cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forced justified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: force justified
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The alignment of all lines of text, regardless of length, where they stretch across from margin to margin.
flush left
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Alignment of the text aligned along the left margin or gutter.
Synonyms: left-justified
flush right
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Alignment of the text aligned along the right margin or gutter.
Synonyms: right-justified
flush left and right
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
Related terms: flush left
flush right
forced justified
force justified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forced justified.
on location
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: filmed on location [collocation in movie credits]
text: As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:
glosses: Synonym of on site.
synonyms: word: on site
on the premises
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of on site.
synonyms: word: on site
cotton-spinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton-spinners
Senses: glosses: Synonym of black sea cucumber.
synonyms: word: black sea cucumber
cotton-spinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotton-spinner
mule spinner's cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mule spinners' cancer.
black sea cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black sea cucumbers
Senses: glosses: A sea cucumber found in shallow waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, Holothuria forskali.
black sea cucumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black sea cucumber
-maxx
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -maxxes
form: -maxxing
form: -maxxed
form: -maxxed
form: -max
Etymology: Clipping of maximize, with a superfluous x presumably to mimic Internet slang. Compare doxx.
Senses: examples: text: looks + -maxx → looksmaxx
text: surgery + -maxx → surgerymaxx
text: trans + -maxx → transmaxx
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: Denoting an enhancement or improvement, with the goal of "maximizing" one's attractiveness or appeal.
examples: text: rope (“to commit suicide”) + -maxx → ropemaxx
text: hope (“to be filled with hope”) + -maxx → hopemaxx
text: Made it with 5 minutes of my scheduled lunch to spare. Napmaxxed
ref: 2022 February 16, SWAMP SAM (@mardirooster), Twitter, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2023:
text: Soupmaxx immediately. If you fear veggies, soups are a great way to extract the beneficial nutrients safely.
ref: 2022 October 7, Hyde (@BreatheLesss), Twitter, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2023:
text: hard work with long hours and serious legal liabilities tied to your performance - or some brunchmaxxing tech job. what would you choose?
ref: 2022 December 26, Akhlys (@MetaphysicE), Twitter, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2023:
text: Never leaving my bed again im sleepmaxxing
ref: 2023 April 7, bane (@banewastaken), Twitter, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2023:
text: languagemaxxing by learning french through german (not fun)
ref: 2023 June 28, milan (@neumilan), Twitter, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2023:
text: People post pictures of Dave Brubeck albums and joke about jazzmaxxing their record collections. They beachmaxx on vacations and cozymaxx under voluminous blankets. Bears prepare for hibernation by salmonmaxxing. There's a minor meme about a lifestyle of espresso and wine and impossibly long lunches — Europemaxxing.
ref: 2025 October 11, Nitsuh Abebe, “The Suffix That Tells Us to Ruthlessly Optimize Everything”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2025:
glosses: Used tongue-in-cheek for a wide range of effects unrelated to romance.
Related terms: -cel
-core
-pilled
gymcelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gymcel
gymcelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gymcel
surgerymaxxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surgerymaxx
surgerymaxxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surgerymaxx
surgerymaxxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surgerymaxx
rame over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rames over
form: raming over
form: ramed over
form: ramed over
Senses: examples: text: I canna make top tail nor mane of the bit song you been rhaming o'er.
ref: 1898, Ernest Hamilton, The Mawkin of the Flow:
glosses: To repeat incessantly.
Davekat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Dave + Karkat.
Senses: examples: text: ship dynamics EXCEPT ITS LITERALLY JUST DAVEKAT (or what i know from fanfics ive read because im not done homestuck yet <3)
also includes:
- constant lighthearted teasing and banter
- cuddling
- helping each other overcome emotional boundaries
- i love them so much
ref: 2019 April 17, mspa_reading, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022:
text: Davekat is canon, and that's really all there is to say on the matter. <3
#homestuck #davekat
ref: 2019 May 9, Blimpcatt, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022:
text: in honor of #homestuck day, i'm here to confess something: i used to be a davekat shipper except i mostly liked it as them hate dating instead of normal dating and i guess most of the fandom disagreed with me on that point. anyway, here's some fanart from 2013-2014
ref: 2020 April 13, prettypinkpansy, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022:
text: davekat and romcom movie posters ? wat an outlandish idea.... o_o
ref: 2020 September 12, vomitcore, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Dave Strider and Karkat Vantas from the Homestuck series.
wikipedia: List of Homestuck characters#Trolls
adip-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adipo- (before a vowel)
Andie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ănˈ.di
ipa: /ˈæn.di/
Forms: form: Andi
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Andrew, from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Andrea, from Ancient Greek.
xesturgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξεστός (xestós) ("polished") + -urgy.
Senses: examples: text: Betwixt the square marble pauing stones, there was a space left like a list, which was filled vp with diuers coulered stones of a lesser cut, some proportioned into greene leaues, and tawnie flowers. Cyanei, Phænicei, and Sallendine, so well agreeing in theyr coulers, so glistering and seuerly set of a diligent Xesturgie.
ref: 1592, Francesco Colonna, translated by Robert Dallington, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili:
text: Once the bones are scraped, you could subject them to xesturgy, the process of polishing.
ref: 2006, Erin McKean, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words:
glosses: The process of polishing something.
OSIRIS-REx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From OSIRIS + REx.
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
astronomy
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission.
Related terms: 101955 Bennu
pro-shippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pro-shipper
trollsonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trollsona
fractional number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractional numbers
Senses: examples: text: In English, most ordinal numbers double as fractional numbers — "third", "fourth", and so on — with the exception of "second", whose corresponding fractional number is "half".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: fractional
fractional numeral
partitive numeral
glosses: A word that expresses one or more of a specific number of parts of a whole.
topics: arithmetic
synonyms: fraction
glosses: A fraction, such as 1/2 or 3/5.
Coordinate terms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: cardinal number
topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: ordinal number
topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: distributive number
topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: multiplier
Related terms: numeral
BSEd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bachelor in Secondary Education.
rlly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rlly
form: most rlly
Senses: examples: text: so then you just stopped by to use us? Gee thnx a bunch no srsly rlly i meen it^([sic])
ref: 2007 June 14, @shinynhappy, Twitter, retrieved 28 Aug 2022:
text: They might have had the flexibility to eat wherever during college, but if they have an office job lined up, they’ll be rlly thankful for this practical lunch box set—which comes with three removable containers.
ref: 2024 May 10, Hannah Oh, Daisy Maldonado, “50 College Graduation Gifts That Say, “I’m So Effing Proud of You!””, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Abbreviation of really.
woman king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women kings
Senses: examples: text: Hence one looks in vain for the unusual reign of the woman king Hatshepsut or the “criminal” heretic Akhenaten and other kings associated with the Amarna interlude.
ref: 2015, Jason Thompson, Wonderful Things - A History of Egyptology - Volume 2 - The Golden Age: 1881-1914, American University in Cairo Press, page 16:
text: The author of Tarikh-I-Shahi wrote a book on the customs and the sovereignty of a woman king called Qutlugh Tarkan.
ref: 2010 February 24, Parvin Torkamany Azar, “The Author’s Attitude of the Book “ Tarikh-i-Shahi” on Women Kings”, in Journal of Woman in Culture Arts, volume 1, number 2, 148774:
text: that they were "glad to hear the sun shined in England since king William's death;" that they wondered the English should have a Squaw Sachem, a woman king, that they "hoped she would be a good mother, and send some to teach them religion, as well as traffic"
ref: 1878, John Stoughton, Religion in England Under Queen Anne and the Georges, 1702-1800, Volume 1, Hodder and Stoughton, page 307:
text: When a reward is offered to him who betrays his friend to death, when the price of sold life is honourably paid from the woman king's treasury, is it not her counsellors who are authors of the crime!
ref: 1836, Thomas Gaspey, The Self-Condemned, Harper & Brothers, page 334:
glosses: Synonym of queen regnant; a female monarch, particularly in a monarchy in which she holds the title "king."
synonyms: word: queen regnant
extra: a female monarch, particularly in a monarchy in which she holds the title "king."
women kings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman king; Synonym of queens regnant.
Homestuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Homestucks
Etymology: From the title of the webcomic Homestuck (2009–2016). Equivalent to home + stuck.
Senses: examples: text: there better be homestucks or hetalians at this school i mean there was davesprite x jade on some fuckin lockers
ref: 2013 September 3, araneatwerket, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022:
text: #JohnEgbert #Homestuck #doodle #gigapause
I love John Egbert and I cannot lie
You other Homestucks can't deny
ref: 2015 January 27, Cookieluv246, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022:
text: Homestucks rejoice! Fan World will be hosting Promstuck once more on Saturday night!
ref: 2017 June 1, FanWorldNiagara, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022:
text: any homestucks at area 51 found karkat yet
ref: 2019 September 20, Homestuck_Info, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022:
text: A'ight SoCal Homestucks - if you're at Anime LA tomorrow, stop by Registration from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm and LISTEN FOR THE SOUND OF MY VOICE! If you can find me, I'll give you a high five cause I couldn't make ribbons in time. 😅
ref: 2020 January 10, BROADWAY_KARKAT, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the Homestuck franchise.
wikipedia: Homestuck
Synonyms: Homestucker
Homestucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Homestuck
rond de jambe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔn də ˈʒɑmb/
Forms: form: ronds de jambe
Etymology: Borrowed from French rond de jambe (literally “circle of the leg”).
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: The movement of a leg in a semicircular motion, either on the ground (par terre) or in the air (en l'air).
Bevo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bevos
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the unisex given name Beverly/Beverley.
glosses: A nickname, diminutive of Beverley or Beverly (a surname).
Related terms: Bev
Beverley
Beverly
tachydidactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to tachydidaxy.
Hinton-in-the-Hedges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5536).
Rufforth with Knapton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in the unitary authority of York district, North Yorkshire, England, which includes these two villages.
Related terms: Knapton
Rufforth
Rufforth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English rūh (“rough”) + ford (“ford”); compare the doublet Rufford.
Senses: glosses: A village in Rufforth with Knapton parish, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5251).
Derived terms: Rufforth with Knapton
ahistoricalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ahistorical + -ness or a- + historicalness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being ahistorical.
supercruiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercruisers
form: super-cruiser
form: super cruiser
Etymology: From super- + cruiser.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
synonyms: word: cruiser-killer
word: battle cruiser
word: large cruiser
word: battlecruiser
coordinate_terms: strike cruiser
assault cruiser
command cruiser
glosses: Synonym of battlecruiser.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see super, cruiser.
supercruiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercruisers
Etymology: From supercruise + -er.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle capable of supercruising.
supercruisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercruiser
roadful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadfuls
form: roadsful
Etymology: From road + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Now, in those suburbs where cheap trains and cheap trams are having most influence, you may see farms being covered with houses, not by pairs or by half-dozens, but by roadsful and by hundreds.
ref: 1900, Journal of the Sanitary Institute, page 322:
text: The skidder moves about four times a day, cleaning up eight roadsful of logs.
ref: 1915, Logging: A Monthly Magazine of Men, Machinery and Methods, page 271:
text: The English, in particular, appear to enjoy consuming Minis by roadfuls and Mediterranean sun by the thermful.
ref: 1971, George Fisk, editor, New Essays in Marketing Theory, Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., page 382:
text: One could visualize the bursting of mailbags and the roadfuls of snarled trucks hard by the sagging loading docks.
ref: 1975, Robert John Myers, The Coming Collapse of the Post Office, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 43:
text: Turning at the café, I was held up by a roadful of cows, changing pasture at a pace that would not excite anyone’s milk.
ref: 1997, Nicholas Kilmer, A Place in Normandy, Henry Holt and Company:
text: By getting the household in the habit of leaving “outside shoes” in the basement, by the back door, or other main point of entry, we save ourselves the hassle of chasing down and cleaning up a roadful of dirt.
ref: 1997, Paula Jhung, “Secrets of a Company-Clean Home”, in Guests Without Grief: Entertaining Made Easy for the Hesitant Host, Fireside, →ISBN, part I (Surroundings), page 12:
text: I saw death winkle life from shells, dive on cradle, burrow and bed, strafe roadfuls of refugees on the run from their cold bread-ovens, their blood-spattered streets.
ref: 2007, Deirdre Brennan, Ag Eitilt Fara Condair, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 77:
text: In the black and white, smudgy pages of the Daily Aftab and Srinagar Times and a new paper ominously called The Daily Toll, I saw roadfuls of azadi-crying people on the streets;[…].
ref: 2011, Mirza Waheed, The Collaborator, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: Enough to fill a road.
roadfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadful
roadsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadful
ready-reckoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ready-reckoners
Senses: examples: text: Besides these things, Mr. Peters found a Johnson's dictionary, a ready-reckoner, and a pair of boot-hooks; but as he found nothing else, Mr. Darley grew quite tired of watching his proceedings, and suggested that they should adjourn; for he remarked—"Is it likely that such a fellow as this North would leave anything behind him?"
ref: 1890, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, chapter 4, in The Trail of the Serpent, Book the Sixth:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ready reckoner.
bill discounter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bill discounters
form: bill-discounter
Senses: examples: text: Nor did he trouble his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule of interest being all comprised in the one golden sentence, ‘two-pence for every half-penny,’ which greatly simplified the accounts, and which, as a familiar precept, more easily acquired and retained in the memory than any known rule of arithmetic, cannot be too strongly recommended to the notice of capitalists, both large and small, and more especially of money-brokers and bill-discounters.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
glosses: A moneylender.
bill-discounter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bill-discounters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bill discounter.
Fermanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fermanians
Etymology: From Armenian Ֆերմանյան (Fermanyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Bekmezian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bekmezians
Etymology: From Armenian Բեքմեզյան (Bekʻmezyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Bekmezians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bekmezian
Fermanians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fermanian
genl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gen'l, abbreviation of general.
pathful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From path + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The rough on this historic Scottish links is a tangled thicket of head-high shrubs called gorse, here growing so densely that it seems to swallow up a whole pathful of spectators walking between holes.
ref: 1960 July 18, “In the Rough”, in Sports Illustrated, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., page 27:
text: A pathful of strange blossoms vying for glamour;[…].
ref: 1983, Anthony C. Yu, translator and editor, The Journey to the West, volume 4, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 62:
text: A pathful of tall reeds and grass
ref: 1993, Đình Chương Ngô, My Version of Kieu, [San Jose, Calif.], →OCLC, page 153:
text: […]the “fight” is about on a par with a “battle” between an individual in hobnailed boots and a pathful of garden quails.
ref: 1993, The Bulletin, page 10:
text: A whole pathful of fallen flowers go off down to the waters, this is the morning young Ruan Zhao reaches Mount Tian-tai.
ref: 1996, Stephen Owen, editor and translator, “The Yuan and Ming Dynasties”, in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, section “Tang Xian-zu, Peony Pavilion: Selected Acts”, subsection “Waking Suddenly from Dream (X)”, page 887:
text: Rainbows in heaven / Wise serpent hissing / Pathful of daisies / December winds.
ref: 2000, Jeanette Strack-Zanghi, “January 27, 2000”, in Soul Voices, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Enough to fill a path.
Vellalar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vellalars
Etymology: From Tamil வேளாளர் (vēḷāḷar). Vellalar denotes landlords and the ruling classes. வேள் (vēḷ, “land, velir class, petty chiefs, and rulers”) + ஆளர் (āḷar, “lord, authority, the one belonging to”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a non-homogenous group of castes in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala and northeastern parts of Sri Lanka, traditionally associated with the landed gentry and agriculture.
Related terms: kshatriya
Vaishya
Southern Asia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of South Asia.
synonyms: word: South Asia
Derived terms: Southern Asian
Southeastern Asia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Southeast Asia.
synonyms: word: Southeast Asia
Derived terms: Southeastern Asian
Southeastern Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Southeast Asian.
synonyms: word: Southeast Asian
have a bite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a bite
form: having a bite
form: had a bite
form: had a bite
Senses: glosses: To eat a quick, light snack.
Related terms: take a bite
ronds de jambe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rond de jambe
Hamden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hamdens
Etymology: Probably a variant of Hampden.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in New Haven County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Becker County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chariton County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Delaware County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Vinton County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Choctaw County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A surname.
Sasmuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Pampanga, Philippines.
Abingtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abington
Great Abington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5248).
Related terms: Little Abington
Little Abington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5349).
Related terms: Great Abington
picks one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pick one's nose
picking one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pick one's nose
Wernette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wernettes
Etymology: Altered form of German Wernet, through French Wernette.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
picked one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pick one's nose
kinnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinnie
Schultheiss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schultheisses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schultheiß (“mayor”), an occupational surname. Compare the variant Schultheis.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Schultheisses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schultheiss
Wernettes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wernette
DoorDasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DoorDashers
Etymology: From DoorDash + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And Mendocino Farms is opening three locations this year: in Del Mar Highlands, Santa Ana and Studio City, each with bigger to-go areas, more spacious waiting areas for DoorDashers and enough floor space around the seating to accommodate its red delivery bags.
ref: 2017 March 18, Tracey Lien, “Delivery apps become a core part of business”, in Los Angeles Times, page A9:
text: Without any verbalization in the video, it’s impossible to know if the person was staking out a possible heist or simply a lost “DoorDasher.”
ref: 2020 January 12, Kirk Broome, “Don’t let doorbell camera footage spark ‘search and destroy’ mission”, in The Greenville News, 145th year, number 327, page 2E:
text: DoorDash, a crowdsourcing food-delivery service, fared moderately well during the pandemic, thanks in large part to the countless people who signed up to be DoorDashers.
ref: 2022, Tom Altstiel, Jean Grow, Dan Augustine, Joanna Jenkins, Advertising Creative: Strategy, Copy, and Design, SAGE Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: Dasher
glosses: An employee of DoorDash, a San Francisco–based company that operates an online food ordering and food delivery platform.
wikipedia: DoorDash
DoorDashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DoorDasher
state-owned enterprises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state-owned enterprise
state owned enterprises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state owned enterprise
state enterprises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state enterprise
second yellow cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second yellow card
Seifs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seif
Shipeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shipes
Good Luck Flags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Good Luck Flag
rewatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rewatchers
form: re-watcher
Etymology: From rewatch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For example, Cole noticed that one character’s major injury is referenced in myriad ways a full season and a half before it actually happens—details that reward longtime viewers and rewatchers, and hint that the show is far more planned and complex than it may seem.
ref: 2014, “Previously, on Arrested Development”, in Gareth Cook, editor, The Best American Infographics 2014, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, →ISBN, page 140:
text: The rewatcher shares the spoiled viewer’s knowledge of the narrative events to come but also knows how those narrative events will operationally unfold through the specific telling; yet according to Bordwell, a rewatcher still experiences suspense through the familiar but powerful emotional cues of the storytelling.
ref: 2015, Jason Mittell, “Comprehension”, in Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling, New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 177:
text: While being trapped in homes may have converted some folks into rewatchers, the contingent was strong even before the pandemic.
ref: 2021 February 19, Travis M. Andrews, “Finding comfort in the familiar”, in Messenger-Inquirer, volume 147, number 50, Owensboro, Ky., page D2:
glosses: One who rewatches.
rewatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rewatcher
Seong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seongs
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 성 (seong).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Korean.
Saggese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saggeses
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Saggese.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Saggeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Saggese
Seongs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seong
has a bite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have a bite
having a bite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have a bite
had a bite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have a bite
rames over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rame over
raming over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rame over
ramed over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rame over
works like a mule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work like a mule
working like a mule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work like a mule
worked like a mule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of work like a mule
Sabharwals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabharwal
BYOC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Across the partition is the pitch-black BYOC area. That's BYOC as in “bring your own computer.” A major gaming event like CPL Winter always consists of two separate attractions.
ref: 2008, Michael Kane, Game Boys […] , Penguin, →ISBN:
text: That said, it's important to discuss the ways in which attendees—particularly those simply playing together on the demo stations and bring-your-own-console (BYOC) floor compared to the tournament matches—played socially.
ref: 2013, Todd Harper, The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice, Routledge, →ISBN, page 81:
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of bring your own computer (or console).
examples: text: BYOC is easy to perform and, unfortunately, is convenient for employees. An employee just needs to enroll in a free Software as a Service (SaaS) offer to use it immediately.
ref: 2016, Eric Diehl, Ten Laws for Security, Springer, →ISBN, page 177:
qualifier: cloud computing
glosses: Initialism of bring your own cloud.
examples: text: We can use bring your own container (BYOC) if the package or software we need is not included in a supported framework.
ref: 2021, Chris Fregly, Antje Barth, Data Science on AWS, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bring your own container.
examples: text: Explain that the BYOC strategy is very simple. If they function as their own coach, and use the strategy, they will tell themselves what to do—before they do it, and talk to themselves in positive ways.
ref: 2010, Janet Niemeier, Robert Karol, Therapists' Guide to Overcoming Grief and Loss After Brain Injury, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 33:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of be your own coach.
beta-reads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beta-read
beta-reading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beta-read
Retzloff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Retzloffs
Etymology: Variant of Ratzlaff.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
megabashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megabash
Retzloffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Retzloff
Robl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Robles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Robl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Lyhne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lyhnes
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Lyhne.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish.
Theard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Theards
Etymology: Borrowed from French Theard; this surname is also well-attested in Haiti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Theards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Theard
GABs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GAB
Sullivant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sullivants
Etymology: Variant of Sullivan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Swatek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swateks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Swatek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Swateks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Swatek
Sullivants
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sullivant
Hamdens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hamden
McKaskey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKaskeys
Etymology: Variant spelling of McCaskey.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
HMDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HMD
HNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HN
HRVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HRV
Wyton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wytons
Etymology: From Old English wīċ (“village”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in Houghton and Wyton parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2772).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Bilton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1733).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Houghton and Wyton
dole heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dole head
Seff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seffs
Etymology: Variant of Zeff.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
Soppitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soppitts
form: Sopwith
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place near Otterburn, Northumberland, which was recorded as Sokpeth in the past. This placename may derive from Old English soc (“suck, sucking”), probably meaning "moisture collecting in the soil" or "drainage of a dunghill", + pæþ (“path, track”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Soppitts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Soppitt
McKaskeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKaskey
Wytons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wyton
Seffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seff
shenanigous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shenanigous
form: most shenanigous
Etymology: From shenanig(an) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: "Mishka Shakespeare" is a literary journey of high culture and deep wisdom, yet a shenanigous jaunt of humorous mayhem and bawdy innuendo...
ref: 2002 December 21, Mishka Shakespeare, Mishka Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Description):
glosses: Characteristic of shenanigans; having to do with tomfoolery.
Smarden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English smeoru (“fat, lard”), perhaps alluding to a rich pasture, + denu (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Ashford district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8842).
Gooderham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gooderhams
Etymology: From the Old Norse personal name Guðormr, which is composed by the elements guð (“god”) and ormr (“snake”). This patronymic surname has been altered by folk etymology as if it were a habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
Hardstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hardstones
Etymology: Variant of Harston, with intrusive -d-.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Verey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vereys
Etymology: From Middle English verrei, verie (“true, reliable”), from Old French verai (“real, genuine”), a nickname for a trustworthy person.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
Vereys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Verey
Gooderhams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gooderham
Hardstones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hardstone
Barak Valley Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the Bengali-speaking administrative divisions of Assam.
kill someone dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills someone dead
form: killing someone dead
form: killed someone dead
form: killed someone dead
Etymology: Possibly derived from the phrase shoot someone dead.
Senses: examples: text: You don't understand, do you Hassan? It's not the Saudis who own all this oil of Ghawar. It's the Americans who own it. And if you try to take it away from them, they will kill you dead like they killed Saddam Hussein dead.
ref: 2005, George P. Matheos, Mirages of the Rub Al-Khali:
glosses: To murder someone and ensure that they are dead.
littorarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: littorarians
Etymology: From translingual Littoraria + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any sea snail in the genus Littoraria, which are a genus of periwinkles.
warty thick-toed gecko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warty thick-toed geckos
form: warty thick-toed geckoes
Etymology: From warty + thick-toed gecko (gecko of genus "Elasmodactylus").
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Elasmodactylus tuberculosus, a species of eastern-African gecko.
thick-billed green pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thick-billed green pigeons
Etymology: From thick-billed + green pigeon (Treron genus birds).
Senses: glosses: Any of species Treron curvirostra of columbid birds, found from Nepal to the Philippines.
creeping sage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creeping sages
Etymology: From creeping + sage.
Senses: synonyms: Sonoma sage
glosses: Salvia sonomensis, a species of sage with blue to purple flowers.
gets in the way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get in the way
dragrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragropes
Senses: examples: text: Starting in 1818, a few women managed to break a the sex barrier that excluded them from active firefighting. [It was] hard work to draw the engine; but among the few who had hold of the dragrope was Molly, pulling away for dear life.
ref: 1984, Paul C. Ditzel, Fire Engines, Fire Fighters: The Men, Equipment, and Machines, from Colonial Days to the Present, Random House Value Pub, →ISBN:
text: The side of our ship was wasp-coloured as befits a warship, black and yellow and streaming. Certainly the first operation of the dragrope had been successful until it jammed. There was no doubt of that.[…]
ref: 2013 November 5, William Golding, Close Quarters: With an introduction by Ronald Blythe, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: A rope used to drag something.
glosses: Alternative form of drag rope (“rope carried in a hot air balloon”).
dragropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragrope
Shomari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shomaris
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Swahili.
Shitij
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shitijes
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
cycle thresholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycle threshold
malalign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪn
Forms: form: malaligns
form: malaligning
form: malaligned
form: malaligned
Etymology: Back-formation from malaligned
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of malign.
this you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: 'This you' reminds them that a little infographic or a hashtag doesn’t absolve them of past transgressions, and we see through the empty platitudes and insincere expressions of solidarity.
ref: 2020 June 3, Jumi Akinfenwa, “'This You?' – How Black Twitter Turned Accountability Into an Art Form”, in VICE:
text: Barbie, of all things, also got called out a few times for a message of solidarity with the Black community, proving that no brand is immune from the "this you?" meme. Despite its apparent oath to "champion diversity," users brought up receipts that Barbie is, quite literally, a cop.
ref: 2020 June 5, Stacey Ritzen, “The 'this you?' meme calls out the hypocrisy of brands and public figures”, in The Daily Dot:
text: A detailed tweet revealing how a star who just announced #blacklivesmatter also has a history of mistreating her black colleagues is juicy to read. But a "This you?" retweet from a random user is like a simple alley-oop; it just hits differently.
ref: 2020 June 9, Aisha Harris, “'This You?' (It Definitely Is)”, in New York Times:
qualifier: Twitter
glosses: Used to call out a user's hypocrisy.
Uno reverse card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uno reverse cards
Etymology: From the popular card game Uno, which includes a "reverse card" that flips the direction of play. First used in the idiomatic sense around 2018.
Senses: examples: text: The Habs could of course match the offer and work on an 8-year deal for Kotkaniemi to sign in the next year, which would have always come in at a figure above $6 million. But Marc Bergevin could pull out the Uno reverse card to the Hurricanes Uno reverse card and not match the offer, leaving them in the tricky situation of paying four centremen over $4.75 million a year and just taking the compensation and hope that the Canes miss the playoffs.
ref: 2021 August 29, Sebastian High, “Montreal Canadiens: Kotkaniemi Offersheet Puts Habs Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, in A Winning Habit:
text: PC games are slowly, but surely, becoming more mobile, with the likes of Valve’s Steam Deck and Razer’s cloud handheld making portable big-budget gaming a possibility. Yet, at the Game Awards 2022, Google played an Uno reverse card, as the company revealed it’s bringing mobile games to gaming PCs via a Play Store Windows port.
ref: 2021 December 10, Phil Hayton, “Google Play could turn your Windows rig into an Android gaming PC in 2022”, in PCGamesN:
text: Many viewers criticized @msmabelmartinez for seemingly not being familiar with how much liquid a cocktail should contain. […] Others remarked that the TikToker was hit with an Uno reverse card of sorts, as it appeared that she was trying to put the restaurant on blast. "Comment section isn’t going the way you thought it would," one claimed.
ref: 2022 August 23, Jack Alban, “'First time ordering a drink?': Customer complains about size of ice cube in $18 drink, sparking debate”, in The Daily Dot:
glosses: A notional card that can suddenly reverse a situation when played.
wikipedia: Uno (card game)
lassitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lassitudinous
form: most lassitudinous
Etymology: From lassitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Let his unhallowed feet never pollute the soft down of a Turkey carpet: ne'er may the sociable sofa receive his lassitudinous limbs, overpowered by the assiduity of cogitation or relaxed by the oppression of ennui: ne'er may his discordant ears be saluted by the sounds of china and porcelain, or his eyes be regaled with hot rolls and muffins.
ref: 1814, J.E.H., “The adversaria, or, evening recreations, no. X.”, in The Port Folio, volume 3, number 1, page 277:
text: And he had lived—still lives—thanks to sorcery alone, for he is naturally lassitudinous and, without his drugs, would barely be able to raise his hand from his side through most of a normal day.
ref: 1972, Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné, Hutchinson:
glosses: Characterized by lassitude.
examples: text: When Missy sat in the classroom, exhausted with the lassitudinous warmth of spring and with the painful uncertainty of whether she'd be called to translate the Vergil passage she hadn't mastered, visions of that coming glory would rise to brighten weary hours; and the last thing at night, in falling asleep, as the moon stole in tenderly to touch her smiling face, she took them to her dreams.
ref: 1920, Dana Gatlin, Missy, Doubleday:
glosses: Tending to bring about lassitude.
acar-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acaro- (before a vowel)
ascar-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from New Latin Ascarididae.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Parasitic nematodal helminths of family Ascarididae.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
ovalentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovalentarians
Etymology: From translingual Ovalentaria + -n.
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the clade Ovalentaria, in the clade Percomorpha.
Hypernyms: percomorph
Hyponyms: alt: mullet, grey mullet
word: mugiliform
word: cichliform
word: blenniiform
word: gobiesociform
word: atherinomorph
tard wrangler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tard wranglers
Etymology: A wrangler is a professional animal handler. The term was often used on the site 4chan, analogizing mentally disabled individuals with wild animals.
Senses: synonyms: tard guard
glosses: Someone responsible for looking after people with mental disabilites, especially those prone to violence and uncontrollable behaviour.
wikipedia: 4chan
dicranid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicranids
Etymology: From translingual Dicranidae.
Senses: glosses: Any bryopsid moss of the subclass Dicranidae, of the class Bryopsida.
promagistrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promagistrates
Senses: examples: text: The first promagistrate was Q. Publilius Philo (b.c. 327), who, after serving his year as consul, was retained in command of the army pro consule for another year by an extension (prorogatio) of his imperium;[…].
ref: 1888, James Gow, “Promagistrates”, in A Companion to School Classics, London: Macmillan and Co. and New York, page 181:
text: But on the expiration of their office, they became promagistrates with military authority for an additional year in the provinces.
ref: 1901, George Willis Botsford, A History of Rome for High Schools and Academies, page 173:
text: Although promagistrates could not exercise their power in Rome itself, many were appointed to govern overseas territories.
ref: 1998, Carroll Moulton, editor, Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: In ancient Rome, an ex-consul or ex-praetor whose imperium (the power to command an army) was extended at the end of his annual term of office or later.
Related terms: promagistracy
promagistrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promagistrate
Sect People
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Plain Dutch.
synonyms: word: Plain Dutch
way out of a wet paper bag
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: After four weeks, I gave up [Econ] in disgust, muttering that the clown teaching it couldn't teach his way out of a wet paper bag.
ref: 2003, James J. Cramer, Confessions of a Street Addict, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of way out of a paper bag.
couldn't organise a two-ticket raffle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
synonyms: word: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery