand priors
Senses: synonyms: great prior
glosses: The chief of a group of priors, at a large religious house with more than one; also specifically, the commander of a priory of the Knights of St John.
MSTing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSTings
Senses: examples: text: The intent may not have been deliberately malicious; but it was negligent and in bad taste not to ask the author's permission first, which in no way precludes the MSTing from being hurtful.
ref: 1995 February 4, Roberta Chi-Woon Kwong, “Re: MSTied fanfic (long)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: I love all the discussions and especially enjoy reading MSTings of fan fiction.
ref: 2003 April 4, Andrew Mitchell, “Delurking”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
text: I once did a MSTing of the Power Rangers movie script, and there are MAJOR differences between it and what we see on screen.
ref: 2003 August 13, Fish Eye no Miko, “Re: Hermione in COS”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A parody fanfic created by inserting satirical commentary into an existing work.
Synonyms: topics: lifestyle
word: MST
MSTing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of MST
MSTed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of MST
light on the hill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Used by Ben Chifley and since adopted as a catchphrase by members of the ALP.
Senses: examples: text: 1949 June 12, Ben Chifley, speech, 2009, Pamela Robson (editor), The Light on the Hill, Great Australian Speeches, unnumbered page,
We have a great objective—the light on the hill—which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand.
text: The traditional ethic of the fair go was resurrected, the light on the hill reignited, and the government promised that those currently unemployed would not be left to stagnate.
ref: 2002, Francis Gordon Clarke, The History of Australia, page 186:
text: Tellinglly, when asked to give an example of how he understood equality, he replied ‘I want every kid to have a desk, with a lamp, and his own room to study.’ The light on the desk replaced the light on the hill.
ref: 2009, Stuart MacIntyre, A Concise History of Australia, Third edition, page 237:
glosses: Used to evoke the values of the Australian Labor Party.
Neutral Zone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former area between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, abolished 1991.
cours d'honneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cour d'honneur
douit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douits
Etymology: From Guernsey Norman douit, from Anglo-Norman duit, from Old French duit, from Latin ductum. Doublet of duct.
Senses: examples: text: He crossed the douit and forced his way into the thicket.
ref: 1965, John Christopher, A Wrinkle in the Skin:
text: He said, ‘Didn't you know that every douit and every hedge and every inch and square inch of land on Guernsey is weighed and measured, and has been for centuries?’
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 129:
text: Visitors can stroll down to the beach along wooded paths beside streams known as "douits."
ref: 1989, Stephen Birnbaum, Birnbaum's Great Britain 1990:
text: The pair were virtually inseparable over the front nine until Eggo’s second shot on the ninth dived into the douit short of the green not to be seen again.
ref: 2011 May 20, “Blondel turns on the style”, in The Guernsey Press:
glosses: A stream or brook.
douits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douit
water spaniel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water spaniels
Senses: examples: text: Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell, […] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then a Iade.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 30, column 2:
glosses: A large breed of spaniel used in hunting waterfowl.
Lutetia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Lutetia.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Roman city and island in modern France; modern Paris.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 21 Lutetia, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 21 Lutetia
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㉑
Derived terms: Lutetian
Massilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin Massilia.
Senses: synonyms: Massalia
glosses: A city in Gallia Narbonensis, now Marseille.
Related terms: Massilian
Massiliote
gaintaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganetaking
form: gane taking
Etymology: From gain- + taking.
Senses: examples: text: Deforcing of the officiare in execution of his office in the gane taking of ane caldrown poundit be the said officiare; [...]
ref: 1538, Jameson, Aberd. B. Rec. XVI.:
qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: A taking back again; recovery.
gainstriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gainstrive + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] if in peace and quietness we are so fainthearted, that with every small breath or wind of temptation we are blown away from God, and without any gainstriving are carried headlong into all kind of wickedness and mischief?
ref: between 1525 and 1587, a work by John Foxe, reprinted in The acts and monuments of John Foxe, volume 6, page 276
glosses: A striving against; contention.
Synonyms: gainstrife
gainstriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gainstrive + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gainstrive
gainstrife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gain- + strife. Compare gainstrive.
Senses: examples: text: He had come to see Ralph, but my lady took him off to one of the solars, and said briskly: 'Now, I charge you, John, no prating to my lord about all this gainstrife that is sprung up over my brother Somerset's ending, for he is nigh diswitted already by the debate, and he will not for his life mell himself in it!
ref: 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John:
glosses: Contention; striving against.
shipling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiplings
Etymology: From ship + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A small or miniature ship; a boat.
shipfyrd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial calque of Old English sċipfyrd, sċipfierd (“naval expedition, naval force, fleet, navy”), equivalent to ship + fyrd. Compare landfyrd.
