cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cost-push inflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: cost-push
coordinate_terms: demand-pull inflation
wage-push inflation
glosses: Inflation caused by substantial increases in the cost of goods or services where no suitable alternative is available.
Glenluce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Wigtownshire (OS grid ref NX1957).
Dalbeattie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Kirkcudbrightshire (OS grid ref NX8361).
Castle Douglas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Threave Castle + Sir William Douglas, 1st Baronet.
Senses: glosses: A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Kirkcudbrightshire (OS grid ref NX7662).
wikipedia: Sir William Douglas, 1st Baronet
Threave Castle
triticeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtrɪt.əˈsiː.əl/
rhymes: -iːəl
Etymology: From Latin triticeus + -al, from triticum (“wheat”) + -eus (adjective suffix).
Senses: examples: triticeal cartilage
glosses: Shaped like a grain of wheat, especially denoting to the pair of small cartilages in the larynx.
Related terms: triticeous
Creetown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the River Cree + town; originally named Ferrytown of Cree.
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Kirkcudbrightshire (OS grid ref NX4758).
Gatehouse of Fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "Fleet" refers to the Water of Fleet, a river that passes through the town.
Senses: glosses: A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Kirkcudbrightshire (OS grid ref NX6056).
wikipedia: Water of Fleet
youins
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "Massa took us with him to carry mules and horses away from youins." "You thought we would get them. Did you wish us to get the mules?" "Oh, yes, […] We knowed youins cumin', […]"
ref: 1867, William Wells Brown, The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity, page 277:
text: Dear Minnie Leigh, It has been years since any of yourins people have seen or heard from youins. When paw passed on, he told me what he had done. I wish I would have to know'd child. I would have fetched youins myself.
ref: 2019, Karen Wimberley, A Mule, A Cow, and 5 Jugs of Shine, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: Alternative form of you-uns.
you'ins
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "Ah tole Mr. McGuire 'bout you an' dah children movin' here dis week from Minnesota. Dah rent's fi'ty dollahs a month, an' Ah gave 'um a ten dollah deposit if 'e'd hold it fer you'ins til you'ins git here Sat'aday ta look at it ta see if you'ins wan' nit."
ref: 2016, Judy Newton, Hi Harry, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 439:
glosses: Alternative form of you-uns.
we'ins
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "We got some friends you'ins knows. Rennie Lou and Snuff. They still in that thar jail but we'ins got out. They was the ones what told us about the gold,” one of the bandits replied.
ref: 1983, Lois Gladys Leppard, Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, Bethany House, →ISBN, page 353:
text: Usually 'bout how we'ins is a-losin' our language. Now they match that up with we'ins completely disappearin'. I don't think our language is a-goin' to disappear. They's some good teachers out there […]
ref: 1999, Red Ink: A Native American Student Publication:
text: We'ins bin hyar so long, if t' worlt fin's out 'bout us now, h' ain't gonna chn' us. O', we'ins'll make alotta monch from da tuk'rist, but it h' ain't gonna chan' us. T' elters kno'd dis day wus comin' — we'ins got contingincy plans whin it do happun.
ref: 2002, Bruce Kost, The Youngblood Project, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 203:
text: “You'ins is our army, our only way now to find our little grandson,” the old man said, wiping a tear from his eye. […] “We'ins want to help,” he said with tears again welling up in his eyes.
ref: 2012, Paul H. Jones, The Hollow: Living in the Shadows, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 246:
text: As the regiment passed a good many of them asked if “you'ins want going along with we'ins.” These words are decidedly local and original with the South Carolinians.
ref: 2019, Constance Hall Jones, The Spirits of Bad Men Made Perfect: The Life and Diary of Confederate Artillerist William Ellis Jones, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Alternative form of we-uns.
us'uns
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: 'They don't give a fuck what 'appens to us'uns.'
ref: 2007, Lawrence James, Warrior Race: A History of the British at War, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: Henry sobbed. “Ah bet she really wants ta go ta town too, but won't cuz o us'uns. She thanks we's too little ta go ta town fer tha day.” “Yeah, meybe we'uns should tell her she needs ta get ta town too. She might miss getting what's she needs."
ref: 2012, Beverly Marsaw, Charlie and Tadpole: The Last Chapter, →ISBN:
text: "What yo call us'uns? Free? We's slaves . . . an dat fo damn sho."
ref: 2012, Beverly Marsaw, Beyond the Pink Clouds, →ISBN, page 128:
text: “That makes us'uns rich!” She was sure right about that. We had ourselves some fun, even when we was a-working real hard.
ref: 2012, Marilyn Sue Shank, Child of the Mountains, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
text: The Cherokee used to be in our area, and more than a few of us'uns done got some of the blood. There's cherry bark tea, black strap molasses, sassafras, pawpaw, a pinch of sulfur, an' a little tetch of turpentine in it.
ref: 2012, Eulie Rier Cienfuegos, At Tildy's Thrift, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: Us. (Compare we-uns.)
Rutherglen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌðə(ɹ).ɡlɪn/
ipa: /ˈɹʌðə(ɹ)ˌɡlɛn/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic An Ruadh-Ghleann (“the red valley”). Cognate with Scots Ruglen.
Senses: glosses: A town in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6161).
glosses: A small town in north-eastern Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: sense: place in Australia
word: Rutherglen bug
Related terms: Ruglonian
Apsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum borough, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0505).
glosses: A community in North Kawartha, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in Central Highlands council area and Southern Midlands council area, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A small town in the Shire of West Wimmera, Victoria, Australia.
Upwey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in Weymouth parish, Dorset, England, previously in Weymouth and Portland district (OS grid ref SY6684).
glosses: An outer suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
definiential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From definientia + -ial/-al.
Senses: examples: text: Non-human languages, on the other hand, may provide a degree of definiential precision (e.g., water 'H2O', three '3'), but they have extremely limited applicability. Definitions written in a human metalanguage all result in vicious circles, as if […]
ref: 1983, Babel, volumes 29-31, page 139:
text: In particular, both Cone [12] and Krenek 123] seem to undervalue the object-language metalanguage distinction in their worry over whether terms introduced with all due definiential care are the "intuitively right" ones, meta-linguistically, for ...
ref: 1970, Benjamin Boretz, Meta-variations: studies in the foundations of musical thought, part 1, page 13:
text: It is clear enough that Plato influenced Aristotle's theory of definition quite generally, but the problem of definitional, better definiential, unity that Aristotle tackles in two central chapters in the Metaphysics seems to be widely regarded as a purely Aristotelian problem […]
ref: 2011, G. A. Damico, On Definitional Unity in Aristotle:
glosses: Pertaining to a definiens or to definientia (terms which provide a definition of another term).
ale-drapery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ale-draper + -y.
Senses: examples: text: and fare at all tymes as harde as poor Mopos Cut did with his maisters contreyman in Shorditch, till, by the force of his hinder heeles, he vtterly vndid two milch maydens that had set vp a shoppe of Ale-drapery.
ref: 1592, H. Chettle, Kind-harts Dreames, page 20:
text: An ale-house keeper would “with a grave air complain that trade was not sufficiently encouraged, when he meant the trade of ale drapery and smoking tobacco'.”
ref: 2002, Richard Grassby, The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England, page 226:
glosses: The running of an alehouse.
Skinningrove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and steelworks in Loftus parish, Redcar and Cleveland borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ7119).
ale-hoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Before this time, a bitter plant, called "ale-hoof," and others, were used in brewing.
ref: 1805, Manual of Flax Culture, page 2:
text: “The women of our northern parts" (says John Gerard), “especially about Wales or Cheshire, do tunne the herbe Ale-hoof into their ale. . . being tunned up in ale and drunke, it also purgeth the head from rhumaticke humours flowing from the brain."
ref: 1853, Notes and Queries:
text: From this it would appear that hops were not only known but cultivated at that early date, the probability being that the plant is indigenous to this country, and in common with ale-hoof or ground ivy, has been used from very ancient times as a bitter condiment for beer, one important fact being that the English hope has from a remote period been considered superior to those grown in any other country.
ref: 1888, W. T. Marchant, In Praise of Ale: Or, Songs, Ballads, Epigrams, & Anecdotes Relating to Beer, Malt, and Hops:
text: A decoction of ale hoof and a good wine taken over a period of time will ease sciatica, hip gout, or arthritic hands and knees.
ref: 1992, Alma R. Hutchens, A handbook of native American healing herbs, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of alehoof.
ale-wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ale-wives
Senses: examples: text: Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not : if she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in Christendom.
ref: 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew:
text: The ale-wife was a very good woman; she put the poor girl to bed, gave her food and a great deal of pity when she heard " how the wicked roundhead troopers had killed her father, because he loved king Charles, and burnt her home and village, so that she was destitute and houseless;" but the young lady never told her true name and rank.
ref: 1885, Lives of the Queens of England:
text: On the average, ale-wives worked in commercial brewing for about two decades, yet during that period they brewed irregularly and often stopped brewing for considerable lengths of time. Usually an ale-wife sold ale on only about one-third of the occasions available to her.
ref: 1987, Judith M. Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside:
text: Perhaps then the punishment of the Chester ale-wife was intended to be a real warning to women traders. If this is the case, then the Chester ale-wife transcends the boundary of comedy, and her appearance shows a real fear of working women's threat to the market.
ref: 2004, Katie Normington, Gender and Medieval Drama, page 120:
glosses: Alternative form of alewife (woman who sells ale)
ale-wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ale-wife
Agen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Agen.
Senses: glosses: A commune, the capital of Lot-et-Garonne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
Chipping Campden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish with a town council in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1539).
anathemize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anathemizes
form: anathemizing
form: anathemized
form: anathemized
form: anathemise
Etymology: From anathema + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: What does Augustine want done? He invites Felix to anathemize Mani — but adds, ' magnanimously, ' that no one will compel him to do so. Of course Augustine had just threatened from his cathedra, surrounded by his faithful, to anathemize Felix — with grave possible consequences.
ref: 1972, Augustinian Studies - Volumes 3-5, page 202:
text: We anathemize all those who say that man can be without sin, if he wants to, without the help of God; we anathemize those who say that death does not come through Adam and that life does not come through Christ; we anathemize those who say that one who is born from two baptized parents does not need to be baptaized;
ref: 2009, Guido Stucco, God's Eternal Gift, page 674:
text: Likewise, jihadists – Muslim fundamentalists who advocate armed struggle against what they perceive as Islam's enemies – anathemize the secular West, all it stands for, and its inhabitants as well, while secular Westerners express an analogous sentiment, in words and deeds, toward the miltant followers of Muhammad.
ref: 2015, Erich Goode, The Handbook of Deviance, page 20:
synonyms: anathematize
glosses: To declare to be anathema; to curse and reject.
Derived terms: anathemization
anathemizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anathemize
anathemizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anathemize
anathemized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anathemize
anathemise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anathemises
form: anathemising
form: anathemised
form: anathemised
Senses: examples: text: Would you anathemise, banish, imprison, execute us, and burn our books ?
ref: 1776, Andrew Marvell, Edward Thompson, The works of Andrew Marvell, Esq.:
text: One of these once asserted in my hearing that papists were guilty of idolatry, because they prayed to images, and asked favours of them: and if they had done so, he might very justly have called them idolaters, but as they abhor all such pračtices, and anathemise those who are guilty of them, nothing but ignorance can excuse that person from being guilty of slander, and defamation.
ref: 1778, The Old Fashion Farmer's Motives for Leaving the Church of England and Embracing the Roman Catholic Faith, page 60:
text: Painting is self-evidently not dead, nor finished, nor exhausted, nor passe/, any more than the array of inferential cognitive styles and evolved propensities from which it springs have suddenly ceased to function, and if there is a flow within contemporary art that seeks to suffocate it or otherwise anathemise it, then it is only in the name of an implicitly political and self-cutting ideology maintained with the same force as an organised religion, but without the attendant deep experiential truths.
ref: 2012, Bruce Rimell, A Cognitive and Anthropological Response to the 'Death' of Painting:
glosses: Alternative form of anathemize.
anathemises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anathemise
anathemising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anathemise
anathemised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anathemise
Ravenscraig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A site under redevelopment, formerly occupied by a steelworks, in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7556).
zonalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zonalizations
Senses: glosses: US and Oxford British English standard spelling of zonalisation.
zonalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zonalization
fern house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fern houses
Senses: examples: text: In the seclusion of the latticed fern house, now that dusk had fallen, he lit his pipe[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: A type of greenhouse or shadehouse for growing ferns.
fern houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fern house
San Gabriel Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County, California, United States, northeast of the city of Los Angeles.
melt someone's butter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: melts someone's butter
form: melting someone's butter
form: melted someone's butter
form: melted someone's butter
Senses: glosses: To appeal to someone's fancy.
examples: text: Hearing you speak in Italian really melts my butter.
glosses: To turn someone on; cause feelings of arousal.
Synonyms: sense: appeal to someone's fancy
word: float someone's boat
sense: appeal to someone's fancy
word: tickle someone's fancy
sense: appeal to someone's fancy
word: turn someone's crank
sense: appeal to someone's fancy
word: be someone's cup of tea
bum boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bum boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bumboy.
Lebano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Lebanese
Croxall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Croxalls
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Edingale parish, Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England, at one time in Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1913).
dissentiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissentiently
form: most dissentiently
Etymology: From dissentient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dissentient manner.
underpollution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + pollution.
Senses: glosses: A relatively low level of pollution.
Related terms: underpolluted
sugar bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar bombs
Senses: examples: text: Sugary beverages: These are sugar bombs and the empty calories will go right to your tummy.
ref: 2015, Frank C. Rollins, Fast Six Pack Abs:
text: Pass up known sugar bombs—desserts, sodas, shakes, smoothies.
ref: 2015, Anne Alexander, Julia VanTine, Sugar Smart Express:
text: If you want to lose that beer belly, start by telling yourself that they are sugar bombs.
ref: 2019, Laurent Poret, 100 tips for losing weight, page 99:
glosses: Any very sugary food or drink.
Related terms: gut bomb
sugar bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar bomb
awaitment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From await + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The process of waiting for something.
championings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of championing
laneway house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laneway houses
Senses: glosses: A detached secondary suite typically built into a pre-existing lot, usually in the backyard and opening onto the back lane.
laneway houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laneway house
secondary suite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary suites
Senses: synonyms: accessory dwelling unit
ADU
annexe
granny annexe
in-law apartment
mother-in-law apartment
glosses: A self-contained apartment, cottage or small residential unit located on a property that has a separate main single-family home, duplex, or other residential unit.
ADU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADUs
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: granny annexe, granny flat, granny room, in-law unit, mother-in-law apartment, secondary suite, casita, garden apartment
text: A.D.U.s, whether stand-alone or connected to the main house, are being embraced by a growing number of cities and states in response to their lack of affordable housing.
ref: 2023 September 6, Michelle Cottle, “The Magic of the Granny Flat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: One solution is accessible dwelling units, or ADUs, but contractors say building them is no small task.
“Building a single ADU — California has done better at making it more streamlined, but it’s still very difficult,” said Tankersley.
ref: 2024 December 25, Devin Trubey, “California to remove restrictions on ADUs, add enforcement if cities don't comply with housing laws”, in ABC10:
glosses: Initialism of accessory dwelling unit.
ADU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Adamson University.
secondary suites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondary suite
ADUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ADU
educracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educracies
Senses: examples: text: Politicians passed legislation designed to reward teaching and discourage what was perceived as a self-gratifying and excessive professionalism on the part of the educracy.
ref: 2003, Carl A. Raschke, The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University, page 52:
glosses: Educrats collectively; bureaucracy in the field of education.
Related terms: educrat
educracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of educracy
sheepskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sheepskin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed in sheepskin.
planning poker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: scrum poker
glosses: A consensus-based technique for estimating development time (or other goals) in which participants lay down numbered cards to indicate their estimates.
scrum poker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of planning poker.
synonyms: word: planning poker
Hebronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Hebrew + Ebonics
Senses: glosses: A mixture of Yiddish and English.
cyberhype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + hype.
Senses: glosses: Exaggerated claims of the benefits of computing or the Internet.
neocervix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + cervix.
Senses: glosses: A surgically crafted cervix.
Gartcosh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6968).
indify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indifies
form: indifying
form: indified
form: indified
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Change a particular functionality to use invokedynamic calls.
anemoia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænəˈmɔɪə/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə
Etymology: Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words. Constructed from Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + νόος (nóos, “mind”), with reference to anemosis, the warping of a tree by high wind "until it seems to bend backward."
Senses: examples: text: Yet, from reboots to genre revivals, nostalgia remains a powerful force in pop culture. So does an associated phenomenon, called anemoia, which is essentially nostalgia for a past you’ve never experienced. Nostalgia and anemoia have been Broadway’s bread and butter for decades.
ref: 2015 November 15, Robert Trussell, “Awash in nostalgia”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 136, number 59, Kansas City, Mo., page 12D:
text: Goetzman (who also records his own own^([sic]) original music under the alias Raspberries and Rum) brought up another idea as a possible explanation for his Toto-based virality: anemoia. That’s the concept of a person feeling nostalgic for something they never experienced.[…]What I can say is this little video and its embedded nostalgia — or anemoia — seems to be bringing a little happiness to people all over the world.
ref: 2018 May 17, Shane Nyman, “Local guy’s ‘Africa’ remix perfects nostalgia”, in The Post-Crescent, volume 99, number 118, Appleton, Wis., page 6A:
text: A White Christmas is the perfect example of anemoia, nostalgia for a time we never knew.
ref: 2018, Trevor Harley, The Psychology of Weather, Routledge, →ISBN, page 102:
text: The theme of that YouTube chat was the idea of anemoia, a niche form of nostalgia that prompts a yearning for a historical time and place that you have never actually experienced. Photographs can be perfect anemoia triggers, and this one works by layering retro longing from several different eras.
ref: 2024 January 14, Tim Adams, “The big picture: layers of nostalgia on London’s Oxford Street”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: fauxstalgia
glosses: Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.
wikipedia: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Troutbeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From trout + beck (“stream”), from Old English truht + Old Norse bekkr.
Senses: examples: text: Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
glosses: A hamlet in Hutton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district, situated on the Trout Beck (OS grid ref NY3826).
glosses: A village in Lakes parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district, on another Trout Beck (OS grid ref NY4003).
glosses: A village in Manicaland, Zimbabwe.
Manicaland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manica + -land.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I love South Africa,’ Josephine, our junior tennis star who whipped the seniors as she was Manicaland champion, declared in response.
ref: 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 55:
glosses: A province in Zimbabwe.
Cockermouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒkə(ɹ)məθ/
rhymes: -ɒkə(ɹ)məθ
Etymology: From Cocker + mouth, where the River Cocker joins the Derwent.
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY1230).
wikipedia: River Cocker
Pallion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3757).
Waterhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Brandon and Byshottles parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1841).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0850).
self-catheterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-catheterizations
form: self-catheterisation
Etymology: From self- + catheterization.
Senses: glosses: The insertion of a catheter by oneself without the aid of a specialist.
self-catheterisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-catheterisations
Etymology: From self- + catheterisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of self-catheterization.
dog station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog stations
Senses: examples: text: Again, available evidence indicates that fewer than one percent of all radio and television properties are controlled by minority persons. […] Minority owners claim that only the so called "dog" stations are offered to them.
ref: 1978, United States. Federal Communications Commission. Minority Ownership Task Force, Minority Ownership in Broadcasting, page 9:
text: And, as you know, most of the black broadcasters and Mexican-American broadcasters and minority broadcasters in the United States have wound up with the dog stations in various markets, mainly daytimers. Very few of us are in the large markets […]
ref: 1979, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications, The Communications Act of 1979: Hearings, page 339:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A minor television or radio station with little chance to succeed.
dog stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog station
dog and maggot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] a bit of fried bacon for his breakfast, some 'dog and maggot' (biscuit and cheese) for his dinner, and 'rooty' and 'pozzy' (bread and jam) for his tea.
ref: 2009, Alan Weeks, Tea, Rum & Fags: Sustaining Tommy, 1914-18, page 8:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Cheese and crackers.
dog heavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog heavies
Senses: examples: text: Hillyer needed a shot of his leading lady hiding in a stable, sought by a half-dozen dog heavies who meant to do her harm.
ref: 1999, Edward Bernds, Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood:
text: Rip Austin, one of a solid quartet of dog heavies that included Roy Barcroft, Pierce Lyden, and the 6'5" Glenn Strange […]
ref: 2019, Gene Freese, The Western Films of Robert Mitchum: Hollywood's Cowboy Rebel:
coordinate_terms: action heavy
brain heavy
glosses: A burly, physically intimidating henchman in a western film.
dog heavies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog heavy
brain heavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain heavies
Senses: coordinate_terms: action heavy
dog heavy
glosses: A henchman in a western film who focuses on criminal schemes rather than physical violence.
brain heavies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain heavy
doghouse plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doghouse plots
Etymology: From its resemblance to a drawing of a dog's kennel.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chart showing the relationship between speed at level flight and altitude (or sometimes other variables).
doghouse plots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doghouse plot
doll's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A standard NGL flow sensor at the inlet to the pressure demand regulator operated a doll's eye indicator […]
ref: 1996, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development, AGARDograph, volume 286, page 58:
text: Eric Bennett showed me around the cockpit and off I went on a familiarization flight and I was very impressed. […] On the right-hand side of the cockpit were two switches and two 'doll's eye' indicators.
ref: 2006, Brian Mercer, Black Arrow Blue Diamond:
text: The doors locked into position either side of the rows of bombs like a dog baring its teeth and a magnetic doll's-eye indicator in the cockpit flicked from black to white.
ref: 2012, Rowland White, Vulcan 607, page 419:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A magnetic indicator in the cockpit that turns white in the event of a problem.
Related terms: doll's eye reflex
doll's eye sign
doll's eyes
door openers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door opener
doorwayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From doorway + -ed.
Senses: examples: a single-doorwayed temple
glosses: Having the specified kind or number of doorways.
Ushaw Moor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2242).
dope story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dope stories
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: A think piece.
dope stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dope story
double dabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm that converts binary numbers into binary-coded decimal notation by means of shift and add operations.
canecutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canecutters
Etymology: From cane + cutter.
Senses: examples: text: It was decided to calculate costs of voluntary labor beforehand to assure a "net” contribution to the harvest and that unions selected the most productive canecutters.
ref: 1981, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, The Economy of Socialist Cuba: A Two-decade Appraisal, page 62:
text: This mournful melody from Queensland tells of the woes and misfortunes of early canecutters.
ref: 1964, Favourite Australian Bush Songs, page 137:
glosses: A person employed to harvest sugar cane.
examples: text: Harvesting, before the arrival of the mechanical canecutter, was performed by large numbers of workers wielding long knives.
ref: 1995, Glenn R. Conrad, Ray F. Lucas, White Gold, page 17:
glosses: A machine for harvesting sugar cane.
canecutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canecutter
Thaksinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Thaksin + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] hope that, as guilty verdicts mount against Mr Thaksin and company, and as high inflation erodes living standards, popular support for Thaksinism will wane.
ref: 2008, The Economist, volume 388, page 52:
text: But anti-Thaksin protesters demanded the abolition of 'Thaksinism'. Thaksin fought back furiously by hiring mobs to clash with the protestors. He also crossed a very sensitive line by attacking the monarchy and the Privy Council.
ref: 2009, Tim Andrews, Sununta Siengthai, The Changing Face of Management in Thailand, page 51:
glosses: The political ideology and practices associated with Thaksin Shinawatra, exiled former prime minister of Thailand.
detackifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detackifiers
Etymology: From de- + tackify + -er.
Senses: topics: business
chemistry
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: tackifier
glosses: A substance added to something in order to reduce its tackiness.
Related terms: detackification
detackifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detackifier
hydromulching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + mulching.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A form of mulching in which the mulch is combined with water and a tackifier and then sprayed.
detackification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of detackifying.
detackify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detackifies
form: detackifying
form: detackified
form: detackified
Etymology: From de- + tackify.
Senses: antonyms: tackify
glosses: To make (a material) less tacky in texture.
Related terms: detackification
detackifier
detackified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detackify
detackifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detackify
detackifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detackify
double in brass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doubles in brass
form: doubling in brass
form: doubled in brass
form: doubled in brass
Etymology: Of theatrical origin, as some actors were also able to assist in the orchestra.
Senses: examples: text: Angela, like several of the Chase faculty, had to double in brass and offer the seminary's few courses in an academic field other than her specialized area of ethics and moral theology.
ref: 2013, O. C. Edwards, Runagates in Scarceness: A Holy Mystery, page 21:
glosses: To perform two or more tasks within the same project or organization.
upexpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upexpressions
Etymology: From up- + expression.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: downexpression
glosses: The greater than normal expression of a protein.
upexpressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upexpression
downmarketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downmarket
downmarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downmarket
downmarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downmarket
upmarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upmarket
upmarketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upmarket
upmarketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upmarket
recomment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recomments
form: recommenting
form: recommented
form: recommented
Etymology: From re- + comment.
Senses: examples: text: When all these things are done and the blank lines are removed (and the code recommented), we have […]
ref: 1997, William B. Jones, Assembly Language for the IBM PC Family, page 586:
text: Once you have run the program, you can “recomment” the line back to the way it was.
ref: 2015, Jack Purdum, Beginning C for Arduino, Second Edition:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To convert (a portion of source code, configuration, etc.) back to a comment, so that it no longer takes effect.
recommented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recomment
recomments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recomment
recommenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recomment
downmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downmouths
form: downmouthing
form: downmouthed
form: downmouthed
Etymology: From down- + mouth.
Senses: examples: text: Such downmouthing of the profession is almost incredible.
ref: 1958, Recruiting New Talent for News Staffs, page 6:
text: Carriers complained of harassment in the form of route additions, street supervision, mail counts, and "downmouthing" by supervisors.
ref: 1984, Vern Kenneth Baxter, Organizational change, technology and labor in the post office:
glosses: To speak negatively or critically.
downmouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downmouth
downmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downmouth
downmouthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downmouth
dozens offer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dozens offers
Senses: examples: text: Bonus offers and dozens offers. The relative importance of types of trade incentive. Effectiveness of trade promotions. Grocery buyers' preferences.
ref: 1968, Economic Abstracts, volume 16, page 1039:
text: Other promotions making up the total are: dozens offer, bonus offer, new pack, dealer premium, insertion, personality promotion, and direct mail shot.
ref: 1968, Retail Business, numbers 119-124, page 21:
topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: An offer whereby a retailer who purchases a product in large quantities is eligible to receive free bonus items.
dozens offers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dozens offer
Waddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒdən/
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Chudleigh parish, Teignbridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8879).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Portesham parish, Dorset, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref SY6285).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb in the borough of Croydon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3165).
pilotability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pilot + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Ability to be piloted.
cannistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannista
grass hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass hands
Senses: examples: text: Some strong criticism was expressed at the present practice of taking on grass hands, and the inconvenience and unpleasantness resulting from it in various foundries.
ref: 1921, British and Colonial Printer and Stationer: And Newspaper Press:
text: A dispute has arisen on the "Referee" owing to some men holding full frames working as grass hands on Saturday afternoons.
ref: The Printing Review (page 112)
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: An additional worker taken on at busy times.
glosses: Grass script; caoshu.
grass hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grass hand
shildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shild
Port Glasgow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town on the Firth of Clyde in Inverclyde council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3274).
green currency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green currencies
Senses: glosses: Any of the European Union member currencies that were linked by artificial exchange rates so as to preserve a common price structure for agricultural products.
green currencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green currency
redliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redliners
Etymology: From redline + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This would force insurance companies to maintain their policies for fear of being exposed as redliners. An agent could hardly write on a nonrenewal notice: "Nonrenewal due to undesirable neighborhood you live in."
ref: 1978, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Citizens and Shareholders Rights and Remedies, Rights and Remedies of Insurance Policyholders, page 33:
glosses: One who redlines.
redliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redliner
greenliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenliners
Etymology: From greenline + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The greenliners claim that when money is tight, as it was during much of 1974, for example, lenders tend to restrict loans in the central city […]
ref: 1977, Henry Robinson Luce, Fortune, volume 97, page 67:
glosses: One who greenlines.
greenliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenliner
redlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redlight
redlights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redlight
redlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redlight
redlit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redlight
grayout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grayouts
Etymology: Deverbal from gray out.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greyout.
grayouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grayout
greyout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greyouts
form: grayout
form: grey-out
form: grey out
Etymology: Deverbal from grey out.
Senses: coordinate_terms: blackout
glosses: A transient loss of vision caused by hypoxia and characterized by a perceived dimming of light and color, sometimes accompanied by a loss of peripheral vision.
greyouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greyout
grim-gram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪmˌɡɹæm/
Forms: form: grim-grams
Etymology: From grim + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: She peeks into the tallies of the weekly "grim-grams" that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador sends to Washington.
ref: 1983, Time, volume 121, page 40:
text: Embassy "Grim-Grams," the weekly reports on human rights abuses, documented the systematic repression of unions […]
ref: 1991, Clifford Krauss, Inside Central America: its people, politics, and history, page 83:
text: By mid-1983 domestic political reaction to the "grim-gram" totals forced the administration to begin pressuring the Salvadoreans.
ref: 2018, Tommie Sue Montgomery, Revolution In El Salvador:
glosses: The "Violence Week in Review" cable sent from the US embassy in El Salvador, listing the names of killed and missing persons.
grim-grams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grim-gram
babeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babeships
Etymology: From babe + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Neither was he aſhamed to confeſſe that he had through errour doen amyſſe in many thinges, by reaſon that he had not euen from his tendre babeſhip ben nouſled in the preceptes of philoſophie.
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Philippus Kyng of Macedonie”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book II, folio 124, verso, paragraph 22:
text: New converts in Christ, though men grown, are not young men in Christ presently the first hour, and there is a middle age besides to be passed through ere they come to be fathers; and thence all that time between those two, of babeship in Christ and old age in Christ, must be understood and meant by what is translated young men, comprising and taking also in that which answers to what in nature we call middle age, even all that time from babeship, till old age in Christianity comes, as a time of more usual conflict and fighting against lusts (which are the bloody battles);
ref: 1863, The Works of Thomas Goodwin - Volume 7, page 501:
text: Thus have I followed Christ from his babeship or infancy, to his grave of mortality, running through the life form, in a bare knowledge of Christ after the flesh, till I expired with him into his death, and was sealed up in the grave of most dark and somnolent retires for a season.
ref: 1877, Robert Barclay, The Inner Life of the Religious Societies of the Commonwealth, page 428:
glosses: Infancy; babyhood.
examples: text: Saturn, for instance, is at least half a dozen times bigger than this world; is it not, then, natural to think, that if inhabited by rational beings, by "lords of the creation," as we pigmies style ourselves, that they should be six times bigger than us? therefore, a new born infant of a lady of Saturn, must be equal in size to our most stately full-grown gentlemen, and his babeship of six feet will be dandled about with the same ease by his lady-mother of thirty-six feet high , as one of our fair belles would handle the first product of her tender love, when the small he or she does not exceed eighteen inches.
ref: 1838, George Home, Memoirs of an Aristocrat, and Reminiscences of the Emperor Napoleon:
text: It was toward evening of that warm, August afternoon that the farmer, passing, spied my babeship, as bare as cupid, perched there in the hay.
ref: 1899, “Morningside”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 4, page 242:
qualifier: "his"; "her"; or (plural) "their" or "our"; "his"; "her"; or (plural) "their" or "our"
glosses: A baby.
raw_tags: with "my"
babeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babeship
restless flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restless flycatchers
Senses: synonyms: grinder
glosses: A passerine bird, Myiagra inquieta, native to eastern and southern Australia.
restless flycatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restless flycatcher
gronks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gronk
gronks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gronk
gronked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gronk