cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
borodinsky bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sasha mixed a little smetana with acacia honey and spooned it on to borodinsky''' bread, pungent with rye.
ref: 1995, Mark Jones, chapter 6, in Black Lightning, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Sedmoi Kontinent supermarkets offer probably the best borodinsky bread in town and great Ciabatta bread, both plain and with onions and herbs.
ref: 2006, “Moscow”, in Christina Knight, Mary Beth Bohman, editors, Moscow & St. Petersburg, 7th edition, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, page 114:
text: But it’s not just Red Square that has teased my senses – there have been so many ‘flavours’ in Moscow I’m about to explode – the taste of honey-and-pepper vodka, the feel of caviar popping in my mouth, the grumbling of fat babushkas, the smell of freshly baked borodinsky''' bread, the sight of strapping young soldiers goose-stepping at the gates of the Kremlin.
ref: 2014, Bambi Smyth, “Russia: Something fishy’s going on”, in Men on the Menu: Dating, Dining, Daring to Do It, London: Blink Publishing, published 2015, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Borodinsky bread.
Borodino bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Russian бороди́нский хле́б (borodínskij xléb).
Senses: examples: text: The following are some of the types: whole rye and whole grain (55–65% rye, and 35–45% whole wheat); light rye and special breads such as Borodino bread (80 parts whole rye, 15 parts dark wheat flour, 5 parts dark malt extract, 4 parts syrup, 6 parts sugar, 1.5 parts salt, and 0.5 parts spices); […]
ref: 1971, Yeshajahu Pomeranz, J. A. Shellenberger, “Bread in Various Countries”, in Bread Science and Technology, Westport, Conn.: The AVI Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, pages 75–77:
text: Ah, you can’t get real black bread here, Borodino bread for instance, so we’ll have to spread it on white bread.
ref: 1987, Zinovy Zinik, translated by Michael Glenny, “Homesickness”, in The Mushroom-Picker, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 151:
text: Rewarding herself with a handful of cherries and a slice of black Borodino bread, she reviewed her work.
ref: 2017, Simon Sebag Montefiore, “Day Six”, in Red Sky at Noon, London: Century, →ISBN, page 200:
glosses: Synonym of Borodinsky bread.
synonyms: word: Borodinsky bread
Gill's Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Hawkhurst Station has a single platform, on the down side, and stands in an isolated position, on a hillside, at Gills Green, more than a mile north of the town.
ref: 1955 February, H. A. Vallance, “Through the Wealden Hills to Hawkhurst”, in Railway Magazine, page 125:
glosses: A hamlet in Hawkhurst parish, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7532).
clerk of the pells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clerks of the pells
Senses: glosses: An officer within the English Exchequer, responsible for recording financial transactions.
clerks of the pells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerk of the pells
ape-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ape-girls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apegirl.
ape girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ape girls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apegirl.
Lavezares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Northern Samar, Philippines.
Eschel blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Independently of the ordinary smalt, there is another darker blue, with a very fine grain, and which is generally called Eschel blue or Laundry blue.
ref: 1874, Jean René Denis Riffault des Hêtres, Armand Denis Vergnaud, G. Alvar Toussaint, A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Colors for Painting, Comprising the Origin, Definition, and Classification of Colors; the Treatment of the Raw Materials Etc, page 352:
glosses: A specific shade of blue, a trademarked color name.
vision loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vision losses
Senses: glosses: A partial or total inability to see.
palisade tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palisade tissues
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: palisade mesophyll
glosses: A layer of closely packed, cylindrical cells located beneath the upper epidermis of a leaf, and primarily responsible for photosynthesis.
palisade tissues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palisade tissue
palisade mesophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palisade mesophylls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of palisade tissue.
synonyms: word: palisade tissue
palisade mesophylls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palisade mesophyll
green bacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green bacteria
Senses: glosses: A diverse group of anoxygenic chlorophototrophic bacteria.
green bacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green bacterium
Jesuits' drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An herbal remedy used in Europe that claimed to treat various ailments.
Jesuits' nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The seeds of the water caltrop, of the species Trapa natans.
Jesuits' powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jesuits' powders
Senses: glosses: Powdered cinchona bark or Peruvian bark.
Jesuits' powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jesuits' powder
Jesuits' tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jesuits' teas
Senses: glosses: An infusion of the leaves of Psoralea glandulosa.
Jesuits' teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jesuits' tea
I'm not telling you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to express that someone doesn't need to know something, typically because it is a secret (sometimes used as a way to attempt to hide someone's wrongdoing); may also be used when someone tries to ask for answers while doing an assignment or examination, or private or confidential information, including passwords.
jesuitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jesuitic
form: most jesuitic
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jesuitic.
Pilseners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pilsener
Pilsners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pilsner
tea shrub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea shrubs
Senses: synonyms: tea bush
glosses: The common tea plant.
tea bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea bushes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tea shrub.
synonyms: word: tea shrub
tea shrubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea shrub
tea bushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea bush
cinchona barks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinchona bark
oil can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil cans
Senses: examples: text: The Dutch oil can is a wicked looking object about a yard long and each driver has his own place for keeping it, varying from behind the brake pump to the top of the outer firebox inside the cab.
ref: 1955 February, E. J. Tyler and J. Quanjer, “The Steam Locomotive in Holland 1919-1954”, in Railway Magazine, page 131:
glosses: Alternative form of oilcan.
oil cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil can
green gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green glands
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: antennal gland
glosses: One of a pair of excretory organs, found in some crustaceans, particularly decapods like crayfish, that function similarly to a kidney.
antennal gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antennal glands
Senses: glosses: Synonym of green gland.
synonyms: word: green gland
antennal glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antennal gland
green glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green gland
Mapanas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Northern Samar, Philippines.
Palapag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Northern Samar, Philippines.
Pambujan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Northern Samar, Philippines.
Silvino Lobos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Northern Samar, Philippines.
Capul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Northern Samar, Philippines.
Lobios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Ourense, Galicia, Spain.
Lyapunov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Ляпуно́в (Ljapunóv)
Derived terms: Lyapunov exponent
Lyapunov orbit
cdi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cdis
form: cdiing
form: cdied
form: cdied
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali চুদি (cudi).
Senses: glosses: fuck.
Kluge's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after German philologist Friedrich Kluge.
Senses: glosses: A proposed sound law affecting an early stage of Proto-Germanic, in which a stop consonant plus following /n/ are changed to a geminate consonant when the following vowel is accented, most often in n-stems.
wikipedia: Friedrich Kluge
Related terms: Grimm's law
Verner's law
Blindley Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and heath in Godstone parish, Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ3645).
organ of Tömösváry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organs of Tömösváry
Senses: synonyms: postantennal organ
temporal organ
glosses: A specialized paired sensory organ found in certain groups of myriapods and hexapods, located on the head near the base of the antennae.
postantennal organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postantennal organs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of organ of Tömösváry.
synonyms: word: organ of Tömösváry
organs of Tömösváry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organ of Tömösváry
Tömösváry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Derived terms: organ of Tömösváry
temporal organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporal organs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of organ of Tömösváry.
synonyms: word: organ of Tömösváry
temporal organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporal organ
postantennal organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postantennal organ
booksack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊk.sæk/
Forms: form: booksacks
Etymology: From book + sack.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of backpack.
synonyms: word: backpack
death cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death cups
Senses: glosses: Synonym of death cap.
synonyms: word: death cap
death cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death cup
underhope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underhopes
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English underhopen (“to consider as secondary, discount”), equivalent to under- + hope.
Senses: examples: text: Of baffled struggling crowds and broken cries
And the great stedfast underhope that never dies.
ref: 1896, Prosser Hall Frye, The Substance of His House, page 44:
text: Yesterday they went with underhopes of home
And mostly glad to go - how impotent to save […]
ref: 1973, James Gibson, Let the Poet Choose, page 55:
text: He also has a greater hope, what he might have called a tremulous underhope: that the neighbours who say that 'he hears it not now' might be mistaken.
ref: 2005, The Thomas Hardy Journal, volumes 21-22, page 183:
glosses: A lowered expectation or hope.
Related terms: overhope
convicthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: convict + -hood
Senses: glosses: The state or fact of being a convict.
underhopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underhope
prerealist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + realist.
Senses: examples: text: Duncan Kennedy, in his essay "The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault!" criticizes Foucault for not taking law seriously enough. He argues that Foucault has an antiquated, prerealist view of juridical power, "a typically European but utterly misconceived picture of the legal system as a domain governed by rules (as opposed to standards), by individualist (as opposed to altruist) definitions of legal rights, and by deductive (as opposed to 'policy-oriented') reasoning".
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
glosses: Prior to or characteristic of the views preceding realism (in various senses).
data protection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data protections
Senses: examples: text: The links were mostly to newspaper articles and public records, and Google refused to comply, but with the “right to be forgotten” enshrined as a key objective of the European Union’s 2011 data protection strategy, more and bigger cases are likely to follow.
ref: 2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist:
text: The train company did not breach data protection law for publishing the clip during the so-called traingate controversy.
ref: 2017 July 12, Katie Mansfield, “Virgin Trains cleared of rumbling Jeremy Corbyn with traingate CCTV clip”, in Daily Express:
text: However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers[.]
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
synonyms: data privacy
glosses: The act or process of protecting data from unauthorized use by ensuring security and privacy through consciously chosen and enforced rules and methods.
examples: text: This proposal has to be cleared by Legal, Human Resources, and Data Protection before it can proceed further.
glosses: The business function (team, department, squad, etc) that leads others in their performance of this act or process.
Derived terms: word: DPIA
english: data protection officer
translation: data protection officer
word: DPO
english: General Data Protection Regulation
translation: General Data Protection Regulation
word: GDPR
Related terms: cybersecurity
privacy policy
Honesti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Liff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Angus council area, Scotland, north-west of Dundee (OS grid ref NO3333).
mouse pointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouse pointers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: the cursor
deadbeat mom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadbeat moms
Senses: glosses: the female equivalent of a deadbeat dad
Mear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Meerwein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Meerwein's salt
Meerwein-Ponndorf reaction
Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
Verley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From West Flemish, a shortening of Dutch Van der Leij.
Senses: glosses: A surname from West Flemish
Derived terms: Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
Mileska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Milevska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
'umras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'umra
umras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umra
hadjdji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadjdjis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajji.
hadjdj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajj.
sweep in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweeps in
form: sweeping in
form: swept in
form: swept in
Senses: glosses: To arrive suddenly or unexpectedly; to take power or move into a position of control suddenly or unexpectedly.
Pasokification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From PASOK + -ification, after PASOK.
Senses: examples: text: One of the noticeable trends in European politics in the past decade has been the decline of the traditional center-left parties. This is described by the popular term "PASOKification," named after the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Greece and its epic fall from power in the 2010s.
ref: 2019, Jacob S. Cox, “PASOKification: Fall of the European Center Left or a Transformation of the System”, in Governance: The Political Science Journal, volume 6, number 5:
text: As such, the electoral collapse and marginalisation of PASOK was a prominent example of the general decline of major social-democratic parties in Western Europe, which was often accompanied by the emergence of nationalist, left-wing or right-wing parties. A trend labelled 'Pasokification'.
ref: 2020, Manina Kakepaki & Fani Kountouri, editors, Parliamentary Elites in Transition, Palgrave Macmillan Press, page 131:
glosses: The loss of the traditional support base of a dominant political party, often resulting in its marginalization or even collapse.
wikipedia: PASOK
bilaterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilateran
grabby arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grabby arms
Senses: glosses: A picker-upper, especially one designed to be used as a toy.
acatalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ.kætəˈlɪtɪk/
Etymology: From a- + catalytic.
Senses: examples: text: Comparative tests made with both catalysts demonstrated to him conclusively, that under the working conditions of the industrial practice, metallic catalysts are always more effective than oxides, though there are oxides which give metal, which, however, in acatalytic action is below the oxide catalyst.
ref: 1918 March, Dr. W. Herbig, “ANNUAL REPORT ON FATS OILS AND WAXES FOR YEAR 1916”, in The American Perfumer and Essential Oil Review, volume XIII, number 1, New York, page 279:
text: The absorbance of a PAG for chemically amplified resist can be quite low because of the high quantum yield resulting from acatalytic reactions.
ref: 1998, Bruce W. Smith, Kazuaki Suzuki, James R. Sheats, editors, Microlithography: Science and Technology, illustrated edition, CRC Press, page 532:
text: The catalytic site of these enzymes contains acatalytic triade, serine, histidine and glutamine.
ref: 2023, Surya Nandan Meena, Vinod Nandre, Kisan Kodam, Ram Swaroop Meena, editors, New Horizons in Natural Compound Research (Progress in Biochemistry and Biotechnology), Elsevier, page 472:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not involving or exhibiting catalysis; lacking catalytic activity.
fangboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fangboys
Etymology: From fang + boy.
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, fangboy!” Buffy snapped.
ref: 2000, Ray Garton, Resurrecting Ravana, page 175:
text: Skye had paled, frightened, as well she might be—she was being ordered to fight vampires without benefit of the elixir. Holgar had appeared to take the news in stride, declaring that with or without the elixir, he was glad for the chance to “rip some fangboys apart.”
ref: 2010, Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguie, Crusade, page 45:
text: Beside her, a dark-eyed fangboy in leather pants and no shirt winked at me, his tangled dreadlocks a shock of dusty blue.
ref: 2011, Erica Hayes, Blood Cursed, page 8:
glosses: A male vampire.
ghoulfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghoulfriend
fangtasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fangtasies
Etymology: Punning blend of fang + fantasy.
Senses: examples: text: Why did the vampire buy a soccer magazine?
He wanted to play fangtasy football.
ref: 2001, John Byrne, The World's Scariest Joke Book!, page 94:
text: Die Hard Dracula (1998): Amusingly terrible fangtasy has American hunk going to Prague and finding the doppelganger of his recently drowned gal—along with Dracula, who looks like Ozzy Osbourne after he’s been snorting ants.
ref: 2010, Michael Adams, Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made, page 323:
text: The theme of revisting old flames and past selves seems to be up your alley, considering your adults-only "fangtasy" graphic novel My Pretty Vampire.
ref: 2017 August 24, Brittany Matter, “Finding A Groove In Freedom”, in Image+, volume 2, number 4, page 19:
glosses: A fantasy or dream involving vampires.
fangfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fangfully
form: most fangfully
Etymology: Punning blend of fang + thankfully.
Senses: examples: text: Mia Sara finds herself up to her neck in vampires during a trip to Romania. Fangfully she remembered to pack the garlic
ref: 1997 November 21, “Flickers”, in Leeds Student, volume 28, number 9, University of Leeds, page 16:
text: "Yeah, to watch the new vampire movie I Netflixed. It's supposed to be fangfully fresh."
ref: 2007, Marianne Mancusi, Girls That Growl, page 237:
text: And how do those different animals use their fangs? Those are good questions, and—fangfully—we have the answers!
ref: 2021, April Graham Farr, editor, Uncle John's Hindsight Is 20/20 Bathroom Reader: The Future Is Family, Friends, Facts, and Fun, unnumbered page:
glosses: In a fortunate manner involving fangs or vampires.
heloing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of helo
heloed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of helo
vagring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably from vagrant.
Senses: examples: text: […] the which being of too ancient breede among vs, were of late yeeres ſo mightily increaſed, that by their licencious and vniuſt, yea verie ſturdy and ſhameleſſe vagring and begging, all mercie of almes-giuing was ſo violently catched vp and deuoured at euery rich mans gate, and alſo at euery meane mans doore, that mercie was degenerated, to the cruell and waſtfull feeding and foſtering of ſuch an idle and wicked rout, as by the rule of the holy Apoſtle, were altogether vnworthy of any almes, in ſo much as they were ſuch, as vtterly refuſed to work.
ref: 1600, Robert Allen, A Treatise of Christian Beneficence, […], Iohn Hariſon […], unnumbered page:
glosses: Roaming, wandering.
vagring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vagring
form: most vagring
Etymology: Probably from vagrant.
Senses: glosses: That roams or wanders in the manner of a vagrant.
shamelesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shamelesse
form: most shamelesse
Senses: examples: text: […] the which being of too ancient breede among vs, were of late yeeres ſo mightily increaſed, that by their licencious and vniuſt, yea verie ſturdy and ſhameleſſe vagring and begging, all mercie of almes-giuing was ſo violently catched vp and deuoured at euery rich mans gate, and alſo at euery meane mans doore, that mercie was degenerated, to the cruell and waſtfull feeding and foſtering of ſuch an idle and wicked rout, as by the rule of the holy Apoſtle, were altogether vnworthy of any almes, in ſo much as they were ſuch, as vtterly refuſed to work.
ref: 1600, Robert Allen, A Treatise of Christian Beneficence, […], Iohn Hariſon […], unnumbered page:
glosses: Obsolete form of shameless.
boofriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boofriends
Etymology: Punning blend of boo + boyfriend.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: ghoulfriend
text: Send your favorite ghoulfriend or boofriend a Halloween message.
ref: 1984 October 10, “Classifieds”, in The Fulcrum, volume XXVII, number 3, Broome Community College, page 10:
text: 'Bring your better half or bring your ghoulfriend,' says organizer Steve Moore.
ref: 1989 October 11, “Bring your ghoulfriend or boofriend October 28th”, in The Madoc Review, Madoc, ON, page 10:
text: Coaches Sharp, Jackson, Rasmussen, and the SAB are counting on your patronage, so bring your ghoulfriends, boofriends, and baby ghouls and boos to show your support.
ref: 1995 September 3, Leah LeGendre, “Treat Your Basketball Team By Attending Halloween Hoopla”, in The Conglomerate Weekly, volume 93, number 1, Centenary College of Louisiana, page 3:
glosses: A boyfriend who enjoys horror, Halloween, or the macabre.
examples: text: Coordinate term: ghoulfriend
text: Who does a female ghost see on Friday night?
Her boofriend
ref: 1979, Mike Thaler, Screamers: Cartoon Monster Riddles, page 94:
text: What do you call a zombie and a ghost when they are dating?
Ghoulfriend and boofriend.
ref: 2011, Michael Dahl, Chuckle Squad, page 61:
text: And it wasn't the mention of her ex-boofriend that had her reeling — that was ancient news.
ref: 2024, Tiffany Schmidt, Once Bitten, Twice Dead, unnumbered page:
glosses: A ghost or monster boyfriend.
licencious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more licencious
form: most licencious
Senses: examples: text: […] the which being of too ancient breede among vs, were of late yeeres ſo mightily increaſed, that by their licencious and vniuſt, yea verie ſturdy and ſhameleſſe vagring and begging, all mercie of almes-giuing was ſo violently catched vp and deuoured at euery rich mans gate, and alſo at euery meane mans doore, that mercie was degenerated, to the cruell and waſtfull feeding and foſtering of ſuch an idle and wicked rout, as by the rule of the holy Apoſtle, were altogether vnworthy of any almes, in ſo much as they were ſuch, as vtterly refuſed to work.
ref: 1600, Robert Allen, A Treatise of Christian Beneficence, […], Iohn Hariſon […], unnumbered page:
glosses: Obsolete form of licentious.
forgetty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɡɛti/
ipa: /fɚˈɡɛti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
Forms: form: more forgetty
form: most forgetty
Etymology: From forget + -y (“having the quality of; inclined to”).
Senses: examples: text: Please tell me what is D. F.’s name? I ought to remember but am so “forgetty”!
ref: 1896 January 30, “The Conversation Corner”, in The Congregationalist, page 179:
glosses: Tending to forget things, forgetful.
examples: text: We are over here, I see that, and all that is over there, and this over hereness and that over thereness is a small part of infinite other relations of hereness and thereness, I see all this, but then I get a bit forgetty, and, just, don’t have this particular-in-aggregate setup in my head, and I say something like “I forget where we are.”
ref: 2012, Padgett Powell, You & Me, page 12:
glosses: In a state of forgetting, having forgotten.
forgetty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɡɛti/
ipa: /fɚˈɡɛti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
Forms: form: forgetties
Etymology: Coined or popularized by Cordwainer Smith (see quotations below). Seemingly from forget + -y (suffix forming diminutive or familiar nouns).
Senses: examples: text: Forgetties were barely above underpeople in status. They were persons convicted of various major crimes, to whom the courts of the worlds, or the Instrumentality, had allowed total amnesia instead of death or some punishment worse than death
ref: 1965, Cordwainer Smith, “On the storm planet”, in When the People Fell, published 2012, page 517:
text: Alma came out of the cube Finisternis as a forgetty, conditioned to remember nothing of her long sad psychotic life before the Instrumentality had sent her on a wild mission among the stars.
ref: 1965, Cordwainer Smith, “Three to a Given Star”, in Galaxy, volume 24, page 127:
text: She had thought in the past of autoforgetting with dread and fear, feeling something unclean and wretched about being a forgetty. But there was something worse, a whole universe of somethings-worse.
ref: 1979, M.A. Foster, Gameplayers of Zan, page 27:
text: “You ever been feverish before?”
“Once. I only forgot about a year and a half.” […] “I’ll be a fresh forgetty in a day or two, and you don’t keep somebody in jail when they don’t even remember breaking the law.”
ref: 1987, Rory Harper, “Snorkeling in the River Lethe”, in Amazing Stories, volume 61, page 120:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A person whose memory has been erased or damaged.
forgetties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forgetty
boofriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boofriend
fangboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fangboy
chocolatyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To underline the cake's chocolatyness (technical term), Rick blooms cocoa powder in hot coffee for the cake batter and adds Nutella to the whipped topping.
ref: 2024 December 14, Mia Leimkuhler, “It's Time for Nutella Tres Leches Cake”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2024:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chocolatiness.
protecting power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protecting powers
Senses: topics: diplomacy
government
politics
glosses: a sovereign country that represents another country ("protected power") in a third country where the protected power has no diplomatic relations with that country
protecting powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protecting power
vibe coder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibe coders
Etymology: From vibe coding.
Senses: examples: text: Who are the vibe coders?
ref: 2025 March 5, Benj Edwards, “Will the future of software development run on vibes?”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2025:
text: AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a 'vibe coder' to write his own damn code
ref: 2025 March 14, Julie Bort, “(article title)”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2025:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Someone who generates source code by repeatedly prompting a large language model, and has a very limited awareness of how the code actually functions; someone who engages in vibe coding.
Related terms: proompt
proompter
vibe coders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibe coder
desert monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desert monitors
Senses: glosses: A species of carnivorous monitor lizard, Varanus griseus, found throughout North Africa and Central and South Asia.
Hyponyms: sense: subspecies
taxonomic: Varanus griseus caspius
word: Caspian monitor
sense: subspecies
taxonomic: Varanus griseus griseus
word: grey monitor
sense: subspecies
taxonomic: Varanus griseus koniecznyi
word: Indian desert monitor
proompter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proompters
Etymology: From proompt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Start your journey to becoming a senior AI proompter today!
ref: 2023 June 8, u/Arte04, “M'y mom just sent me this”, in Reddit, r/ProgrammerHumor, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
text: You are already lightyears better than any gen ai proompter.
ref: 2024 August 29, u/MadeByHideoForHideo, “8 Months of Drawing Progress after Quitting AI”, in Reddit, r/ArtistHate, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
text: 50/50 but it def takes time and effort (maybe even skill) to make something look less generic. There are models that gravitate towards sameface / the same style as well, which certainly doesn't help the run of the mill proompter.
ref: 2025 January 10, @Ainiwaffles, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
text: My ultimate hope is that proompters eventually take up art as both a hobby and a skill and see how challenging but rewarding it can be
ref: 2025 March 14, @MASSGRAVE_ART, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
synonyms: prompt engineer
glosses: Someone who develops prompts to be given to a generative AI, particularly one who would lack the knowledge or skill to produce the output themselves.
Related terms: script kiddie
shotgun debugging
vibe coder
proompters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proompter
proompts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proompt
proompts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proompt
proompting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proompt
proompted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proompt
grey monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey monitors
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of desert monitor, Varanus griseus griseus, ranging in colours from simple grey to bright orange with a more rounded tail than other subspecies.
desert monitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert monitor
Caspian monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caspian monitors
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of desert monitor, Varanus griseus caspius, found from the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea and east to the Central Asian plateaus, as well as islets of the Aral Sea.
Caspian monitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caspian monitor
fangful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fangful
form: most fangful
Etymology: From fang + -ful (“possessing”).
Senses: examples: text: Cerberus, soon as our adit he espied,
Quivering in every limb for anger, wide
Opened his fangful mouths, and at us gnasht.
ref: 1893, Dante Alighieri, translated by George Musgrave, The Divine Comedy, page 37:
text: The cat was curled in a soft armchair close by the fire. She yawned a fangful yawn, stretched her claws and sat up.
ref: 1982, David Hazard, “The Tale of a Bird”, in Stories, Songs, and Poems from The Peaceable Kingdom, page 26:
text: As Kerin came abreast of the reptile, the lizard opened its eyes, looked around, and rose on stumpy legs. It swiveled about to face Kerin, scattering sand; it opened fangful jaws and hissed like a kettle.
ref: 1989, L. Sprague de Camp, The Honorable Barbarian, page 45:
synonyms: fangsome
fangy
glosses: Having sharp or menacing fangs.
examples: text: Such a woman's affectional demonstrations, if not wholly vampiral, would be a wide departure from the truth ; would not be really human, but snakish, fangful, Judas-like, because utterly and wholly empty of all genuine heartness, that ineffable delight man sighs for and expects.
ref: 1872, Casca Llanna, Love, Woman, Marriage: The Grand Secret!, page 283:
text: That have lookt forward to a dawning sweet,
 Upon my tongue they have been bitter. Oh,
I drained the cup of scorn in those old days
When laughter and detraction followed me
From fangful packs of snarlers, e'er and aye
ref: 1913, John Galen Howard, Brunelleschi: A Poem, page 73:
text: Often the Crane Dame and a few others like her were fangful, seemingly garbed in witches' outfits and spitting venom whenever I was in their presence.
ref: 2006, Ernestine D. Harris, Dancing with Fireflies, page 122:
glosses: Cruel or venomous.
fangful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fangfuls
Etymology: From fang + -ful (“suffix forming nouns denoting an amount”).
Senses: examples: text: With a howl of pain he grabbed the evil thing by the tail before it could sneak away. A big black cobra with its fangful of venom.
ref: 1986, Bhabani Bhattacharya, A Goddess Named Gold, page 21:
text: She lunged then, faster than Orsa had, something black and terrible in her face like a serpent about to unleash a fangful of venom.
ref: 2020, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, A Secret of Birds & Bone, unnumbered page:
text: Not long after that, something fast and cool plunged a fangful of venom into his wrist, then slipped over the side of the boat with a gentle plop before he could get a good look at it.
ref: 2021, Brian Staveley, The Empire's Ruin, unnumbered page:
glosses: An amount (of venom) sufficient to fill a fang.
examples: text: We heard how two copperheads line each side of the Frail to bite hikers as they pass, assuring at least one of the snakes a fangful.
ref: 1998, Steve Sherman, Julia Older, “On the Appalachian Trail”, in Michael P. Branch, Daniel J. Philippon, editors, The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley, page 302:
text: And down the dark and twisting clouds came a foggy stream of running wolves with luminous eyes, Quicksilver at their forefront, snapping at the head of the Wendigo, biting it away in airy fangfuls.
ref: 2010, Carole Nelson Douglas, Silver Zombie, page 349:
text: Looking shiftily about, her eight eyes glittering like pewter sequins, she grabbed a fangful of crumbs.
ref: 2015, Claire Barker, Ghost Dog, page 65:
glosses: An amount sufficient to fill a fanged creature's mouth.
antimerit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimerit
form: most antimerit
Etymology: From anti- + merit.
Senses: examples: text: Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
ref: 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN:
text: Around the turn of the 21st century, however, an antimerit movement started.
ref: 2024 February 14, “Is Merit Making a Comeback?”, in The Wall Street Journal:
text: Mr. Chair, diversity, equity, and inclusion is antimerit.
ref: 2024 July 23, Josh Breechen, quotee, “CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE”, in Govinfo:
glosses: Opposing merit or merit-based systems.
fangfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fangful
manobabysphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of manosphere + manbaby.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of asking, "is this true?" Musk parsed the information through a consensus filter of alt-right manobabysphere groupthink, saying instead, "Interesting observation."
ref: 2024 September 2, Ellsworth Toohey, “Musk boosts 4chan claim that women are incapable of critical thinking”, in Boing Boing:
glosses: The manosphere, regarded as childish and whiny.
dragon snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragon snakes
Senses: synonyms: Javan tubercle snake
Javan mudsnake
rough-backed litter snake
glosses: A small non-venomous, semi-fossorial snake of species Xenodermus javanicus, with unusual dorsal scales
dragon snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragon snake
Javan tubercle snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Javan tubercle snakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dragon snake (“Xenodermus javanicus”).
synonyms: word: dragon snake
extra: Xenodermus javanicus
Javan tubercle snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Javan tubercle snake
Javan mudsnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Javan mudsnakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dragon snake (“Xenodermus javanicus”).
synonyms: word: dragon snake
extra: Xenodermus javanicus
Javan mudsnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Javan mudsnake
rough-backed litter snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rough-backed litter snakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dragon snake (“Xenodermus javanicus”).
synonyms: word: dragon snake
extra: Xenodermus javanicus
rough-backed litter snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rough-backed litter snake
amphigastrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæmfɪˈɡæstrɪəm/
Forms: form: amphigastria
Etymology: From New Latin amphi- (“near”) + gastr- (“belly; ventral”) + -ium. Attested from the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: CHILOSCYPHUS. — Plant ; portion of the stem, with involucral leaves, perianth, and calyptra ; […] portion of the stem, with a leaf and an amphigastrium
ref: 1871, William S. Sullivant, “Explanation of the plates”, in The musci and hepaticae of the United States east of the Mississippi River, Genera of Hepaticae, page 120:
text: Stems more or less regularly pinnate, more rarely dichotomously branched. Leaves incubous, conduplicate, the hinder lobe smallest—saccate, galeate, cucullate or flattish. Amphigastria mostly present, rarely wanting.
ref: 1876, David Moore, “Report on Irish Hepaticæ”, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section II. Jungermanniaceæ, page 607:
text: Key to the South African species of Lejeunea.
[…]
d. Base of the amphigastrium with rounded appendages below the insertion, the sinus of which thus is more than semicircular. L. isomorpha.
ref: 1953, Sigfrid Arnell, “Hepaticae collected in South Africa 1951”, in Botaniska Notiser, page 271:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: amphigaster
glosses: A small scale-like leaf on the underside of stems of certain liverworts.
amphigastria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphigastrium
son of a nutcracker
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌn ʌv ə ˈnʌtkɹækɚ/
Etymology: Popularized by the 2003 Christmas film Elf, in which the character Buddy the Elf exclaims it as an expression of frustration or surprise.
Senses: glosses: son of a bitch
Pocheon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 포천(抱川) (Pocheon).
Senses: glosses: A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Kingennie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in Angus council area, Scotland, north of Monifieth (OS grid ref NO4735).
Monikie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4938).
CAUTI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CAUTIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
babulya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babulyas
form: babulia
Etymology: From Russian бабу́ля (babúlja).
Senses: examples: text: When Channing was a toddler, living outside Moscow, her babulya had sewn fresh pine shavings into scraps of army canvas, and placed them underneath the child’s pillow.
ref: 2011 fall, Zana Previti, “Questions of Travel”, in Kate Gale, editor, The Los Angeles Review, volume 10, [Pasadena, Calif.]: Red Hen Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 184:
text: The rest of her body was cold, as if she’d died with her babulya, the last person on earth who had really loved her.
ref: 2012, Kim Purcell, chapter 50, in Trafficked, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 338:
text: My babulya (grandma) is 91 years old with Parkinson’s disease, but she still exercises as much as she can everyday^([sic]) and makes the most beautiful artwork.
ref: 2023 fall, Milana Kozlova, “The Other Side: An Opinion Piece”, in The Flash, volume 31, number 1, Rocklin, Calif.: Rocklin High School, page 31, column 2:
synonyms: baba
babushka
glosses: An Eastern European (especially Russian) grandmother.
Hulaguids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hulaguid
vampdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampdars
Etymology: From vamp (“a vampire”) + -dar.
Senses: examples: text: He could usually feel out vampires, but this big bad? Nothing. Not even a ping on the vampdar.
ref: 2011, Christine Ashworth, Demon Soul, page 86:
text: "Do you feel any more out there?" Charlie asked Stephanie. "Your vampdar is sharper than mine."
ref: 2023, Amy Cissell, Slay Bells Ring, unnumbered page:
text: “Well, clearly my vampdar isn’t what I thought it was. Knew you were gay from that first encounter, had no idea you were undead.”
ref: 2024, Kiersten White, Lucy Undying, unnumbered page:
topics: fantasy
glosses: The ability to detect whether or not a person is a vampire.
Kirkbuddo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO5043).
fangish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fangish
form: most fangish
Etymology: From fang + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: hear how they grind their fangish teeth ;
and read their horrors in their hungry eyes !"
ref: 1862, Dante Alighieri, translated by W. P. Wilkie, The Inferno, page 126:
text: A narrow forked tongue as red as blood slithered out from between two long fangish teeth and flickered in the air.
ref: 1999, Jeff Crook, The Rose and the Skull, page 133:
text: The same liquid apparently presently being sucked up by her own teeth, which had grown decidedly fangish.
ref: 2007, Lynsay Sands, Bite Me If You Can, page 72:
synonyms: fanglike
glosses: Resembling, characteristic of, or in possession of fangs.
fangdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fangdoms
Etymology: From fang + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Tony Randall plays Baker Street’s best while Sid Caesar chews up the scenery as the first of fangdom.
ref: 1986 October 24, “Fantasy Film Marquee”, in Monster Land, number 13, page 5:
text: Back then I was essentially the Rodney King of fangdom, just wishing we could all get along.
ref: 2005, Mark Wm. Simmons, Habeas Corpses, page 389:
text: Since Count Rachlav was the head of the Romanian faction of Vampires and therefore a VIP in Fangdom, it would be an honor for any Fey to host him.
ref: 2007, Talia Gryphon, Key to Conflict, page 165:
glosses: The community or sphere of vampires.
examples: text: A notation hadn't been added to his chart in regards to his fangdom and she wasn't about to tack it on.
ref: 2013, Celia Kyle, Poking the Vamp, unnumbered page:
text: With that in mind, Madison continued to scrutinize the faces around her, picking out likely candidates for fangdom in the crowd.
ref: 2014, Linda Thomas-Sundstrom, Immortal Obsession, page 15:
text: Amora believed that male vampires were not much different than mortal men, truly, despite their coming to fangdom.
ref: 2025, Ariel Dawn, Blood of My Heart, unnumbered page:
synonyms: vampiredom
vampdom
vampirehood
glosses: The state or quality of being a vampire.
fangdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fangdoms
Etymology: Blend of fang + fandom.
Senses: examples: text: Fangdom then naturally branches out to other pop-culture-related groups, like scholars that specialise in modem vampire culture and varnpire mythology, and role-players that partake in Vampire-related live-action role-play, or LARP usually in relation to one of the most famous fanged LARP games, Vampire: The Masquerade.
ref: 2007, Poppy-Jay Palmer, “The secret lives of vampires”, in Sarah Bankes, editor, History of Vampires, page 124:
text: Sometimes called "lifestylers" or the "fangdom," they don't see themselves as actual vampires.
ref: 2018, Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Journey Through Our Cultural Fascination with the Macabre, unnumbered page:
text: But theres one particular love triangle that took the vampire fandom (or fangdom) by storm...yes, I'm talking about Twilight.
ref: 2023, Insha Fitzpatrick, Hanging with Vampires: A Totally Factual Field Guide to the Supernatural, page 109:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The community of vampire fans, particularly vampiroid lifestylers.
Tulunids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tulunid
Kingsmuir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village south-east of Forfar, Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4749).
Almohade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Almohad.
Almohade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Almohades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Almohad.
SoM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SoMs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: SoC
SBC
glosses: Abbreviation of system on a module (“system-on-module”).
SoMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SoM