Senses: examples: text: This national army or militia was called the fyrd; the shipfyrd manned the navy.
ref: 1965, James Westfall Thompson, Edgar Nathaniel Johnson, An introduction to medieval Europe:
glosses: An Anglo-Saxon naval force or militia; naval fleet; navy.
landfyrd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landfyrds
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English landfyrd (“army”); equivalent to land + fyrd.
Senses: examples: text: For that purpose Harold had of course to trust to the landfyrd, the militia of the shires.
ref: 1869, Edward A. Freeman, The history of the Norman conquest of England:
qualifier: Anglo-Saxon
glosses: A ground force; ground expedition; militia; army.
Related terms: fyrd
shipfyrd
outframe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outframes
form: outframing
form: outframed
form: outframed
Etymology: From out- + frame.
Senses: examples: text: The framers of the Constitution were being outframed by the president, and the Democrats in Congress felt helpless to stop it.
ref: 2009, George Lakoff, The Political Mind:
text: For example, George Lakoff, a left-wing linguist at the University of California at Berkeley, thinks Democrats have lost many of the modern political battles because they are “outframed” by Republicans, who get their preferred [...]
ref: 2011, Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak:
glosses: To frame better than another; exceed or surpass in framing.
semirant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semirants
Etymology: From semi- + rant.
Senses: examples: text: anyhoo, just my little semirant..
ref: 1997 May 6, Charles Albert Mangin, “Mush/Musecode archive ?”, in rec.games.mud.tiny (Usenet):
glosses: A mild or brief rant.
semirants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semirant
beef injection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beef injections
form: hot beef injection
Senses: examples: text: "DeSantis told me that I just needed an Italian beef injection to clear out my system. I told him I didn't listen to language like that. To please get out of my office. […]
ref: 1996, Barbara Mikulski, Marylouise Oates, Capitol Offense, Dutton, published 1996, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: penetrative sexual intercourse.
beef injections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beef injection
unwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unwider
form: more unwide
form: unwidest
form: most unwide
Etymology: From Middle English unwid, from Old English unwīd (“not wide”), equivalent to un- + wide. Cognate with Dutch onwijd (“unwide”), German unweit (“not far from”).
Senses: examples: text: But how, you ask, do you display a wide-screen movie on a decidedly unwide television screen?
ref: 2000, Michael Miller, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Theater Systems:
glosses: Not wide.
worthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: worthlier
form: more worthly
form: worthliest
form: most worthly
Etymology: From Middle English worthely, wurthlich, from Old English weorþlīċ (“important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming”), from Proto-Germanic *werþalīkaz (“worthy”), equivalent to worth + -ly. Cognate with Old Frisian werdelik,
Old Saxon werthlīk, Old High German werdlīh.
Senses: examples: text: It is not good to be alone, / to walk here in this worthely wone
ref: 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, lines 184–185:
english: It is not good to be alone, to walk here in this noble world
translation: It is not good to be alone, to walk here in this noble world
text: I hope that the few details set down here will induce more worthly contributions along the same line.
ref: 1918, American Institute of Mining Engineers, Engineering and mining journal:
text: The enactment and enforcement of laws and the education of advertiser and advertising medium, toward the end that people will have greater confidence in advertising from the fact that advertising will be more worthly of public confidence.
ref: 1920, Frank H. Lancaster, Ernest F. Birmingham, The Fourth estate:
text: If they are of equal worth, and that is the basis for equal treatment, then some people should not be considered more worthly simply because they have some trait, such as training, that allows them to make an additional social contribution [...]
ref: 2008, Norman Daniels, Just health: meeting health needs fairly:
glosses: Having great worth or value; valuable; important; dignified; stately; excellent; worthy; deserving (of).
Derived terms: worthliness
unworthly
Related terms: worthy
worthliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From worthly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We confess it appears to us that knowledge of character, quick perception into the worth or worthliness of those about us, in no degree depends on, or can be governed by, any system or theory whatever.
ref: 1862, Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon, The British quarterly review:
text: Some undergraduates will advance while some graduates will retreat, so that in the end their worthliness may be cancelled in parallel lines.
ref: 1909, The Medical standard:
glosses: The state or condition of being worthly; valuableness; importance; stateliness; dignity; worthiness; excellence.
Derived terms: unworthliness
N-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N-bombs
Senses: coordinate_terms: word: A-bomb
word: H-bomb
word: C-bomb
word: U-bomb
word: neutron
alt: n
glosses: Abbreviation of neutron bomb
coordinate_terms: A-bomb
H-bomb
C-bomb
U-bomb
glosses: Abbreviation of nuclear bomb
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of n-bomb (“the word nigger”).
glosses: The synthetic hallucinogen 25I-NBOMe, used as a recreational drug.
hot beef injection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot beef injections
form: beef injection
form: hot-beef injection
Senses: examples: text: Maybe her new boyfriend had just been over and given her a hot beef injection.
ref: 1999, Jack Heifner, Boys' Play: A Play in One Act, Dramatic Publishing, published 1999, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Penetrative sexual intercourse.
hot beef injections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot beef injection
Isan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Thai อีสาน (ii-sǎan) (same in Isan), claimed to be from Sanskrit ईशान (īśāna, “Shiva of the northeast”).
Senses: glosses: A large region in northeastern Thailand, on the Khorat Plateau.
glosses: The language of the Isan people (between Lao and Thai, and sometimes considered a dialect of Lao, although it is written in Thai script).
Synonyms: topics: region
location
word: Isaan
topics: region
location
word: Issan
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Isaan
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Issan
Isan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Thai อีสาน (ii-sǎan) (same in Isan), claimed to be from Sanskrit ईशान (īśāna, “Shiva of the northeast”).
Senses: glosses: The ethnic Lao people who have traditionally lived in Isan.
Synonyms: sense: people
word: Isanese
Isan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Thai อีสาน (ii-sǎan) (same in Isan), claimed to be from Sanskrit ईशान (īśāna, “Shiva of the northeast”).
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Isan, the Isan people or the Isan language.
Synonyms: Isanese
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Isan terms
let slide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets slide
form: letting slide
form: let slide
form: let slide
Etymology: From Middle English leten sliden (“to disregard, put aside, let pass, neglect”), equivalent to let + slide.
Senses: examples: text: The police officer let the ticket slide when she found her brother-in-law's car illegally parked.
text: The administrator let the minor infraction slide with only a disapproving look.
text: With a calm carelessness letting each thing slide.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: Which statement Louis prudently let slide.
ref: 1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 277:
glosses: To let go; to allow; to release; to pass over without action.
raw_tags: of intangibles
glosses: To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
examples: text: The judge let me slide on the speeding, but not on a $200 seat-belt violation.
text: I take it all, I let it slide
But hey, you went too far this time
ref: 2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Jon Levine, Scott Jacoby, “Congratulations”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten:
glosses: To tolerate a violation of a norm from.
raw_tags: of persons
examples: text: He let the farm slide after inheriting it from his father.
glosses: To allow the condition of something to deteriorate due to negligence or apathy.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, slide.
hot-beef injection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-beef injections
Senses: examples: text: The woman licked her lipstick-smeared teeth at him and spoke, her voice full of hunger and venom: "Hey, Rev! You gonna be my sugar daddy? Wanna give me the hot-beef injection?"
ref: 2005, Christopher Largen, Junk, ENC Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: Alternative form of hot beef injection.
hot-beef injections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot-beef injection
jewelsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewelsmiths
Etymology: From jewel + smith.
Senses: glosses: A person whose profession involves making jewelry out of precious metals and stones.
glosses: The place where such a person carries out their trade.
NUWC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
cartridge box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartridge boxes
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: cartridge case
glosses: The case in which a soldier carries cartridges.
horizontal hula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horizontal hulas
Senses: examples: text: […] But when you're in love, you want to be with that person and talk to her, not just do the horizontal hula with her."
ref: 2006, Melodie Bowsher, My Lost and Found Life, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 233:
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
cartridge boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartridge box
strings together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of string together
strung together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of string together
stringing together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of string together
begowk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begowks
form: begowking
form: begowked
form: begowked
Etymology: From be- + gowk.
Senses: examples: text: But I'll begowk them there, Mr. David.
ref: 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:
text: Is she trying to begowk a donnert old man next?
ref: 1921, William Darling Lyell, The house in Queen Anne square:
text: Dewing, you sought to begowk me by setting me up against Zurich — or perhaps you really thought to use me against him.
ref: 1917, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Copper Streak Trail:
glosses: To play a trick on, make a fool of.
begowking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begowk
begowked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begowk
begowks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begowk