cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frogstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frogstands
Etymology: From frog + stand.
Senses: examples: text: If children begin to experiment with frogstands and headstands as inverted balances, it is then time to teach them the proper mechanics for assuming and maintaining these positions .
ref: 2001, Shirley Ann Holt-Hale, On the Move: Lesson Plans to Accompany Children Moving, page 216:
text: How long can you hold a headstand, frogstand or handstand?
ref: 2004, Michelle Nemec, Darryl Buchanan, Andrew Watt, Jump Into PDHPE, page 19:
text: Of course, it will be much easier if you can master the frogstand itself before you start learning how to do the frogstand to handstand.
ref: 2020 September 1, Michael & Yannick, “How to do the Frogstand to Handstand”, in Calisthenics Family:
text: In vert, you do all kinds of fun, carzy shit. Like shifties and frogstands, ollies and gazelle flips, up and down ten-foot ramps.
ref: 2021, James Patterson, Till Murder Do Us Part:
text: A frogstand, sometimes referred to as the "crow pose", is a calisthenics exercise that builds finger and wrist strength while placing a notable demand on the shoulders and triceps.
ref: 2024, “Frogstand Calisthenics Skill Tree”, in We Do Calisthenics:
topics: exercise
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
synonyms: crow pose
glosses: A position that involves balancing on one's hands with the knees tucked towards the chest, resembling the posture of a frog.
examples: text: Hey, Mom, I did five forward leaps from a frogstand in place today.
ref: 1979, Jill Robinson, Perdido, page 253:
glosses: A position in which one squats while resting one's weight on the hands, which are placed between the legs, sometimes preliminary to leaping forward.
Related terms: handstand
mica insulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mica insulators
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A sheet of electric insulator material made from mica placed between a power semiconductor device and the heat sink.
MMRDA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority.
Deimosians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Deimosian
GachaTuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɡɑː.tʃəˌtʃuː.bə/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɡɑː.tʃəˌtjuː.bə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑ.tʃəˌtu.bəɹ/
Forms: form: GachaTubers
Etymology: From Gacha (Life) ("a game created by Lunime") (from gacha) + -Tuber.
Senses: glosses: A YouTube personality who creates content featuring anime-styled characters, by using games created by Lunime (e.g. Gacha Life).
GachaTubers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GachaTuber
sarashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarashi
Senses: glosses: A Japanese white cloth-band wrapped around the breasts or abdomen.
danglies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: testicles
Solitario
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: [T]he calm, steep-shadowed serenity of the Shutups is deceiving: floods accompanying late-summer thunderstorms transform them into places of mortal peril, roaring gorges where giant boulders are tumbled about by the current's overwhelming force. So rugged is the interior of the Solitaro that a good day's expedition seldom covers more than fifteen miles, and then only with the aid of a sturdy four-wheel-drive vehicle.
ref: 1983, Forgotten Texas: A Wilderness Portfolio, page 138:
qualifier: often with "the" or "el"
glosses: A large eroded laccolith (superficially resembling a crater) in western Texas in the United States, which covers a circular area of approximately 135 km² or 52 square miles, marked by rugged terrain and shutups.
theta delta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theta deltas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of theta-delta.
theta deltas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theta delta
diaphagetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəfəˈdʒɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more diaphagetic
form: most diaphagetic
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek root Ancient Greek διάφαινειν (diáphainein) meaning "to show through" and the suffix -etic, denoting a characteristic or relation.
Senses: examples: text: As the council pored over the scrolls, the scholar’s diaphagetic insights brought forth meanings that none had dared consider.
ref: 2024, Nathan Hancock, Shadows of the Crowned, Ranchman Publishing, page 104:
glosses: Relating to or characterized by the interpretation of meaning that lies beneath or between the explicit words in a text or speech.
Derived terms: diaphagetically
priesthead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His dispensations with solemnit aithis, perjuries, and degrees of marriage forbidden in the word: His crueltie againis the innocent divorcit: His divilish messe: His blasphemous priesthead: His prophane sacrifice for the sinnis of the deade and the quicke: […]
ref: 1580, A General Confession of the Trew Christian Faith and Religion, published in 1722, Church of Scotland, A Collection of Confessions of Faith, Catechisms, Directories, Books of Discipline &c. of Publick Authority in the Church of Scotland, page 105
glosses: Obsolete form of priesthood.
coeloconica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsiːləˈkɒnɪkə/
Senses: glosses: plural of coeloconicum
coeloconicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coeloconica
Senses: examples: text: The selectivity of sensilla coeloconica olfactory sensory neurons was investigated and demonstrated sensitivity to fifteen vertebrate-related volatiles, including ammonia.
ref: 2024 November 2, Wikipedia contributors, “Calyptra thalictri”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of sensillum found in insects, including mosquitoes, ants, and centipedes, characterized by a peg or cone embedded within a pit, involved in detecting chemical or temperature changes.
frogstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frogstand
shutin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutins
Senses: examples: text: The best one known is the shutin on the main St. Francois River upstream from Silver Mine and downstream from the crossing of Highway 70. Near the upper end of this granite shutin, rock surfaces of types two and three are found, along with the much more[…]
ref: 1935, The American Journal of Science, page 366:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shut-in.
shutins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shutin
Norwood Reaper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Norwood Reaper
Etymology: An allusion to the Norwood scale and the Grim Reaper.
Senses: glosses: The supposed bringer of male pattern baldness.
fym
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FYM.
htf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of HTF (“how the fuck”).
fuck the police
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Popularized by the 1989 song Fuck tha^([sic]) Police by N.W.A.
Senses: synonyms: ACAB
glosses: Expresses disapproval of law enforcement.
examples: text: Near-synonym: stick it to the man
text: I can't handle that idiot teacher, I'm gonna skip out on school and hang with my buddies! Fuck the police!
glosses: Expresses disapproval of authorities in general.
jumpers for goalposts
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the idea that children, in the absence of a proper pitch, will mark one using items of clothing (such as jumpers).
Senses: examples: text: There is a strong, and understandable, tendency to romanticise a jumpers-for-goalposts golden age when football pitches looked like the battlefields of Flanders, assorted firms and crews spent their Saturday evenings trashing railway carriages and multi-millionaire players, bloodsucking investors and a globalised Manchester United had yet to ruin our lives.
ref: 2011 July 7, Anthony Clavane, Promised Land: A Northern Love Story, Random House, →ISBN, page 130:
text: In the next section we discuss the notion of 'jumpers for goalposts' in the United Kingdom, and how the modern notion of this, under different constraints, has emerged through activities such as cage football, mixed groups, playing against different ages, and so on.
ref: 2021 June 27, James Rudd, Ian Renshaw, Geert Savelsbergh, Jia Yi Chow, Will Roberts, Daniel Newcombe, Keith Davids, Nonlinear Pedagogy and the Athletic Skills Model: The Importance of Play in Supporting Physical Literacy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Fortunate to have open fields in front of her house , Paula and the boys from the estate would gather for the timeless routine of 'jumpers for goalposts', team selections, and games that only paused when mothers called them in for tea.
ref: 2024 September 26, Gail Emms, The Lost Lionesses: The incredible story of England’s forgotten trailblazers, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Informal association football as played by children, especially as a romantic or old-fashioned ideal contrasted against the commercialism and cynicism of modern professional football.
archipendulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archipendulums
form: archipendula
Etymology: From archi- + pendulum.
Senses: examples: text: ETHICKS is represented in painting by a lady of a sober, grave aspect, holding the instrument archipendulum in one hand, with the other a lion bridled.
ref: 1735, John Barrow, Dictionarium Polygraphicum:
text: Alberti's equilibra, which he uses first for the levelling of water and later for the weighing of small objects, is really a makeshift archipendulum.
ref: 2010, Kim Williams, Lionel March, Stephen R. Wassell, The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti, page 107:
text: The altitude/angle of Polaris could be measured by either the cross-staff aboard a vessel at sea, or an archipendulum on shore at a stone circle megalith.
ref: 2021, Richard de Grasse, The Influence of Stonehenge on Minoan Navigation and Trade in Europe, page 59:
glosses: An ancient device used to measure angles, consisting of an A-shaped device with a plumbline attached to the top vertex and a mark on the midpoint of the crossbar.
step-relationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-relationships
Senses: examples: text: Former step-relationships take work, planning and juggling. Drop the ball, and there’s no guarantee that anyone else will pick it up. […] Sometimes one person shoulders the burden of maintaining a step-relationship.
ref: 2012 March 10, Elissa Gootman, “When Branches Tangle in a Stepfamily Tree”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of steprelationship.
step-relationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-relationship
best of British luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of best of British (“good luck”).
synonyms: word: best of British
extra: good luck
diaphagetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more diaphagetically
form: most diaphagetically
Senses: examples: text: If you truly wish to understand what she meant, you must approach it diaphagetically, considering the subtleties around her words.
ref: 2023, Nathan Hancock, Echoes of the Spiritless, Ranchman Publishing, page 42:
glosses: In great detail; deeply.
phantomatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more phantomatically
form: most phantomatically
Etymology: From phantomatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a phantomatic manner.
cabobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cabobbles
form: cabobbling
form: cabobbled
form: cabobbled
Senses: examples: text: Tull niver do for'ee to try to cabobble Uncle Zibedee.
ref: 1880, Louisa Parr, Adam and Eve:
text: Dunchy […] confessed himself "altogether cabobbled" by the manner in which she was "agoin' on in."
ref: 1899, Louisa Parr, Loyalty George:
glosses: To mystify or deceive.
cabobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cabobble
cabobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cabobble
cabobbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cabobble
kiddly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddlies
Senses: examples: text: There were no shortages of places for refreshment in Fowey for, as well as the little 'kiddlies', it was well off for inns and taverns.
ref: 1993, Judith Cook, To Brave Every Danger, page 11:
glosses: Synonym of kiddlywink (“type of pub”).
synonyms: word: kiddlywink
extra: type of pub
kiddlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddly
puzzivanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of puzzivant
puzzivanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puzzivant
pussivanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pussivant
pussivanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pussivant
puzzivants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puzzivant
pussivants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pussivant
berrin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berrin's
Senses: examples: text: "What's that to you?" said Trevool, rather sharply, "worn't I to a berrin? […]
ref: 1867, Cornish Tales, in prose and verse by various authors, page 33:
text: 'Aw, my son,' she said, 'you do taake my meanin'; but theer, I do dearly love a berrin'.' Yes, a funeral is as dear to the Cornish heart as a preaching.
ref: 1898, The Cornish Magazine, volume 1, page 468:
glosses: A funeral; a burying.
Cornish diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cornish diamonds
Senses: glosses: Quartz.
Cornish diamonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cornish diamond
pigpile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigpiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pig pile.
pigpiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigpile
dodecatriene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecatrienes
Etymology: From dodeca- + triene.
Senses: examples: text: Reaction run in presence of 2 mol equiv butadiene; trans-2-butene, oxtadienes and dodecatrienes are in the final product, but no diphenylmethane or phenylcyclohexane.
ref: 2009, J. J. Zuckerman, A. P. Hagen, Inorganic Reactions and Methods, page 165:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chain of twelve carbon atoms with three double bonds.
Derived terms: cyclododecatriene
Medrashim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Medrash
drashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drash
drashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drash
ewe cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ewe cats
Senses: glosses: A female cat.
ewe cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ewe cat
grammersow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammersows
Senses: glosses: A woodlouse.
grammersows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammersow
gurgoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurgoes
Senses: examples: text: […] the old natives made the gurgoes one may still see about on the cliffs, moors and other land not worth cultivating.
ref: 1931, William Bottrell, Cornish Drolls, page 78:
glosses: A boundary hedge.
glosses: A long narrow lane.
gurgoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurgoe
milky-dashel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milky-dashels
Senses: glosses: A milk thistle.
pig's-crow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pigsty (enclosure for pigs).
processing unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: processing units
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
synonyms: PU
glosses: An electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external data source, usually memory or some other data stream.
processing units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of processing unit
gugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gug
Swedish ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swedish ladders
Senses: glosses: A set of wall bars.
Swedish ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swedish ladder
havage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: havages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haveage.
havages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of havage
stall bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wall bars.
synonyms: word: wall bars
jowster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jowsters
Senses: examples: text: Presently the jowsters began to bawl out questions to the men who were gathered rather sullenly on deck.
ref: 1891, Joseph Henry Pearce, Inconsequent Lives, page 33:
text: The jowsters come down with their carts on to the beach, and hawk them about round the neighborhood—I've seen them twelve a penny; while in the curing-houses they're bulking them and pressing them as if for dear life, to send away to Genoa, Leghorn, and Naples.
ref: 1893, Grant Allen, Michael's Crag:
glosses: An itinerant seller or hawker, especially of fish.
jowsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jowster
nickety-knock
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: […] there keeps soundin' in my ears a nickety-knock like the tappin' on a coffin-lid.
ref: 1880, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 60, page 148:
text: Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock, / And his head as he tumbled, went nickety knock, / Like a pebble in Carisbrook well.
ref: 2022, Graeme Stones, Parodies of the Romantic Age, page 88:
glosses: A tapping or knocking sound.
merrymaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merrymaids
Senses: glosses: A mermaid.
merrymaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merrymaid
melusine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melusines
Etymology: From Melusine.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A mermaid with a split or double tail.
melusines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melusine
quignogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ridiculous notions or conceits.
timdoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timdoodles
Senses: examples: text: "Why for didn't you come to breaksis?" she says. "What a timdoodle of a chap you be!"
ref: 1914, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, volume 42, page 96:
text: But he, being such a Timdoodle, he would not do it, which I knew the Minute I set eyes on him.
ref: 1988, Malcolm Ross, A Notorious Woman, page 291:
text: "I'd have to be a timdoodle to risk angerin' a witch."
ref: 2024, Anna Lee Huber, A Deceptive Composition, page 200:
glosses: A fool; a silly person.
timdoodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timdoodle
toaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toazes
form: toazing
form: toazed
form: toazed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tose.
toasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toase
toazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toaze
toased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toase
toazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toaze
toazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toaze
why for
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "Why for didn't you come to breaksis?" she says. "What a timdoodle of a chap you be!"
ref: 1914, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, volume 42, page 96:
glosses: What for; for what reason; why.
towan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towans
Etymology: Borrowed from Cornish tewyn.
Senses: examples: text: Here the pasture is old; and the grass very short, and perhaps salt. On these towans, distinguished as they are from very ancient times, the Cornish probably were feeding their sheep, before the Roman explored their country.
ref: 1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall, page 161:
glosses: A sand dune.
towans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towan
Kephissia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kifissia, Greece.
unpresciently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpresciently
form: most unpresciently
Etymology: From unprescient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unprescient manner.
cordterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordterminals
Senses: glosses: A place to insert the end of a cord.
garbidging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of garbidge
photorefractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photorefraction
hepping-stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepping-stocks
Senses: examples: text: I recognised the hepping-stock and granite drinking-trough beside the porch; I recognised the passage too, and felt quite sure that the staircase lay to the right, which proved to be the case.
ref: 1891, The Speaker, volume 4, page 561:
glosses: A horse-block.
four-legged emmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-legged emmets
Senses: examples: text: Don't you know about four-legged emmets? The green 'uns?
ref: 1972, David Watmough, Ashes for Easter & Other Monodramas, page 17:
glosses: A newt.
Watmough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
figgy hobbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figgy hobbins
Senses: examples: text: And these are no ordinary feasts; what with her pasties, saffron cake, "hoggans", "figgy hobbins", marinated pilchards, and, of course, her delicious cream, the Cornish woman has many unusual dishes with which to whet the appetite.
ref: 1948, Norman Wymer, The Southern Shires, page 46:
text: I visited poor Tom Permewan several times a week, bringing him various small titbits: a mutton pasty, a figgy hobbin, or a mackerel or bass if I had caught something; […]
ref: 2010, Donald R. Rawe, Spargo's Confession: A Novel of Cornwall 1810-22, page 355:
glosses: Alternative form of figgyhobbin.
figgy hobbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figgy hobbin
hoggens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoggen
P. E. I.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada.
flam-new
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flam-new
form: most flam-new
Senses: glosses: Brand new.
Île Saint Jean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Prince Edward Island.
synonyms: word: Prince Edward Island
hawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawn
griglan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griglans
Senses: glosses: Heath; heather.
griglans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of griglan
Austrian syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Robert Austrian in 1957.
Senses: synonyms: Osler's triad
glosses: The presence of pneumonia, endocarditis and meningitis, all caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Osler's triad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William Osler.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Austrian syndrome.
synonyms: word: Austrian syndrome
PTHS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome.
Pitt-Hopkins syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described in 1978 by D. Pitt and I. Hopkins, in unrelated patients.
Senses: glosses: A rare genetic disorder characterized by developmental delay, moderate to severe intellectual disability, distinctive facial features, and possible intermittent hyperventilation followed by apnea.
Hopkinsism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hopkins + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hopkinsianism.
synonyms: word: Hopkinsianism
RAPADILINO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formed from shortened versions of many of the words describing its symptoms. See Wikipedia article.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An autosomal recessive disorder characterized by various deformations, often including underdeveloped or absent bones in the forearms, thumbs and kneecaps, and by diarrhea.
Sandycroft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Queensferry community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3367).
portpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portpieces
Senses: examples: text: PORT-PIECE An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets.
ref: 1867, Admiral W. H. Smyth, The Sailor’s Word Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautcal Terms Including Some More Especially Military and Scientific but Useful to Seamen as Well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers Etc., page 539:
text: They fired 3½ lbs of powder against 3¼ lbs of the portpiece, an iron shot of 2½ lbs or a stone of 2¼.
ref: 1898, Julian S, Corbett, editor, The Spanish War 1585-1587 (Publications of the Navy Records Society), volume XI, Navy Records Society, page 332:
text: A portpiece was a gun witn an internal barrel diameter of 5½in, and a chamber of 3½in.
ref: 1990, Peter Kirsch, The Galleon: The Great Ships of the Armada Era, Conway Maritime, page 54:
glosses: a smaller cannon or gun mounted on the side of a ship. These were often used for close-range engagements or for firing at smaller targets.
portpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portpiece
back buffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back buffers
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A buffer used to store graphics while they are being drawn, and later copied to the display in a single operation.
smels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smel
FRACTRAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fractran
Etymology: Apparently from fraction and FORTRAN.
Senses: glosses: A Turing-complete esoteric programming language based on the processing of fractions.
Fractran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FRACTRAN.
beer match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer matches
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A friendly cricket match to fill time after a scheduled game that ends early, sometimes played with unusual variations of the rules.
beer matches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer match
dodecatrienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecatriene
Wisden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
odds match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odds matches
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A match in which one side has more players than the other.
all that said
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: She is impatient. She is mercurial. She is feisty. All that said, she is still lovable.
glosses: Synonym of that said.
synonyms: word: that said
glovemanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: gloveman + -ship
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of glovework.
synonyms: word: glovework
drinks waiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinks waiters
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of twelfth man.
synonyms: word: twelfth man
drinks waiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinks waiter
peanut balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peanut ball
Peanut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From peanut.
Senses: glosses: A given name for a pet animal.
Coordinate terms: Felix
Flopsy
Mopsy
Rover
Spot
Tiger
Mopsys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mopsy
Mopsyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mopsy
Mopsies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mopsy
crow pose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crow poses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of frogstand.
synonyms: word: frogstand
crow poses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow pose
bah kut teh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 肉骨茶 (bah-kut-tê).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bak kut teh.
hedge alehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge alehouses
Etymology: From hedge (“third-rate”) + alehouse (“inn, tavern”). Compare hedge priest, hedge whore.
Senses: examples: text: HEDGE ALEHOUSE, a ſmall obſcure alehouſe.
ref: [1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue:
text: ‘Where is your warrant, if you come to that?’ said I. ‘My papers! A likely thing that I would show my papers on the ipse dixit of an unknown fellow in a hedge alehouse!’
ref: 1897, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Adventure of the Attorney’s Clerk”, in St. Ives:
synonyms: word: alehouse
word: boozer
word: boozing ken
word: bousing ken
word: drinker
word: drinkery
word: gargle-factory
word: gin joint
word: groggery
word: local
word: nineteenth hole
word: pot-house
word: pub
word: public house
word: rummery
word: saloon
word: tavern
word: watering hole
glosses: An inferior inn or tavern.
Related terms: hedge tavern
hedge whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge whore
hedge alehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge alehouse
futanaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futanari
luminols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luminol
luminols
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of luminol
luminoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of luminol
luminoled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From luminol + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He came to the general conclusion that a person with a 300-millimetre foot would be expected to make a luminoled footprint greater than 280 millimetres (the length of the print measured by Hentschel) — but not always, as some of his prints came in under 300 millimetres.
ref: 2020, Martin van Beynen, Black Hands, Inside the Bain Family Murders:
glosses: That has been treated with luminol.
luminoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of luminol
pecan truffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pecan truffle
lumensecond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumenseconds
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of lumen second.
AVX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Vector Extensions.
sausage balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sausage balloons
Senses: glosses: A small, nonrigid airship designed for observation or as a barrage balloon.
sausage balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sausage balloon
phosphorylated adenosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorylated adenosines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of adenosine monophosphate.
synonyms: word: adenosine monophosphate
glosses: Synonym of adenylic acid.
synonyms: word: adenylic acid
phosphorylated adenosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphorylated adenosine
cardiopulmonary arrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiopulmonary arrests
Senses: glosses: Synonym of asystole.
synonyms: word: asystole
cardiopulmonary arrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiopulmonary arrest
toads-in-the-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toad-in-the-hole
toad-in-the-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toad-in-the-hole
angel's ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angel's ladder
phosphoadenosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoadenosine
Flopsys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flopsy
Flopsyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flopsy
Flopsies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Flopsy
on sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of on side
SENA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia.
Snicko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈsnɪkoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪkəʊ
Forms: form: Snickos
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of Snickometer.
Snickos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Snicko
hedge wizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge wizards
Etymology: From hedge (“third-rate”) + wizard (“someone who uses magic”). Compare hedge priest, hedge whore.
Senses: examples: text: There was something hysterical about the way Mouse insisted on that ‘great,’ for to the world Glavas Rho was but a hedge-wizard, no better than a Mingol necromancer with his second-sighted spotted dog or a conjurer beggar of Quarmall.
ref: 1962 October, Fritz Leiber, “The Unholy Grail”, in Fantastic, volume 10, number 11:
text: "And Portravus has no mage—" said mousy Herjes, looking as much frightened as worried. "Just a couple of hedge-wizards and some assorted Low Magick practitioners. And not a lot of money to spare to hire one."
ref: 1988, Mercedes Lackey, “Dragon's Teeth”, in Spell Singers, page 52:
text: “Hedge wizard” is a term that’s come up in my campaign to describe the proprietors of small “magic shops” in villages and cities in AD&D® campaigns. Hedge wizards specialize in minor but useful magicks, using spells like mending and knock rather than magic missile and irritation. Hedge wizards are usually low-level mages with sage and herbalist abilities.
ref: 1990 November, Gregg Sharp, “Hedge Wizards”, in Dragon, volume 15, number 6, page 19:
text: To the young hedge wizard, a wizard of only 5th level seems to be a mighty archmage.
ref: 2002, Mike Mearls, The Quintessential Wizard, page 11:
text: "I don't know of any great mage in the Bitterwood," Daene said. "Hedge-wizards aplenty, and weather-witches—every village has them."
ref: 2016, Rowan Speedwell, Bitterwood:
text: He talked of magic, which she found interesting. She'd never spoken to a true wizard before. Hedge wizards, perhaps, but never someone as knowledgeable and powerful as a spire wizard.
ref: 2020, Russell Archey, The Seven Spires:
topics: fantasy
hypernyms: word: wizard
word: person
glosses: An inferior wizard; a wizard of limited ability and little or no formal training.
Related terms: hedge witch
futanarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfuː.təˌnɑː.ɹɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌfu.təˌnɑ.ɹɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: futanarizations
form: futanarisation
Etymology: From futanari + -ization.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: The act, process, or instance of becoming a futanari, usually by a female growing a penis.
futanarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futanarisations
Etymology: From futanari + -isation.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of futanarization.
futanarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futanarization
futanarisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futanarisation
tipping-point state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipping-point states
Etymology: From tipping point + state.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: In a list of states of the United States ordered by decreasing margins of victory for the winning candidate in a presidential election, the state whose votes cause the winning candidate to meet or exceed the threshold for victory when tallying the number of electoral college votes from each state.
tipping-point states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tipping-point state
code-share
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: code-shares
form: code-sharing
form: code-shared
form: code-shared
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of codeshare.
code-sharing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of code-share
Ovens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town on the Ovens River in Alpine Shire, Victoria, Australia. The river was named after John Ovens.
glosses: A small village west of the city of Cork, County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 5570).
norm-referenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: assigning grades to candidates according to their position against peers.
raw_tags: of a test or other assessment
deck tennis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hybrid sport combining elements of tennis and quoits.
demonstration sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonstration sports
Senses: glosses: a sport played, especially during the Olympic Games, in order to promote its popularity, rather than to win medals.
sport-utility vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sport-utility vehicles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sport utility vehicle.
conga drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conga drums
Senses: glosses: conga (Cuban drum)
automatonophobiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automatonophobiacs
Etymology: From automaton + -o- + -phobiac.
Senses: examples: text: The automatonophobiac finds it difficult to completely separate the artificial nature of a doll or mannequin from the lifelike characteristics they display. The more realistic or authentic an object appears, the more likely it is to elicit anxiety or despair in the automatonophobiac.
ref: 2011 October 17, Speculo, “The 13 Nightmares of NETHERWORLD Haunted House! Number 12 Automatonophobia!”, in Netherworld News:
text: So, what’s a^([sic]) automatonophobiac to do? Exposure therapy, in which subjects are eased into facing their fears, is quite effective in treating phobias, according to every psychologist I interviewed. It’s just a matter of wanting to do the work.
ref: 2016 March 23, Keith Wagstaff, “Why Do Statues of Humans Terrify Me? An Investigation”, in VICE:
glosses: One who suffers from automatonophobia.
automatonophobiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automatonophobiac
corn truffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn truffles
Senses: glosses: corn smut
hedge wizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge wizard
PBIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The PBIS programs have reduced rates of bullying, improved discipline and academic performance and created a better and healthier climate in the schools utilizing them, Bradshaw said.
ref: 2016 October 5, Ashley Strickland, “Bullying is a ‘serious public health problem,’ experts say”, in CNN:
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of positive behavioral interventions & supports.
moglai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mughlai.
moghlai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mughlai.
vacuum balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuum balloons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vacuum airship.
synonyms: word: vacuum airship
vacuum balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum balloon
Jacob's-ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacob's-ladders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jacob's ladder.
Jacob's Ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's-ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacob's-ladder
Vanbrunt's polemonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Appalachian Jacob's ladder.
synonyms: word: Appalachian Jacob's ladder
letter by letter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: letter-by-letter
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Taking each letter in turn.
glosses: Of a technique, sorting that orders entries based on each character in a heading regardless of spaces or punctuation.
letter-by-letter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of letter by letter.
by the way of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of by way of.
by way of example
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: As an example.
glosses: Illustrating a point with a specific instance.
maraises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marais
dental cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental caps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dental crown.
synonyms: word: dental crown
dental caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dental cap
thriveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thrive
thrivest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of thrive
Wokey Hole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Wookey Hole.
Beavan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Geiringer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Geiringer's theorem
Geiringer-Laman theorem
Black Saturday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black Saturdays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Holy Saturday (“the Saturday before Easter”).
synonyms: word: Holy Saturday
extra: the Saturday before Easter
glosses: February 7, 2009, a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia, which killed 173 people.
DVPN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DVPNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of domestic violence protection notice.
Moodey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Moodie
Moody
Katessa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
ecosex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + sex
Senses: glosses: Environmentally conscious sexual activity.
Related terms: ecosexual
ecosexuality
rent free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rent-free.
rent free
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rent-free.
retabulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retabulate
retabulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retabulate
bullet hells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullet hell
flareship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flareships
Etymology: From flare + ship.
Senses: examples: text: Once the flareship reached the range, an orbit would be established to take the aircraft across the drop zone every 2 minutes 45 seconds. Depending on the type of ordnance to be delivered by the F-100 students, between two and four flares would be dropped on each pass.
ref: 1968 January, Lou Stalsworth, “Night Owl”, in The Airman, volume XII, number 1, page 10:
text: Originally, the phrase Blind Bat was just the call sign for C-130s on forward air controller/flareship duty over southern Laos.
ref: 1989 july, Sam McGowan, “Blind Bat”, in AIR FORCE Magazine, volume 72, page 82:
text: The Rangers held on tenaciously throughout the night supported by gunships and flareships.
ref: 2024 October 13, Wikipedia contributors, “Dennis Fujii”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
glosses: A military aircraft that drops illumination flares.
flareships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flareship
Lafonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A peninsula forming the southern region of East Falkland.
thrun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /tɹ̝̊ʊn/
Senses: examples: text: If only you'd thrun 'er a little harder there now
glosses: past participle of throw
examples: text: Your man thrun it again' the wall. Careless, so he is.
glosses: past of throw
false pineapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bromeliad of species Ananas macrodontes.
glosses: A screw pine of species Pandanus kaida.
pleasure palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasure palaces
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Xanadu.
synonyms: word: Xanadu
pleasure palaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleasure palace
TURBT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of transurethral resection of bladder tumor.
NMIBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
Luichew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lui chew
form: Lui Chew
form: Lui-chew
form: Luichiu
form: Lui Chiu
form: Lui-chiu
Etymology: From either or both Leizhou Min 雷州 and Hokkien 雷州 (Lûi-chiu). Doublet of Leizhou and Luichow.
Senses: examples: text: A few members of other speech groups also settled in Kuching. These included Foochows (Hokchius), from the city and surrounding districts in northern Fukien; Henghuas, from the coastal area of Fukien midway between Hokkien and Foochowspeaking areas; Hokchias, closely related to Henghuas and emanating from a small district between Henghua and Foochow; and Luichews, whose home area was the Luichew Peninsula of Kwangtung.
ref: 1987, Craig Alan Lockard, “Social Organization and Community Life, 1847-1900”, in From Kampung to City: A Social History of Kuching Malaysia, 1820-1970 (Monographs in International Studies Southeast Asia Series), number 75, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies Center for Southeast Asian Studies, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 65:
synonyms: Leizhou
Luichow
Loi Chau
glosses: A peninsula in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
synonyms: Leizhou
Luichow
glosses: A county-level city of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: Luichew Min (a linguistic variety of Coastal Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family)
Luichew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Luichews
form: Lui chew
form: Lui Chew
form: Lui-chew
form: Luichiu
form: Lui Chiu
form: Lui-chiu
Etymology: From either or both Leizhou Min 雷州 and Hokkien 雷州 (Lûi-chiu). Doublet of Leizhou and Luichow.
Senses: qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: a person who traces his/her ancestry to Leizhou or the surrounding area, especially those that ancestrally speak Luichew Min.