cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gasholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasholders
Etymology: From gas + holder.
Senses: examples: text: Its first big task was in 1915, at a fire at the Southern Laundry, next to the Great Western Hotel; its last major action was in 1942, when, after an enemy air attack, it helped to save the big gasholder at Swindon Works.
ref: 1957 March 24, “Notes and News: G.W.R. Fire Engine to be Preserved”, in Railway Magazine, page 210:
glosses: A large cylindrical tank used for storing gas, especially town gas (1870s-1940s) or natural gas (1950s-present). Types include one with telescopic sections with wet seals in between and one with a nontelescoping tank and a dry seal.
Synonyms: gasometer
Related terms: gas cylinder
gas tank
fuel tank
water tower
data table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data tables
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any display of information in tabular form, with rows and/or columns named
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A table stored in, or derived from, a database.
Related terms: spreadsheet
gravimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravimeters
Etymology: From gravi- + -meter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instrument used to measure local variations in the gravitational field.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hydrometer.
Derived terms: thermogravimeter
urogravimeter
Related terms: gravimetric
gravimetry
hemacytometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemacytometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemocytometer.
hemocytometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhiːmə(ʊ)saɪˈtɒmɪtə/
ipa: /ˌhimoʊsaɪˈtɑmɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˌhimə-/
Forms: form: hemocytometers
form: haemacytometer
form: haemocytometer
form: hemacytometer
Etymology: From hemo- + cyto- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: And helping to record data of such exacting minuteness, Patrick felt, as he often felt in the midst of such experiments, which were essentially the counting of microbe cells with a high-tech hemocytometer, as if he were an intruder into a world that, if he descended into it for a split second, would devour him rapaciously, reducing him to mere chemicals and a throbbing current called “life.”
ref: 1996, Joyce Carol Oates, “Snow after Easter”, in We Were the Mulvaneys, Plume, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Semen volume was assessed by weight, and sperm concentration was determined using a Bürker-Türk hemocytometer (Paul Marienfeld GmbH & Co. KG, Lauda-Königshofen, Germany).
ref: 2012 July 24, Ulla Nordström Joensen et al., “Phthalate Excretion Pattern and Testicular Function: A Study of 881 Healthy Danish Men”, in Environmental Health Perspectives, volume 120, number 10, →DOI, →PMID:
text: Cell viability before freezing or after recovery was determined using a hemocytometer to enumerate 1000 cells by Trypan Blue vital stain method (Qi et al., 2007).
ref: 2013 December 24, C. Q. Liu et al., “Study of Genetic Characteristics of In Vitro Culture and Intracellular Transduction of Exogenous Flurescent^([sic]) Proteins in Fibroblast Cell Line of Angora Goat”, in Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences, volume 26, number 3, →ISSN, page 1508:
glosses: A device used to count the number of blood cells in a volume of blood.
Derived terms: counting cell hemocytometer
Related terms: hemacytometry
listello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: listellos
Etymology: From Italian listello.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An architectural fillet, a tile border or listel
rationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rationalisms
Etymology: From rational + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory that the reason is a source of knowledge independent of and superior to sense perception.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The theory that knowledge may be derived by deductions from a priori concepts (such as axioms, postulates or earlier deductions).
examples: text: The opinion opposed to mysticism in philosophy is sometimes spoken of as rationalism. Rationalism insists that all our beliefs ought ultimately to find for themselves articulate grounds. Such grounds, for rationalism, must consist of four things: (1) definitely statable abstract principles; (2) definite facts of sensation; (3) definite hypotheses based on such facts; and (4) definite inferences logically drawn.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A view that the fundamental method for problem solving is through reason and experience rather than faith, inspiration, revelation, intuition or authority.
glosses: Elaboration of theories by use of reason alone without appeal to experience, such as in mathematical systems.
Synonyms: apriorism
intellectualism
Coordinate terms: empiricism
Derived terms: critical rationalism
economic rationalism
Related terms: rationalist
rationality
empiricism
spreadsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɛd.ʃiːt/
ipa: /ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/
Forms: form: spreadsheets
Etymology: From spread + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.
ref: 1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.
examples: text: A little later in this chapter, we'll run through some of the most common methods journalists use to analyze the material they gather and store in spreadsheets.
ref: 2009, Fred Vallance-Jones, David McKie, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49:
text: For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code.
ref: 2014 July 15, Theck, “TC101: Intro to Theorycrafting”, in Sacred Duty:
synonyms: worksheet
glosses: A document created with such an application.
glosses: A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.
spreadsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɛd.ʃiːt/
ipa: /ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/
Forms: form: spreadsheets
form: spreadsheeting
form: spreadsheeted
form: spreadsheeted
Etymology: From spread + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: If you'd spreadsheeted the cascade charts and sorted it by each name's sphere of influence, then the people Carrie Johnstone sent the police to get constituted a big chunk of the middle third—people who “commanded” maybe four of five others—and maybe 10 percent of the top influencers.
ref: 2020, Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface, Head of Zeus, →ISBN:
glosses: To model or compute by means of a spreadsheet.
Related terms: layout
listel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: listels
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A narrow fillet or border.
heptameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptameters
Etymology: From hepta- + meter.
Senses: glosses: a line or verse containing seven metrical feet
Related terms: heptametric
metrical feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metrical foot
heroic meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heroic meters
Etymology: From its use in heroic verse.
Senses: glosses: The dactylic hexameter.
Related terms: heroic poem
heroic poetry
heroic stanza
heroic verse
hypsometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypsometers
Etymology: From hypso- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that measures altitude indirectly by measuring the boiling point of water (which varies with atmospheric pressure).
Related terms: hypsometric
hypsometry
attorney-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attorney-generals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attorney general.
private enterprise number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private enterprise numbers
Senses: examples: Applied primarily to LDAP and X.500 directories in locally-defined schema and in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and related standards.
glosses: A unique number assigned by IANA to identify objects that are defined by an enterprise.
attorneys general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attorney general
inclinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclinometers
Etymology: From incline + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that displays the angle of an aircraft relative to the horizon.
glosses: An instrument that measures magnetic dip; a dip circle.
examples: text: For the ground, that means using three primary types of equipment:
■ Extensometers to look for ground heave - the upwards movement of soil, which can occur at any stage. It is essentially the opposite of erosion and is often associated with clay-type soils which swell when wet.
■ Inclinometers, which measure slope movements.
■ Piezometers to measure water levels.
ref: 2022 October 5, Tom Allett, “HS2's green screen to aid the environment”, in RAIL, number 967, page 35:
glosses: A surveying instrument that measures angles of inclination or elevation; a clinometer.
Synonyms: clinometer
sibilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sibilations
Etymology: Latin sibilatio, from sībilāre (“to hiss”).
Senses: examples: text: From the shadows emanated a hushed sibilation.
text: The exact labial sibilation denoted by f, and the soft sibilation z are unknown in Sanskrit.
ref: 1962, Sir Monier Monier-Williams, A practical grammar of the Sanskrit language, page 18:
glosses: A hissing sound.
Synonyms: word: groove fricative
word: hiss
word: sibilating
word: sibilation
word: siss
Hypernyms: word: sound
Hyponyms: word: fizzle
word: sizzling
word: swish
word: swoosh
word: whish
word: whisper
word: whistle
word: whiz
word: whizzle
word: whoosh
word: zip
word: zing
Related terms: word: sibilate
word: sibilance
word: sigmatism
kilogram-meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilogram-meters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kilogram-metre.
lairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛəɹi/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: lairier
form: lairiest
Etymology: Variation of leery, originally Cockney slang.
Senses: examples: text: Don't get lairy with me!
text: There's always been a weird duality at the heart of New Order: the fact that three druggy, lairy Mancs and the drummer's girlfriend can craft music of such awesome emotive power as to make grown neds weep.
ref: 2001 October 14, Simon Stuart, “rush to order”, in Glasgow Sunday Herald:
text: Unskinny was a self-published riot of large lasses getting lairy in northern towns, and did a reasonable trade via friends and comic shops.
ref: 2002 July 27, “‘We wouldn′t dream of making you feel fat’”, in Glasgow Herald:
text: The show is lairy, loud and laddish; it does exactly what it says on the tin.
ref: 2002 September 24, Gareth McLean, “Live With Chris Moyles”, in The Guardian:
text: Watching the people get lairy / It's not very pretty I tell thee
ref: 2004 November 1, “I Predict a Riot”, in Employment, performed by Kaiser Chiefs:
text: I started to get a bit lairy, agitated on drink.
ref: 2005, Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards:
text: Obviously, I'm not beginning to suggest women commit as much violent crime as men when plastered. But I do now concede that being aggressive, ignorant, lairy and foul-mouthed suits the ladies even less than it suits the fellas.
ref: 2005 November 20, Rowan Pelling, “Women do make the worst drunks. Maybe it's the sick'n'sequin mix...”, in The Independent on Sunday:
glosses: Touchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.
Derived terms: lairiness
lairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛəɹi/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: lairier
form: lairiest
Etymology: Thought to be from leery (“knowing, streetwise”).
Senses: examples: text: 1983, National Book Council (Australia), Australian Book Review, Issues 48-57, page 29,
He was lairy alright, resplendent in a purple blazer and pink trousers.
text: They had no wedding party, only an Australian couple in their sixties, the woman in a great deal of pancake and blusher and a lairy fur jacket.
ref: 2008, Helen Garner, True Stories, page 255:
text: Sungkar told Rabiah he thought of her as he rode to freedom on his motor scooter through the green wrought-iron gates, disguised in a pair of blue jeans and a lairy short-sleeved batik shirt: ‘Rabiah reckoned the safari suit was bad—if only she could see me now’.
ref: 2009, Sally Neighbour, The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman′s Extraordinary Journey Into Jihad, page 176:
glosses: Vulgar and flashy.
glosses: Socially unacceptable.
Derived terms: lair
lairiser
lairiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lairisers
Etymology: Derived from lairy.
Senses: glosses: A vulgar and flashy person.
ringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin ringens, from the verb ringi (“to open wide”).
Senses: examples: text: Ringent pools of gas kept erupting in oily eyes on the surface.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 107:
glosses: Having the semblance of lips parted wide, such as may be observed in certain flowers.
Related terms: rictus
lactometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactometers
Etymology: From lact- + -o- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: The lactometer is employed in detecting the adulteration of milk with water; […]
ref: 1948, Joseph Price Remington, Practice of Pharmacy (page 63)
glosses: A device that estimates the cream content of milk by measuring its specific gravity.
light meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light meters
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An exposure meter
glosses: Any of various devices that measure some property of light
verbal constipation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By analogy with verbal diarrhoea.
Senses: glosses: Difficulty in expressing in words what one wants to say, especially if one has much to say.
wb
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of welcome back.
glosses: Initialism of write back.
generators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generator
hinnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hinny
glosses: plural of hinnie
hinnies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hinny
egesta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ēgesta (“discharged [matter etc.]”), plural of Latin ēgestum (“[that which is] discharged”), an adjectivization of the perfect passive participle of Latin to discharge; to carry out.
Senses: glosses: The waste which is carried out from a cell or an organism; the result of egestion; excrement
Related terms: egest
take a gander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a gander
form: taking a gander
form: took a gander
form: taken a gander
Etymology: First recorded in 1887, based on craning the neck like a goose.
Senses: examples: text: They all went downtown to take a gander at the new shops that had opened there.
synonyms: have a look
take a look
glosses: To take a look; to check or examine.
Synonyms: look
stick out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks out
form: sticking out
form: stuck out
form: stuck out
Senses: examples: text: He stuck out his tongue at me.
synonyms: obtrude
glosses: To protrude.
examples: text: His tongue was sticking out.
text: I can fit the pipe in my car, but one end will stick out from the back.
text: Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out, for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind them up. But he couldn't see it. They were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: "Your house did, anyway," replied the little old woman, with a laugh, "and that is the same thing. See!" she continued, pointing to the corner of the house. "There are her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood."
Dorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright. There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To protrude; to extend beyond.
examples: text: The one red wall really sticks out among all the creamy ones.
synonyms: word: stand out#Verb
word: obtrude
word: outstand
word: stand out
word: stick out
word: stick out like a sore thumb
glosses: To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive.
synonyms: word: abide
word: aby
word: astand
word: endure
word: go on
word: lie
word: prevail
word: hold on
word: last
word: live
word: persist
word: remain
word: stick
word: stick it out
word: stick out
glosses: To persist until the end; stick it out.
Derived terms: word: stickout
word: stick out a mile
word: stick out like a sore thumb
word: stick out like dog's balls
word: sticky-out
word: sticky-outy
word: the nail that sticks out gets hammered down
Related terms: proud
relishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relish
relishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relish
derm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜːm/
ipa: /dɝm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”). Doublet of derma.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: animal skin.
glosses: Synonym of dermis.
synonyms: word: dermis
Derived terms: dermal
dermic
exoderm
trichodermial
derm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜːm/
ipa: /dɝm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: derms
Senses: glosses: Clipping of dermatologist.
derm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜːm/
ipa: /dɝm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: derms
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans derm (“intestine”), related to Dutch darm (“intestine”). Doublet of tharm.
Senses: examples: text: What are you going to do with the fish derms?
text: I don't like eating the derms of any animal.
glosses: Guts, entrails.
mucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muck
mucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of muck
cineritious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cineritious
form: most cineritious
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cinericius.
Senses: examples: text: Its outer portion is composed exclusively of the white or fibrous neurine, and its interior contains a considerable portion of the cineritious or pulpy neurine, called sometimes the nucleus of the spinal marrow.
ref: 1843, Caspar Wistar, A System of Anatomy for the Use of Students of Medicine, volume 2, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, page 560:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Cinereous.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Related to the cinerea.
tuck in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tucks in
form: tucking in
form: tucked in
form: tucked in
Etymology: See tuck (1).
Senses: examples: text: She tucked in her young son and turned out the light.
glosses: To pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed.
examples: text: Life on the island feels great! When the sun rises, I wakey-wakey, and when it sets, I tuck in fer snoozer-time! Perfect fer a simple bloke like me, right?
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube:
text: Always my man, always. Have a peaceful night when you tuck in.
ref: 2025 February 27, @PhanTom_X777X, Twitter:
glosses: To pull the blankets or duvet up over oneself; to get in bed.
glosses: To push (the fabric at the bottom of a shirt) under the pants.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To acquire something tiny
examples: text: And although Steven Fletcher cut the deficit for Wolves, tucking in Stephen Hunt's cross, the home side held on.
ref: 2011 September 24, Arindam Rej, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To score from with a casual motion
examples: text: "Tuck it in that corner."
text: Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the slimmest of female figures could be comfortable in them; the space they occupy would have been better utilised to increase standing room).
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715:
glosses: To place in a small space.
tuck in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tucks in
form: tucking in
form: tucked in
form: tucked in
Etymology: See tuck (4).
Senses: examples: text: Tuck in, before the food goes cold.
text: Still, he tucked in handsomely to bacon and tomato on fried bread, felicitating himself on the considered wisdom of his arrival in the character of guest to Bradly.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 74:
glosses: To eat heartily.
Related terms: topics: food
lifestyle
word: tucker
word: tuck into
word: dig in
pilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪlɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of piling
maracas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maraca
crank up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cranks up
form: cranking up
form: cranked up
form: cranked up
Senses: examples: text: Let's crank up the old motorcycle and take it for a spin.
glosses: To start something mechanical, an act that often used to involve cranking.
examples: text: I kept thinking: this has nothing to do with my interests, with what I believe is a desirable subject for literature. I was doing it as a performance. I kept cranking myself up to perform, to meet the demands of the genre. I know this sounds terribly inartistic.
ref: 1976 August 14, John Mitzel, Richard Hall, “The Whodunit Writer: Why He Dun It”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 7:
glosses: To muster up the mental energy to do something.
glosses: To prepare (something).
examples: text: He cranked up the volume to 11.
text: And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.
ref: 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:
glosses: To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something.
examples: text: Was the great machine ever what it was cranked up to be?
ref: 2003, Chris Jenks, Transgression:
text: Let's hope your ol' buddy Majors is all he's cranked up to be, for we're about to introduce him to what you yanks refer to as hard ball.
ref: 2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, page 66:
text: That whole campaign was a damp squib, they cranked it up as a real possibility that Scotland might win, and when we actually got there it didn't happen like that, and everybody came home quite early with their tails between their legs.
ref: 2013, Alistair Moffat, Susan Mansfield, Alexander Smith, The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece:
glosses: To describe in praiseworthy terms; to promote.
glosses: To inject heroin.
lurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɜːv/
ipa: /lɝv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v
homophone: lurv
Etymology: From an expressively lengthened pronunciation of love ([lʌːv]~[lɜːv]~[lɐːv]). The spelling is based on non-rhotic English.
Senses: glosses: Love, fondness.
lurve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɜːv/
ipa: /lɝv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v
homophone: lurv
Forms: form: lurves
form: lurving
form: lurved
form: lurved
Etymology: From an expressively lengthened pronunciation of love ([lʌːv]~[lɜːv]~[lɐːv]). The spelling is based on non-rhotic English.
Senses: glosses: To love; to like a lot.
Related terms: lurv
luv
love
wuv
looove
clerb
gangbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The adjective and adverb are a shortening of the phrase like gangbusters.
Senses: glosses: plural of gangbuster
Derived terms: like gangbusters
gangbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: The adjective and adverb are a shortening of the phrase like gangbusters.
Senses: examples: text: What went wrong for Ophelia Lovibond? It was all looking gangbusters after a string of entry-level Hollywood roles.
ref: 2011 September 15, Cath Clarke, “Turnout – review”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Very successful or profitable.
gangbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: The adjective and adverb are a shortening of the phrase like gangbusters.
Senses: examples: text: to go gangbusters
text: This follows Llewelyn-Bowen on a promotional parade through China, his hopes resting largely on the basis that his British quirkiness will go gangbusters with Shanghai shoppers.
ref: 2015 July 13, “Monday’s best TV”, in The Guardian:
text: Clearly this is a moment tailor-made for the front crawl, but I can't do front crawl so instead I opt to skull, the swan-like grace of my upper body belying the fact that under the water my legs are going absolutely gangbusters.
ref: 2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 46:
text: I doubt very much that the US will deploy much that would have been prohibited by the treaty. Russia, though, will go gangbusters.
ref: 2018 October 21, Jeffrey Lewis, quotee, “Trump says US will withdraw from nuclear arms treaty with Russia”, in The Guardian:
text: The latter, a niche series of British gangster movies, isn’t exactly a critical darling, but has a rabid fanbase, with each title doing gangbusters for Signature in home entertainment and streaming.
ref: 2022 February 4, Manori Ravindran, “Signature Entertainment Brings West Ham United Owner David Sullivan Back Into the Fold, Expands Production Might”, in Variety:
text: The position that we should go gangbusters and use it to make anything we want — up to and including doomsday weapons — that’s obviously just as crazy. We’re trying to seek the middle ground, to do things responsibly.
ref: 2024 December 5, Madhumita Murgia, quoting Dario Amodei, “Anthropic’s Dario Amodei: Democracies must maintain the lead in AI”, in Financial Times:
glosses: With great energy or speed; very well.
gangbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangbusters
Etymology: From gang + buster.
Senses: glosses: A law enforcement officer who specializes in disrupting organized crime.
Synonyms: crimebuster
Derived terms: like gangbusters
like gangbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From the American true crime radio drama Gang Busters (1936–1957), which opened abruptly with loud sound effects of police sirens, machine guns, etc.
Senses: examples: text: "Put an actress in knock-out clothes and she'll come through like gangbusters."
ref: 1954 December 9, Hedda Hopper, “Chandler, Baxter 'Spoilers' Costars”, in Los Angeles Times, page B12:
text: Chromebooks are selling like gangbusters, but the party could be coming to an end [title]
ref: 2021 July 14, Paul Lilly, “Chromebooks are selling like gangbusters, but the party could be coming to an end”, in PC Gamer:
text: Wearing its politics heavier on its sleeve is Being the Ricardos, a late-breaking Amazon Studios film from Aaron Sorkin that played like gangbusters at industry screenings in New York and Los Angeles.
ref: 2022 January 7, Richard Lawson, “The Best-Picture Race: Sure Things, Crowd-Pleasers, and the Late-Breaking Potential Upsets”, in Vanity Fair:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Vigorously, rapidly, zealously, or forcibly; in a manner which has considerable impact.
wikipedia: Gang Busters
boo hoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Onomatopoeic evoking cries.
Senses: examples: text: "Boo hoo!" cried Lincoln after he hit his funny bone.
glosses: The sound of crying.
examples: text: So you broke it. Boo hoo! Get a grip and clean up the mess.
glosses: it is not worth crying about, an expression of contempt
raw_tags: as an ordinary word
used ironically
Evangelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to any of several Christian Churches that believe in the sole authority of the gospels.
glosses: Of, or relating to Protestant (especially Lutheran) Churches in Germany.
listen up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: listens up
form: listening up
form: listened up
form: listened up
Etymology: From listen + up. First use appears c. 1933, although the exact date of its first use is uncertain. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: I'm only gonna say this once, so you really need to listen up.
text: His sharp eyes scanned the faces of his charges. "Listen up!" he barked.
ref: 1933, Eddie Dooley, Under the Goal Posts:
glosses: To listen closely; to pay attention.
prejudicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: more prejudicial
form: most prejudicial
form: prejudical
form: prejudicall
Etymology: From Middle English prejudiceele, prejudicial, prejudiciall, prejudiciel, prejudiciell, prejudycyall, from Old French prejudicial, prejudiciel and Medieval Latin prēiūdiciālis.
Senses: examples: text: I must believe that the absence of specific language in our Policy Book with respect to sexual preferences cannot be construed as encouragement to prejudicial behavior or treatment.
ref: 1978 December 9, J. T. Harris, quotee, “Polaroid Gay Workers”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 2:
antonyms: nonprejudicial
glosses: Exhibiting prejudice or bias.
examples: text: Were I to give you money, for whatever reason, it would be extremely prejudicial to your chances in court if you were unfortunate enough to appear there.
ref: 2011, Minette Walters, The Scold's Bridle:
synonyms: word: harmful
word: damaging
word: deleterious
word: detrimental
word: hurtful
word: inimical
word: injurious
word: mischievous
word: nocent
word: nocuous
word: noxious
word: noisome
word: prejudicial
word: scathand
word: scathel
word: sullen
word: venom
glosses: Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious.
examples: text: The judge had granted the DA a one-week extension with the caustic admonition that the case would be summarily dismissed if at that time probative, as opposed to prejudicial, evidence was not produced.
ref: 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 109:
topics: law
antonyms: probative
glosses: Tending to convince based on past history rather than on evidence about the case at hand.
Derived terms: non-prejudicial
wildfowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪldfaʊl/
Forms: form: wildfowls
form: wildfowl
Etymology: From wild + fowl.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: gamefowl, game bird
text: […] Whoso seeks an audit here
Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,
Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books, London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168:
text: In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.
ref: 1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Wartburg, page 81:
hypernyms: fowl#Noun
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bird#Noun
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animal#Noun
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organism#Noun
species#Noun
glosses: Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
Related terms: landfowl
waterfowl
poultry
wildfowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪldfaʊl/
Forms: form: wildfowls
form: wildfowling
form: wildfowled
form: wildfowled
Etymology: From wild + fowl.
Senses: examples: text: The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 220b:
glosses: To hunt wildfowl.
Derived terms: wildfowler
wildfowling
entourage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒn.tʊ.ɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈɑ̃ː.tʊ.ɹɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈɑn.tə.ɹɑʒ/
Forms: form: entourages
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French entourage, from entourer (“to surround”).
Senses: examples: text: large entourage
text: royal entourage
text: celebrity entourage
text: The actor arrived with an entourage of assistants and bodyguards.
glosses: A retinue of attendants, associates or followers.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A binary relation in a uniform space which generalises the notion of two points being no farther apart than a given fixed distance; a uniform neighbourhood.
topics: architecture
glosses: Decorations, such as people, vehicles, or trees, appearing on an architectural sketch or rendering to make the site look more lively.
Derived terms: entourage effect
Murrumbidgee jam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Murrumbidgee jams
Senses: examples: text: Even the basic damper mixture could be treated in all sorts of different ways – mixed with dried fruit, spread with cold tea and brown sugar (a concoction known as Murrumbidgee jam), or cooked on top of a stew to form a pie crust.
ref: 1977, Richard Daunton-Fear and Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery (discussing 19th century cookery)
synonyms: whaler's delight
glosses: A spread made from cold tea and brown sugar.
Burdekin duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burdekin ducks
form: burdekin duck
Etymology: From Burdekin (“a surname”); named after the Burdekin River, Queensland, which in turn was named for Mrs. Thomas Burdekin, who provided assistance to the expedition during which the river was discovered (by Europeans).
Senses: examples: text: The Burdekin duck is also large, and bronze and white in colour. They are found in large numbers on the River Burdekin, from which they derive their name.
ref: 1870, Edward B. Kennedy, Four years in Queensland, page 116:
text: The park is one of Australia's chief refuges for several bird species, including the Burdekin duck and magpie goose.
ref: 2002, Rob Van Driesum, Lonely Planet Outback Australia, page 388:
text: The park is one of the chief refuges in Australia for several species, among them the magpie goose, green pygmy-goose and Burdekin duck.
ref: 2003, Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory, page 145:
text: The duck on his left shoulder is the chestnut teal (mudjigin), and the one on his right is a burdekin duck (tindirrgam).
ref: 2005, Allan Marett, Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia, page 17:
glosses: The bird Tadorna radjah, a protected species within Australia.
examples: text: 1977, Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, 1977, →ISBN (discussing 19th century cookery),
even the exotic-sounding "Burdekin duck" consists of nothing more than slices of cold beef fried in batter.
text: It was loaded with food; sponge-cakes each higher and lighter than the next and oozing frothy cream, plates of sandwiches, egg and lettuce, corned-beef and pickle, and ‘Burdekin Duck’ made of bacon and tomato and cheese squashed up.
ref: 2010, Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill, page 214:
text: You could turn corned beef into Burdekin Duck by putting strips of cold corned beef into batter, and puftalooners could be made with balls of premixed damper thrown into hot fat, and damper could be turned into brownies with sultanas and currants
ref: 2010, Jill Bowen, Kidman The Forgotten King, unnumbered page:
glosses: A food dish made from leftovers or ingredients to hand, usually including corned beef.
Synonyms: sense: Tadorna radjah
word: radjah shelduck
sense: Tadorna radjah
word: raja shelduck
cotton to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cottons to
form: cottoning to
form: cottoned to
form: cottoned to
Etymology: According to Michael Quinion of World Wide Words, "It has plausibly been suggested it came from the use of mixtures of cotton and other fibres in clothing. In the early 1800s, to cotton to somebody implied that you were drawn or attached to that person. It may be that the idea here is how well a thread of cotton sticks to the surface of cloth."
Senses: examples: text: Her heart's as hard as taxes, and as bad; / She does not even cotton to her dad.
ref: 1858, Andrew Halliday, Frederick Lawrence, Kenilworth:
text: “The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He’s got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers! But the mater cottoned to him at once, took him on as secretary—you know how she’s always running a hundred societies?”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 7:
glosses: To like; approve of, accept, or tolerate.
Related terms: cotton on
Dutch hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch hands
Senses: examples: text: Ranged on shelves along the stone walls would be pans of milk set to rise, buckets and cans, maturing cheeses, butter churns, and butter pats or "Dutch hands" for beating the last traces of water from the golden mass.
ref: 1977, Richard Daunton-Fear and Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, 1977 (discussing a typical kitchen of early colonial Australia)
glosses: A wooden paddle, typically one of a pair, used to press butter when making it at home.
Synonyms: butter pat
Pakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paki
Pakis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: But I′d rather remember the batsmanship of the Pakis.
ref: 1999, Outlook, volume 5, numbers 12-24, page 258:
glosses: The Pakistan cricket team.
claves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪvz/
ipa: /klɑːvz/
ipa: /ˈklɑˌveɪz/
ipa: /kleɪvz/
rhymes: -eɪvz
rhymes: -ɑːvz
Forms: form: clave
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin American Spanish claves (plural), from Latin clāvis (“a key; a lever, bar”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A percussion instrument, consisting of two sticks or blocks, in which one is struck against the other in order to produce a sound.
Synonyms: word: cleavers
claves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪvz/
ipa: /klɑːvz/
ipa: /ˈklɑˌveɪz/
ipa: /kleɪvz/
rhymes: -eɪvz
rhymes: -ɑːvz
ipa: /ˈkleɪˌviz/
ipa: /kleɪvz/
ipa: /klɑːvz/
ipa: /ˈklɑˌveɪz/
ipa: /kleɪvz/
rhymes: -eɪvz
rhymes: -ɑːvz
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of clavis
Related terms: rhythm sticks
air brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air brakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of airbrake.
Related terms: air-braked
autocunnilingus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːtəʊˌkʌnɪˈlɪŋɡəs/
Etymology: From auto- + cunnilingus.
Senses: glosses: Oral masturbation of one's own vulva or vagina.
small beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small beers
Senses: examples: text: It was then that the large footmen were too much employed at Clavering Park to be able to bring messages, or dally over the cup of small beer with the poor little maids at Fairoaks
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Looking back to the 18th century, when the production of very low-alcohol ‘small’ beers was widespread as a safer alternative to dirty drinking water for the whole family, Small Beer produces a set of sub-3% brews.
ref: 2020 April 12, David Williams, “The best low alcohol beers”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Beer with a low alcoholic content, usually between 0.5% and 2.8%.
examples: text: The income from standard widgets is small beer compared to the income from the gold-plated ones.
text: To ſuckle Fooles, and chronicle ſmall Beere.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 317, column 2:
text: ‘He’s not in court, man—was quite a break.’
‘You small beer to him, Peter, it must be.’
ref: 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 132:
text: The estimated £3m extra cost of providing free school meals represents a little over 1% of the council's education spending. That's no small beer, but nor will it be a huge saving.
ref: 2006 June 9, Kate Green, “Bring back free school meals”, in The Guardian:
text: But because there is a limit to how much of this is achievable while keeping the whole network operating, we can expect this to amount to small beer in terms of the overall level of cost savings required.
ref: 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 23:
synonyms: word: peanuts
word: small potatoes
word: bagatelle
word: bag of shells
word: bric-a-brac
word: dicky
word: dicky-bird
word: fico
word: fig
word: flyspeck
word: minuity
word: niff-naff
word: picayune
word: scuddick
word: sop
word: toy
word: trick
word: trifle
word: triviality
word: whiffle
word: white chip
glosses: Something that is of relatively little importance.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see small, beer.
Related terms: near beer
zithers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zither
gin burglar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gin burglars
Etymology: From gin (“Australian aboriginal woman”) + burglar.
Senses: examples: text: “The down-troddens′ day will come soon, then you ‘gin burglars’ will have to respect the rights of the weak,” retorted the other as he moved away to the “Rib-binders” reply. “Yes, and that day, both you and I, my friend, will have to pay more for the ‘girls’ than we do today.”
ref: 1958, William Edward Harney, Content to Lie in the Sun, page 46:
text: For decades now the 38,000 square miles aboriginal reserve has been sacrosanct from white intrusion. Gin burglars who sneak in looking for lubras are prosecuted.
ref: 1964, Keith Willey, Eaters of the Lotus, page 150:
text: 1971, K. Willey, Boss Drover, quoted in 1990, R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 167,
Now and then you would meet fellows who ... would go from station to station, scrounging feeds and hanging about the blacks′ camp looking for girls. They were known as combos, murlongers, or gin burglars.
text: ‘Of course every man in the country was doing the same thing, but there was plenty of hypocrisy among the station people. The manager would refer to “combos” and “gin burglars” as though they were social outcasts. But let his wife go away for a while, or even turn her back, and he was down to the blacks′ camp in no time’ (Willey 1971:46).
ref: 1992, Kay Saunders, Raymond Evans, Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation, page 36:
glosses: A white man who sexually exploits aboriginal women.
Synonyms: gin jockey
clip strips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clip strip
gin's piss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gin (“Australian aboriginal woman”) + piss (“inferior alcoholic beverage”).
Senses: examples: text: As we Aussies would say a seppo beer like Coors tastes like gin's piss (you don't wanna know!) compared to ours - would you like some beer with your rocky mountain water!
ref: 1998 September 29, AG, “A Winnah-Beck's Bier, Pretzels and Pinball!”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet):
text: Both sound like some sort of Canadian/North American gin's piss but I believe they are reasonable facsimiles of beer as we know it in the Antipodes, so I definitely would go the nearest.
ref: 2002 October 28, tediboy, “Labatt Blue vs. Molson Canadian”, in alt.beer (Usenet):
text: but he wears a nice hat tho, for whatever that's worth.
a flagon of drunken gin′s piss p'raps ?
ref: 2004 July 25, Teotwawki, “Titles for Scurvy's Life Story”, in alt.music.deep-purple (Usenet):
glosses: Poor quality beer.
overrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt/
Forms: form: overrates
form: overrating
form: overrated
form: overrated
form: over-rate
Etymology: From over- + rate.
Senses: glosses: To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
examples: text: The vicissitudes of the weather may be responsible for more suffering among the lower animals than in the case of man, but we who live in England are perhaps inclined to overrate the amount of inconvenience occasioned to the world at large by this cause.
ref: 1886 August, Briggs Carlill, “Are Animals Happy?”, in The Nineteenth Century:
text: Vance and Martin note another problem with retrospective analysis of sexual patterns in a case in which a person has been diagnosed with AIDS or ARC. There may be a tendency for diagnosed people to overrate their sexual encounters in the belief that promiscuity is the cause of AIDS, thereby explaining or rationalizing their illness.
ref: 1985 February 9, Cindy Patton, “Heterosexual AIDS Panic: A Queer Paradigm”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 3:
glosses: To overstate or overestimate in amount, extent, degree, etc.
Derived terms: overrater
overrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt/
Forms: form: overrates
form: over-rate
Etymology: From over- + rate.
Senses: glosses: An excessive estimate or rate.
patternless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pattern + -less.
Senses: examples: text: "I ought to imitate you, in fact, Mr. Vholes?" says Richard, sitting down again with an impatient laugh and beating the devil's tattoo with his boot on the patternless carpet.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Without a decorative pattern.
glosses: Without a repeating pattern; random.
glosses: That does not cut around a pattern.
raw_tags: of certain machinery for cutting shapes
glosses: That does not belong to a programming or markup pattern.
raw_tags: in computer science
of an object
Derived terms: patternlessly
patternlessness
recycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recyclings
Senses: glosses: The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
examples: text: He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.
glosses: Those materials culled for recycling.
examples: text: Eddie Holman is still best remembered for his soulful, falsettoed/sex-changed recycling of Ruby & The Romantics' big-time smoothie from 1963, "Hey There Lonely Boy."
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:
glosses: Something made by recycling something else.
Derived terms: aspirational recycling
e-recycling
recycling bin
recycling station
recycling symbol
recycling time
wishful recycling
recycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recycle
Related terms: upcycling
plainspoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plainspoken
form: most plainspoken
form: plain-spoken
Etymology: From plain + spoken.
Senses: examples: text: He was a plainspoken fellow with plenty of amazing stories to tell.
coordinate_terms: homespun
glosses: Speaking in a forthright manner.
Derived terms: plainspokenly
plainspokenness
Related terms: outspoken
plain as day
plain English
plain language
soft-spoken
well-spoken
folksy
frank