cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Southfields
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Thurrock borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ6581).
glosses: A suburb of London in the borough of Wandsworth, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2573).
glosses: A suburb of Leicester, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5903).
glosses: A hamlet in the town of Tuxedo, Orange County, New York, United States.
Related terms: Southfield
radiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radium
radiums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of radium
radiuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radium
radiumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radium + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Containing or treated with radium.
radiumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From radium + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of radium
Sinclairtown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Kirkcaldy, Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2993).
wikipedia: + railway station
Kirkcaldy
South Gyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb of Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1872).
Pithie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
deservant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deservant
form: most deservant
Etymology: From deserve + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: The conveyance to the grandson was subject to a further condition which was expressed in the instrument in this way: “if he is personally deservant of the transfer of the said premises to him.”
ref: 1941, James P. Andrews, John M. Comley, Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut:
text: We tend to criticize those with wealth saying they are not deservant of it. Yet, how do we know if they are deservant or not?
ref: 2007, Mary LaSota, Harriet Sternberg, Hope, Help, Healing with Archangel Raphael and the Angels, page 72:
text: Feeling deservant, I scold my reflection and convince the remains of me that my breath is no longer vital.
ref: 2011, Jhen M. Veach, Embrace It All: Poetry, Art, Short Story, page 78:
text: As far as I was concerned, and regardless of the man being my biological father, Melvin Harris was deservant of all the humiliation and punishment that came his way.
ref: 2013, Lionel B. Harris, The Long and Winding Road, page 38:
glosses: Deserving; worthy (of either good or bad)
Finningley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK6799).
baili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bailo
levelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levelizations
form: levelisation
Etymology: From levelize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Given also the extreme and increasing politicization of rate making in North America, it is highly improbable that accounting levelization could be introduced without the hazard of wide-spread abuse.
ref: 1984, Energy Options:
text: Witness Nevil suggested that if pro forma adjustments were permitted for allocation factors, many potential adjustments, such as for customer growth, weather, and the buyback levelizations, should also be considered.
ref: 1987, Report of the North Carolina Utilities Commission, page 303:
text: This avoids the problems inherent in ECVS, which merely traverses the circuit (after levelization) and makes the earliest seen feasible move.
ref: 2008, David Chinnery, Kurt Keutzer, Closing the Power Gap between ASIC & Custom:
text: But there is another reason I recommend to those young and old, in almost any tax bracket, that they contribute to a Roth IRA—income tax levelization in the future.
ref: 2011, Jim Stovall, Tim Maurer, The Ultimate Financial Plan: Balancing Your Money and Life, page 186:
glosses: The act or process of levelizing.
levelizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levelization
levelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levelisations
Senses: examples: text: The idea of equality has already launched Communist Russia into perpetrating the tyrannies of levelisation and Bovietisation.
ref: 1941, Jayendraray Bhagwanlal Durkal, Conservative India:
text: The sound technicians seem to record the sound-tracks on a single level, leaving the actors far too often to their own pathetic devices of levelisation.
ref: 1981, Hovhanness I. Pilikian, Armenian Cinema: A Source Book:
text: The modernist rejection of hierarchy is accompanied by certain unacceptable forms of levelisation and new inequalities.
ref: 2001, N. N. Vohra, Culture, Democracy And Development In South Asia, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of levelization.
levelisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levelisation
Bichat's fat pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bichat's fat pads
Etymology: Named after Xavier Bichat.
Senses: glosses: Any of the buccal fat pads.
wikipedia: Xavier Bichat
Derived terms: bichectomy
maturability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maturable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Ron Fimrite, Article: "This Guy Tatana's no Second Banana", Sports Illustrated July 11, 1977 Issue
Asked to explain how it is that Frank Tanana, a stripling who turned 24 this week and a lefthander, should pitch with the wisdom of a 15-year veteran, Muffett paused for a moment, groping for the mot juste, and then plunged headlong into the mainstream of sesquipedalianism. "Frank," he said, "has excellent maturability." He paused again. "If there is such a word, that is." Well, there certainly is now, and we may expect to hear it again and again from pitching savants—"He's got good velocity and location. It's his maturability we're worried about."
text: The concurrent loss of the characteristic of maturability and the phenotype of myeloid commitment suggests that the control of the two phenomena may be related.
ref: L. Fitz-Gibbon, G.B. Price, A.K. Sullivan in the British Journal of Haematology, 1983
text: "Tea Talks" (no author listed), The Education Times, February 06, 2009.
Much research is conducted by botanists, biotechnologists and other scientists, who study methods of producing disease-resistant, high yielding varieties of tea, as also strainsthat produce leaves that are natural blends of various teas. They receive advice from tea tasters on commercial factors like taste, economic viability and maturability of tea.
glosses: The state of being maturable, or the quality of being able to mature.
lexiconize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lexiconizes
form: lexiconizing
form: lexiconized
form: lexiconized
form: lexiconise
Etymology: From lexicon + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: We hope that the present attempt to lexiconize the vast and multifaceted worlds of music's Romanticisms will serve as a stepping-stone for more satisfactory future contributions.
ref: 2013, John Michael Cooper, Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, page 11:
text: The dog had no way of naming things for itself and so Teddy had dutifully taken it upon himself to lexiconize the world for it.
ref: 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins: A Novel:
text: In order to delineate and label realities, there are no natural concepts that only require linguistic label to be reflected; rather, groups lexiconize naturalized concepts and elements; pivotal to this linguistic encoding of notions are customs and worldview, both of which have been located within the Yoruba cosmology.
ref: 2016, Augustine Agwuele, The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland:
glosses: To create a lexicon for.
lexiconizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lexiconize
lexiconizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lexiconize
lexiconized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lexiconize
lexiconise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lexiconises
form: lexiconising
form: lexiconised
form: lexiconised
Senses: examples: text: It will be shown that it is easy to “lexiconise" portraits by arranging the measurements between a few pairs of these points in numerical order, on the same principle that words are lexiconised in dictionaries in alphabetical order, and to define facial peculiarities with greater exactness than might have been expected.
ref: 1907, The British Journal of Photography - Volume 54, page 921:
text: This he did with no little grief, and so all attempt to lexiconise and grammarise the Hausa language was thrown back for many years, during which a knowledge of it would have been of material use in various British operations on the West Coast of Africa.
ref: 1909, Sir Francis Galton, Memories of my life, page 173:
text: With immense patience he " lexiconises " finger-prints and studies the life history of identical terms.
ref: 1953, The Medical Officer - Volume 90, page 33:
glosses: Alternative form of lexiconize.
lexiconises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lexiconise
lexiconising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lexiconise
lexiconised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lexiconise
Misterton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5583).
glosses: A village in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7694).
glosses: A village in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4508).
Trenchard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Trenchardian
Maggs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
scromlette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɑm.lət/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: scromlettes
Etymology: Blend of scrambled eggs + omelette.
Senses: glosses: A scrambled omelette.
lemonquat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemonquats
Etymology: Blend of lemon + kumquat
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sunquat.
synonyms: word: sunquat
sunquat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnkwɑt/
ipa: /ˈsʌnkwɒt/
Forms: form: sunquats
Etymology: Blend of sun + kumquat.
Senses: synonyms: lemonquat
glosses: A citrus tree, a cross between a lemon (probably a Meyer lemon) and a kumquat, Citrus × japonica.
synonyms: lemonquat
glosses: The fruit from this tree.
mandarinquat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandarinquats
Etymology: Blend of mandarin + kumquat.
Senses: glosses: A citrus tree, a cross between a mandarin and a kumquat, Citrus japonica × Citrus reticulata.
glosses: The fruit from this tree.
Meyer lemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meyer lemons
Etymology: Named after American explorer Frank Nicholas Meyer (1875–1918).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Farzan’s narrow backyard in Brooklyn’s South Slope neighborhood is a lush, if slightly chaotic, oasis. There are Fuji apples, Meyer lemons, figs, peonies and avocados — although that’s far from a complete census of all that grows there.
ref: 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A citrus tree native to China, a cross between a citron and a mandarin/pomelo hybrid, Citrus × meyeri.
glosses: The fruit from this tree.
pocket calling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pocket call
pocket called
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pocket call
pocket-call
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pocket-calls
form: pocket-calling
form: pocket-called
form: pocket-called
Senses: examples: text: I think I got pocket-called by Leanne [Ricks wife ] and it sounded Iike she was running.
ref: 2020 January 26, Andrew Koubaridis, “Rick Hodge and Greg Brick bravely save neighbours homes from Buchan fires”, in Herald Sun:
text: "I had accidentally pocket-called triple-0, and when I got to a quiet spot I looked at my phone and had all these missed calls [from the Emergency Call Service]," he told ABC Radio Sydney.
ref: 2018 November 15, Amanda Hoh, “What happens when you accidentally call triple-0?”, in ABC News, Sydney:
text: She had pocket-called me and heard my surprise as they walked into my room.
ref: 2017 January 27, Isobel Cotogni, “Shouldn’t we ask why Durham has the highest number of sexual assaults?”, in The Durham Tab:
glosses: Alternative form of pocket call.
pocket-calls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pocket-call
pocket-calling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pocket-call
pocket-called
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pocket-call
chantership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chanterships
Etymology: chanter + -ship
Senses: glosses: The office or position of chanter; precentorship.
Related terms: chantry
Praguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.ɡəɹ/
Forms: form: Praguers
Etymology: From Prague + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Prague, Czech Republic.
Bucharester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bucharesters
Etymology: From Bucharest + -er.
Senses: glosses: a native or resident of Bucharest, Romania
Baranwal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baranwals
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Baranwals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Baranwal
ltw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ltw.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of lightweight.
poonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He managed to tear his eyes away from gawping at her impressive bosom; the newest woman's fashion's evidently allowed even the Respectable to sport low necklines, and her "poonts" or "cat-heads" could not be faulted!
ref: 2006, Dewey Lambdin, A King's Trade, page 70:
text: When we had done the first time, Liza Jane lay sweatin' and pantin' in me arms an' I clasped a paw across her poonts and squoze 'er belly fondly.
ref: 2010, Michael Grady, A True History of the Robson Mistake, page 77:
text: Well, naked tits never appeal to me in vain[…]I disengaged the clasp of her fingers so I could work at her poonts with one hand and her stern with t'other.
ref: 2013, George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Dragon, page 103:
glosses: breasts.
Increase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Hebrew יוֹסֵף. From increase.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
raw_tags: used by Puritans
bralet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bralets
Senses: examples: text: I offered E a handful of suggestions (like pairing the bralet top with a long, high-waisted skirt, an ornate belt and a shawl for a glam-gypsy look that didn't show too much skin), but based on the comments that came flowing in mere minutes after I put up the Q&A post you would have thought I suggested she just go ahead and show up at the ceremony naked.
ref: 2015, Jordan Reid, chapter 2, in Cindy De La Hoz, editor, Carrying On: Style, Beauty, Décor (and More) for the Nervous New Mom, Running Press, →ISBN:
text: Emily Ratajkowski, on the other hand, was feeling slightly warmer, opting for nothing more than a simple white bralet and skirt as she hit the Vanity Fair party.
ref: 2020 February 10, Steven McIntosh, “Oscars 2020: 13 looks that caused a stir”, in BBC News, BBC, 9. The stars were dressed for both hot and cold climates:
glosses: Alternative form of bralette.
bralets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bralet
demilions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demilion
demo reels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demo reel
demolects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demolect
demousings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demousing
demyelinisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demyelinisation
denaturisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denaturisation
deneddylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deneddylase
Denisova hominins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Denisova hominis
Senses: glosses: plural of Denisova hominin
wikipedia: Denisova Cave
denitrosations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denitrosation
Covid-19
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: About 1.4 billion people traveled internationally last year, which is 99% of the number who did the same in 2019, the last full year before Covid-19 hit the world.
ref: 2025 January 22, Lilit Marcus, “More than 1.4 billion people traveled internationally in 2024 as tourism returns to pre-pandemic highs”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of COVID-19.
denitroxylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denitroxylase
densitographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of densitograph
dental dams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dental dam
dentinomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentinoma
dentirosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentiroster
deoxidisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxidisation
deoxyfucoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyfucose
deoxynucleotidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxynucleotidase
Stanlow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An industrial area with an oil refinery in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4375).
wikipedia: + and Thornton railway station
Stanlow
Mickle Trafford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4469).
TUPEs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of TUPE
TUPEing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of TUPE
TUPEd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of TUPE
inside of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Return it inside (of) a month.
text: A book is a man’s best friend outside of a dog, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
ref: 1954, Jim Brewer, Boys’ Life, volume 44, number 2, Think and Grin, page 78, column 1:
glosses: Inside
Daresbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5782).
Dunham-on-the-Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Dunham-on-the-Hill and Hapsford parish, Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4772).
Golden Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.
glosses: The valley of the River Frome in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England.
glosses: The valley of the River Dore in western Herefordshire, England.
Lemmon Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.
Spanish Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.
Sun Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Blaine County, Idaho, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.
glosses: A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.
glosses: A barangay of Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines
Washoe Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.
inchwormed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inchworm
inchworming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inchworm
kikimory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kikimora
Rock Ferry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Birkenhead, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3386).
ferroelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ferroelectric.
otter shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otter shells
Senses: glosses: Lutraria lutraria, a large marine bivalve mollusc.
otter shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otter shell
Maoize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Maoizes
form: Maoizing
form: Maoized
form: Maoized
form: Maoise
Etymology: From Mao + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In the second half of the Sixties Mao's foreign policy has proved fruitless. He has not carried out his most intelligent plans. His attempts to "Maoize" Indonesia, and in one stroke grab various Indian Ocean lands, served only to strengthen the Indonesian reaction.
ref: 1968, Atlas, page 27:
text: This order was given just after Prince Sihanouk reacted against the attempt to "Maoize" Cambodia.
ref: 1968, Daily Report: Asia & Pacific - Issues 57-70, page 29:
text: The attempt to "Maoize" Indonesia and thereby break through to the Indian Ocean at one leap, gripping that area's other countries from the south in a nutcracker, did not succeed and resulted in strengthening the Indonesian reactionaries' position.
ref: 1968, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press - Volume 20, page 8:
text: Peking wishes to "Maoize" Southeast Asia, minus "lndochina" which they are willing to cede to Hanoi, and to dislocate lndia which conceivably would be divided along ethnic lines, with most or all ethnic groups under Maoist rule.
ref: 1972, Gary E. McCuen, David L. Bender, American foreign policy: opposing viewpoints, page 72:
glosses: To bring under the political control of Mao Zedong.
examples: text: But from the 1950s onwards the radical politics pursued at home, such as the communization of the economy and the campaign to Maoize the political and social behavior of the masses, brought about a head-on collision with the Muslim minority.
ref: 1981, Asian Survey - Volume 21, page 903:
text: After Mao's death, the new leadership gradually decided to de-Maoize China and so begins the de-emphasis of the role of ideology, but in the process they had to project a counter-ideology.
ref: 1989, Naranarayan Das, Contemporary Chinese Politics And Foreign Policy, page 97:
text: That Peking was not trying to take back Hong Kong, but rather encouraging it to "Maoize" under Britain's trembling gaze, suggested to me that the Cultural Revolution was more political indoctrination than a drive for institutionalized political change.
ref: 1992, Ross Terrill, China in Our Time, page 81:
text: What is not so clear is that this series was actually inspired by the paintings of a Han Chinese artist, Chen Danqing, who lived in Tibet in the 1960s and '70s and specialized in portraits of Tibetans who had been neither modernized nor Maoized.
ref: 2016, Clare Harris, Photography and Tibet, page 146:
glosses: To cause to conform to the ideology of Mao Zedong and his Cultural Revolution.
Maoizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Maoize
Maoizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Maoize
Maoized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Maoize
Maoise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Maoises
form: Maoising
form: Maoised
form: Maoised
Senses: examples: text: In other words, Asia and Africa, bound to China by "common history and common tasks" have no alternative but to be Maoised.
ref: 1967, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (U.S.). Oregon Chapter, Mainstream - Volume 5, page 38:
text: It is said that Mao had 'sinicised' Marxism-Leninism, rather more correctly he 'Maoised' the technique of terror.
ref: 1991, Mahindar Singh, Un-diplomatic memoirs, page 37:
text: The aftermath of 1945 ultimately entailed, in Pacific Asia, a stand off between two ideological versions of the new Asian identity constructed either around revolutionary nationalism or a Maoised version of Marxist Leninism.
ref: 1995, D. Bell, D. Brown, K. Jayasuriya, Towards Illiberal Democracy, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of Maoize.
Maoises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Maoise
Maoising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Maoise
Maoised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Maoise
Maoisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Instead, it deplores the guerrillas' growing ideological dependence on China, which, the Kremlin seems to believe, could lead to the "Maoisation" of the Middle East if the established regimes cave in.
ref: 1970, Atlas - Volume 19, page 41:
text: It isn't quite clear at present what the blueprint envisions for the final stage, but the plan does not stop with the 'Maoisation' of Asia.
ref: 1972, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives:
text: Thereupon to start the Maoisation of the surviving part of humanity according to methods already being practised in the PRC itself.
ref: 1979, Ėrnst Genri, What are they after in Peking, page 117:
glosses: Alternative form of Maoization.
Maoization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maoisation
Etymology: From Maoize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: It would be far more in accord with "self-reliance" and the "mass line," and a far greater moral triumph, if Hong Kong returned to the fold by a process of "Maoization from within."
ref: 1967, Herbert David Croly, The New Republic - Volume 157, page 14:
text: Thus, as we have said, the "Maoization" of Salvador Allende is gradually forming itself in Chile and Latin America, spontaneously, even against his will, without any recourse to the techniques of mounting a personality cult — which are alien to Allende's deep democratic convictions, the spirit of the Popular Unity, and the idiosyncrasies of our people.
ref: 1973, Dale L. Johnson, The Chilean road to socialism, page 169:
text: It is not "de-Maoization" but true "Maoization", following Chairman Mao's policies as they should be practised with the methods of Chou En-lai, which is the basis of China's new advance, and of the new Hundred Flowers.
ref: 1990, Suyin Han, Aamer Hussein, Tigers and Butterflies, page 206:
glosses: The process of Maoizing.
McClean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCleans
form: Mcclean
form: Mc Clean
form: Macclean
form: Mac Clean
form: MacClean
form: MaClean
form: Maclean
form: M'Clean
form: Clean
Etymology: Variant of McLean.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Christmas dinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas dinner
Marxise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Marxises
form: Marxising
form: Marxised
form: Marxised
Senses: examples: text: In 1995 'Immara launched a strong attack against the Marxist interpretation of Islam condemning the works of al-Tayyib Tizini, Husayn Muruwa, and Mahmud Isma'il's sociological studies on the revolutionary aspects of Islam as raw and negative attempts to “Marxise" Islam ('Immara 1995c:198-204) and all thinking that "molds religion in atheistic forms and buries the spirit in the tomb of matter" (ibid. 199).
ref: 2000, Dave Hill, Enid Hill, Discourses in Contemporary Egypt, page 109:
text: On the quaintness of Thomson's attempts to Marxise textual criticism, cf. Timpanaro (1976) 39. Housman's 1911 Cambridge Inaugural (= Housman (1969)) stands as an (almost) contemporary critique of attempts to make textual criticism into a 'science'.
ref: 2005, Christopher Stray, The Owl of Minerva, page 74:
text: even after the furore caused by History and Class Consciousness Lukács continued to draw on Hegel for inspiration, although he felt compelled to 'Marxise' him in order to placate the Soviet authorities.
ref: 2013, Stuart Sim, Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History:
glosses: Alternative form of Marxize.
Marxises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Marxise
Marxising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Marxise
Marxised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Marxise
Marxize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Marxizes
form: Marxizing
form: Marxized
form: Marxized
form: Marxise
Etymology: From Marx + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: At that time parts of India were 'covered with republican constitutions', and in fact there is a strong tendency among modern Indian historians to Marxize their early history, and to fit it into the conventional Marxist categories of struggling peasantries, selfish bourgeoisies, oppressive capitalists, and class warfare.
ref: 1971, Edward Herbert Dance, History for a united world, page 69:
text: The archbishop went further in his characterization of the Antonio Valdivieso Center (CAV) and two other Christian education and research institutes: "they are trying to 'Marxize' the people."
ref: 1985, James B. McGinnis, Solidarity with the people of Nicaragua, page 61:
text: There is in Central America—or so I believe after four recent visits—a great apprehansion that in the wake of Vietnam the United States is no longer resolved to protect its own security or sovereign borders; that the Soviet Union and its proconsuls in Cuba and Nicaragua are determined to Marxize the region and cut the hemisphere in two; and that the consolidation of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua would be followed inexorably by the collapse of both Central America and Mexico to the revolutionary Left, all the way to the northern Mexican border.
ref: 1986, The World & I. - Volume 1, Issue 4; Volume 1, Issues 7-8, page 638:
text: What was essential, insisted Gramsci, was to Marxize the inner man.
ref: 1991, Malachi Martin, Keys of This Blood:
glosses: To become or cause to become Marxist.
Related terms: marxisant
Marxizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Marxize
Marxizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Marxize
Marxized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Marxize
Marxisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Marx + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: Even the PSR moved away by then from such a view under the impact of its 'Marxisation' and its own brand-new two-stage theory produced by V. Chernov.
ref: 1986, Teodor Shanin, Russia, 1905-07: revolution as a moment of truth, page 258:
text: The victory of President Hugo Chavez in the 're-election' held in Venezuela on 30th July signalled yet another stage in the de facto Marxisation of Latin America, from Chile via Colombia up to Mexico.
ref: 1994, The Latin American Times - Volumes 12-15, page 1:
text: Marxisation was seen as a regression to a more impersonal and large scale level of analysis in which the radicalism of labelling theory's break with positivism was lost.
ref: 2010, Eugene McLaughlin, Tim Newburn, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Theory, page 161:
glosses: Alternative form of Marxization.
Marxization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marxisation
Etymology: From Marxize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the tendency common to all the diverse philosophical interpretations of Marx – their common negation, in the context of which the borderline between Marxology and Marxization and between Marxization and revisionism, between ultra-revolutionary and reformist interpretations, becomes no more than relative.
ref: 1970, World Marxist Review - Volume 13, Issues 7-12, page 99:
text: As John Paul knows, Gorbachev's goal is a geopolitical structure corresponding to the Leninist ideal: the Marxization of the entire Eurasian landmass from the Atlantic to the China Sea as the first step, then the Marxization of the Western Hemisphere.
ref: 1990, Malachi Martin, The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West, page 455:
text: Since a German Communist state existed, a state peaceful and democratic by definition, it became more difficult to speak of crimes committed by Germans in general. Poles were confronted with a kind of "Marxization" of the German problem that had to be resolved in terms of classes: in the east were the good Germans because they were progressive; in the west, the bad Germans, reactionaries, heirs of Nazism, even more-or-less camouflaged Hitlerians.
ref: 2004, Henry Rousso, Richard Joseph Golsan, Stalinism and Nazism: history and memory compared, page 247:
glosses: The process of Marxizing; conversion to Marxism or a Marxist interpretation.
Hitlerians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hitlerian
Marxologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Marxological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of Marxology.
Garden Acres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Mountain House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Country Club
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
glosses: A neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, New York, United States.
Escalon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Escalons
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Escalón. The surname is predominantly found in Honduras.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Lincoln Village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
French Camp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Lockeford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Dogtown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Collierville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Taft Mosswood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Terminous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Acampo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Marymass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marymas
Etymology: From Mary + mass.
Senses: examples: text: The Shows which had previously filled High Street from Bridgegate to the Kirk Vennel each April (for the Bogside Races) and at Marymass were banished to the Moor, then to the Golffields.
ref: 1985, John Strawhorn, The History of Irvine: Royal Burgh and New Town, page 192:
text: Marymass was a festival of heavy drinking for industrial Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, and for Glasgow. In 1865, 700 gallons of whisky were delivered to Irvine on the Monday before Marymass.”
ref: 2000, John Burnett, Riot, Revelry, and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland Before 1860:
text: You could see it then, the moor crowded with Marymass revellers, the town's inhabitants.
ref: 2010, Andrew O'Hagan, Be Near Me, page 201:
glosses: A festival held on 15 August in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary; Assumption.
Wesham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4132).
unfinite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + finite.
Senses: glosses: Not finite.
Synonyms: nonfinite
infinite
weeby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: weebier
form: weebiest
Etymology: From weeb + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's a little weeby but not overwhelmingly so.
ref: 2017 August 1, K. Thor Jensen, “T-Shirt Tuesday: Best Pokemon Shirts”, in Geek:
text: Further release date news confirmed a very weeby Christmas packed with stuff like The Mana Collection, Oninaki and Dragon Quest 11 before things ended with a vision of the distant future:
ref: 2019 June 18, Jon Hicks, “The E3 Bulletin - Wednesday”, in Eurogamer:
text: If you want a weeby trip down memory lane, we can't think of anything much bettter than this.
ref: 2019 November 14, Jade King, “Yakuza 0, The Witcher 3 and Final Fantasy headline new titles coming to Xbox Game Pass”, in Trusted Reviews:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a weeb.
like a cow pissing on a flat rock
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Compare piss down, piss it down, and French pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse (“rain like a pissing cow”).
Senses: examples: text: It poured like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Summer thunderstorm in a Catskill cattle pasture with 350,000 Mud People standing in it. Aerosmith was supposed to play at midnight, but midnight came and went.
ref: 1994, Albert Watson, Woodstock '94: the book, St Martins Pr, →ISBN:
text: We hadn't gone a mile before it started to rain, light tentative drops at first, like unsure messengers. Then the lightning started and rent open the clouds. It came down like a cow pissing on a flat rock. We had no slickers and were soon soaked.
ref: 2004, James Corwin, A Grizzly Way to Die, →ISBN:
text: Rita's car was an old Plymouth Fury that, despite the meticulous attention given to its lubrication system, leaked oil like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Nel and Danny got into the pickup truck and followed the trail of black ooze, all the way down ...
ref: 2014, Barbara Hall, Close to Home: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
text: It was pouring like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Would he show? She didn't know if he would or not, but the cows still had to be fed. Heaving herself out of bed, she threw on her rattiest jeans and a baggy tee and trudged out to the rain-soaked pastures, […]
ref: 2016, Victoria Vane, Beauty and the Bull Rider, Lyrical Shine, →ISBN:
glosses: Heavily; copiously (and often loudly).
raw_tags: of rain or other liquid falling
Related terms: like a cow on a flat rock
qy.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of query.
glosses: Abbreviation of quantity.
qu.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of query.
examples: text: The National Health Care Referendum, which is being endorsed by over 80 organizations so far, […] has as its goal a 75% or better vote of "yes" on qu. 7 on the November Ballot.
ref: 1980 August 30, Denise Hoffner, “National Healthcare: An Issue For Our Community”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 5:
glosses: Abbreviation of question.
sour corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: sour (“tart”) + corn, possibly influenced by the first element of German saure Bohnen (literally “sour beans”) and Sauerkraut (“sauerkraut”).
Senses: examples: text: "I always thought that sour corn was the European tradition of sour cabbage brought over and applied to local ingredients," explains April. But after talking to a Cherokee folklorist, she came to understand "that sour corn was already a Native American tradition that Europeans raised on sour cabbage had a taste for."
ref: 2012, Sandor Ellix Katz, The Art of Fermentation: An In-depth Exploration of Essential Concepts, page 215:
text: Appalachian Sour Corn […] Saure Bohnen translates to “sourbeans” and is a traditional German dish. […] [S]ettlers from the Palatinate region who brought the practice to Appalachia were fermenting green beans in large crocks to be consumed through the winter. Think sauerkraut, only with green beans. And since that method is so adaptable, they quickly adapted it to fresh corn. […] The sugar and starch give sour corn a rounder, fuller presence in the mouth, […]
ref: 2016, Ronni Lundy, Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 118:
text: Sour corn could always be found in one of those mysterious crocks that sat in the dark and musky basement at my grandma's house.
ref: 2019, Sean Brock, South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations, page 272:
glosses: Lactofermented pickled corn, a dish eaten in the Southern United States, especially in Appalachia.
examples: text: “Sour corn” is a term often misused, but its real meaning is that the corn within a can, which has all the appearance of being good on the outside, is found on opening to be sour and nauseating to the taste. Cans of sour corn will never under any circumstances swell, otherwise they would come under the heading of swells.
ref: 1899, Edward Wiley Duckwall, Bacteriology: Applied to the Canning and Preserving of Food Products, page 78:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sour, corn.
COVID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊvɪd/
ipa: /ˈkoʊvɪd/
rhymes: -əʊvɪd
Forms: form: Covid
Senses: examples: text: COVID is tough, but Pennsylvanians are tougher. Together we can make a difference, slow the spread of the virus, and save lives.
ref: 2020 January 28, “COVID-19 in Pennsylvania”, in Pennsylvania Department of Health:
text: Every year on 31 May we celebrate World No Tobacco Day to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes. This year, the national theme is COVID is no joke, it gets worse with smoke.
ref: 2020 May 28, “COVID is no joke, it gets worse with smoke”, in Pan American Health Organization:
glosses: Clipping of COVID-19.
Derived terms: covidiocy
covidiot
Covidtide
long COVID
Covid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:COVID.
glosses: Ellipsis of COVID-19.
Derived terms: pre-Covid
door bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door bitches
Senses: examples: text: […] as the daunting gladiator figures at the entrance whisked me past the crowd and the speed-filled 'door bitch'.
ref: 2011, Paul Eldridge, Sex, Drugs & Techno, page 56:
text: I was paid a lucky £7 an hour, which was why I took this job as opposed to the door bitch job at Ronnie Scott's, which paid an unlucky £8 an hour.
ref: 2014, Zoe Pilger, Eat My Heart Out:
glosses: A woman employed to ensure guests pay the entrance fee and meet the dress code at a live venue, club, etc.
door bitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door bitch
door wench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door wenches
Senses: glosses: A door bitch.
door wenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door wench
femtech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛmtɛk/
Etymology: From fem- (“feminine/female”) + tech, coined by Danish internet entrepreneur and author Ida Tin in 2016.
Senses: examples: text: As well as companies selling menstrual protection, the femtech sector includes fertility apps, maternal health and sexual wellbeing products.
ref: 2018 November 9, Nina Jones, “Women's health start-ups bloom with no blushes”, in Financial Times:
text: The current major players in the femtech industry - period apps - have demonstrated that it is profitable to target women and gather their data.
ref: 2019 November 27, Maria Mellor, “Fitness trackers and wearables are ignoring a $50bn market: women”, in Wired:
text: With $800m of funding going to the femtech startups in 2019 alone, there couldn’t be a better time for ohne to enter the market.
ref: 2020 February 20, Bianca Barratt, “Period Product Brand Ohne Takes Femtech To New Heights - Can Investors Do The Same?”, in Forbes:
text: The scientific study of perimenopause has been going on for decades, and the cultural discussion of this mind and body shift has reached something of a new fever pitch, with several books on the subject coming out this spring and a gaggle of “femtech” companies vowing to disrupt perimenopause.
ref: 2021 April 29, Jessica Grose, “Why Is Perimenopause Still Such a Mystery?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mr. Thiel, who once suggested women’s suffrage was bad for America, did not seem like a natural investor in femtech.
ref: 2025 March 21, Katie J. M. Baker, “The Conservative Women’s Magazine With Big Ambitions, and Sex Tips for Wives”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Technology oriented towards women, especially reproductive health technology.
fem-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Clipping of feminine or female.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to femininity or women.
Waspi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒspi/
homophone: waspie
homophone: waspy
Forms: form: WASPI
Senses: examples: text: Waspi turn up at every political event and tail each Department for Work and Pensions secretary relentlessly to protest about pension changes that left many in penury.
ref: 2019, Polly Toynbee, “This brutal judgment on pensions is blind to the reality of older women’s lives”, in The Guardian, Journal:
glosses: Women Against State Pension Inequality
WASPI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Waspi.
meat lovers'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat-lovers'
Senses: examples: text: Faced with a choice between the Supreme, the Hawaiian [...], the Capricciosa or the Meat Lovers', the bogan will invariably gravitate to the meal most likely to induce a fatal disease.
ref: 2010, Michael Jayfox, E. Chas McSween, Intravenus DeMilo, Enron Hubbard, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Flash Johnson, Things Bogans Like, Sydney: Hachette, page 117:
glosses: A style of pizza with a variety of meat toppings.
Severn Tunnel Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway station and junction in Rogiet community, Monmouthshire, Wales, on the west side of the Severn Tunnel, which serves the village of Rogiet (OS grid ref ST4687).
Sudetenlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sudetenlanders
Etymology: From Sudetenland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Sudetenland.
Sudetenlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sudetenlander
Rogiet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4687).
Related terms: Severn Tunnel Junction
deoxypentoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxypentose
deoxypyridoxines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxypyridoxine
deoxyriboaldolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyriboaldolase
deoxyribonucleotidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyribonucleotidase
deoxyribopyrimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyribopyrimidine
deoxyribothymidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyribothymidine
deoxytransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxytransferase