cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
herbmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbmasters
Etymology: From herb + master.
Senses: examples: text: […] the herbmaster of the Houses of Healing in The Return of the King is descended from the “jabberwocks of historical and antiquarian research” in the British Academy lecture.
ref: 1979, T[homas] A[lan] Shippey, “Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings”, in Mary Salu, Robert T. Farrell, editors, J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 316:
text: Biting the words back and swallowing them was harder than swallowing the vile concoctions of lunatic herbmasters, but she managed.
ref: 1998, Michelle West, The Uncrowned King (The Sun Sword; book two), DAW Books, →ISBN, page 414:
text: “And because of these facets of the craft, partial adepts can also sometimes be herbmistresses or herbmasters.”
ref: 2006, Robert Newcomb, Savage Messiah, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: An expert in herbal medicine.
Coordinate terms: herbmistress
herbmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbmaster
herbmistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbmistresses
Etymology: From herb + mistress.
Senses: examples: text: Her mother is the queen, the most knowledgeable herbmistress and healer in Eriu.
ref: 1988, Diana L[ucile] Paxson, The White Raven, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 77:
text: “And because of these facets of the craft, partial adepts can also sometimes be herbmistresses or herbmasters.”
ref: 2006, Robert Newcomb, Savage Messiah, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Ismai dragged his feet all the way from the Youths’ Quarter, to which he had been banished until someone figured out exactly what to do with him, through the children’s garden and the kitchens, and down the red-stone path to the riverside cliffs, where the herbmistress had her rooms and where Hafsa Azeina had set up her tent.
ref: 2017, Deborah A. Wolf, The Dragon’s Legacy, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: A female herbmaster.
herbmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbmistress
Bharuch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Broach
form: Baroach
form: Bhroch
form: Baroche
form: Baruj
form: Barochi
form: Behrug
Etymology: From Gujarati ભરૂચ (bharūc).
Senses: glosses: A city and district at the mouth of the Narmada River in Gujarat, India.
wisewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wisewomen
Senses: examples: text: The fortune-teller often carries out practices that are not easily distinguishable from those of the witch, and the white witch and wisewoman maintain themselves in evidence not only by dealing with the “overlooking” so often suspected to be the work of the black witch, but by side lines of children’s diseases and as herbalists and consultants on matters which in the town fall to the beauty parlour. The wisemen are far more numerous than the witches.
ref: 1928, A[rthur] R[obinson] Wright, English Folklore, London: Ernest Benn Limited, […], pages 74–75:
text: The modern green witch finds her foremothers and forefathers in village herbalists, midwives, healers, wisewomen, and cunning-folk who performed particular services for their communities.
ref: 2017, Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Geralt discovers she is now eking out an existence as a witch—a wisewoman stuck curing ailments of animals and peasants alike, all the while waiting for the winds of fate to blow in her favor.
ref: 2017, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Official Guide, Prima Games, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of wise woman.
wisewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wisewoman
D-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D-days
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of D-Day.
D-days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of D-day
magewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magewomen
Etymology: From mage + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: Neither elfwitch nor magewoman will be looking for you without the bracelet.
ref: 1996, Amy Stout, The Sacred Seven, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 233:
text: She could not yet read Luriel’s story, or the frightened words that Seblik the scribe had appended, or the words of the magewoman he had saved.
ref: 2001, Terry McGarry, Illumination, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 486:
text: Kheda turned his back on the youthful wizard and scaled the stern ladder to join the magewoman by the steering oars.
ref: 2005, Juliet E. McKenna, Western Shore, Orbit, →ISBN, page 186:
text: She’s a warrior, but they also have witches and magewomen – you’ll see in a minute.
ref: 2007, Tobias Druitt, Corydon and the Siege of Troy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 138:
text: At the first inn, where the sick magewomen were staying, they found the innkeeper and several servants staring in consternation at the two dead magewomen on the stairs, blood pooled around them.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Moon, Crown of Renewal (Paladin’s Legacy; book 5), Orbit, →ISBN, page 294:
glosses: A female mage.
magewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magewoman
warmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warmasters
Etymology: From war + master.
Senses: examples: text: Ozymandias had jumped into the projects of warmasters so completely that he thought he might be losing sight of his original objectives.
ref: 1981, Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone, Ozymandias, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 152:
text: The emperor sat within his tent of silk surrounded by his captains. His warmaster, Darik, was beside him.
ref: 1985, David A[ndrew] Gemmell, chapter 21, in The King Beyond the Gate, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 261:
text: The Lord-Protector at the vanguard tipped back his helm and nodded gallantly, and ladies threw scarves and favors until his horse was festooned like a maypole. His warmasters rode behind him as an honor guard, grim and silent.
ref: 2002, Jim Bishop, “Goblin King”, in Jess Lebow, editor, The Secrets of Magic, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Edwin, his sons and his warmaster led their horses to the gate in the stockade.
ref: 2014, Edoardo Albert, Edwin, High King of Britain (The Northumbrian Thrones 1), Lion Fiction, →ISBN, page 208:
text: Walking away, Magnus abandoned his warmasters with that chilly notion to tuck into their bedrolls and guarantee them a restless sleep.
ref: 2014, Christian A. Brown, Feast of Fates, →ISBN, page 433:
qualifier: sword and sorcery
glosses: An advisor to the sovereign who specializes in waging war.
warmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warmaster
Dahod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dohad
Senses: glosses: A city and district in Gujarat, India.
Dohad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dahod, India.
forgemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgemasters
Etymology: From forge + master.
Senses: examples: text: An eighteenth-century Marquis de Balleroy was a forgemaster but found local wood too expensive. He exploited the discovery at Littry in 1741 of a vein of coal, and in the nineteenth century up to six hundred men were at work in thirty shafts here.
ref: 1986, Richard Snailham, Normandy and Brittany: From Le Tréport to St-Nazaire, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →ISBN, page 136:
text: Thus, 1,550 to 1,600 livres of fonte and about three bannes of charcoal (see Glossary) might be delivered to a forgemaster, who was then expected to produce at least 1,000 livres of iron with those materials.
ref: 1988, Paul Walden Bamford, Privilege and Profit: A Business Family in Eighteenth-Century France, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 100:
text: All ironsoul forgemasters are dwarven mastersmiths who possess skill at crafting arms and armor, but they are also great champions of the dwarven people.
ref: 2005, James Wyatt, Richard Baker, Frank Brunner, Stephen Schubert, Magic of Incarnum, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: A craftsman skilled in forging iron or other metals.
forgemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forgemaster
anchorsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchorsmiths
Etymology: From anchor + smith. Compare the Middle English surname Ankersmith.
Senses: examples: text: The natural strength of the muscles may be either increased or diminished by exercise; for we perceive the legs of a porter, and the arms of an anchorsmith, are stronger by use.
ref: 1806, Margaret Bryan, Lectures on Natural Philosophy: The Result of Many Years’ Practical Experience of the Facts Elucidated. […], London: […] Thomas Davison, […] sold […] by George Kearsley, […]; and Jordan Hookham, […], page 52:
text: The yards that led down to the quays rang out with the sounds of anchorsmiths, carpenters and joiners plying their trade, while sailors, fishermen and sea pilots spent their hard-earned pay in the taverns and hostelries that lay close to the quaysides.
ref: 2009, Fiona Rule, London’s Docklands: A History of the Lost Quarter, Ian Allan Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN, page 80:
text: There must be better jobs in the ‘yard but I suppose working in the anchor forge isn’t so bad. It’s hot and noisy what with the steam hammer and furnace heat but I get on well with the anchorsmiths.
ref: 2015, Adrian John Hoare, A Shilling on Good Friday, volume one (A Lesson Learnt), Man of Kent Publishing, →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: A maker of anchors.
anchorsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchorsmith
portmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portmasters
Etymology: From port + master.
Senses: examples: text: No one on the streets from dusk to dawn. Marcus had seen a fisherman at the piers shouting that the catch would be gone before he was on the water. The new Antean portmaster had him whipped in the street until there were bright tracks of raw meat along the chitined back.
ref: 2013, Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant’s Law (The Dagger and the Coin; book three), Orbit, →ISBN, page 317:
text: A call came in from a red-faced man in uniform, the portmaster, who ranted about the tactic. “His Majesty requires you leave your ship!” figured in the list.
ref: 2014, C. J. Cherryh [pen name; Carolyn Janice Cherry], “Dancing on the Edge of the Dark”, in Greg Bear, Gardner Dozois, editors, Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds, Baen Books, published 2016, →ISBN, pages 159–160:
text: They’ll ask the portmasters if they’ve seen the rowing boat.
ref: 2016, Peter F. Hamilton, A Night Without Stars: A Novel of the Commonwealth, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 232:
text: Tenebrae nodded and then surveyed the shipyards. A dumpy portmaster and his servant peeked their heads out of the door, eyes wide.
ref: 2017, John Hornor Jacobs, Infernal Machines, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: An official in charge of running a port.
portmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portmaster
CTGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CTG
Summary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Aitch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Aitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aitches
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of aitch.
alethophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia) + -philia, equivalent to aletho- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: (see title)
ref: 2020 September 22, Shaw Swadenroth, “Alethophilia”, in Substack:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: alethophobia
glosses: A liking or love of the truth; a willingness to come to terms with truth or facts.
Derived terms: alethophile
alethophilic
Powelltown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Presumably from Powell + town
Senses: glosses: A small town in Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia.
nettle-tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nettle-taps
Etymology: From nettle + tap, because of the distinctive way at least one species flies along the tops of nettle plants.
Senses: glosses: Certain moths of the family Choreutidae such as Anthophila fabriciana (syn. Simaethis fabriciana), Prochoreutis myllerana (syn. Simaethis myllerana), and Choreutis pariana (syn.Simaethis pariana)
fire lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire lilies
Senses: glosses: The orange lily.
glosses: A flowering plant of the amaryllis family, in the genus Cyrtanthus, native to southern Africa.
examples: text: Red lips like gloriosas […] The more beautiful the gloriosa, the more poisonous […] Love's a gloriosa, […] love so fancy, it's the new vintage, / Fire lilies so orange planted in their hearts […]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Janvi Bansal, Shades Of Blossom, Unvoiced Heart, page 56:
text: Gloriosa (climbing lily, creeping lily, fire lily, flame lily , gloriosa lily, glory lily, superb lily)[…]
ref: 2019 February 14, Michael Allaby, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: Gloriosa Lily. (Gloriosa spp.) (Fire Lily, Flame Lily, Creeping Lily, Cat's Claw) […]
ref: 2023 October 10, Calvert Crary, The Encyclopedia of Cut Flowers: What Flowers to Buy, When to Buy Them, and How to Keep Them Alive Longer, Black Dog & Leventhal, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of flame lily (“Gloriosa lily whose petals look like wisps of flame”).
synonyms: word: flame lily
extra: Gloriosa lily whose petals look like wisps of flame
frailejon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frailejons
form: frailejones
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish frailejón.
Senses: holonyms: paramo
glosses: A northern South American shrub of the genus Espeletia
detorses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detorse
detorsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detorse
detorsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detorse
Slavick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slavicks
Etymology: Alternative spelling of Slavik, from Czech slavík and Slovak slavík, both meaning "nightingale".
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kolodzey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kolodzeys
form: Kolodei
form: Kolodej
form: Kolodey
form: Kolodii
form: Kolodij
form: Kolodiy
form: Kolodzei
form: Kolodzej
form: Kolodziej
Etymology: From Polish Kołodziej, Upper Sorbian kołodźej, or Belarusian каладзей (kaladzjej). Alternatively, from Russian Колодзей (Kolodzej), itself from Polish or Belarusian. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kolodějь (“wheelwright”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kolodzei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kolodzeis
form: Kolodei
form: Kolodej
form: Kolodey
form: Kolodii
form: Kolodij
form: Kolodiy
form: Kolodzej
form: Kolodzey
form: Kolodziej
Etymology: From Polish Kołodziej, Upper Sorbian kołodźej, or Belarusian каладзей (kaladzjej). Alternatively, from Russian Колодзей (Kolodzej), itself from Polish or Belarusian. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kolodějь (“wheelwright”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rasta roko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasta rokos
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi रास्ता रोको (rāstā roko, literally “stop the road”).
Senses: glosses: a form of protest, usually involving a large number of people preventing vehicular traffic from using a busy thoroughfare.
wikipedia: rasta roko
Related terms: english: a form of protest blocking a railway
translation: a form of protest blocking a railway
word: rail roko
word: roko
rail roko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail rokos
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi रेल रोको (rel roko, literally “obstruct the rail”).
Senses: examples: text: Around 400 activists of various political parties were taken into custody when they tried to stage a day-long rail roko here on Monday.
ref: 2010 August 3, The Times of India:
glosses: a form of protest, usually involving a large number of people blocking a railway.
wikipedia: rail roko
Related terms: english: a form of protest blocking a road
translation: a form of protest blocking a road
word: rasta roko
word: roko
Skierniewice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Skierniewice.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.
bum-bums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bum-bum
unequal treaties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unequal treaty
tippy top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tippy tops
Senses: examples: text: Someone in the crowd took a small plastic top from his pocket. "Have you seen these ‘tippy tops’ that the dealers are selling? I'll bet you a nickel that if you spin it, it will turn upside down and spin on the tip of its pin."
"No bet," said Nick. "I bought a tippy top myself. But I'll tell you what I'll do. You spin the top clockwise. I'll bet you a nickel you can't tell me now in what direction it will be spinning after it flips over."
ref: 1961, Martin Gardner, The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tippe top.
monotile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monotiles
Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + tile.
Senses: examples: text: In the following section we will describe families of tilings by a curious three-dimensional aperiodic monotile whose matching rule — for some values of its parameter — is weak but not strong.
ref: 1995, Marjorie Senechal, Quasicrystals and Geometry, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 208:
text: And I am sorry I never delivered on the four-dimensional Poultry design. It turns out John Horton Conway found four-dimensional and five-dimensional aperiodic monotiles sixty years ago, but it's not too well documented.
ref: 1997, Rudy Rucker, Freeware (Ware Tetralogy; 3), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 69:
text: This naturally led to serious rumination about the possible existence of a single tile, or monotile, that forces non-periodic global structure.
ref: 2007 March, Joshua E. S. Socolar, “More ways to tile with only one shape polygon”, in The Mathematical Intelligencer, volume 29, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33:
text: An aperiodic monotile never repeats a formation, no matter how long the pattern.
ref: 2023 April 4, Matthew Cantor, “'The miracle that disrupts order': mathematicians invent new 'einstein' shape”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2023:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A prototile tiling monohedrally; any shape able to completely tile some space on its own (allowing for translation, rotation, and reflection).
Related terms: monotiling
monotiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monotile
treaty port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treaty ports
Etymology: From treaty + port.
Senses: glosses: a port city that was opened to foreign trade, usually consequent to the ratification of an unequal treaty
treaty ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treaty port
-entan
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ˈɛntæn/
Etymology: Clipping of endothelin receptor antagonist.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An endothelin receptor antagonist.
monohedrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monohedral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The extent of our ignorance is further illustrated by the fact that we do not know all the different shapes of convex pentagons which will tile the plane monohedrally.
ref: 1987, Branko Grünbaum, G[eoffrey] C[olin] Shephard, Tilings and Patterns, New York, N.Y.: W. H. Freeman and Company, →ISBN, page 22:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a monohedral manner; involving only copies of the original tile (allowing for translation, rotation, and reflection).
Related terms: monotile
aprocitentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæpɹəsɪˈtɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An endothelin receptor antagonist researched for its effect on resistant hypertension.
darusentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdæɹəˈsɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An endothelin receptor antagonist developed for the potential treatment of resistant hypertension.
enrasentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛnɹəˈsɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An endothelin receptor antagonist.
fandosentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfændəˈsɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An endothelin receptor A antagonist.
feloprentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfɛləˈpɹɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An endothelin receptor antagonist.
nebentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nəˈbɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A potent endothelin receptor A antagonist.
sparsentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /spɑː(ɹ)ˈsɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antagonist to endothelin receptor type A and angiotensin II receptor type 1, used in the treatment in primary immunoglobulin A nephropathy.
FITFO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "In the end," he said, "if all else fails, FITFO!" / "What?" / "Figure It The Fuck Out!"
ref: 2007, Edward Ugel, Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions, New York, N.Y.: Collins, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Her life motto was FITFO. Because as far as a problem went, she always figured it the fuck out.
ref: 2017, Kresley Cole, Wicked Abyss, London; […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 53:
text: As they talked about a tough problem, one gentleman said to the other, "FITFO." I asked, "What is FITFO?" The ex-spec op soldier repeated, "FITFO." Not understanding, I asked again, "What is FITFO?" only to receive the same reply and a smile. The soldier then said, "Figure it the f*** out!"
ref: 2018, Anthony Iannarino, Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away from Your Competition, New York, N.Y.: Portfolio/Penguin, →ISBN, page 166:
text: Whether it's overcoming their addictions, launching a company at the start of COVID, or weathering the recent economic downturn, these two entrepreneurial mavericks prove time and time again that flexibility, FITFO, and a fast pace are the key ingredients to success — especially while building a digital marketing empire.
ref: 2023 February 8, “From Rehab To Digital Marketing Empire: How Two Entrepreneurs Teamed Up To Build An Explosive Agency”, in OK!, New York, N.Y.: A360media, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2023:
glosses: Initialism of Figure It The Fuck Out.
ditchfinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditchfinder
trojanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trojanize
trojanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trojanize
trojanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trojanize
Eyerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eyermans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Coerver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coervers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yarra Ranges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne; in full, Yarra Ranges Shire.
glosses: A national park in Victoria, north-east of Melbourne; in full, Yarra Ranges National Park.
Stepnica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Stepnica.
Senses: glosses: A town in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Trzebiatów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tʃɛbˈjatuːf/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Trzebiatów.
Senses: glosses: A town in the gmina of the same name in Gryfice County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, established in the ninth century.
glosses: A town in the gmina of the same name in Gryfice County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, established in the ninth century.
A gmina in Gryfice County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in the Gmina of Stargard, Stargard County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
gender cleavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Social assortment by gender, in particular during middle childhood, when children are most likely to prefer playmates of their own gender.
middle childhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle childhoods
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The life stage between early childhood and adolescence, often defined by sociologists as roughly encompassing the years from age 6 to 12.
Yarra Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after a former railway junction.
Senses: glosses: A town in Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia.
Sławno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Sławno.
Senses: glosses: Various villages in Poland.
praeputium clitoridis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praeputia clitoridis
Etymology: Directly from Latin praeputium clitoridis (“prepuce of the clitoris”), clitoridis being a genitive.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: praeputium penis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: praeputium
holonyms: clitoris
related: word: corpus cavernosum clitoridis
word: glans clitoridis
glosses: The clitoral hood
praeputium penis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praeputia penis
Etymology: Directly from Latin praeputium penis (“prepuce of the penis”), penis being a genitive.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: praeputium clitoridis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: praeputium
holonyms: penis
related: word: corpus cavernosum penis
word: glans penis
glosses: The penile foreskin
Kathgodam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Nainital district, Uttarakhand, India.
piscinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a fish.
pissed oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piss oneself
pisses oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piss oneself
pissing oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of piss oneself
Detmold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the administrative seat of Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
glosses: An administrative region (Regierungsbezirk) in North Rhine-Westphalia.
glosses: A census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, named after Christian Edward Detmold.
glosses: A surname.
royal gala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal galas
Senses: glosses: A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
royal galas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal gala
Ts'ai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tsai
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
form: Cai
Etymology: From Mandarin 蔡 (Cài), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsʻai⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Ts'ai Ch'ien 蔡乾 was born in 1908 in Changhua near Taichung, Taiwan (Formosa). His father was an accountant in a rice shop and a descendant of the three hundred Fukienese families who went to Taiwan with Koxinga, who led a rebellion there against the Manchus.
At the age of six Ts'ai Ch'ien entered primary school, studied Japanese, and graduated after eight years. He taught at the same school, in Changhua, for one year.[…]
In Shanghai Ts'ai studied sociology and learned something about Marxism.
ref: 1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, page 103:
text: Ts’ai Yüan-p’ei (also named Ho-ch’ing and Chieh-min) (1876-1940) was born in Shanyin County, Chekiang Province. He passed the second civil service examination in 1889 and the third in 1892 which secured for him the highest degree, han-lin.
ref: 1960, Tse-tsung (周策縱) Chow, “The Initial Phase of the Movement: Early Literary and Intellectual Activities, 1917-1919”, in The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China, Harvard University Press, published 1980, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
text: The origins of what paper cognoscenti call “true paper,” which requires the breaking-down and reconstitution of plant fibers, are often dated to A.D. 105 and linked to Ts’ai Lun, a eunuch in the court of Emperor Han Ho Ti of China.
ref: 2012 February 17, Mark Levine, “Can a Papermaker Help to Save Civilization?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2014:
glosses: A surname from Mandarin.
Bra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy; known for being the birthplace of the Bra sausage, and the Bra cheese.
ELI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ELIs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Abbreviation of equity-linked instrument.
ELIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ELI
blow water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows water
form: blowing water
form: blew water
form: blowed water
form: blown water
form: blowed water
Etymology: Calque of Cantonese 吹水 (ceoi¹ seoi², literally “blow water”).
Senses: glosses: to brag; to boast; to talk big
glosses: to chat; to talk casually
Herford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and rural district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Related terms: Hereford
nut straight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut straights
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The best possible straight available (which cannot be beaten by any other straight, though it can still be beaten by a better non-straight hand).
Related terms: nut flush
nut full house
nut flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut flushes
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The best possible flush available.
Related terms: nut full house
nut straight
nut full house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut full houses
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The best possible full house available.
Related terms: nut flush
nut straight
Himmighausen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community in Nieheim, Höxter district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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techno-thriller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno-thrillers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of technothriller.
techno-thrillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of techno-thriller
Nieheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Höxter district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
dragonbreath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragonsbreath
Etymology: From dragon + breath.
Senses: examples: text: She had learned her lessons well, remembering the queen’s commands as if they had been seared into her mind with the fiery force of dragonbreath.
ref: 1996, Douglas Niles, The Dragons, TSR, Inc., →ISBN, page 39:
text: Close ahead lay the fabled Crystal Egg of Ythorn, guarded night and day by the ever-vigilant dragon Ythra. Perhaps Ythra lurked around the next bend. Would wisps of dragonbreath betray Ythra’s position before they came face to face?
ref: 2002 October, Edward M. Lerner, “Survival Instinct”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume CXXII, number 10, page 42, column 2:
text: Imbued with disintegration magic as they were, her wings managed to block the barrage of dragonbreath, but now Kaori was pinned in place.
ref: 2020, Ryo Shirakome, translated by Ningen, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, volume 11, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:
glosses: The breath of a dragon.
glosses: Synonym of bad breath.
synonyms: word: bad breath
Related terms: dragonfire
dragonflame
firebreath
firebreather
fire-breathing
dragonsbreath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dragon + -s- + breath.
Senses: examples: text: He unclipped his own flare pistol, knowing it was unloaded, and tested the trigger action, squeezing harder until it fired and it was loaded and the flare roared out like dragonsbreath.
ref: 1987, Derek Robinson, War Story, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 244:
text: “Most of them, they think it was some battle. A siege, a burning tower, an enemy with a torch. One fool asked if it was dragonsbreath.”
ref: 1996, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition (book one of A Song of Ice and Fire), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published 2016, →ISBN, page 323:
text: They walked all the way to the stairs of the royal palace. There was no great gate around this palace as the entire city was considered impenetrable. Either way, there were plenty of guards and more dragonsbreath.
ref: 2017, C. J. Deering, Cronica Acadia: Bend Sinister, →ISBN, page 431:
glosses: Alternative form of dragonbreath.
Nowa Sól
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Nowa Sól.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland.
oomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovomancy
form: ooscopy
form: oomancia
form: oomantia
form: ooscopia
form: ovamancy
Etymology: From oo- + -mancy; from Ancient Greek ᾠο- (ōio-) + μᾰντείᾱ (mănteíā, “divination”).
Senses: glosses: Divination through the use of eggs.
pizzelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizzelle
Strzelce Krajeńskie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Strzelce Krajeńskie.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland.
Tirschenreuth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and rural district of the Upper Palatinate region, Bavaria, Germany.
Spagnoletti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
obliteratest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of obliterate
obliterateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obliterate
nap dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nap dresses
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A type of women's dress having heavy smocking, overexaggerated puff sleeves and a typically long, slightly pleated skirt.
nap dresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nap dress
hyperkatifeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + Ancient Greek κατήφεια (katḗpheia).
Senses: examples: text: George Koob, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, has christened this state “hyperkatifeia,” an extreme dejection or dysphoria that can occur with long-term drug use.
ref: 2024, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn’t It Used More?”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Hypersensitivity to emotional distress in the context of substance abuse.
teachable moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teachable moment
scare tactic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scare tactics
Senses: examples: text: I think it's a scare tactic. The lockout will get publicity and then people will be less confident about coming to future rallies.
ref: 1981 February 7, Joanne Brown, anonymous quotee, “Anti-Inauguration March Calls For Unity Of Left”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 3:
text: Invoking cancer is a scare tactic, not a health education strategy. The juxtaposition in the various iterations of Gardasil advertisements of the word “cancer” and the message “you can do something” put parents in a blameworthy position. The current advertisements for Gardasil 9 hardly mention the vaccine. Instead, in these ads children blame their parents for their failure to protect them from a potentially fatal illness.
ref: 2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “9. The “Tragically Underused” Vaccine”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 143:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A type of psychological manipulation regarding a particular issue in which fear or alarm is aroused.
scare tactics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scare tactic
another day in paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Everything is going well.
glosses: Synonym of another day, another dollar (“nothing eventful or extraordinary has happened”).
synonyms: word: another day
extra: nothing eventful or extraordinary has happened
word: another dollar
extra: nothing eventful or extraordinary has happened
glosses: Used ironically to imply the opposite: Something has gone wrong.
hyoscyami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyoscyamus
sleep pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The gradual buildup of adenosine in the brain, resulting in an urge to sleep.
nearly-dead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nearly-deads
Etymology: From nearly + dead, sometimes a pun on newlywed.
Senses: glosses: Somebody expected to die soon; an elderly person.
nearly-deads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nearly-dead
St Mary's Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay and beach in Brixham parish, Torbay borough, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9355).
glosses: A village in St Mary in the Marsh parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0927).
glosses: A bay in St Mary Hoo parish, Medway district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7979).
Lamarque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lamarques
form: LaMarque
Etymology: Borrowed from French Lamarque.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
LaMarque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lamarque.
LaMorte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lamorte.
La Marque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Galveston County, Texas, United States.
St Mary in the Marsh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0628).
Related terms: Romney Marsh
Karakulov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Каракулов (Karakulov).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Каракулов (Karakulov).
St Mary Hoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Medway district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8076).
Swartney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sweartan, dative of sweart (“black”) + īeġ (“island”), "black island". Compare Whitney.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname.
harpineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpineers
Senses: glosses: harpooner
harpoon guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harpoon gun
Disserth and Trecoed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) south of Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales.
Disserth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small settlement in Disserth and Trecoed community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0358).
many-tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more many-tongued
form: most many-tongued
Etymology: From many + tongued.
Senses: glosses: Having many tongues.
examples: text: The many-tongued inhabitants have the many-tongued Book; and―glad thought―it speaks one great saving truth to all; […]
ref: 1884, William Keddie, editor, The Sabbath school magazine:
text: In India he is popularly called "the many-tongued man of Lahore," on account of his ability to preach in nine or ten different languages.
ref: 1888, Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine, volume 23, page 154:
text: Universal humanity bows before the throne of Omniscient sympathy, of Omnipresent beneficence, of Omnipotent goodness Many named by the many-tongued inhabitants of earth, […]
ref: 1890, G. Whitfield Ray, The Masonic Review, volume 7, page 12:
text: The Buenos Ayres of 1889 was a strange place, with its long, narrow streets, its peculiar stores and many-tongued inhabitants.
ref: 1915, George Whitfield Ray, Through Five Republics on Horseback, page 21:
text: Though each singer speaks a different language, a harmony results, rather than fracture and fragmentation. This harmony signifies not only survival, but love—indeed that it must be love that enables survival against such odds. Phillips's most resonant evocation of this idea occurs as the final section of his 1993 novel, Crossing the River, where he describes this singing as “the many-tongued chorus of the common memory”.
ref: 2005, Wendy W. Walters, At Home In Diaspora: Black International Writing, page 119:
text: The association was secretly a subversive society for it palimpsested onto the 'English-speaking' British Empire the federation of many-tongued nations meeting in Esperanto, resisting an Anglo-Saxon linguistic imperialism which sought to colonize other languages.
ref: 2009, Janet Wilson, Cristina Sandru, Sarah Lawson Welsh, Re-Routing the Postcolonial, page 53:
text: In the fourth part of this volume, 'Habsburg Press(ure): Reading Between the Lines of a Many-Tongued Journalism', the Habsburg Empire takes centre stage.
ref: 2021, Johanna Chovanec, Olof Heilo, Narrated Empires:
text: Lilies can be a many-tongued person that remains silent.
ref: 2022, Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Omar Khayyam’s Secret, page 472:
text: "Reading Luther" in German, Swedish, Norwegian and English will bring better results to old and young than if read only in one language. The Church of the Reformation is not one-tongued, but many-tongued.
ref: 2022, Martin Luther, John Acton, The Collected Works of Martin Luther:
glosses: Represented by multiple languages; multilingual.
as God intended
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the way God intended
form: like God intended
Senses: examples: text: Where my cousin lives, it almost always rains on Thursdays, and then they have beautiful sunny weather on the weekend, as God intended.
text: I believe it was an English matron who declared that airplanes were an invention of the devil, that people should take trains as God intended.
ref: 2010 February 6, Paul Krugman, “People Should Travel In Trains As God Intended”, in The New York Times (The Conscience of a Liberal):
glosses: According to the way things are when one's own preferences, ideas, methods, values, etc., are applied or followed. Commonly a disguised or subconscious complaint that things are otherwise.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, God, intended.
Related terms: in a perfect world
Hrubieszów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Hrubieszów.
Senses: glosses: A town and county of Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.
Biłgoraj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Biłgoraj.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.
Oxendale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English oxna, the genitive plural of oxa (“ox”) + dæl (“dale”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname.
glosses: Several streetnames.
Kraśnik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krasnik
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Kraśnik.
Senses: glosses: A town in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.
Oxenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English oxna, the genitive plural of oxa (“ox”) + hām (“farm”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname.
hooer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooers
form: hua
Etymology: Alteration of whore.
Senses: glosses: An unpleasant or contemptible person (especially a man).
schmuck insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schmuck (“fool, idiot”) + insurance.
Senses: examples: text: The solution? Instead of selling 100% of the business, the seller either keeps a stake, or keeps an option to buy back part of it later. This solution, which was apparently popularized by Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons in the early 2000s ($, WSJ), is known as "schmuck insurance”.
ref: 2023 April 5, Byrne Hobart, Capital Gains:
text: In Wall Street parlance this is known as "schmuck insurance," a reference to the rather vulgar Yiddish word that has come to mean the equivalent of "idiot."
ref: 2011 June 13, Shira Ovide, “The Benefits of Deal 'Schmuck Insurance'”, in The Wall Street Journal:
topics: business
glosses: The situation where an owner sells a company but retains a portion in case the price appreciates in the future.
boatlength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatlengths
form: boatslength
Etymology: From boat + length.
Senses: examples: text: His failing form the tides wash o’er, / Within a boatlength of the shore.
ref: 1835 December, “Extract from the unpublished Poem of Tahamold, or the Raven Hair”, in The Ladies’ Companion, New York, N.Y., page 78, column 2:
text: Philip was rowing nervously, two boatlengths behind, and the others had given up the race, and were paddling near the banks to talk with their friends.
ref: 1895, Alyn Yates Keith [pseudonym; Eugenia Laura Tuttle Morris], chapter XII, in A Spinster’s Leaflets: Wherein Is Written the History of Her “Doorstep Baby,” a Fancy Which in Time Became a Fact and Changed a Life, Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard […], page 97:
text: The men dropped their ropes and jogged away from the front of the collier. Bartlett guided the collier back to the mouth of the harbour and gave her full throttle. His momentum split the ice and carried him in a few boatlengths.
ref: 2004, Michael Winter, The Big Why, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2006, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: A distance equal to the length of a boat.
boatlengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatlength
boatslength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatslengths
Etymology: From boat + -s- + length.
Senses: examples: text: Those children would grow up to be puffballs too, they’d take up half a boatslength between them.
ref: 1985, Beth Carsley Jones, Hall of Sparrows, Piatkus, →ISBN, page 186:
text: A beamy shoal-draft hull like ours does not shoot far into the wind, but the dead man was no more than three boatslengths off; […]
ref: 1987, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 243:
text: Again we managed to pull ahead a bit each time we came together and by the first mark we rounded several boatslengths in the lead.
ref: 1996, Russell Coutts, as told to Paul Larsen, Russell Coutts: Course to Victory, Hodder Moa Beckett, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: Alternative form of boatlength.
boatslengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatslength