cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
seriatim
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪəɹɪˈeɪtɪm/
ipa: /sɛɹɪˈeɪtɪm/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin seriatim, from Latin seriēs (“row, chain”) + -ātim, adverbial suffix.
Senses: examples: text: That pen should go on, lay bare these wounds of our constitution, expose these decisions seriatim, and arouse, as it is able, the attention of the nation to these bold speculators on its patience.
ref: 1829, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: from the papers of Thomas Jefferson, page 337:
text: The author then took up each step seriatim of the technique and after-treatment.
ref: 1893, “Medical Record”, in George F. Shrady, editor, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 43, page 570:
text: Despite the seemingly bright start in North America, French forces failed to stop the English from opening up the Saint Lawrence seaway through Louisbourg, which fell in 1758, and French fortresses along the Ohio river passed seriatim into English hands.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 242:
text: Children who seriatim decapitate a row of trees or pull the wings off flies hardly do it unintentionally, but they may have no reason or motive […]
ref: 2006, Daniel Yeager, J. L. Austin and the Law: Exculpation and the Explication of Responsibility, page 42:
glosses: One after another, in order; taking one topic or subject at a time in an order; sequentially.
Synonyms: in order
step by step
sequentially
seriatim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪəɹɪˈeɪtɪm/
ipa: /sɛɹɪˈeɪtɪm/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin seriatim, from Latin seriēs (“row, chain”) + -ātim, adverbial suffix.
Senses: examples: text: a seriatim review
text: The argument will also be the first test of the court’s announced hybrid system for oral argument, involving both the usual free-for-all questioning that was missing from the telephone arguments, and one round of seriatim questioning at the end of each arguing attorney’s presentation.
ref: 2021 October 4, Mark Walsh, “A View from the courtroom: In-person arguments come out of storage”, in SCOTUSblog:
topics: law
glosses: Point by point; sequential.
Related terms: gradatim
literatim
serial
seriate
seriation
series
verbatim
seriatum
blackbirder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackbirders
Etymology: From blackbird + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The renaming of New South Wales’s Ben Boyd National Park — named for Australia’s first blackbirder — as Beowa National Park in 2022 was a good first step. But apologising for running a slave trade that tore tens of thousands of Pacific islanders from their families should not be a hard sell in Australia’s parliament.
ref: 2024, Graeme Smith, “The Frontiers of History: China Discovers The Pacific’s Dark Colonial Legacy”, in Annie Luman Ren and Ben Hillman, editors, China’s New Era, 1st edition, ANU Press, pages 187-196:
glosses: A person involved in blackbirding (kidnapping Pacific islanders as cheap labour).
glosses: A ship used for blackbirding; a slaver.
examples: text: Runaway slaves and free blacks were constantly being kidnapped by New York City’s many “Blackbirders,” slave-catching bounty hunters who deported their captures to the plantations.
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 22, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A slavecatcher
lim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lims
Senses: examples: text: […] ſhe ſees his lims with ſweating ſpent, / And his neck dry’d, as when he did ſuſtaine / The heavens: […]
ref: 1679, Thomas May (translator), Lucans Pharsalia: or, the Civil Wars of Rome, book 4, page 115
glosses: Alternative form of limb.
Related terms: lim sup
barite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), βαρύτης (barútēs, “weight”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO₄.
Synonyms: barium sulphate
barytes
heavy spar
Derived terms: nitrobarite
Related terms: Bologna stone
barytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαρύτης (barútēs, “heaviness”), from βαρύς (barús, “heavy”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Barite.
glosses: plural of baryte
Derived terms: barytic
venefic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vəˈnɛfɪk/
Forms: form: more venefic
form: most venefic
Etymology: From Latin venēficus, from venēnum (“poison”).
Senses: examples: text: Our attorney and Elder Noyse and many others talk of venefic and malignant particles, which shoot from the eyes of witches and enter the bodies of the afflicted.
ref: 1857, Putnam's Monthly, page 411:
glosses: poisonous; pertaining to poison or poisoning
Dene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛneɪ/
rhymes: -ɛneɪ
Forms: form: Dené
Etymology: Probably from Chipewyan, though most Athabaskan languages have a similar word meaning "person" that's often used as the name for the people who speak the language and/or the language itself. Doublet of Diné.
Senses: examples: text: In the Northwest Territories, the languages with official status are English, French, Dëne Sųłıné (Chipewyan), Nēhiyawēwin (Cree), Dene Kǝdǝ́ (Northern Slavey), Dene Zhatıé (Southern Slavey), Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik (Gwich’in), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and Tłįcho.
ref: 2025, Marie-Ève Hudon, Language regimes in the Provinces and the Territories, Ottawa, Canada: Library of Parliament, page 30:
glosses: An Athabascan people of Canada, especially of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Synonyms: Chipewyan
Coordinate terms: Na-Dene
Related terms: Dene-Yeniseian
Deneology
Dene Valley
Diné
fremman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fremmen
form: fremmans
form: frinman
Etymology: Blend of fremd + man.
Senses: glosses: A person not related; a non-relative or non-relation; a stranger.
new-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: newborn
newfound
new-mown hay, new-laid eggs
glosses: newly, recently
examples: newcreate
newmodel
glosses: anew, again, re-
Derived terms: newcreate
newfashion
newland
newmodel
newmown
tickey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tickeys
Etymology: Dubious: Possibly from Malay tiga (“three”).
Senses: glosses: A silver threepenny (2+¹⁄₂ cents from 1961) bit (last minted 1964).
Derived terms: tickey box
long tickey
tickey-draai
stops on a tickey
half a brick and a tickey high
mielie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiː.li/
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: mielies
form: mealie
Etymology: From Afrikaans mielie, from Portuguese milho.
Senses: examples: "Throughout most of the country, however, South African cuisine relies on meat and mielies. Many South Africans, black and white, would cheerfully go through their lives eating little else. Up to half the arable land in South Africa is planted with maize, which was grown by tribes across Southern African long before the colonists arrived. https://web.archive.org/web/20060720101224/http://www.southafrica.info/plan_trip/holiday/food_wine/920091.htm
glosses: Maize.
Derived terms: mielie meal
butt naked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When he told the story our father laughed out loud at the ide of them, scrambling up the bank, butt naked, chased by the furious driver.
ref: 2002, Aminatta Forna, The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 152:
text: On the other hand, someone may see me running butt naked and call the police to pick me up in a straight jacket.
ref: 2010, Tangie Bell, Tired of Being Po, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of butt-naked.
vaaljapie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans [Term?], from Dutch vaal (“pale, cloudy”) + japie (“Jack or Jim”).
Senses: glosses: Very raw young wine, usually with sediment.
new chum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new chums
Etymology: From new + chum.
Senses: glosses: A newly arrived convict.
glosses: A beginner; a novice.
examples: text: 1906, Edward Dyson, In the Roaring Fifties, 2005, Gutenberg eBook #17045,
‘New chum?’ queried the barman, after serving him.
‘I suppose I am,’ replied Jim. ‘Look here, would you mind telling me what in the devil′s name a new chum is?'
‘A new chum is a man fresh from home.’
‘From England?'
‘Scotland, Ireland, anywhere else, if he′s green and inexperienced. Miners from the Californian fields don′t rank as new chums.’
'And how am I known as a new chum?’
The barman grinned. ‘That′ll tell on you all over the place,’ he said, indicating the bag. ‘That′s a true new chum′s bundle. No Australian would expatriate himself by carrying his goods in that fashion. He makes them up in a roll, straps them, and carries them in a sling on his back. His bundle is then a swag. The swag is the Australian′s national badge.’
text: Once, said he, a new chum came to the jarrah bush. A new chum is a tenderfoot, specifically an English tenderfot; he is, of course, the butt of every bush and mining camp in Australia.
ref: 1915, Norman Duncan, Australian Byways, page 44:
text: 1990, John Lane, Fairbridge Kid, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, page 114,
Being a new chum at Fairbridge meant that I had to go through a lengthy period of initiation all over again.
text: This acceptance applies to ‘new chums’ in Australia as well as the folks at Home. Much of the evidence that Australians disliked ‘new chums’ comes from Alexander Harris who, as a ‘new chum’ himself, was quite well treated by the ‘old hands’. The emphasis of colonial disdain was on the ‘new’ rather than the ‘chum’.
ref: 2004, Humphrey McQueen, A New Britannia, University of Queensland Press, Fourth edition, page 11:
glosses: A newly arrived and inexperienced immigrant; a newcomer.
Synonyms: sense: beginner
word: inceptor
word: neophyte
word: noob
word: beginner
sense: newly arrived immigrant
word: comeling
word: FOB
word: freshie
word: greener
word: offcomer
word: newcomer
witblits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans wit (“white”) + blits (“lightning”).
Senses: glosses: Home-distilled brandy or raw spirit, colourless and with a powerful kick.
comorbidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkəʊmɔː(ɹ)ˈbɪdɪti/
Forms: form: comorbidities
form: co-morbidity
Etymology: From co- + morbidity or comorbid + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Extensive comorbidity is the hallmark of immunodeficiencies.
text: The reported comorbidity between categorical personality disorders and OCD ranges between 33 and 87 percent (Bejerot et al, 1998).
ref: 2006, Ruth Gross-Isseroff, Abraham Weizman, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Comorbidity:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder.
examples: text: Coronary artery disease is often a comorbidity of diabetes mellitus.
text: Yet in private conversations, members of his staff were also candid that the president has comorbidities that could make him more susceptible to a severe bout of the virus.
ref: 2020 October 2, “Trump’s Positive Coronavirus Test Upends Campaign in Final Stretch”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disease thus coexisting.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.
Synonyms: comorbid condition
co-morbid condition
Related terms: word: comorbid
word: morbidity
word: morbid
word: complication
alt: co-occurrence, coöccurrence
word: cooccurrence
word: multimorbidity
word: sequela
mampoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mampoer
form: mampoers
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans, from Mampuru, the name of a Pedi chief.
Senses: examples: "The Americans call it 'moonshine', to the warm-blooded Irish it is 'Poteen' and the Swiss call it 'Kirsch'. In South Africa, it is 'Witblits' in the Cape and to Transvalers it is just 'Mampoer'. Mampoer and the variety of names given to it are the names of strong, homemade distilled brandy made from fruit." https://web.archive.org/web/20060517051232/http://www.encounter.co.za/article/179.html - 15k
glosses: Strong home-distilled peach or fruit liquor.
boerewors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boerewors
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans boerewors.
Senses: examples: text: The Boerewors recipe given here is for the basic, original boerewors, with suggestions as to how you can ring the changes.
text: To make truly authentic boerewors you'll need a sausage stuffer and casings.
ref: 2010, Steven Raichlen, Planet Barbecue!, Workman Publishing, page 350:
text: In the halcyon^([sic]) of sausages, if there were such a thing, boerewors would likely be crown prince.
ref: 2016, Michael Reid, M: A 24 Hour Cookbook, Bloomsbury Publishing (Absolute Press), page 175:
text: 2019, Gregory Mthembu-Salter, Wanted Dead and Alive: The Case for South Africa's Cattle, Cover2Cover (face2face), page 48,
The poet Antjie Krog has written evocatively about boerewors as the physical manifestation of a well-run farm, with the patriarch and his men raising and providing good-quality meat and the matriarch, armed with a prized, secret family recipe, organising her kitchen staff into the production line required to make the perfect wors.
glosses: A traditional homemade sausage made with spiced minced meat, now commercially available.
Related terms: boerie
droewors
wors
dark horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark horses
Etymology: Originally an allusion to an unknown horse with a dark coat winning a race, as used in the 1831 novel The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881).
Senses: examples: text: ‘She’s a dark horse,’ he said. ‘She knows just as much about climbing mountains as you or I. In fact, she was ahead of me the whole time, and I lost her.’
ref: 1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree:
text: As she pulled the door closed behind her, she heard the nurse say, “Well! You’re a dark horse, I must say! Do you know that extraordinary-looking girl?”
ref: 2005, Steve Augarde, Celandine, London: Corgi Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 13:
text: “Well!” Genevieve laughs – the kind of bright, trilling laugh you give when you’re really quite annoyed about something. “Ed, you are a dark horse! I had no idea you had a girlfriend!”
ref: 2009, Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl: A Novel, London: Black Swan, published 2010, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: Someone who possesses talents or favorable characteristics that are not known or expected by others.
examples: text: That left Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69 — a quiet American dark horse who had, surprisingly, emerged in the evening’s vote — as a source of particular interest.
ref: 2025 May 11, Jason Horowitz, Emma Bubola, Elizabeth Dias, Patricia Mazzei, “How a Quiet American Cardinal Became Pope”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A candidate for an election who is nominated unexpectedly, without previously having been discussed or considered as a likely choice.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A horse whose capabilities are not known.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, horse.
Derived terms: darkhorse
Related terms: underdog
black sheep
black horse
die down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies down
form: dying down
form: died down
form: died down
Senses: examples: text: We'll be able to sail safely across the bay once the storm dies down.
text: By the morning the fire had died down.
text: "I think you should consider your responsibility," said one critic. "How many patients went off the medications due to that publication, without consulting their doctor?"
When the applause after this question died down, Deacon defended the right of scientists to question popular medications: […]
ref: 2008 October, Paul Scott, “Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads?”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 149:
glosses: To become less virulent or strong; to subside.
Related terms: word: die back
word: die off
word: die out
eye of the storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyes of the storms
form: eyes of storms
Senses: glosses: A region of calm weather right in the middle of a storm.
glosses: A period of calm in a tumultuous time.
feel free
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels free
form: feeling free
form: felt free
form: felt free
Senses: examples: text: The co-pilot didn't feel free to speak up to the pilot in the cockpit.
glosses: To feel able without giving offense.
raw_tags: with to-infinitive
examples: text: While you're babysitting, feel free to open anything in the spirit cupboard.
glosses: You have my permission.
raw_tags: as imperative
with to-infinitive
examples: text: "Can I take a look at the draft you've prepared?" / "Feel free."
glosses: You have my permission.
raw_tags: as imperative
in response
Synonyms: sense: as imperative, in response
word: be my guest
fit as a fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪt æz ə ˈfɪdl̩/
Etymology: Unknown; possibly alliterative.
Senses: examples: text: This is excellent ynfayth, as fit as a Fiddle: […]
ref: 1598, [William Haughton], English-men for My Money: Or, a Pleasant Comedy, Called, A Woman will Haue Her Will, London: Imprinted at London by W[illiam] White, dwelling in Cow-lane, published 1616, →OCLC:
text: You wake up, feeling as fit as a fiddle; you look at the window and see the sun, and thank Heaven for a fine day.
ref: 1915 September 3, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 2, in Something New (Project Gutenberg; EBook #2042), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 6 September 2008 (Project Gutenberg version), →OCLC:
text: Icelanders will assure you that their economy is really as fit as a fiddle, and it is true that the country does produce a tidy budget surplus.
ref: 2008 April 10, Alexander Jung, Christoph Pauly, “Crashing the party of Icelandic prosperity”, in Spiegel Online, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2015:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Perfectly fit; in excellent condition or health.
Synonyms: fit as a butcher's dog
fit as a flea
in fine fettle
right as a trivet
sound as a bell
sound in wind and limb
arsonous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsonous acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the acid HAs(OH)₂ derived from arsine
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any of its hydrocarbyl derivatives
flat out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflæt ˈaʊt/
ipa: /ˈflæt ˌaʊt/
Forms: form: flat-out
Senses: examples: text: So many of them took pictures, of themselves and of me, that we ran flat out of black-and-white film the second day out, and there wasn′t a Queen Mary necktie to be had in the shops after we left the port.
ref: 1967 October 6, Dora Jane Hamblin, “Out to Sea and into History”, in LIFE, page 29:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, out.
examples: text: Avoid Flat-Out Opposites
The slob vs. the neatnik. The artist vs. the precision-freak. The freethinker vs. the tightass. Liberal vs. conservative. Jock vs. nerd. David vs. Goliath. Good vs. evil. Beauty and the Beast. Jekyll^([sic]) and Hyde.
ref: 2003, Thomas B. Sawyer, Fiction Writing Demystified, page 63:
text: I put up with a lot from them: sexist and racist jokes, routine descriptions of masculinist sexploitation, flat-out ridicule for my feminist views.
ref: 2008, Shira Tarrant, Jackson Katz, Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, page 148:
glosses: Complete, total, downright.
examples: text: I know we are all flat out. That is the way it is. We are flat out, and it becomes a way of life.
ref: 2006, Gideon Kunda, Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation, page 203:
glosses: Very busy.
examples: text: flat out (like a lizard in the sun) - doing absolutely nothing
glosses: Lazy, sleeping.
Derived terms: word: flat out like a lizard drinking
flat out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflæt ˈaʊt/
ipa: /ˈflæt ˌaʊt/
Forms: form: flat outs
form: flat-out
Senses: glosses: A total failure.
examples: text: His hands were of the same somber hue as the bare feet of the children who clustered near the table, looking toward it whistfully^([sic]) until the eldest mustered sufficient courage to ask his mother for "one of 'em yere flat-outs."
ref: 1881, Mary E. Jackson, The Spy of Osawatomie; Or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown, page 296:
glosses: A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
examples: text: The would-be daredevils are mercifully prevented from going too fast by strategically placed flat-outs.
ref: 1979 November, Tamsin Venn, “The Pleasures of Keystone”, in Skiing, page 107:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
examples: text: The circuit is very well endowed with corners of all sorts from hairpins to flat-outs, has a 1,540-yd. straight and measures 5.2 miles, partly on an airfield, partly through a built-up area.
ref: 1952, Motor, volume 102, number 2654, page 31:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
motor-racing
pets
racing
sports
glosses: An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
flat out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflæt ˈaʊt/
ipa: /ˈflæt ˌaʊt/
Forms: form: flats out
form: flatting out
form: flatted out
form: flatted out
form: flat-out
Senses: examples: 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 2015, Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books, Enhanced Media, page 413,
I see myself there warn't no sense in the tale, to chop square off that way before it come to anything, but I warn't going to say so, because I could see Tom was souring up pretty fast over the way it flatted out […] .
glosses: To fail after a promising beginning; to disappoint expectations.
glosses: Synonym of flatten out (to make flat)
synonyms: word: flatten out
extra: to make flat
arsorane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsoranes
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the arsenic hydride AsH₅, λ⁵-arsane
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: arsenic pentafluoride, AsF₅
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any hydrocarbyl derivative of this compound
Related terms: arsane
arsine
fuddle-duddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fuddle-duddles
form: fuddle-duddling
form: fuddle-duddled
form: fuddle-duddled
Etymology: From fuddle, after fuddy-duddy, but development of meaning unclear. Perhaps from the interjection coined by Pierre Trudeau (see next etymology).
Senses: glosses: To depart, to be off.
fuddle-duddle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: There is an example of the phrase's use in the early 1940s, in "Mother Finds a Body", by Gypsy Rose Lee: "...when [he] asks me where I was on the night of so-and-so, I'll tell him to go fuddle his duddle".
However the expression fuddle-duddle is attributed to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former prime minister of Canada, who according to some sources said it in parliament on 16 February 1971 and repeated it when pressed by television reporters about using profanity in respect to members of Parliament (Canadian House of Commons).
Senses: examples: text: What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you say “fuddle duddle” or something like that?
ref: 1971, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Fuck! Fuck off!
aryne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arynes
Etymology: From ar(omatic) + -yne.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydrocarbon, normally a transient species, derived from an arene by removal of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbon atoms, and thus possessing a formal triple bond; the simplest is benzyne
Related terms: heteroaryne
hetaryne
meta-aryne
ortho-aryne
para-aryne
dehydroarene
fiddle-faddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddlefaddle
Senses: examples: text: I can understand why people read horoscopes, but for me it's a bunch of fiddle-faddle.
text: These foolish Mistresses do so hang about ye, so whimper, and so hug, I know it Gentlemen, and so intice ye, now ye are i’th’ bud;
and that sweet tilting war, with eyes and kisses, th’ alarms of soft vows, and sighs, and fiddle faddles, spoils all our trade:
you must forget these knick knacks, a woman at some time of year, I grant ye she is necessarie; but make no business of her.
ref: 1679 Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. The Humourous Lieutenant. p. 190
glosses: nonsense
Synonyms: nonsense
fiddle-faddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fiddle-faddles
form: fiddle-faddling
form: fiddle-faddled
form: fiddle-faddled
form: fiddlefaddle
Senses: examples: text: The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;
The wise man homeward plods; I only stay
To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.
ref: 1911 Ambrose Bierce, The devil's dictionary. Neale Publishing, 1909-1912 The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume VII p. 88. ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this
glosses: To trifle; to dally.
fiddle-faddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fiddle-faddle
form: most fiddle-faddle
form: fiddlefaddle
Senses: examples: text: The witnesses made oath that they had heard some of the liverymen frequently railing at their mistress. They said she was a troublesome fiddle-faddle old woman, and so ceremonious that there was no bearing of her. They were so plagued with bowing and cringing as they went in and out of the room that their backs ached.
ref: 1712 John Arbuthnot. The History of John Bull: Oxford University Press 1976 →ISBN p.68
glosses: Trifling; dallying; inclined to fuss about trifles.
Derived terms: fiddle-faddler
wors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worses
Etymology: From Afrikaans wors, from Dutch worst (“sausage”). Doublet of wurst.
Senses: glosses: boerewors
Related terms: boerewors
droewors
atropisomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atropisomers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any conformer that can be isolated as a separate chemical compound and that arises from restricted rotation about a single bond, as in biaryl atropisomers. Synonym: atropoisomer.
Derived terms: atrop-
atropisomeric
atropisomerism
Related terms: rotational barrier
auxochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxochromes
Etymology: From auxo- + -chrome.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any atom or group which, when added to a chromophore, causes a bathochromic shift in its spectrum
Related terms: auxochromic
front runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front runners
form: frontrunner
form: front-runner
Senses: examples: text: [T]he American League pennant did not shape up as much of a race. There were the Indians and the Yankees, front runners as usual.
ref: 1955 May 9, “Sport: First-Division Tigers”, in Time:
text: Dubai, which would be the first host of a world’s fair in the Middle East, has emerged as the front-runner, offering the most financial and governmental support.
ref: 2013 August 25, Georgi Kantchev, “World Expositions Can Benefit or Haunt Host Cities”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The Conservative leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, has rejected “handouts” as a way of helping people affected by the cost of living crisis.
ref: 2022 August 6, Geneva Abdul, “Liz Truss rejects ‘handouts’ as way to tackle cost of living crisis”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any of the most likely winners in a contest, election, etc.
topics: business
finance
glosses: One who engages in front running.
Derived terms: english: verbal form
translation: verbal form
word: front run
Related terms: front running
funny money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Counterfeit money.
glosses: Money obtained in a devious or sneaky manner.
examples: text: They wanted funny money for it, so I refused.
glosses: An outrageously high price.
synonyms: play money
Monopoly money
glosses: Banknotes of any foreign currency.
glosses: A highly inflated currency.
synonyms: Monopoly money
glosses: Play money.
Related terms: dirty money
fuck you money
silly money
chromophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromophores
Etymology: From chromo- + -phore.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: that part of the molecule of a dye responsible for its colour
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (more generally) the group of atoms in a molecule in which the electronic transition responsible for a given spectral band is located
Derived terms: azochromophore
chromophoric
interchromophore
multichromophore
Related terms: chromatophore
luminophore
brand-new
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brand-new
form: most brand-new
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brand new.
Derived terms: brand-newness
gee whiz
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒiː wɪz/
ipa: /dʒiː ʍɪz/
Etymology: Alteration of Jesus.
Senses: examples: text: You only got 10% in the test. Gee whiz – you'll get over it.
text: When people would get off they always gasped out: 'Gee whiz, what a horse! Gee whiz, did you ever see anything like that! '
ref: 1905, Lloyd Osbourne, Baby Bullet: The Bubble of Destiny, page 116:
text: Gee whiz, how do people have fun when they're married and have a family?
ref: 1959 April 23, “Beaver's Newspaper”, in Leave It to Beaver, season 2, episode 30 (television production), spoken by Theodore Cleaver (Jerry Mathers):
text: That's the way I feel now; I just wrote the novels and made up the languages, and gee whiz, they make sense!
ref: 1979, Walter Breen, The Darkover Concordance:
glosses: An expression of surprise, enthusiasm, or annoyance: wow or so what?
gee whiz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒiː wɪz/
ipa: /dʒiː ʍɪz/
Etymology: Alteration of Jesus.
Senses: examples: text: These are some gee-whiz photographs.
glosses: Very good, impressive.
Derived terms: gee-whizzery
azacarbene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azacarbenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrene.
ur-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʊə/
ipa: /ɜː/
ipa: /ɝ/
Etymology: From German ur-, from Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur- (“out; without”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away, out, outwards”). Doublet of a- and or-. Cognate also with Dutch oer- and Dutch oor-.
Senses: examples: text: Some stories reach deeper, into the most primal and profound truths. They mirror, in new and original ways, the Ur-myth, the act of creation itself.
ref: 2003, John Adcox, 'Can Fantasy be Myth? Mythopoeia and The Lord of the Rings', The Newsletter of the Mythic Imagination Institutehttp://www.mythicjourneys.org/passages/septoct2003/newsletterp8.html
text: Lebanon ultimately remains hostage to the regional ur-conflict over Palestine.
ref: 2007, Max Rodenbeck, ‘Lebanon's Agony’, New York Review of Books, volume 54, number 11:
glosses: Forming words with the sense of “proto-, primitive, original”.
Coordinate terms: arch-
archi-
archo-
eteo-
Derived terms: ur-ancestor
ur-bird
ur-continent
ur-culture
urelement
ur-fascism
urfly
urfolk
ur-form
Ur-Germanic
ur-Hamlet
ur-hero
ur-homeland
ur-language
ur-mind
ur-myth
ur-ocean
ur-poem
ur-race
ur-science
ur-source
ur-speech
urtext
ur-type
ur-vogel
ur-word
Related terms: Urheimat
urheimat
get down to brass tacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets down to brass tacks
form: getting down to brass tacks
form: got down to brass tacks
form: gotten down to brass tacks
form: got down to brass tacks
Etymology: Uncertain. Earliest attestation is c. 1863 in the US, specifically Texas. One theory is that it comes from the brass tacks in the counter of a hardware store or draper’s shop used to measure cloth in precise units (rather than holding one end to the nose and stretching out the arm to approximately one yard). Another possibility is the 19th-century American practice of using brass tacks to spell out the initials of the deceased on the top of their coffin.
Senses: examples: text: 1863, January 21, 1863, The Tri-Weekly Telegraph, newspaper of Houston, Texas
When you come down to brass tacks – if we may be allowed the expression – everybody is governed by selfishness.
text: But I called here with a purpose. I expect you are a busy man and I know that I am, so I'll get down to the brass tacks.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 48:
text: 1935, Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty
That's no answer. Get down to brass tacks.
text: 1972, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Let's get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
text: 1979, Stephen King, The Dead Zone
We're gonna stop playing games with these Arabs and get down to brass tacks!
text: You must be Jules, which would make you Vincent. Let's get down to brass tacks, gentlemen. If I was informed correctly, the clock is ticking. Is that right, Jimmie?
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by The Wolf (Harvey Keitel):
text: And if the government got a grip, got down to brass tacks and started doing their actual job, all these things could be avoided.
ref: 2023 April 2, Pippa Crerar, Robyn Vinter, quoting Lisa Nandy, “Suella Braverman denies Brexit to blame for Dover queues of 14 hours”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To start to discuss or consider the most important details or facts about something.
Synonyms: cut to the chase
drill down
get down to bedrock
get down to business
get down to cases
get right down to cases
get down to nuts and bolts
get down to the nitty-gritty
roll up one's sleeves
eleventy
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛvənti/
Etymology: From eleven + -ty, from Old English hundendleftiġ (also spelled hund-endleofantiġ, hund-endlyftiġ, and hund-ælleftiġ). See twelfty for more. Popularized in the 20th century by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Senses: examples: text: Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc.
text: [Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday
[…]
“Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!”
ref: 1955 (1974), JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, pages 43, 54:
text: without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan
ref: 1980, Janet Caudle, State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1979 : October 29-31, 1979, page 149:
text: Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc.]
ref: 2007, Doug Lowe, Networking for Dummies, page 174:
glosses: The number 110, 11 × 10.
examples: text: No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong.
ref: May 1921, Margaret Wilson, “A Little Boy's Utopia”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 670:
text: People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1.
ref: 2005, Robert M Sapolsky, Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals, page 19:
text: According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.
ref: 2012 July 3, Marina Hyde, “A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
glosses: An indefinite large number.
Related terms: eleventeen
teenty
twelfty
get it on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets it on
form: getting it on
form: got it on
form: got it on
form: gotten it on
Senses: examples: text: Where's your coat? Get it on and let's get out of here.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, it, on.
examples: text: I can see the sparks between us. Let's get it on, baby!
text: The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew. It’s a hell of an episode, the dining car on this bullet train, not least because the dragon and the wolf got it on.
ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To have sex.
examples: text: You want a piece of me? OK, let's get it on!.
glosses: To engage in a fight.
examples: text: I need to get it on: there's not much time left.
glosses: To hurry up; to get a move on; to start.
Synonyms: sense: to have sex
word: do it
word: get it
word: make it
word: copulate
sense: to engage in a fight
word: do battle
sense: to engage in a fight
word: get some
sense: to hurry up
word: get a wiggle on
word: get one's ass in gear
word: get one's skates on
word: get the lead out
word: speed up
azimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azimines
Etymology: From azo + imine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an azo imide
get over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets over
form: getting over
form: got over
form: got over
form: gotten over
Etymology: Analytic form of the earlier overget.
Senses: examples: text: I'm trying to get over my fear of flying.
glosses: To overcome.
examples: text: I'm having problems getting over a bad cold.
glosses: To recover (from).
examples: text: She was in love with me for 10 years, and still hasn't got over the fact that the feeling wasn't mutual.
text: Oh yeah
Can I start over?
Oh yeah
Can I start over?
and get over it
ref: 1996, Jerry Cantrell, “Killer Is Me”, in Unplugged, performed by Alice in Chains:
glosses: To forget and move on; to calm down regarding something.
examples: text: We need a plan to get over Mr. Smith.
glosses: To manipulate (someone); to get around (someone); to improve one's own standing at another's expense.
examples: text: In our lectures we need to get over the importance of online safety.
glosses: To successfully communicate; to get across.
examples: text: Ireland got their second try not long before half-time with O'Leary, an injury doubt all week with a stiff back, just about getting over for a try which was confirmed by the video referee.
ref: 2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC:
text: But when a side plays for almost 20 of the first 40 minutes with only 14 men, you have to make that advantage count in your favour. Credit must go to the three-time champions for keeping the world champions from getting over for five points.
ref: 2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: To score a try.
examples: text: The concert went well, and we really got over with the talent scout.
glosses: To impress someone; to achieve a goal; to be successful.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To establish a connection with the audience as a character or faction.
examples: text: She needs to get over every day.
text: He can get me over.
glosses: To use a drug one is addicted to; to provide an addict with a dose.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To have sex.
Related terms: get one over on
azine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azines
Etymology: az(ote) + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compounds, having the general formula R₂C=NN=CR₂, produced by the action of a carbonyl compound with hydrazine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds containing a nitrogen atom as part of the ring structure, particularly those with six-membered aromatic rings (e.g., pyridine) or fused-ring systems.
Derived terms: estrazinol
thiazide
Related terms: aldazine
ketazine
diazine
triazine
mead-bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːd bɛnt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: mead-benches
Etymology: Calque of Old English medusetl or medubenċ.
Senses: examples: text: Gold is a constant element, gleaming solidly in underground vaults, on the breasts of queens or the arms and regalia of warriors on the mead-benches.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xvi:
glosses: A bench in a mead hall.
melodramatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛl.ə.dɹəˌmæt.ɪks/
Senses: glosses: Overemotional, exaggerated behavior calculated for effect.
Synonyms: dramatics
histrionics
theatrics
Related terms: melodramatic
neon tetra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neon tetras
Senses: examples: text: A swarm of thin neon tetra with red bellies and bright blue backs flash by.
ref: 2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 270:
glosses: Paracheirodon innesi (syn. Hyphessobrycon innesi), a small, tropical American fish, popular as an aquarium fish.
golden rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden rules
Senses: examples: text: It is all-important to remember that naturalists have no golden rule by which to distinguish species and varieties; […]
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “On the Imperfection of the Geological Record”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 296–297:
text: There is one golden rule of timetable work, that if a passenger train never runs to time it must be altered or other trains must be altered so that it can shake off its chronic unpunctuality.
ref: 1943 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Preparation of Timetables”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:
text: Here's what we call our golden rule / Have faith in you and the things you do
ref: 1979, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, “We Are Family”, performed by Sister Sledge:
text: A new book called When Nothing Works shows which groups have enjoyed the biggest rise in take-home pay since the turn of the millennium. From Tony Blair to Boris Johnson, the authors discover one golden rule: the richer you are, the more money you’re given.
ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A fundamental rule or principle.
examples: text: "Mr. Francis seems to understand the fundamental principle of all moral accounting, the great ethic rule of three. Let A do to B, as he would have B do to him; the product will give the rule of conduct required." My father smiled at this reduction of the golden rule to arithmetical form.
ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 2, in Rob Roy:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The principle that one should treat other people in the manner in which one would want to be treated by them.
topics: law
coordinate_terms: plain meaning rule
mischief rule
glosses: A method of statutory interpretation, whereby a judge will deviate from a literal interpretation of the law to the extent necessary to circumvent obvious absurdities or (sometimes) conclusions repugnant to public policy.
Related terms: love thy neighbor as thyself
silver rule
good grief
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An expression of surprise or shock.
glosses: An expression of dismay and disgust.
Synonyms: sense: surprise or shock
word: wow
sense: dismay and disgust
word: dammit
good riddance
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪd(ə)n(t)s/
ipa: /ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪdn̩(t)s/
Etymology: From good + riddance (“act of ridding or removal; relief involving getting rid of something”), possibly influenced by the earlier obsolete terms fair riddance and gentle riddance.
Senses: examples: text: I couldn’t be more glad to see the back of them. Good riddance, I say.
text: Goodbye and good riddance!
text: Mrs Inconſiderate, alſo replyed, ſaying, avvay vvith ſuch Fantaſtical Fools from the Tovvn, a good riddance, for my par[t], I ſay, of her. Should ſhe ſtay vvhere ſhe dvvels, and retain this her mind, vvho could live quietly by her? for ſhe vvill either be dumpiſh or unneighbourly, or talk of ſuch matters as no vviſe body can abide: […]
ref: 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: And the nephew says good riddance, / And the uncle says good riddance, / And the Aunt, she says good riddance, / And the cousins say good riddance, / All the household in a chorus, / Singing in a household chorus, / Bid the boys good bye, and also— / Bid the boys good riddance also, / "No more walking says the uncle— / Walking up and down the school room / Teaching little boys their letters, / Bothering my brains with school boys, / Bothering their brains with letters.["]
ref: 1859 January 1 (date written), James Brown Kendall, “Letter to J. W. B., on His Giving Up His School and Becoming Representative”, in Poems, Framingham, Mass.: J. C. Clark, […], published 1878, →OCLC, pages 48–49:
text: After 50 years of farming, [Maurice] Fisch too has left the ostrich business, and says good riddance. […] Ostriches, says Fisch, are "stupid birds that just had nice feathers."
ref: 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may Look Goofy, but Ostriches are Nobody’s Fool”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, published September 2020, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:
synonyms: good riddings
glosses: Used to indicate that a departure or loss is welcome.
Coordinate terms: and nothing of value was lost
at last
at long last
finally
it's about time
Derived terms: good riddance of bad rubbish
good riddance to bad rubbish