cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tushker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʌʃkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: tushkers
Senses: examples: text: 1950, British Council, University of Aberdeen, The Viking Congress: Lerwick, July 1950, Issue 132, page 110,
[…] neighbour's and measure the distance of his own by throwing his tushker or peat spade.
text: 1975, School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University, Tocher: Tales, Songs, Tradition, Issues 17-23; Issues 25-29, page 38,
I mind [my father] tellin me a story: he wis a young fellow, and he was playin wi a tushker in the burn, cuttin peats, an they were an old man 'at cam up.
text: 'I'm no' holding you back?' I asked, looking at the tushker propped by the door.
'Lass, the peats'll keep. Come you in aboot.'
ref: 2014, Marsali Taylor, Death on a Longship, unnumbered page:
glosses: Alternative form of tusker (“peat-cutting tool”).
transnumeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- (“beyond”) + numeral (“relating to number”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Ambiguous as to whether it refers to one thing (singular) or more than one (dual or plural).
tonologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tə(ʊ)ˈnɑləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: tonologists
Etymology: From tonology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most basic problem which confronts the tonologist is how to formally represent multiple tone heights, both in underlying and in derived representations.
ref: 1993, Keith Snider, Harry van der Hulst, “Issues in the Representation of Tonal Register”, in Keith Snider, Harry van der Hulst, editors, The Phonology of Tone: The Representation of Tonal Register, Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 2:
text: The letter was written by the late Jan Voorhoeve, a major Africanist and tonologist.
ref: 2001, Larry M. Hyman, “Fieldwork as a State of Mind”, in Paul Newman, Martha Ratliff, editors, Linguistic Fieldwork, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31:
text: The concept of language universals by generative grammarians directs the Japanese tonologists to view Japanese pitch-accent from a more global perspective[…].
ref: 2002, Esther Yuk Wah Lai, Prosody and Prosodic Transfer in Foreign Language Acquisition: Cantonese and Japanese (LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition; 08), Munich: Lincom Europa, →ISBN, page 176:
text: Indeed, the proposals might be said to bring together the South-East Asianist's conception of ‘register’ and the tonologist’s conception of ‘register’.
ref: 2004, Katrina Hayward, Justin Watkins, Akin Oyètádé, “The Phonetic Interpretation of Register”, in John Local, Richard Ogden, Rosalind Temple, editors, Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 307:
glosses: A linguist who studies tone.
Related terms: tonological
tonologically
tonology
phonologist
tonologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonologist
buttonologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: buttonologists
Etymology: From button + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: Some, especially those made for designer suiting or coats, can be very pricey from the manufacturers' point of view. A buttonologist and a crafter might view the same buttons quite differently.
ref: 2009, Sandra Jackson, The Scrivener's Button Cabinet: A Twentieth Century Clothing Button Collection:
glosses: A person who studies buttons.
Related terms: buttonology
cascrom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaskɹəm/
Forms: form: cascroms
form: caschrom
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic, from cas (“foot”) + crom (“crooked, bent”).
Senses: examples: text: 1843, James Logan, The Scottish Gaël; Or, Celtic Manners: As Preserved Among the Highlanders, 1st American Edition, page 309,
That excellent instrument the cascrom, literally crooked foot, a kind of foot plough, which the Highlanders can manage with great dexterity, and which is too little known,* is still used in mountainous districts, and, from its excellent adaptation to the culture of rugged and steep hills, where a plough cannot be used, is not likely ever to be superseded by any implement.
text: 1866, The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Volume 16: April—July, page 90,
The other was the “cascrom,” a very old Celtic implement, intermediate between the spade and the plough.
text: And so complete was the carnage within the gloom of the corrie that never a man of the erewhile friendly crofters returned to work the cascrom within the township of Achnashee.
ref: 1900, The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 10, page 293:
text: The cascrom, or foot-plough, was at this time unknown in Arran.
ref: 1982, W. M. MacKenzie, The Book of Arran: History and Folklore, page 200:
text: The ‘cascrom’, or crooked spade, was the most important tool for agriculture throughout the Western Isles and major parts of the mainland Highlands.
ref: 2007, Martin Rackwitz, Travels to Terra Incognita: The Scottish Highlands and Hebrides in Early Modern Travellers' Accounts c. 1600 to 1800, page 298:
qualifier: Highlands
glosses: A type of foot plough with a crooked spade component, used in the Scottish Highlands.
Related terms: english: foot plough with straight spade
translation: foot plough with straight spade
word: casdireach
buttonologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttonologist
hyperaccelerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperaccelerated
form: most hyperaccelerated
Etymology: From hyper- + accelerated.
Senses: glosses: Very highly accelerated.
complicateder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of complicated: more complicated
complicatedest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of complicated: most complicated
bring centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bring centres
Senses: examples: text: People are reminded again, as before, please do not leave plastic bottles, milk containers or otherwise at the Bring Centre – there are no plastic containers there any longer for such recyclable materials.
ref: 2005 March 25, “Collooney: Bring centre: another plea”, in Sligo Champion:
text: Some authorities supply different coloured bins for kerbside paper and other types of rubbish collection, but in most cases you will have to bring bottles, cans, paper and other recyclable waste to a bring centre or civic amenity centre.
ref: 2008, Cathy Gerrard, Joseph McArdle, Buying a Property Ireland, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, page 216:
text: A temporary bring centre for 'hazardous agricultural waste' will be set up beside the Old Dublin Road on Thursday, November 27.
ref: 2011 November 11, “Old doses and spray - at last disposed of”, in Gorey Guardian:
text: Bring centres have set opening and closing times similar to Recycling Centres but are smaller in size and serve a smaller community.
ref: 2014, Dublin City Council, Community Bring Centres:
glosses: A place, especially one provided by a local authority, to which members of the public may bring waste for recycling elsewhere.
bring centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bring centre
war memorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war memorials
Senses: glosses: A monument to commemorate the people who were killed in a particular war
caught on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catch on
drawn up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of draw up
drew up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of draw up
draws up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of draw up
drawing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of draw up
long house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long houses
Senses: examples: text: They marched in under French Colours and were conducted into the Long House.
ref: 1751, C. Gist, Journals, page 51:
text: One branch of this numerous people was seated on a beautiful river, known as the “Lonapewihittuck”, where the “long house,” or Great Council Fire, of the nation was universally admitted to be established.
ref: 1826, [James Fenimore Cooper], “Preface”, in The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea— […], →OCLC, page vi:
text: The practice of herding together in ‘long houses’ prevents mental and moral improvement and hinders advance in gardening and planting and agricultural developement generally.
ref: 1894 May 1, Sarawak Gazette, page 67:
text: The Kenyah village frequently consists of a single long house.
ref: 1912, Hose & al., chapter IV, in Pagan Tribes of Borneo, volume I:
glosses: Alternative form of longhouse.
long houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long house
long-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-houses
Senses: examples: text: To make wads and wisps for those that go to the Long-house (you know what I meane).
ref: 1622, M. Alemán, chapter II, in J. Mabbe, transl., Rogue, page 355:
text: The Welsh long-houses […] with long sides and opposite doors providing a passage from side to side, and dividing the building roughly in two.
ref: 1966, G.E. Evans, chapter V, in Pattern under Plough, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of longhouse.
long-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-house
conscious uncoupling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conscious uncouplings
Etymology: Coined by the author Katherine Woodward Thomas, popularised by Gwyneth Paltrow, who used the phrase to describe her divorce.
Senses: examples: text: Most “conscious uncouplings” after 50 are initiated by financially stable women who are still working or have enough money to set out solo.
ref: 2015, Lois Joy Johnson, The Woman's Wakeup: How to Shake Up Your Looks, Life, and Love After 50, Running Press, →ISBN:
text: Few organisations have an enterprise relationship management strategy, few have documented processes and can verbalise how relationships are created and maintained. Even fewer can describe how relationships are exited in a way that all parties remain whole through 'conscious uncoupling'.
ref: 2016, Andrew Humphries, Richard Gibbs, Enterprise Relationship Management: A Paradigm For Alliance Success, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: As product selling and solution selling split off from accelerator selling (call it “conscious uncoupling” if you like), there are two major implications.
ref: 2016, Lou Schachter, Rick Cheatham, Selling Vision: The X-XY-Y Formula for Driving Results by Selling Change, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Divorce or similar separation.
conscious uncouplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conscious uncoupling
congi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congis
Etymology: From Congress, short for Indian National Congress, a major political party in India.
Senses: examples: text: In the latest cyber strike by the anti-Congress camp, "Congi", a twitterverse term for Congress supporters, now has a detailed (and abusive) definition on Urban Dictionary - an online trove of popular slang.
ref: 2013, India Today:
qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: An ardent supporter of the Indian National Congress.
synonyms: antinational
qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: A liberal or a leftist, accused of opposing India, Hinduism, or Hindu nationalism.
Coordinate terms: word: bhakt
word: chaddi
english: a supporter of BJP
translation: a supporter of BJP
word: sanghi
Related terms: Scamgress
there's no use
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: There's no use trying to tell him; he won't listen.
text: There's no use in complaining. It doesn't change anything.
text: There's no use crying over spilt milk.
glosses: Used to indicate that the specified action cannot succeed or offers no advantage if successful
raw_tags: with a following present participle or infinitive expression
Related terms: it's no use
no use
what's the use
it's no use
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: It's no use trying to push the car out of the ditch; the axle is broken.
text: It's no use to ask him; he doesn't really know.
text: -Metal Sonic: It’s no use… but why can’t I defeat you?
-Sonic: Because we’re…Sonic Heroes!
ref: 2003, Sonic Heroes, spoken by Metal Sonic (Ryan Drummond), Sega:
glosses: Used to indicate that the specified action cannot succeed or offers no advantage if successful
raw_tags: with a following present participle or infinitive expression
Derived terms: it's no use crying over spilt milk
Related terms: there's no use
no use
what's the use
what's the use
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: What's the use trying to tell him? He won't listen.
text: What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.
glosses: Used to indicate that a specified or implied action cannot succeed or offers no advantage if successful
raw_tags: with a following present participle or infinitive expression
Related terms: there's no use
no use
it's no use
presumption of innocence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presumptions of innocence
Senses: topics: law
coordinate_terms: presumption of guilt
glosses: The precept that someone will not be convicted of a crime unless (the judge, prosecutor, officer) proves guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and is non liquet, with there being no present burden of proof duty subjected on the accused to prove innocence.
Related terms: benefit of the doubt
in dubio pro reo
Politian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Poliziano, the Italian scholar Agnolo Poliziano
Watford Gap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A pass between hills in the English Midlands, near the village of Watford, Northants, crossed by the M1 motorway and West Coast Main Line.
examples: text: New Yorkers, who don't really go anywhere ever, are the worst offenders. They think anything north of New York is Bridgeport. Bridgeport, Connecticut is the Watford Gap of America.
ref: 1981, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch:
text: This collection may not bridge the Watford Gap, but any joshing at the expense of our southern cousins is good-natured and laughter-lovers from both sides of the divide are welcomed.
ref: 2009, Rosemarie Jarski, The Wit and Wisdom of the North, Random House, →ISBN:
text: And, before light sabres, Sith Lords and Ewan McGregor's accent wandering to the other side of the Watford Gap from which he was born spring to mind, note that it is likely that George Lucas borrowed the concept.
ref: 2010, Gavin Mitchell, Essays on Martial Arts and Meditation, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
text: She was barely in her twenties, skinny, with a black Helen Shapiro semibeehive that was in need of fresh backcombing. She spoke with an accent he couldn't place, apart from it originating north of the Watford Gap.
ref: 2010, Robert Ryan, Signal Red, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: The notional border between the North and South of England; the North–South divide.
Watford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒtfəd/
Forms: form: Watfords
form: Wadford
Etymology: From either Old English wæt (“wet”) or wāþ (“hunting, chase”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A town and borough in Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TQ1196).
glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP6068).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: north of Watford
Watford City
Watford Gap
Watford Rural
West Watford
north of Watford
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: north of London and the Home Counties, and thus remote
quantitative easings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantitative easing
ah nehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ah neh
US'er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: US'ers
form: U.S.'er
form: U.S.-er
form: U.S.er
form: US-er
Etymology: From US + -er.
Senses: glosses: A citizen of the United States of America.
Synonyms: American
US-American
USian
United Statesian
United Statesman
Usanian
Usonian
Yankee
phonophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonophores
Etymology: From phono- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: The phonetic component of a character in Chinese and related writing systems.
glosses: A type of telegraph.
phonophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonophore
erogenousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erogenous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The small foot, thus rendered highly sensitive by the compacting together of nerve-endings, could be sucked. It was believed to tighten the vagina, and to increase female erogenousness by fifty per cent.
ref: 1991, Ronald Hyam, Empire and Sexuality:
glosses: The state or quality of being erogenous.
semantophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semantophores
Etymology: From semanto- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: The portion of something that carries information or meaning, such a DNA molecule or the semantic component of a Chinese character.
Related terms: semantophoretic
semantophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semantophore
wasp waist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wasp waists
Senses: glosses: a very slim waist resembling that of a wasp, especially one attained by tightlacing (corseting)
Related terms: wasp-waisted
birth tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birth trays
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A painted salver used as a ceremonial gift on the occasion of a birth in parts of medieval Italy
thermoecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + ecology.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The branch of ecology that focuses on the effects of the temperature change.
Derived terms: thermoecological
thermopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + pathology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The branch of pathology that focuses on the effects of the temperature change.
Related terms: thermopathological
there are bad apples in every orchard
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: there's a rotten apple in every barrel
glosses: Every community and demographic has troublesome members.
thermoecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + ecological.
Senses: glosses: Of, or related to thermoecology.
thermopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + pathological.
Senses: glosses: Of, or related to thermopathology.
everycunt
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From every + cunt, after Scots everycunt.
Senses: examples: text: I mean everycunt's carrying blades these days.
ref: 1994, Duncan McLean, Bucket of Tongues, Vintage, →ISBN:
text: Too big for everycunt else's boots - that's a good one.
ref: 2002, Des Dillon, Six Black Candles:
text: But when they knew they were going back they lost his paperwork. No just his. Everycunt who'd tried to leave.
ref: 2010, Gregory Burke, Black Watch, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: Everyone.
Mormondumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Mormondom + dumb.
Senses: examples: text: > I think the Eastern side of the world has it up on us westerners in this respect. They do not believe they can actually BECOME Gods. They already are such, but just don't recognize it sometimes.
I think I'll go with that, then. That kina beats out Mormondumb, as you say.
ref: 2000 June 19, Xristos, “LDS with reservations”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 22 Aug 2022:
text: For those like myself who have discovered, after hard search, the falsehood and hypocrisy of mormondumb and christianity the Satanic Bible is now available online at
http://www.bow.org/
ref: 2000 December 28, Mormo Pan, “Satanic Bible now online!”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 22 Aug 2022:
text: That's true. But not once in my 35 years of Mormondumb did I give a bishop the finger, nor did anyone give me one. I guess times are a' changin' down at the Mochurch.
ref: 2001 July 10, TheJordan6, “Why are there locks in mormon temples?”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 22 Aug 2022:
text: Yeah right, as long as you play by your pastor's rules, whatever they happen to be at the time. And don't make too many waves in the congregation. Of course, if you don't get along with a particular church you can just pick another one from the Yellow Pages. (Mormondumb still sux BTW).
ref: 2002 April 23, exmo, “Makes No Sense to become a mormon”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 22 Aug 2022:
text: Yeah, but what could be scarier than the Satanic pagan mind-fuck kult of Mormondumb?
ref: 2006 November 3, choking hazard, “INFORMATION ON MORMON UNDERWEAR!”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 22 Aug 2022:
text: @JesusWife To scare the bejeezus out of treat-or-treaters here in the Mecca of Mormondumb, I'm gonna open the door wearing this t-shirt.
ref: 2016 October 31, yanquetino, Twitter, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2022:
text: The actions led by Charles Manson was mere child's play when compared to the atrocities carried out by "The Faithful" under the direction of Brigham Young. And this sick fuck is highly revered in Mormondumb. It disgusts me! I'm gonna slap the next motherfucker I see in a Y hat 😈
ref: 2021 June 4, h3llakitty, Twitter, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2022:
text: Don't tell anyone but underneath the white sheet is Kristin Oaks and underneath the red sheet is Sheri Dew. These thee are the true and living Super Heroins of Mormondumb. This image also captures Wendy Whatsup Nelson drunk on dogma two sheets to the wind.
ref: 2022 February 13, HeberSeeGull, “Mormon Female Godhead To Be Revealed At April General Conference Women's Saturday Session”, in Reddit, exmormon, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2022:
text: Too funny. I love the way these Mormon cultists refer to the devil, aka Satan, aka Lucifer as “the Adversary”! It’s Mormon-speak. It is the only proper way in Mormondumb. The invisible bogeyman. Christ! If they could only look from the outside at how stupid they look.
ref: 2022 May 8, Bacchanalia20, Twitter, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2022:
glosses: Mormondom, regarded as stupid.
going once, going twice, sold
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: going, going, gone
glosses: Said before closing the bidding for a particular item in an auction, giving other bidders a final opportunity to bid for it.
rebukement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈbjuːk.mənt/
Etymology: Equivalent to rebuke (“to criticize severely”) + -ment (“the result of”). More at rebuke.
Senses: examples: text: Such rebukement would feed frustration and resentment in Heinrici.
ref: 1995, Richard Nolan Armstrong, Red Army Legacies: Essays on Forces, Capabilities, and Personalities https://books.google.ru/books?id=KEUhAQAAIAAJ&q=rebukement&dq=rebukement&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtlqazxfvLAhWoHJoKHU1FACI4ChDoAQg0MAQ
text: Least important are positive events and criticism/ rebukement.
ref: 1997, A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets, Frans van Bussel, Jan Boelhouwer, The (Non)expression of Emotions in Health and Disease https://books.google.ru/books?id=ze1FAAAAYAAJ&q=rebukement&dq=rebukement&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQhIjGwPvLAhWSKCwKHcxxAKkQ6AEIYDAK
text: Troy gave him a rebukement glare.
ref: 2000, LeRoy Powell, III, Vengeance https://books.google.ru/books?id=JNbAns5xXC0C&pg=PA120&dq=rebukement&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim0fiswPvLAhXDFCwKHSyaAQsQ6AEITjAH#v=onepage&q=rebukement&f=false
text: I held my breath and was waiting for his rebukement about proper manners at the table but, to my surprise, he held his knee and yelled, “You got me!”
ref: 2002, Linda Gardner, III, Full Circle on the Mountain https://books.google.ru/books?id=21Q6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA135&dq=rebukement&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQhIjGwPvLAhWSKCwKHcxxAKkQ6AEIWjAJ#v=onepage&q=rebukement&f=false
text: I speak it softly as I sway and give way to her gentle or harsh caress or rebukement.
ref: 2010, William Peters, The Light in the Window: Whisperings from the Soul https://books.google.ru/books?id=svK-nG94OPIC&pg=PA43&dq=rebukement&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLiduFwPvLAhWFZCwKHR7SDZIQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=rebukement&f=false
text: Bob said to himself, in a tone characteristic of severe fear of rebukement and chastisement.
ref: 2014, Lama Milkweed Augustine PhD, Casino Child: King of the Slot Machines https://books.google.ru/books?id=Js7GAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=rebukement&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJtZ3Vv_vLAhUjCpoKHVTPA5oQ6AEIPjAE#v=onepage&q=rebukement&f=false
glosses: harsh criticism
storably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From storable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Also, both hydrogen and helium (the next-lightest gas) would require weighty cooling systems to keep them storably liquid.
ref: 1996, Charles Reynell, The Economist:
text: 1997, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents
A container for storably receiving an ink jet cartridge including a recording head section for discharging ink from a plurality of ink discharging orifices and an ink storing section having ink to be fed to said recording head section […]
glosses: In a storable manner.
donno
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: [T]here ain’t any use in making her mad at me by tellin’ her. Besides, I donno but what it would make her go out of her head, she’d be so mad.
ref: 1879 July, “Massy Sprague’s Daughter”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2022:
text: Nope, he donno me. I was in Grammar when he was in High. He wouldn’t know me from a bag a beans.
ref: 1932, Grace Livingston Hill, chapter 6, in The Patch of Blue, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp Clark Company, Limited, published in the 20th century, →OCLC, page 128:
text: On the Motorola Droid, you might aim for "mmm, I donno about that restaurant" but get, "Mommy, I donno" instead.
ref: 2010 July 13, Farhad Manjoo, “Yes, Ill Matty You”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of dunno.
drepanocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to drepanocytosis
peener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peeners
Senses: glosses: Synonym of penis.
synonyms: word: penis
HAES
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hydroxyethyl starch.
HAES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Health at Every Size.
glosses: Initialism of Hellenic Aeronautical Engineers Society.
procope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒkəpi/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑkəpi/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin procopē, via Ancient Greek προκοπή (prokopḗ) from verb προκόπτω (prokóptō, “to cut away in front; forward, advance”), προ- (pro-, “before; in front”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Synonym of apheresis.
synonyms: word: apheresis
Sika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sikka (“an Indonesian ethnic group”).
Sika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sikka (“language”).
Sika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sikas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
sinistrorotatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sinistro- + rotatory.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of levorotatory.
synonyms: word: levorotatory
sinistrogyre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sinistro- + -gyre.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Levorotatory.
sinistro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin sinister (“left”).
Senses: examples: text: sinistrodextral, sinistrorotatory
glosses: Left; on the left; toward the left.
Synonyms: levo-
sinistrodextral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sinistro- + dextral.
Senses: examples: text: a sinistrodextral script
glosses: Moving or directed from the left to the right.
dextrosinistral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dextro- + sinistral.
Senses: examples: text: a dextrosinistral script
glosses: Moving or directed from the right to the left.
Derived terms: dextrosinistrally
fluorannite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorannites
Etymology: From fluor- + annite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fluorine analog of annite
one could do it in one's sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Said of something that can be done very easily or effortlessly.
hebophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hebophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hebephile.
hebophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hebephilia.
hebophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hebephilic.
globe of the world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globes of the world
Senses: glosses: A spherical model of the Earth, marked out as a map, held at an angle in a frame so that it can be rotated
shot blasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: abrasive blasting using metal shot rather than sand
Related terms: word: shotblast
Londonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Londonites
Etymology: From London + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of London.
Synonyms: Londoner
Londonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Londonite
crypto-racist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cryptoracist.
crypto-racist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crypto-racists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cryptoracist.
crypto-racism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cryptoracism.
unforgets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: un-forgets
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unforget
unrestrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrestrains
form: unrestraining
form: unrestrained
form: unrestrained
Etymology: From un- + restrain.
Senses: examples: text: Against the coercions of abstract fungibility, unevenness unrestrains the subject of history from compulsory participation in the regimes of exchange equivalence.
ref: 2012, Ruth Jennison, The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde:
glosses: To free from restraints.
unrestrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrestrain
unrestraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrestrain
Western Isles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛstənˈaɪ̯lz/
Forms: form: the Western Isles
Senses: examples: text: Captain: The multiplying villainies of nature / Do swarm upon him - from the Western Isles.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: The Outer Hebrides, an archipelago of the Hebrides in Scotland.
glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, the Western Isles Council (officially Scottish Gaelic Comhairle nan Eilean Siar since 1997).
devil dodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil dodger
question of law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: questions of law
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An issue to be decided by the judge, concerning the application or interpretation of the law.
topics: law
glosses: A question that the law itself has authoritatively answered, so that the court may not answer it as a matter of discretion.
topics: law
glosses: An issue about what the law is on a particular point; an issue in which the parties argue about, and the court must decide, what the true rule of law is.
topics: law
glosses: An issue that, although it may turn on a factual point, is reserved for the court and excluded from the jury; an issue that is exclusively within the province of the judge and not the jury.
question of fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: questions of fact
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An issue that has not been predetermined and authoritatively answered by the law.
matter of law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matters of law
Senses: examples: text: The advantages are altogether undefined and uncertain, and cannot, as a matter of law, be set off against the positive injury arising to a man from his character being defamed.
ref: 1839, The Law Journal reports for the year 1839, page 316:
text: It is not necessary for the barrister to give his reasons, but if we saw enough on the face of the document to shew that the statement was not reasonably sufficient, we should say as a matter of law that his decision was wrong.
ref: 1848, The Law Journal reports for the year 1848, page 38:
text: When, however, from the evidence, there is a presumption of law, the neglect of the judge to tell the jury that, as a matter of law, certain facts being proved, they must assume certain other facts to be true, or their refusal to do so is ground for a new trial as a matter of right.
ref: 1892, John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, volume 19, page 58:
text: We reaffirm our opinion that the evidence in this case did not conclusively show that the acts and conduct of appellant at the time were of such nature and character as would, as a matter of law, make him guilty of provoking a difficulty, so as to cut off wholly his right of self-defense.
ref: 1909, The Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 22, p. 524:
text: ...the plaintiff's lawyer and the defendant's lawyer can each stand up and move for judgment as a matter of law in their favor.
ref: 2015, Stephen N. Subrin, Margaret Y.K. Woo, Litigating in America: Civil Procedure in Context, page 175:
topics: law
glosses: A matter involving a judicial inquiry into the applicable law.
slipper spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipper spoons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shoehorn.
synonyms: word: shoehorn
LPer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LPers
Etymology: From LP + -er.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A Libertarian.
seiðkona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seiðkonas
form: seiðkonur
form: seidkona
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse seiðkona.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: seiðmann
text: People ask me, as a seidkona, how they can hear the gods, and I say: start with silence.
ref: 2009, Galina Krasskova, Raven Kaldera, quoting Gudrun of Mimirsbrunnr, Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner: A Book of Prayer, Devotional Practice, and the Nine Worlds of the Spirit, page 90:
text: The other reading shows the whale as a part of the hugr of the women, with the whale shape (and possibly the storm) created by the seidkonas.
ref: 2011, Katie Gerrard, Seidr - The Gate Is Open: Working with Trance Prophecy, the High Seat, and Norse Witchcraft, page 71:
text: Frithiof's Saga tells of two seiðkonur (women who know seiðr) hired to drown some enemies of their paymaster at sea.
ref: 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, page 91:
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
synonyms: völva
hypernyms: seiðworker
glosses: A female practitioner of seiðr; a seeress; a witch.
Britishise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Britishises
form: Britishising
form: Britishised
form: Britishised
Etymology: From British + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of Britishize.
Snapchat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæp.t͡ʃæt/
Etymology: Blend of snapshot + chat.
Senses: synonyms: Snap
qualifier: social media
glosses: A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.
Derived terms: Snap
Snapchatter
Snapchat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæp.t͡ʃæt/
Forms: form: Snapchats
Etymology: Blend of snapshot + chat.
Senses: synonyms: Snap
qualifier: social media
glosses: A user account on Snapchat.
examples: text: “I just got out of the shower,” I explained. Will pointed down, asking playfully, “Pics or it didn't happen.” “No pics,” I snorted. “No Snapchats, no video. Sorry.”
ref: 2014, Jessa Holbrook, While You're Away, Penguin, →ISBN:
synonyms: Snap
qualifier: social media
glosses: A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
Snapchat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæp.t͡ʃæt/
Forms: form: Snapchats
form: Snapchatting
form: Snapchatted
form: Snapchatted
form: snapchat
Etymology: Blend of snapshot + chat.
Senses: examples: text: She Snapchatted me all the details from the hairdresser, including a selfie of her crying when the job was totally done.
ref: 2017, Norah Olson, “5/6, afternoon”, in Before Now, New York, N.Y.: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:
text: He was probably still awake up there, Snapchatting by the light of the silvery moon.
ref: 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 100:
synonyms: Snap
qualifier: social media
glosses: To send a message on Snapchat.
neighborhood play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighborhood plays
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A force play where a fielder does not touch second base while holding the ball.
term out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: terms out
form: terming out
form: termed out
form: termed out
Senses: examples: text: With little time to master complex policy matters before terming out, legislators have distanced themselves from more challenging policy issues, deferring them to the initiative process.
ref: 2006, California Environmental Law Reporter, Volume 2006:
text: In order to apply eroding market fundamentals to our hypothetical office building we need to make a few assumptions — the historic or fric- tional vacancy rate (departing the bull market), the amount of space under lease that termed out since
ref: 2010, Stephen B. Meister, Commercial Real Estate Restructuring Revolution: Strategies, Tranche Warfare ...:
text: Voters cannot punish corrupt officials who are termed out of office.
ref: 2011, Justin Buchler, Hiring and Firing Public Officials: Rethinking the Purpose of Elections:
text: The governor, meanwhile, hit back at what he sees as a “pathetic” agenda being pursued by the majority. He has also lashed out at their investigation of a charity scandal enveloping his wife, Casey DeSantis, as she mulls whether to run in next year’s election to succeed him when he is termed out of office in January 2027.
ref: 2025 May 20, Richard Luscombe, “Ron DeSantis’s fall from grace: ‘He’s completely crashed to the ground’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: lease
glosses: To finish the term.
raw_tags: of an elected official
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see term, out.
term out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊt
Senses: glosses: The transfer of debt within a company's balance sheet without acquiring new debt often through the capitalization of short-term to long-term debt.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see term, out.
terms out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of term out
terming out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of term out
termed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of term out
Related terms: termed-out
punity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And all were deterred from looking any farther into 'em, than what they were pleased to shew by Threats of Punity[.]
ref: 1711, A full answer to the depositions; and to all other the pretences and Arguments whatsoever, Concerning te Birth of the Pretended Prince of Wales, page 3:
text: [I]t is the very nature and essence of vice and criminal uneasy factionists to grow worse, while they are neglected with punity to go on in their crimes under cover there are many second causes these works of darkness will admit almost innurmerable shifts and changes.
ref: 1817, A vindication of defence for agitation in eight years cruel contest by the volunteer for the good laws of his country, page 15:
text: It is quite obvious that he cannot be amenable to the punity provisions of section 409 unless he commits criminal breach of trust in respect of property with which he has been entrusted in his capacity of public servant.
ref: 1934, W.R. Rajandeka, The Criminal Law Journal, page 169:
text: The victim holds open the possibility of reconciliation, but only upon witnessing the "punity" that is lacking in "impunity"[.]
ref: 2015, Daniel Philpott, Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation, page 39:
glosses: Punishment, punitiveness.
melomel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melomels
Senses: examples: text: In Digbie's era metah, metheglin, and melomel were probably considered synonyms. […] "Melomel" today usually means a mead flavored with any fruit juice other than apples or pears. Peaches, cherries, blackberries, or plumbs^([sic]) are some good, historic choices.
ref: 2001, David Alan Woolsey, Libations of the Eighteenth Century: A Concise Manual for the Brewing of Authentic Beverages from the Colonial Era of America, and of Times Past:
glosses: A mead that contains fruit.
melomels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melomel
pyment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈmɛnt/
Forms: form: pyments
form: piment
Senses: glosses: A mead that is fermented with grape juice.
pyments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyment
snapchat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snapchats
form: snapchatting
form: snapchatted
form: snapchatted
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Snapchat.
thinny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thinnies
form: thinnie
Etymology: From thin + -y.
Senses: synonyms: word: thin person
antonyms: word: thin person
glosses: A thin person.
mattie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matie (“herring”).
disirregardless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disirregardless
form: most disirregardless
Etymology: From dis- + irregardless.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of regardless.
synonyms: word: regardless
undisirregardless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undisirregardless
form: most undisirregardless
Etymology: From un- + dis- + irregardless.
Senses: examples: text: You tell me what sort of notion you've got for fixing it, then I'll know whether we can try it or we need to keep on doin' what we're doin' undisirregardless of whether anybody likes it.
ref: 2004, Harry Turtledove, Return Engagement: Settling Accounts, Book One:
glosses: Synonym of regardless.
synonyms: word: regardless
could care fewer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Deliberately ungrammatical form, referencing the frequent failure to distinguish between less with fewer regarding mass nouns and count nouns.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of could care less.
synonyms: word: could care less
reredundant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reredundant
form: most reredundant
Etymology: From re- + redundant, giving the usual word a redundant initial syllable.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of redundant.
synonyms: word: redundant
redundantant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redundantant
form: most redundantant
Etymology: From redundant + -ant, redundantly repeating the final element of the word for humorous effect.
Senses: glosses: redundant
Achebean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Achebean
form: most Achebean
Etymology: From Achebe + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The novel also explores the clash between traditionalism and so-called modernity, a key Achebean concern.
ref: 2024 February 7, Stephen Buoro, “Read Your Way Through Lagos”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or relating to Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe; 1930–2013), Nigerian writer and critic.
uninflammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninflammable
form: most uninflammable
Etymology: From un- + inflammable. Attested since the 17th century.
Senses: glosses: Not inflammable.
Synonyms: fireproof
incombustible
non-flammable
noninflammable
unflammable
closet of ease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closets of ease
Etymology: From the former euphemism do one's ease (“ease one's bowels: defecate”) and to distinguish the sense from other uses of closet (“a small, private room and [obs.] a small, private outdoor space”).
Senses: examples: text: A Closet of ease.
ref: 1662, B. Gerbier, A Brief Description of the Principles of Building, page 27:
glosses: A room used to ease one's bowels: a lavatory.
Synonyms: bathroom
Derived terms: english: as a lavatory
translation: as a lavatory
word: closet
Related terms: do one's ease
house of ease
seat of ease
closets of ease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closet of ease
alwrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From all + wrong, by analogy with alright.
Senses: glosses: Totally wrong.
smallest rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smallest room
deal memo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deal memos
Senses: glosses: A short informal document that establishes a business relationship in film and music production, before the development of a formal contract.
deal memos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deal memo
beditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bed + meditation
Senses: glosses: Meditation performed on a bed.
commeasurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of commensurate.
commeasurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of commensurate.
harbringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of harbinger.