cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ottersona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ottersonas
Etymology: From otter + -sona (“added to a noun to describe a character of the noun's form, typically one used to represent oneself in fandom spaces”).
Senses: examples: text: I should create an ottersona! :3
ref: 2012 September 23, @Ian_Gecko, Twitter:
text: Kinda thought about having an ottersona again
ref: 2016 January 2, @GenOttr, Twitter:
text: Ottersonas are 5he^([sic]) best
ref: 2021 May 5, u/doslicious, “Chester (@imkrisyim)”, in r/furry, Reddit:
text: So i got this fella now i created after being bombarded by ottersonas on various socials so i was compelled to create my own.
Her name is Icecube and she's just a little fellow <3
ref: 2023 December 11, @AbyssalN3r0z, “Her name? Icecube.”, in Fur Affinity:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fursona that is an otter.
Hypernyms: furry
fursona
Related terms: original character
raccoonsona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raccoonsonas
Etymology: From raccoon + -sona (“added to a noun to describe a character of the noun's form, typically one used to represent oneself in fandom spaces”).
Senses: examples: text: This may or may not lead to a raccoonsona
ref: 2013 January 27, @ScuzBrains, Twitter:
text: Drew @VasukiStoat's raccoonsona in his sketchbook at FC~
ref: 2015 January 18, @OrangeTavi, Twitter:
text: Despite being unable to fully change my username here, I go by JaymE irl and my raccoonsona's new name as well, a transmale raccoon whose into the occult and some rather unsavory fetishes he likes engaging.
ref: 2020 March 13, @JennA-SatanicRaccoon, “Satanic Raccoon ID”, in Fur Affinity:
text: i should make a raccoonsona. they were my favorite animal for a long time when i was young & they're still my type in a furry context.
ref: 2024 May 29, @patricia-taxxon, Tumblr:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fursona that is a raccoon.
Hypernyms: furry
fursona
Related terms: original character
hyenasona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyenasonas
Etymology: From hyena + -sona (“added to a noun to describe a character of the noun's form, typically one used to represent oneself in fandom spaces”).
Senses: examples: text: @Sprech4 Draw me as my hyenasona driving a ford model t as grossly as possible.
ref: 2013 April 26, @DaFrankiestein, Twitter:
text: I wanna make a hyenasona but I already have an african wild dog, sabertoothed snow leopard, spotted genet, sabertoothed fox, and a mouse.
ref: 2016 May 29, @SketchyGenet, Twitter:
text: In my inspiration folder I have quite some pictures of hyenas I wanna redraw with my sona or my friend's hyenasonas. I think they're adorable <3
ref: 2019 April 22, @FuchsFluch, Twitter:
text: If you have a hyenasona I automatically assume you will laugh like a hyena I don't make the rules
ref: 2022 March 16, @MusicalMikeYT, Twitter:
text: Kamala may have lost, but in the only battlefield that really counts, Kamala won by having her own hyenasona, what the fuck does trump have? nothing that's what, nothing
ref: 2024 November 8, @NoiceJam, Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fursona that is a hyena.
Hypernyms: furry
fursona
Related terms: yeen
original character
raccoonsonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raccoonsona
hyenasonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyenasona
ottersonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ottersona
partricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A heptaene macrolide antibiotic complex with strong antifungal activity.
biologistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biologistic.
biologistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of biological determinism.
biamperometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: bi- + amperometry
Senses: glosses: A form of amperometry using two electrodes for measurement.
Related terms: bipotentiometry
bipotentiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: bi- + potentiometry
Senses: glosses: A form of potentiometry using two electrodes for measurement.
Related terms: biamperometry
biamperometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to biamperometry.
bipotentiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to bipotentiometry.
mulelitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulelitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mule litter.
doikeit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doikeyt.
same-day lay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: same-day lays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of same day lay.
same-day lays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of same-day lay
same-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of an action or service, that takes place or is completed on the same day as it is requested.
night game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightgame
Senses: topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
coordinate_terms: gutter game
day game
glosses: The practice of going out in nighttime hours to cold approach strangers and attempt to seduce them.
nightgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of night game.
ghost-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of ghost-ride
mule shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mule shoes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mule (“any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed”).
synonyms: word: mule
extra: any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed
mule shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mule shoe
Ayot St Lawrence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Welwyn Hatfield borough, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1916).
Related terms: Ayot Green
Ayot St Peter
development mule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: development mules
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: test mule
glosses: A testbed vehicle equipped with prototype components requiring evaluation.
test mule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: test mules
Senses: glosses: Synonym of development mule.
synonyms: word: development mule
development mules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of development mule
test mules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test mule
nocturnal active photolocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: diurnal active photolocation
glosses: The use of nighttime light such as phosphorescence or fluorescence to navigate or locate objects at night.
passive photolocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: active photolocation
glosses: The use of standard vision in order to locate objects in the environment.
Malay gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malay gates
form: Malayan gate
Senses: glosses: A booby trap consisting of a bent sapling, with sharpened sticks or spear-tips attached, which, when activated, quickly straightens, impaling the victim.
active echolocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The technique of using a sound that an organism produces in order to learn its surroundings by interpreting the echoes that bounce back.
binary file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary files
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer file that is not a text file, consisting of data other than human-readable text.
binary files
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary file
numeral system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numeral systems
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A writing system for expressing numbers; a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or other symbols in a consistent manner.
base 2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of binary (“the bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1”).
synonyms: word: binary
extra: the bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1
binary planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary planets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of double planet.
synonyms: word: double planet
binary planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary planet
binary asteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary asteroids
Senses: glosses: A system of two asteroids orbiting their common barycenter.
binary asteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary asteroid
.txt file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: .txt files
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of text file.
.txt files
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of .txt file
ryasna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryasnas
Senses: glosses: A part of a woman's headwear, typically worn in Russia, either hanging from a diadem or as a temple ring.
ryasnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ryasna
car mileages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car mileage
active lidar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active lidars
Senses: hypernyms: lidar
<
imaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: active radar
active sonar
glosses: A type of lidar that uses light waves generated by the lidar equipment, as contrasted with a passive type that uses only light waves originating from elsewhere.
active radar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active radars
Senses: hypernyms: radar
<
imaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: active lidar
active sonar
glosses: A type of radar that uses radio waves generated by the radar equipment, as contrasted with a passive type that uses only radio waves originating from elsewhere.
active sonar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active sonars
Senses: hypernyms: sonar
<
imaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: active lidar
active radar
glosses: A type of sonar that uses sound waves generated by the sonar equipment, as contrasted with a passive type that uses only sound waves originating from elsewhere.
active sonars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of active sonar
active radars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of active radar
colloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collop
tepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tepins
Senses: glosses: The chiltepin or its fruit.
Badby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Meaning 'Badda's fortified place', from Old English Baddanbyrġ, from the personal name Badda, genitive singular Baddan + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortress”). The first syllable of the second element was elided over time through natural erosion, which led to it sounding identical to the common Old Norse-rooted locative ending -by.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP5658).
Mihilmas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: ‘Who’s there?’ says I. ‘Where?’ says it, on th’ other side. ‘ Anywhere,’ says I, ‘to plaze ye;’ and wid that I fell into a could sweat, for I began to think it was Mihilmas Eve, an’ divil a grain of salt I had about me to keep me from harm!
ref: 1837 July 24, J. A. Wade, “Darby the Swift: […]”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume II, number VII, page 72:
text: […] what he doth pay in fat cattell, he is to pay at or before Mihilmas […]
ref: 1840, Thomas Gage, “New Rowley, or Second Parish, first settled”, in The History of Rowley, Anciently Including Bradford, Boxford, and Georgetown, From the Year 1639 to the Present Time, Boston: Ferdinand Andrews, page 323:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Michaelmas.
Baledgarno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Bal is from Scottish Gaelic baile, Edgar refers to the King of Scotland from 1001 to 1005.
Senses: examples: text: No signposts point the way to Baledgarno, set in the rich arable lands of the Carse of Gowrie. The secluded and immaculately kept village is on private property - that of the 12th Lord Kinnaird - and five terraces of red-sandstone cottages are set around the entrance of his lordship's home, Rossie Priory.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 47:
glosses: A small village on private land north of Inchture, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2730).
birdsona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdsonas
Etymology: From bird + -sona (“added to a noun to describe a character of the noun's form, typically one used to represent oneself in fandom spaces”).
Senses: examples: text: Commission for EagleBird of his birdsona (hee) and his boyfriend LandHawk's Little!LH. D'awww, they so cute x.x
Feathers are very fun to cel shade! n.n
ref: 2008 January 21, @farorenightclaw, “Commission - EB and LH”, in Fur Affinity:
text: Between the #burds and my #tegakie friends, I know like... a fucking lot of birdsonas.
ref: 2011 December 1, @MichaelMacaw, Twitter:
text: My birdsona, Arcain. A male ara ararauna with unusual wings and sharp character
ref: 2016 March 8, @Arcain, “Arcain the parrot”, in Fur Affinity:
text: I like birds and dragons and combined the two into my birdsona, Blaze the phoenix dragoness. I can't draw her, but one day, I will.
ref: 2020 December 14, @cuddly_sasha, Twitter:
text: yall think someone got a birdsona called hawk tuah
ref: 2024 October 31, @Ev1suuu, Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fursona that is a bird.
Hypernyms: avian
furry
fursona
Hyponyms: word: ducksona
word: eaglesona
word: hawksona
word: owlsona
word: parrotsona
word: pigeonsona
Related terms: original character
skunksona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skunksonas
Etymology: From skunk + -sona (“added to a noun to describe a character of the noun's form, typically one used to represent oneself in fandom spaces”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh my skunksona Vincent. He was supposed to represent my BOY SIDE before I came to terms with gender. Dark green skunk. Hes cute.
ref: 2013 September 18, @Floebean, Twitter:
text: I love... well adore and melt to... skunks. I may make a skunksona. O.o
ref: 2016 March 11, @ToastTheRabbit, Twitter:
text: Skunksonas are valid and I'm gonna be drawing a lot of them in Skunktember :>
ref: 2018 August 17, @KaelArts, Twitter:
text: A rather quick sketch I did to try new anatomy for my skunksona. I also made my brother's bunnysona as a tech saavy Sidekick (usually I’m the sidekick P2)
ref: 2020 June 14, @BlitzerGray, “Superheroes Doodle”, in Fur Affinity:
text: One of my favorite methods would have to be a "ritualistic stuffing".
I would imagine my skunksona would create a summoning circle and accidentally summon a gluttonous demon to hypnotize and feed her until her belly is nice and big.
ref: 2023 November 12, LittleKayKay21, “What is your favorite way to expand?”, in r/fatfurs, Reddit:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fursona that is a skunk.
Hypernyms: furry
fursona
Related terms: original character
horsesona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsesonas
Etymology: From horse + -sona (“added to a noun to describe a character of the noun's form, typically one used to represent oneself in fandom spaces”).
Senses: examples: text: First time i drew a horsesona :O but i'm happy with the outcome!
I hope you like it to!
ref: 2014 January 3, @Piaa, “[Headshot COM] for jenelsilvermane”, in Fur Affinity:
text: my horsesona is the ghost of a horse that got stuck on the astral plane and their name is Speedy Boy
ref: 2017 March 14, @slimefiend, Twitter:
text: Gonna bookmark this so I can drop my horsesona in here once I finish up his ref if that's alright 🤘
ref: 2019 November 10, @garydactyl, Twitter:
text: Links to his ref is coming soon, as well as links to his other herdmates whenever vovscurial, JinGinGen and DindellaTheDefender ever design themselves some horsesonas.
ref: 2022 April 21, @SoldierYena, “Mousse Ref 2022”, in Fur Affinity:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fursona that is a horse.
Hypernyms: furry
fursona
Related terms: original character
ponysona
birdsonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdsona
skunksonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skunksona
horsesonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsesona
instamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instamines
Etymology: From insta- + mine.
Senses: examples: text: An instamine can act the same way as a premine, where the developers get the majority of the initial coins, if the developers operate a large percentage of the mining horsepower during the instamine. […] The argument for premines and instamines is that they rightfully reward the people who were instrumental in the early success of the currency.
ref: 2014 June 13, Black Market Cryptocurrencies, page 49:
glosses: An event where a cryptocurrency is released but most of the currency is quickly mined by a only few miners.
instamine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instamines
form: instamining
form: instamined
form: instamined
Etymology: From insta- + mine.
Senses: examples: text: Instamined and fastmined coins can encourage the few initial miners with a large amount of coins to dump their coins when the price rises.
ref: 2014 June 13, Black Market Cryptocurrencies, pages 49-50:
text: Put easily, instamining is a method that enables coins to be issued unfairly or unevenly.
ref: 2019 September 23, Prasanna Peshkar, “Instamine vs Premine”, in Cryptoticker:
glosses: To mine a cryptocurrency in this manner.
examples: text: I was curious what it would take, so doing some calculations based on instamining hardstone, and comparing hardness, I've determined you need 45k mining speed to instamine mithril. 11.25k with mining speed boost. Is this achievable? Well, looking at the ways of increasing speed on the wiki: […]
ref: 2022 August 24, Yazinator, Hypixel Forums:
glosses: To mine a material instantly.
Synonyms: fastmine
instamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instamine
instamines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of instamine
instamining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of instamine
instamined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of instamine
fastmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fastmines
Etymology: From fast + mine.
Senses: examples: text: An "instamine" or "fastmine" occurs when the currency is released publicly but a large percentage of the coins are mined by just a few miners in the first few days of the coin.
ref: 2014 June 13, Black Market Cryptocurrencies, page 49:
glosses: Synonym of instamine.
synonyms: word: instamine
fastmine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fastmines
form: fastmining
form: fastmined
form: fastmined
Etymology: From fast + mine.
Senses: examples: text: Instamined and fastmined coins can encourage the few initial miners with a large amount of coins to dump their coins when the price rises.
ref: 2014 June 13, Black Market Cryptocurrencies, pages 49-50:
glosses: Synonym of instamine.
synonyms: word: instamine
fastmines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fastmine
fastmines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fastmine
fastmining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fastmine
fastmined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fastmine
almoign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almoigns
form: almoin
form: almoigne
Senses: examples: text: Further, be it known, that king Henry, the son, has covenanted with our lord the king, his father, that he will strictly observe all gifts in almoign which he has given, or shall give, out of his lands, and the gifts of lands which he has given, or shall give, to his liegemen for their services.
ref: 1853, Henry T. Rilley, transl., The Annals of Roger de Hoveden. […], volume I, London: H. G. Bohn, page 387:
text: What he could not confer in almoign was the military service, due to himself perhaps, but due also to the Crown, through himself, as mediate.
ref: 1881, R. W. Eyton, “The Staffordshire Chartulary”, in Salt Archæological Society, editor, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume II, Birminghan: Houghton and Co., page 185:
text: The Knight gives in almoign an annual rent of 20 marks to pay a " Chanon singand prayers perpetually " at the Altar of St. Nicholas in the Abbey, wherein he has ordained his burial.
ref: 1886, Joseph Bain, “Notes and Queries”, in Walford D. Selby, editor, The Genealogist, volume III, London: George Bell & Sons, page 189:
text: At that time the provincial of the order was F. Robert de Kilwardby, who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, and died a cardinal, and he interested himself personally in the new foundation. In 1269 he acquired a messuage from Adam de Doy and Matilda his wife, in almoign, and free of secular service, giving them in exchange a messuage which John de Rames once held, and receiving them and their heirs to all the benefits and prayers that would henceforward accrue in the same house and church of St. Mary.
ref: 1888, C. F. R. Palmer, “The Friar-Preachers, or Blackfriars, of Ipswich”, in J. Charles Cox, editor, The Reliquary, volume I, London: Bemrose and Sons, page 70:
glosses: alms
Related terms: frankalmoign
hoary bamboo rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoary bamboo rats
Etymology: hoary + bamboo rat
Senses: glosses: Rhizomys pruinosus, a species of rat.
voicemog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: voicemogs
form: voicemogging
form: voicemogged
form: voicemogged
Etymology: From voice + mog.
Senses: examples: text: One could be heightmogged by someone taller, or voicemogged by someone with a deeper voice.
ref: 2020 March 17, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer:
qualifier: incel slang
glosses: To have a deeper voice than someone.
voicemogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of voicemog
voicemogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of voicemog
voicemogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of voicemog
got one's rocks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get one's rocks off
gotten one's rocks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get one's rocks off
gets one's rocks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's rocks off
getting one's rocks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get one's rocks off
Hindal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Chagatai هندل (hndl), compound of هند (hnd, “India”) + ال (ʾl, “taker”).
Senses: glosses: the son of Babur, the first Mughal emperor
glosses: A male given name from Urdu.
Trump-proofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Trump-proof
Trump-proofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Trump-proof
Trump-proofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Trump-proof
displayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of displaying
airboating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From airboat + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: As an indication of the wide spread interest in airboating, particularly that exhibited in the south during the past winter season, one has but to note the many points the compass represented by the following passengers took rides in the regular St. Petersburg-Tampa 19-mile airboat line operated, by the Benoist Aircraft Company using Benoist flying boats.
ref: 1913 June 13, “Winter Airboat Line Proves Popular”, in Aero and Hydro, volume VIII, number 11, page 137:
text: The darkening sky only increased the feeling of vast distances, a sense that the world is flattening itself out beneath you,which makes airboating like nothing else on earth.
ref: 1963 December, “everglades skimmers”, in Motor Boating, volume 112, number 6, page 82:
text: Popular recreations in the larger Everglades, airboating and swamp-buggy rides are prohibited activities in the park.
ref: 2011, Harvey H Jackson III, editor, Sports & Recreation (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; 16), page 290:
glosses: The activity of riding in an airboat.
Varaha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit वराह (varāha).
Senses: glosses: the third avatar of Vishnu
sweetniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetnik
bookey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bookier
form: bookiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of booky (“treacherous, suspicious”).
born-alive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Republican-sponsored referendum, passed last spring on nearly party-line votes, was described by its backers as a way to ensure that born-alive infants are legal persons entitled to medical care.
ref: 2022 October 28, Mara Silvers, “As election nears, doctors, nurses speak out against Born-Alive Infant referendum”, in Montana Free Press:
glosses: Surviving childbirth, Caesarean section, or an attempted abortion.
raw_tags: of a baby
nankhatai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nankhatais
form: nuncatie
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani नानख़टाई (nānxaṭāī)/نان خَطائی (nān xatāī), from Classical Persian نَانِ خَطَائِی (nān-i xatā'ī, “Cathayan bread, bread of Cathay”).
Senses: glosses: Shortbread biscuit popular in the Indian subcontinent.
nankhatais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nankhatai
nuncatie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuncaties
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of nankhatai.
nuncaties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuncatie
pedanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pedant
pedanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pedant
Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanbury Brown-Twiss effects
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect.
Heughan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Heughligan
Stinchar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in South Ayrshire council area, Scotland, that flows into the Firth of Clyde at Ballantrae.
pastey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pastier
form: pastiest
Senses: examples: text: But ſore inflamed eyes, accompanied with paſtey face, ſwelled or chapped lips, and ſwelled noſtrils, have been looked upon to be characteriſtics of this diſeaſe; […]
ref: 1786, Thomas Kirkland, “On Strumæ, or the Evil”, in An Inquiry into the Present State of Medical Surgery; […], volume II, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […] and William Dawson, […], page 450:
text: We could not convince her that the pastey skin and scrawny hands meant that the baby was not well nourished; that he had the best chance in the world to develop a serious stomach or intestinal disorder.
ref: 1913 December, Manthei Howe, “Feeding the Children”, in Alson Secor, editor, Successful Farming, Des Moines, Ia.: Successful Farming Publishing Co., page 66, column 1:
text: Those on the benches turned and ceased their drinking, the tapster, a large man with a pastey face and straggly beard, paused from drawing beer as the party moved onwards in silence to the long settle.
ref: 1972, Eleanor Hyde [pseudonym; Frances Cowen], chapter 13, in Tudor Maid, London: Robert Hale & Company, →ISBN, page 170:
text: His shirt was plastered to his pastey skin, and the sweat poured from his puffy face.
ref: 1984, Ron Olson, Three for the Bobcat (Bannack’s All-Family-Western Series; 1), Billings, Mont.: Bannack Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 76:
text: We sat and talked, tried to get the pastey food through the intake port of our suits (Jake was the only one who was very successful at this), and tried to discreetly use the waste disposal system in the suits with a minimum of fuss.
ref: 1988 August, Duncan Long, chapter 10, in Anti-Grav Unlimited, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 60:
text: His pastey face was vaguely rat-like.
ref: 1996, Dean Beeby, “The Stranger in Room 11”, in Cargo of Lies: The True Story of a Nazi Double Agent in Canada, Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.; London: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 24:
text: To think that you can brave one of the harshest environments on the planet for the length of time you are planning with that pastey skin of yours is just laughable.
ref: 2006 August 4, Dave Cornthwaite, quoting Steve Furness, “A Letter”, in BoardFree: The Story of an Incredible Skateboard Journey across Australia, London: Portico, published 2007, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Rare spelling of pasty.
Ballantrae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX0882).
glosses: A hamlet in the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada, named after the Scottish village.
IANTD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Acronym of International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers.
cockanathan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒkəˈnɑdən/
ipa: /-ðən/
Forms: form: cockanathans
Etymology: cock + Tamil நாதன் (nātaṉ, “lord”, common suffix for given names).
Senses: examples: text: As far as I’m concerned, there is only one Nathan here, and that Nathan is you, because you are a cockanaden!
ref: 2012 February 7 [2007], Laremy Lee, Radio Silence, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: goondu
word: bodoh
glosses: Idiot, foolish person.
cockanathans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockanathan
Whitchurch-Stouffville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formed in 1971 from the township of Whitchurch and village of Stouffville.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada.
buah duku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay buah duku (“fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum, langsat”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of langsat (“A small, whitish-brown fruit from the tree Lansium domesticum”).
synonyms: word: langsat
extra: A small, whitish-brown fruit from the tree Lansium domesticum
Related terms: english: corruption of this term
translation: corruption of this term
word: baluku
silver needle noodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver needle noodles
form: silver-needle noodle
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: word: mee tai mak
glosses: A kind of short Chinese noodle.
baluku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑˈluku/
Forms: form: balukoo
Etymology: Corruption of Malay buah duku (“fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum, langsat”).
Senses: examples: text: My head hit the windscreen, so baluku lor.
ref: 2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 12, page 73:
glosses: A swollen bruise or bump on the head; a goose egg.
silver needle noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver needle noodle
Stouffville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Stouffer + -ville, being named after Abraham Stouffer. Originally named Stoufferville, and later shortened to Stouffville.
Senses: glosses: An urban community in the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada, originally a village.
wikipedia: Abraham Stouffer
Bishop's Hull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English hyll.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2024).
Natmeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Natmegs
Etymology: Blend of Nat + nutmeg, named after Nat (Natalie) Sciver-Brunt, who popularized the shot. A nutmeg is a somewhat similar move in football.
Senses: examples: text: Just as the World Cup did more to raise the profile of women's cricket than years of hard graft by those before it, the Natmeg elevated Sciver on to a platform almost overnight.
ref: 2018, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2018:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot where the batsman plays the ball between their own legs into the leg side.
wikipedia: Nat Sciver-Brunt
Natmegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Natmeg
freeman on the land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freemen on the land
Senses: glosses: A member of a loose group of individuals who adhere to pseudolegal concepts and conspiracy theories implying that they are bound by statute laws only if they consent to those laws.
Related terms: sovereign citizen
freemen on the land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeman on the land
targetedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more targetedly
form: most targetedly
Etymology: From targeted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a targeted manner.
targetedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From targeted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being targeted.
single wicket cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: single wicket
glosses: A form of cricket played between two individuals, who take turns to bat and bowl against each other, with fielders assisting the bowler.
single wicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of single wicket cricket.
synonyms: word: single wicket cricket
rounced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rounce
rouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rounce
Owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Owls
Etymology: Named from the Owlerton stadium where they used to play.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A player or fan of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.
Owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Owl
check upstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: checks upstairs
form: checking upstairs
form: checked upstairs
form: checked upstairs
Etymology: The third umpire is typically seated high in the stadium, with replays displayed on elevated screens.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To invoke the Decision Review System.
flamingo shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamingo shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of shot whereby the batter flicks the delivery from outside off stump through midwicket.
flamingo shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamingo shot
full bunger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full bungers
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of full toss.
synonyms: word: full toss
full bungers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full bunger
rear light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear lights
Senses: glosses: Synonym of taillight.
synonyms: word: taillight
teesra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teesras
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: I can ascertain that even in the present era where T20 cricket has redefined spin bowling and spinners have started bowling doosras and teesras and fire the deliveries in, you can expect Bishan Singh Bedi to stick to his original definition, and insist that, 'A spinner is one who turns the ball...'
ref: 2021, Neha Bedi, Sachin Bajaj, The Sardar of Spin:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A backspin delivery by a finger spin bowler.
Related terms: doosra
teesras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teesra
Chinapersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinaperson
Chinapeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinaperson
drift excursion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drift excursions
Etymology: Originally a reference to the excursion or deviation of a sea vessel from its course due to drift resulting from tides, wind, etc., this term has been generalized to refer to any deviation in position due to outside forces.
Senses: examples: text: A very close approximation to the geographic drift excursion in a resonant gravity field of a 24-hour satellite follows the differential equation of motion, Equation 2, (see also Reference 2) and is, evidently, given by an elliptical integral such as that developed in Appendix E of Reference 3.
ref: 1966, Carl A. Wagner, The Earth's Longitude Gravity Field as Sensed by the Drift of Three, page 89:
text: A collision changes the detailed nature of the particle orbit in a time which is very short compared to the time required to traverse magnetic field scale lengths, thus producing a step across flux surfaces the size of the orbit drift excursion away from the flux surface .
ref: 2013, Roscoe B White, Theory Of Toroidally Confined Plasmas, page 418:
text: The bidirectional drift excursion for the beam-column joint is applied in the anticlockwise direction as per the numbering sequence illustrated in Figs. 8a and 8b.
ref: 2024, S. Lalit Sagar, Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, T. P. Anand, Vasant A. Matsagar, “Development of a Quasi-Static Bidirectional Loading Protocol for the Seismic Evaluation of Hybrid RC-SCC Beam-Column Joints”, in Federico M. Mazzolani, editor, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas:
glosses: The movement of something (such as a vehicle, structure, or charged particles) from its intended course or position due to outside forces.
Related terms: banana orbit
banana lounger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana loungers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of banana chair.
synonyms: word: banana chair
banana loungers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana lounger
Tunworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the hamlet of Tunworth in Hampshire.
Senses: glosses: A kind of soft British cheese with a white rind.
cremeux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crémeux.
shirorekhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirorekha
mat bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mat beans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moth bean.
mat beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mat bean
rear lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rear light
clark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clarks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clerk.
Related terms: Clark
clarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clark
Basing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Between Basing and Basingstoke there is a world of difference, and the boundary between the two worlds is the River Loddon.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 52, presumably written before the name was changed:
glosses: Former name of Old Basing, Hampshire, England.
kicked ass and taken names
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of kick ass and take names
Biewer Terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Biewer Terrier
Black Russian Terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Black Russian Terrier
Silky Terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Silky Terrier
Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
West Highland White Terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of West Highland White Terrier
poststack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + stack.
Senses: glosses: After stacking, in the context of seismic migration.
nut hugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut huggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nuthugger.
Pac Men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pac Man
highpriesthoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highpriesthood
priesthood of all believers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priesthoods of all believers
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The common priesthood composed of all Christians, according to general Christian belief, and thought by Protestants to preclude the ministerial priesthood (holy orders) found in some other churches.
priesthoods of all believers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priesthood of all believers
claulansine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbazole alkaloid found in Clausena.
skeller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛl.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈskɛl.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: skellers
form: skellering
form: skellered
form: skellered
Senses: examples: text: It is grooved at the back and stayed with oak or mahogany cross-pieces or clamps for preventing skellering or twisting from damp and changes of temperature, which would spoil the flatness of the working side.
ref: 1914, John Handsley Dales, “Apparatus and Materials for Drawing” (chapter II), in A Manual of Mechanical Drawing, Cambridge; New York: w:Cambridge University Press, w:G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 4:
text: […] on the other hand, rapidity of machining is obtained when the steel is in the normalised condition, but time is lost in subsequently heat treating and, what is more serious, unless this process is carefully carried out, warping and skellering may render the part too much out of truth for final grinding.
ref: 1917, Bagnall-Wilde, “Eighth Meeting, 52nd Session”, in The Aeronautical Journal, volume XXI, number 83, page 337:
text: It is large, very. It has a strange but attractive shape, like an oval box the top of which has been left out in the rain (which of course, it has) so that it has warped or, as they say in Rudden, West Riding, skellered.
ref: 1969, Stanley Hyland, Top Bloody Secret, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 125:
text: The stable door was not a perfect fit. The lower half was skellered and left a two-inch gap big enough to need stuffing in winter-time to prevent the snow driving in; […]
ref: 2004 [1994], Jean Brown, chapter 16, in We'll See the Cuckoo, Palatine Books, page 306:
glosses: to warp; to bend; to twist
skellers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skeller
skellering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skeller
skellered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skeller
multispeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + speeds.
Senses: examples: text: Multispeeds are obtained by using a multifrequency power supply.
ref: 1943, Product Engineering, volume 14, page 808:
glosses: Multiple speeds.
clausenolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetranortriterpenoid found in Clausena anisata.
ickday
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Pig Latin version of dick.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dick.
Medousa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa).
Senses: examples: text: Figures like Medousa and Pegasos wear wings.
ref: 1965, Jack Lindsay, “Initiations and Shamans”, in The Clashing Rocks: A Study of Early Greek Religion and Culture and the Origins of Drama, London: Chapman & Hall, page 254:
text: The same time period also offers our first look at Medousa and her family, that is, Medousa shown intact and, at her side, her children, Pegasos and Chrysaor, who will in fact emerge from her neck only after her head has been cut off. We find this composition on a shield-band from Olympia (B 1687: wings, but apparently no snakes) and again on the famous Medousa pediment from the Temple of Artemis on Kerkyra (no #), where the wings and snakes are both in evidence.
ref: 1993, Timothy Gantz, “Gaia and Pontos”, in Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, volume 1, Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Superman wasn’t sure what disturbed him more, her actions or her lack of remorse. He knew that Diana had slain monsters before, like Medousa or the Scylla, but Max Lord had not been some mythological Greek monstrosity; he had only been a man, albeit an evil one.
ref: 2006 October, Greg Cox, chapter 1, in Infinite Crisis, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of Medusa.
Pegasos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).
Senses: examples: text: Figures like Medousa and Pegasos wear wings.
ref: 1965, Jack Lindsay, “Initiations and Shamans”, in The Clashing Rocks: A Study of Early Greek Religion and Culture and the Origins of Drama, London: Chapman & Hall, page 254:
text: Those who went alone fueled only by ambition and a sense of competence, like Bellerophon, were shunted back to earth; as Pegasos, with that famous moral wriggle, threw his human master in exchange for a divine one in the stalls of Zeus. Monsters or sports like Pegasos were sensitive indicators in Greek myth of the status of ambitious man; when monsters stand for death, man may kill them.
ref: 1979, Emily Vermeule, “Immortals Are Mortal, Mortals Immortal”, in Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Sather Classical Lectures; 46), Berkeley, Calif.; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 128:
text: The same time period also offers our first look at Medousa and her family, that is, Medousa shown intact and, at her side, her children, Pegasos and Chrysaor, who will in fact emerge from her neck only after her head has been cut off.
ref: 1993, Timothy Gantz, “Gaia and Pontos”, in Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, volume 1, Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of Pegasus.
CAWN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CAWNs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of child abduction warning notice.
CAWNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CAWN
Qara Khitai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qara Khitais
form: Qara Khitai
form: Qara Khitay
form: Qara Khita
form: Karakitay
form: Kara Khitai
form: Cara Cathay
form: Cara-Cathay
Etymology: From Turkic meaning “black Khitan”.
Senses: synonyms: Western Liao
Xi Liao
Black Khitai
Black Khitan
Black Cathayan
glosses: A citizen of the empire established by the Khitans in Central Asia between 1124 and 1218.