cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
time-policies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-policy
oft-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ofttimes.
nonacquisitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acquisitional.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, merde, in my haste to hit the streets I brought only five euros, so good mood or not, it's gonna be a cheap-girl day of nonacquisitional pleasure.
ref: 2006, Kirsten Lobe, Paris Hangover, page 53:
text: According to the authors, these techniques can provide orders of magnitude improvements in power consumption and increased accuracy of query results over nonacquisitional systems that do not actively control when and where data is collected.
ref: 2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy-Efficient Distributed Computing Systems:
text: Nonacquisitional studies override developmental studies.
ref: 2014, Manel Lacorte, The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics, page 1988:
glosses: Not acquisitional; not involving acquisition.
unhero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unheroes
Etymology: From un- + hero.
Senses: examples: text: On one level of meaning this unhero is clearly a political statement, a protest of the military and governmental authority. But he is not that alone; he is also a statement against all masculine assertion as this has been traditionally understood. The unhero nevertheless has his unheroine mate.
ref: 1978, Partisan Review, volume 45, page 505:
text: Comic unheroes are brilliant in practice, tragic heroes only in theory, and their theory lets them down, especially in its conception of their own importance. The comic unheroes know that nobody is important to the world, which is why they won't die for it, and why they play the nobody, getting out of harm's way.
ref: 1991, Artforum International, volume 29, page 95:
text: The trials of living with an "unhero" are many.
ref: 1998, Biblion: The Bulletin of the New York Public Library:
text: C, in “One of the Best (Because I Worked so Hard on This)” engages readers in understanding relationships among comic book “unheroes” and how often “unheroes” relate to children “caught up in the system.”
ref: 2018, They’re Called the “Throwaways”, page 34:
glosses: One who is not a hero; a nonhero.
examples: text: Everyone in the story is absolutely outside time, everything in it is terribly old-fashioned and affected, the "hero" with all of his experiences is infinitely shallow, pompous, and low-standard. He is in principle an "unhero" and everything in the story is in principle deheroized.
ref: 1963, Foreign Press Digest: Soviet Union, page 44:
text: Not only dead, this poem's contemptible unhero is deadening as well.
ref: 1976, Gary Lane, I Am: A Study of E. E. Cummings' Poems, page 79:
text: Hence, Dalmia comes out sounding like a gambler at heart, not unlike the famous Yudhishthira, the 'unhero' of the Mahabharata.
ref: 2015, Thomas A Timberg, The Marwaris: From Jagat Seth to the Birlas:
glosses: A hero who does not fit the archetype of a hero; an antihero.
Coordinate terms: unheroine
unheroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unhero
does porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do porridge
doing porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of do porridge
did porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do porridge
done porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do porridge
horrorscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horrorscapes
Etymology: From horror + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: The city with the good fruit and the good bread has been turned into a stateless cyberpunk horrorscape, the bad dream of modernity, a zone of continually expanding human biomass, but where all the infrastructure that makes modern cities inhabitable has been bombed flat, so the streets are periodically flooded with raw sewage.
ref: 2023 October 15, Sam Kriss, “Bread, Figs, Phosphorus”, in Numb at the Lodge, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2023:
glosses: A horrific landscape.
time-resolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Referring to a spectroscopic technique involving measurements made over a very short known time period or after excitation of the sample.
Lochwinnoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /lɒxˈwɪnəx/
Senses: glosses: A village in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3559).
fructi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin frūctus (“fruit”).
Senses: glosses: fruit
Ratho Station
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Ratho railway station, which closed in 1951.
Senses: glosses: A village north of Ratho, Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1372).
wikipedia: Ratho railway station
superbunching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:superbunching.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Enhanced bunching (of photons, electrons, etc).
Roman Empires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman Empire
supercart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercarts
Etymology: From super- + cart.
Senses: examples: text: […] Supercart Champion. At the age of 10, she blew away many far older competitors to win. Eliza lived up to her reputation and blitzed the opposition: her supercart flashing down the Amy Road course much to the pleasure of the large crowd[…]
ref: 2013 December 13, Anne Green, Billycarts & Wheelchairs: 75 years of St Giles, St Giles Society, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: A particularly large or powerful cart.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:supercart.
qualifier: especially Chicago
glosses: A particularly large garbage can (wheelie bin).
supercarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercart
Svengalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Svengalian.
glosses: Characteristic or reminiscent of Svengali.
funeral pyres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funeral pyre
sword breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sword breakers
Senses: examples: text: […] partly back edged and serrated, with strong ricasso, pierced with two semicircular sword breakers. Italian (probably Neapolitan), about 1650. (346)
ref: 1910, Henry Morse Stephens Collection: Catalogues of the Wallace Collection, page 139:
text: Left-hand dagger French, 1600 / Flattened pommel; wire-bound grip; quillons curve outward, and at right angles to them are parallel with the blade are two projections which serve as sword breakers; attached to the cross-piece is small shell guard with heart-shaped and circular perforations; flamboyant blade, 12" long, with mark […]
ref: 1924, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm), Catalogues- American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc:
glosses: Rare form of sword-breaker.
sword breakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sword breaker
stipeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stipe + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The main fruiting body is about 1-4 cm wide, spongy as well as dense in texture, flabelliform shaped, with small stipes which become stipeless at maturity.
ref: 2023, chapter 14, in Ajay Sharma, Garima Bhardwaj, Gulzar Ahmad Nayik, editors, Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the Himalayas, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1982:
glosses: Of or pertaining to mushrooms or other types of fungus that have no stipe or stem.
sybil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sybils
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sybil.
sybils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sybil
syndrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syndrums
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:syndrum.
glosses: An electronic drum, which produces synthesized percussion sounds.
syndrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syndrum
ebrillade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪbɹiˈjɑːd/
Etymology: From French ébrillade.
Senses: glosses: A sudden jerking of a horse's rein when the horse refuses to turn.
femoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femoirs
Etymology: Blend of female + memoir
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:femoir.
glosses: A memoir by a woman.
bamboo diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The term implies an approach to diplomacy that is flexible and pragmatic, akin to bamboo “bending with the wind".
Senses: examples: text: "Since the formation of the modern Thai state in the nineteenth century, Thailand had at least four faces, or myths, upon which diplomacy was based, namely the discourses of independence, lost territory, anticommunism and flexible diplomacy."
ref: 2022, Jittipat Poonkham, chapter 23, in A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy: The Politics of Thai Détente with Russia and China, page 34:
text: “Communist Party-ruled Vietnam has upgraded ties with the world's top powers, including former foes, China and the United States, as part of its "bamboo diplomacy", which it has pro-actively pursued since 2021 to navigate rising global tensions.”
ref: 2023 December 27, “Vietnam's 'bamboo diplomacy' shifts into higher gear”, in Reuters:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: A foreign policy of developing and maintaining nonaligned diplomatic relations with other countries, as used by Thailand and Vietnam.
morchang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morchangs
Senses: examples: text: MORCHANG 1 The morchang (also morchank, morchanga, or morsing) is identical to the Jewish harp which is popular in the West and used all over the world in some form or other. The instrument is made of wrought iron and resembles the[…]
ref: 1965, S. Krishnaswami, Musical Instruments of India:
text: a Morchang or Chang is a simple but sophisticated sounding device made of iron or brass. It has an outer frame within is set a kind of thin elastic tuning fork with its end protruding upwards. The player sets part of the[…]
ref: 1999, Umesh Jadia, Kachchh: An Introduction to the Historical Places, Textile Embroideries, Arts & Crafts Etc. of Kachchh:
text: Morchang Morchang is the most favourite instrument for Langa community of Rajasthan, a wrought iron instrument, much akin to the Jews harp, which produces twanging sounds. Structure[:] It consists of a metal ring in the shape of a[…]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), RAS Mains Exam Practice Solved Paper-Art and Culture, R P Meena:
text: Among the stringed instruments, the two most striking are the single-stringed bhapang and morchang. The bhapang, also called apang, has a resonator made of gourd with goatskin stretched on the lower side and a bamboo stick[…]
ref: 1999, Tripti Pandey, Where Silence Sings: Sounds and Rhythms of Rajasthan, HarperCollins Publishers:
glosses: Alternative form of morsing.
morchangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morchang
clean teen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean teens
Senses: examples: text: Another "clean teen" romance which will appeal to the same readers as the other 68 in this series.
ref: 1984, Scarecrow Press (publisher), Voice of Youth Advocates - VOYA. · Volume 7, page 26:
text: Much, though not all, of the earlier antagonism to rock and roll had ebbed, in part because of a whole host of 'clean teen' singers like Pat Boone had sanitized the genre.
ref: 1997, Doug Owram, Born at the Right Time - A History of the Baby Boom Generation, page 157:
text: Annette's identity as a clean teen fit perfectly with the Beach Party films, which took advantage of her girl-next-door image.
ref: 2002, Kirse Granat May, Golden State, Golden Youth - The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966, page 122:
text: He derides the fact that clean teen idols, typified by Fabian, owed their success to the younger audiences, ...
ref: 2004, Andrew Caine, Interpreting Rock Movies - The Pop Film and Its Critics in Britain, page 6:
text: The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of films diametrically opposed to the "clean teen" beach productions and other innocuous fare of the early part of the decade, ...
ref: 2013, Kimberley Monteyne, Hip Hop on Film - Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s:
glosses: A teenager or youth who avoids or eschews drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and other vices.
clean teens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clean teen
garden varieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garden variety
cultured meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cultured meats
Senses: synonyms: word: clean meat
word: synthetic meat
word: shmeat
word: synthmeat
topics: science-fiction
literature
publishing
media
glosses: Meat that is grown in cell culture instead of being produced by slaughtering animals.
prymtyme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of prime time.
administrative court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: administrative courts
Etymology: From administrative + court.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In many civil law jurisdictions, a specialized court separate from the ordinary court system in charge of reviewing decisions made by public authorities under administrative law.
wikipedia: England and Wales High Court
King's Bench Division
administrative courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of administrative court
holocaustings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holocausting
term limiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of term limit
term limited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of term limit
chow time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chowtime.
coherence time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The time over which a propagating wave may be considered coherent, meaning that its phase is, on average, predictable.
many a time and often
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of many a time and oft.
time-bent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Malformed or crooked due to age.
make time with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes time with
form: making time with
form: made time with
form: made time with
Senses: glosses: To court or flirt with someone, to make sexual advances towards someone.
winter-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter-times
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wintertime.
make a time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a time
form: making a time
form: made a time
form: made a time
Senses: glosses: To make a fuss about something.
hyperreal religion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperreal religions
form: hyper-real religion
Senses: examples: text: His cult based on the science fiction of L. Ron Hubbard was a hyperreal religion.
glosses: A religion drawing major inspiration from popular culture, particularly one imitating a work of fiction.
Hyponyms: Jediism
Matrixism
hyperreal religions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperreal religion
dalieba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 大列巴 (dàlièbā), from 大 (dà, “big”) + 列巴 (lièbā, “bread”, Harbin dialect), the latter from Russian хлеб (xleb, “bread”).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese bread based on Russian rye bread, generally available in northeastern China.
cutting-age
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cutting-age
form: most cutting-age
form: cutting age
Senses: examples: text: Each educational process should be cutting-age technology so that universities keep up to date with innovative and administration educational processes to induce disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge.
ref: 2020 January 2, “Higher Education Virtual Classrooms Applied”, in Andrea Basantes-Andrade, Marcelo Zambrano Vizuete, Miguel Botto-Tobar, Miguel Naranjo-Toro, editors, Technology, Sustainability and Educational Innovation (TSIE), Germany: Springer Publishing, →ISBN, page 357:
text: By providing additional long term stable equity capital, cutting-age technology and advanced management and marketing techniques, FDI, the most important channel of foreign participations may improve the international competitiveness of a recipient firm in several ways.
ref: 2015 November 7, “Role of Technological and Knowledge Resources”, in Filip De Beule, K. Narayanan, editors, Globalization of Indian Industries, Singapore: Springer Nature, →ISBN, 7.3.1.4, page 146:
text: Today, we are going to explore the use of cutting-age technology to protect America’s citizens and its borders.
ref: 2023 June 22, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, Using Cutting-Edge Technologies to Keep America Safe, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2024, page 5:
glosses: Eggcorn of cutting-edge.
cutting age
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cutting age
form: most cutting age
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cutting-age.
glosses: Alternative form of cutting-age (“eggcorn of cutting-edge”).
Mogadishu line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mogadishu line
Etymology: In reference to the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.
Senses: examples: text: For long before the United States was forced to confront the horror of its dead servicemen being dragged naked through the dusty streets of Mogadishu, ‘the crossing of the Mogadishu line’ came to be a test of the international community's resolve in dealing with intractable violence of the post-Cold War era.
ref: 2000 April 29, Peter Beaumont, “Injustice of the peace”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: I was surprised. I was also happy. It suggested to me that the Mogadishu line—that invisible mark across which US troops would never again step—had been erased.
ref: 2003 July 5, Fergal Keane, “Good news: the United States has decided to cross the 'Mogadishu line'”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2022:
glosses: The point at which foreign involvement in a conflict shifts from peacekeeping or diplomacy to combat operations.
wikipedia: Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
water girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water girls
form: watergirl
Etymology: From water + girl.
Senses: glosses: A woman or girl who regularly supplies a sports team or other group with drinking water.
watergirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watergirls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of water girl.
watergirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watergirl
water girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water girl
Hickory Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Macon County, Illinois, United States.
Jordanstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet between Alyth and Meigle, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2747).
Related terms: Jordanston
ravenette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravenettes
Etymology: From raven + -ette, after brunette.
Senses: examples: text: He was caught off guard by the ravenette leaping into his arms, his wide eyes softening at the sobs reaching his ears.
ref: 2010, Ashley M. Carter, Devilry Hunters, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 84:
text: The green eyed ravenette grabbed Capgras’ bottle of Powers off the bar, raised it over her head and brought it down with a crash.
ref: 2012 fall/winter, Matt Fountain, “Holiday in Chesterport”, in Holiday Guide, San Luis Obispo, Calif.: New Times Media Group, page 53:
text: The moment his hand came in contact, the ravenette’s body twitched greatly as his face twisted in pain.
ref: 2014, The Chatman Sisters [i.e., Shellyta, Lora, Jessyka, and Zoe], Gifted Chains: Unlocked Beginnings, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 71:
text: He was a bespectacled ravenette who liked sports
ref: 2016 November 20, LividTurtle, “Ravenette”, in Urban Dictionary, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2021:
text: “That's my boss lady. Smart, strong, and super sexy,” he said, giving the ravenette an exaggerated wink.
ref: 2018, Brandon Varnell, Enclave (The Executioner Series; 3), [s.l.]: Kitsune Incorporated, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: The ravenette smiled. Today was her little sister’s birthday, and what better way to commemorate than eating salad brimmed with the freshest of fruits. Following Tala, Amihan felt her heart sore. Luscious short brown hair, almond-shaped eyes, gleaming smiles, there is no one as extravagant as her beloved, Bagwis.
ref: 2020 September, Darcy Encarnacion, “When It Falls”, in Scribbles, volume 1, number 1, Manila: De La Salle University Writers’ Guild, page 14:
glosses: A raven-haired person (especially a woman).
hexfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexfoils
Senses: glosses: Variant of hexafoil.
Melvilleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Melvillean
Adderbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4735).
non-reflecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reflecting.
Senses: examples: text: Facing the screen are rows of seats, but it is possible to see the panels through a long non-reflecting window without having to enter the building.
ref: 1951 August, “Notes and News: New Train Arrival Bureau at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 567:
glosses: Alternative form of nonreflecting.
tsarouchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsarouchis
form: tsarouchi
Etymology: From Greek τσαρούχι (tsaroúchi).
Senses: examples: text: His trousers, patched like his coat, dropped over a pair of scarlet charouhias, leather shoes with upturned toes decorated with a large black-and-white pompon.
ref: 1956, Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals, Penguin, page 47:
text: Here the struggle of Greece is fought with half a tsarouchi (the distinctive pompommed clogs worn by mountain fighters), rags, a loaf of bread, a handful of corn, and with home-made guns, axes, and poles."
ref: 1977, Linda Suny Myrsiades, “Greek Resistance Theatre in World War II”, in The Drama Review: TDR, volume 21, number 1, page 102:
glosses: Traditional Greek leather shoe with pompom, now worn only by the evzonoi.
Rickinson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
handwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handwash
de-icer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de-icers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deicer.
de-icers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of de-icer
scissor crossover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scissor crossovers
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of scissors crossover.
synonyms: word: scissors crossover
scissor crossovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scissor crossover
closing time effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closing time effect
English lavenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of English lavender
outside job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outside jobs
Etymology: From outside + job, by analogy with inside job.
Senses: examples: text: The resource officer suspected the rape incident at our high school coffee shop was an outside job.
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
antonyms: inside job
glosses: A crime or other illicit action committed by an individual not connected or associated with the premises or organization in which it took place.
outside jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outside job
Trigwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A suburb near McAlinden, Western Australia.
drama queenery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drama queen + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Drama queenish behavior; drama queenism.
dominotier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dominotiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French dominotier.
Senses: glosses: wallpaper maker
McAlinden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A rural locality in the Shire of Boyup Brook, Western Australia.
trailer parker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailer parkers
Etymology: From trailer park + -er.
Senses: examples: text: there ain't much diffurnce tween the homeless and us trailer parkers but a few millimeters of tin on top and sides.
ref: 1999 November 23, Fred Lanyard, “Howard Johnson's in Miami”, in rec.travel.cruises (Usenet):
text: Retail stores from WalMart to Orvis sell fly fishing motif bullshit to everybody from trust fund millionaires to trailer parkers, from flyfishing experts to folks who only use mono to hang their suncatchers.
ref: 2001 October 25, rb608, “Catch and release?”, in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly (Usenet):
text: just another Bible-thumping "evanghoul" getting fat and powerful off the dollars of destitute trailer parkers desperate for hope
ref: 2012, Gary Braver, Tunnel Vision, page 142:
glosses: A resident of a trailer park.
commitment ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commitment rings
Senses: topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: A ring that indicates a level of commitment beyond casual dating, but not yet committed to marriage.
Related terms: engagement ring
wedding ring
commitment rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commitment ring
Boyup Brook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally named Boyup in 1900, and renamed in 1909 to avoid confusion with Boyanup.
Senses: glosses: A town and local government area (the Shire of Boyup Brook) in the South West region, Western Australia.
wikipedia: Boyanup, Western Australia
jilboob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jilboobs
Etymology: Blend of jilbab + boob
Senses: glosses: A Muslim woman who wears the jilbab while at the same time wearing a tight dress or blouse emphasizing her breasts.
Related terms: hoejabi
jilboobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jilboob
Dedekind
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
Derived terms: Dedekind cut
Dedekind domain
Dedekind ring
commitmentphobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commitmentphobia
dries up and blows away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dry up and blow away
drying up and blowing away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of dry up and blow away
dried up and blew away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of dry up and blow away
dried up and blown away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of dry up and blow away
outside employment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
law
synonyms: outside work
glosses: Any form of employment or business relationship involving the provision of paid or unpaid personal services.
Dr Atkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Atkins diet.
synonyms: word: Atkins diet
Dr. Atkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Atkins diet.
synonyms: word: Atkins diet
Doctor Atkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Atkins diet.
synonyms: word: Atkins diet
paleo diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleo diets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paleo diet.
paleo-diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleo-diets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paleo diet.
Paeleo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Paeleo diet.
paeleo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of paleodiet.
Paeleo diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paeleo diets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paleo diet.
Paleo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Paleo diet.
paeleodiet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paeleodiets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paeleo diet.
paeleo diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paeleo diets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paeleo diet.
Helmholtz resonance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: wind throb
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: The phenomenon of air resonance in a cavity, occurring when air is forced in and out of the cavity, causing the air inside to vibrate at a specific natural frequency.
Related terms: helicopter ear
wind throb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Helmholtz resonance.
synonyms: word: Helmholtz resonance
helicopter ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A form of Helmholtz resonance experienced in a moving vehicle, when one of the windows is rolled down.
penisish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penis + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a penis.
penis-cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Egyptology
anthropology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A covering or concealment of the penis found on certain statues in Ancient Egypt.
makes time with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make time with
making time with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of make time with
made time with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make time with
bug nations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bug nation
chickens from hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken from hell
hell chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hell chicken
wyliei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Wylie J. Tuttle, the grandson of Lee B. Foster, one of the donors to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A specific name, found in several species.
wikipedia: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Derived terms: Anzu wyliei
takes it outside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take it outside
took it outside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take it outside
taken it outside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take it outside
taking it outside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of take it outside
jaw-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jaw-like
form: most jaw-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jawlike.
co-occurrence network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-occurrence networks
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A text analysis method that visually represents relationships among entities based on their co-occurrence in electronic text.
co-occurrence networks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-occurrence network
well acquainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Very familiar with someone or something.
stealther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stealthers
Senses: glosses: One who engages in stealthing, the secretive or deceptive removal of a condom.
stealthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stealther
Wool Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The bay was named for the old practice of rolling bales of wool down the cliffs to ships moored at the jetty. The town was originally named Pickering, but was renamed after the bay by 1940.
Senses: glosses: A town and bay in Yorke Peninsula council area, South Australia.
Domestos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He's been drinking Domestos, no wonder he's clean round the bend.
He's so small he hires himself out to stand on top of wedding cakes.[…]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Roy Chubby Brown, George Proudman, Roy "Chubby" Brown - The Antiques Jokeshow - Jokes from the Attic - EBook, The Celebrity Gift Company Ltd:
text: He was expecting it to taste like Domestos, but in fact it was quite bearable. A bit like Russian sparkling wine without the bubbles. And sweeter. But he didn't fancy the idea of getting drunk on it. “That is, I thought I saw Sosnowski[…]
ref: 2010, Zygmunt Miloszewski, Entanglement, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 312:
text: Meanwhile, in the vicarage kitchen Joseph was preparing a new and subtle variation to his home-made greengage wine, happily oblivious to the fact it tasted like Domestos, while Maurice Tupham was walking across the High Street to[…]
ref: 2010 February 23, Jack Sheffield, Village Teacher, Random House, →ISBN, page 277:
text: Bryan continued to smoke
And fix us with fidgety eyes until one day
He drank Domestos
And his secret smile died.
ref: 2016, Trisha Broomfield, The Equator and other Disappointments, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 19:
text: […] the southern end of Camden, so Mornington Crescent and Fitzrovia were awash with Domestica, which tasted like Domestos, and littered with the shards of intentionally cracked crockery. There was the famous late night carouser's kebab[…]
ref: 2019 March 7, Robert Elms, London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City, Canongate Books, →ISBN:
text: (He's probably shining a torch through his veins and drinking Domestos. Bon appétit, Donald.)
ref: 2021 January 5, Lenny Henry, Marcus Ryder, Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: A (brand of) household cleaner which contains bleach.
supracontext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supracontexts
Etymology: From supra- + context.
Senses: glosses: The larger context surrounding various subcontexts.
supracontexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supracontext
natural religions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural religion
Biffin's bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Cassell's Dictionary of Slang suggests it is from biff (“hit”) because one biffs against it during sex.
Senses: glosses: The perineum.
T-shirtable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From T-shirt + -able.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:T-shirtable.
glosses: Short and quotable enough to be put on a T-shirt; suitable for putting on a T-shirt.
Lewknor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU7197).
Peisistratid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Pisistratid
Etymology: From Peisistrat(us) + -id, ultimately from Ancient Greek Πεισίστρατος (Peisístratos).
Senses: examples: text: As long as urban conditions were kept tolerable, the issue might never be pressed, and later writers comment on the mild and enlightened atmosphere of Peisistratid rule.
ref: 1964, A. French, Growth of the Athenian Economy, London: Routledge; Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek tyrant Peisistratus (ruled 546–527 B.C.E.) or his family, particularly his two sons, Hipparchus and Hippias.
Pisistratid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Peisistratid.
nobody crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nobody crabs
form: no-body crab
form: nobody-crab
Etymology: Compound of no + body + crab, referring to its extremely small torso.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody crabs can be found by anybody with the patience to look. They slowly crawl about on the surface of seaweeds and invertebrates, and look like a spider with a very bad dose of rust in its joints.
ref: 1975, David Bellamy, The Life-Giving Sea, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: A sea spider.
nobody crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nobody crab
collocation extraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The automated process of identifying and extracting word combinations that frequently appear together in a given corpus.
Related terms: statistically improbable phrase
sea-lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-lavenders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea lavender.
sea-lavenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-lavender
rosemary pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosemary pines
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of three common pines of the southeastern United States: the loblolly pine, the longleaf pine, and the shortleaf pine.
glosses: Lumber obtained from these trees.
rosemary pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosemary pine
theophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theophages
Etymology: From theo- + -phage; compare theophagy.
Senses: examples: text: […] "He's an immortal, a theophage like I am, like Ka'an and Medur -- gods. We were all mortal once, but he's forgotten that. He's eaten all the rest, and made the world think he's the only one. Now he's going to go eat Ka'an, and then he'll eat us."
ref: 2006 August 1, Jesse Hajicek, The God Eaters, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 355:
text: The theophage who had devoured Deimos, the Greek god of terror, was flying away with the little girl I cared about, and I was totally okay with that. A pair of ruby eyes caught the light in the shadows across the street. A bouda[…]
ref: 2021 January 12, Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir, NYLA, →ISBN:
glosses: A god-eater, one who eats a god.
examples: text: […] his eucharistic theology would presumably make unadulterated theophages (God-eaters) of us all. This in turn exposes a more general flaw in Eutychianism : a failure to make sufficient allowance for the distinctiveness of three the consubstantial Trinity. persons of We must also consider[…]
ref: 2007, Ben Quash, Michael Ward, Heresies and how to Avoid Them: Why it Matters what Christians Believe, SPCK Publishing, page 48:
text: At this time Protestants particularly identified Catholics as cannibals because Catholics insisted on Christ's real presence in the host, devoured Him raw (not cooked) and as 'theophages' also necessarily became 'theochèzes' (ibid.:239).
ref: 2011, Heike Behrend, Resurrecting Cannibals: The Catholic Church, Witch-hunts, and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 49:
text: […] whereby Roman Catholics are cannibals, 'anthropophages' (anthropophagists), 'theophages' (god-eaters), 'theologastres' (god-gobblers), even 'Polyphages diffamées' (vilely excessive eaters). extremists also often sexualized their attacks on Roman Catholics, for instance: […]
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Guild, Unsettling Montaigne: Poetics, Ethics and Affect in the Essais and Other Writings, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 31:
qualifier: typically derogatory
glosses: One who believes that the Eucharist is the body of God, and consumes it.
theophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theophage
board-certified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Designating a physician or other professional whose qualifications have been approved by an official group.
rapless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæpləs/
Forms: form: more rapless
form: most rapless
Etymology: From rap + -less.
Senses: examples: A rapless version of the song is on this CD.
glosses: Without rap music.
XLT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XLTs
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
coordinate_terms: XXS
XS
S
M
L
XL
XXL
XXXL
glosses: Initialism of extra large tall (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: LT
XL
glosses: A designation for a trim level within a model of trucks; it denotes high-end features.
XLT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: coordinate_terms: XXS
XS
S
M
L
XL
XXL
XXXL
qualifier: clothing sizes
glosses: extra large tall.
lookback time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: The amount of time elapsed between the moment that light is detected on Earth and the moment it was originally emitted by the source.
glide time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flexitime.
synonyms: word: flexitime
enchaussure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The overlay which makes a shield chaussé.
no-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nonexistent time.
Related terms: no time
as old as Methuselah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Extremely old.
perfumed terms of the time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A euphemism.
by a time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Sometimes, occasionally.
for the time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of for the time being.
synonyms: word: for the time being
for time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of for the time being.
synonyms: word: for the time being
hebiatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ephebiatrics.
synonyms: word: ephebiatrics
time is up
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time's up.
time-payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-payments
Senses: glosses: Payment that is based on the total amount of time worked.
glosses: Payment that is made in installments.
time-payments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-payment
why in time
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to add emphasis to “why” in a question.
Related terms: what in time
time-switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-switches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time switch.
time-switch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: time-switches
form: time-switching
form: time-switched
form: time-switched
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To activate a switch automatically at a preset time.
glosses: To equip with a time switch.
keys in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of key in
keying in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of key in
keyed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of key in
time draft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time drafts
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: A draft that is guaranteed by an issuing bank but only payable in full until over a specified amount of time after it is received and accepted.
time drafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time draft
docky time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A midmorning break.
time-switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-switch
time-switches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of time-switch
time-switching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of time-switch
time-switched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of time-switch
computational humor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A field within computational linguistics and artificial intelligence that leverages computers for research on humor.
nonacrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonacrid
form: most nonacrid
Etymology: From non- + acrid.
Senses: examples: text: The young leaves are comparatively nonacrid and are used extensively for luau.
ref: 1939, Carey Dunlap Miller, Charles Mountjoy Bice, John Carson Ripperton, Observations on the Life History of Fasciola Gigantica, page 64:
text: Caution should be used in tasting uncooked dasheens, for there is always the possibility that an acrid taro of similar appearance has become mixed with the nonacrid variety.
ref: 1953, M. W. Stone, F. B. Foley, D. H. Bixby, Effect of Soil Applications of Insecticides on the Growth and Yield of Vegetable Crops, page 3:
text: Although all raphides from acrid plants are needlelike in shape, many nonacrid plants contain needlelike raphides (Sakai 1979).
ref: 1983, Jaw-Kai Wang, Sally Higa, Taro, a Review of Colocasia Esculenta and Its Potentials, page 155:
glosses: Not acrid.
computational lexicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of computers to analyze lexicons, especially machine-readable dictionaries.
computational semantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of automating the creation and interpretation of meaning representations in natural language expressions.
party time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A time for entertainment or enjoying oneself.
glosses: A season for hosting parties.
content determination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of selecting and organizing information within a generated text.
burn time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burn times
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The amount of time in which which the propellant charge of a rocket engine is completely consumed.
glosses: The total amount of time a single load of wood will burn from the moment of ignition until the moment of smoldering.
burn time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns time
form: burning time
form: burned time
form: burned time
Senses: glosses: To waste time unnecessarily.