cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
'saur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'saurs
form: saur
Etymology: Clipping of dinosaur.
Senses: examples: text: —genetically uplifted the ancestors of the saurs, and culturally—at least—uplifted the kraken. We are used to thinking of these species as wise and ancient, which indeed they are, but the octopods are their 'Elder Race.'
ref: 2003, Ken MacLeod, Engine City, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 79:
text: The city-folk had learned not to run screaming at the sight of a 'saur with a human being on it, but they were still in sufficient awe that trouble was unlikely.
ref: 2006, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, The Sky People, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Are there other good candidates for a collective term? Mesosaur might work. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other saurs all lived during the Mesozoic Era – the age of reptiles – 252 to 66 million years ago.
ref: [2014 September 30, JV Chamary, “Paleosaurs: A Solution To The Dinosaur Dilemma?”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2022:
text: The bird comes cartwheeling out of the forest in a flurry of feathers and leathery wings. Only as it lands, crashing into the reeds at the edge of the river, does Willem realize that it is not a bird, but a winged saur.
ref: 2015, Brian Falkner, Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Who better to prank with dinosaurs than the king of 'saurs himself?
ref: 2015 June 16, Allison Bagg, “These Pranksters Dressed As Dinosaurs Scared The Sh*t Out Of Chris Pratt”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2023:
text: And her most recent tune, "Dinosaurs in Love," is about a pair of smitten 'saurs who find themselves dining at a party just before the apocalyptic event that wiped-out their race.
ref: 2020 January 29, Hannah Sparks, “3-year-old sings heartbreaking song about 'Dinosaurs in Love'”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2020:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A dinosaur.
'saurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'saur
Ampatuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.
sorcerer's apprentices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorcerer's apprentice
hypothenar eminence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothenar eminences
Senses: synonyms: hypothenar
glosses: The ulnar side of the human hand; the edge of the hand between the pinky and the outer side of the wrist.
hypothenar eminences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothenar eminence
serve cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serves cunt
form: serving cunt
form: served cunt
form: served cunt
Senses: examples: text: Honestly, each queen served C.U.N.T and although they had issues in rehearsal, the choreography was jaw-dropping.
ref: 2020 February 29, Sam Damshenas, “5 most gag-worthy moments from the Drag Race season 12 premiere”, in Gay Times, London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022:
text: Everything seemed to be thriving... besides the scene. In a town full of sentience, nightlife was dead. In all of April's 30 days, not a single moment was had. Nothing gagged us, nothing tore, and absolutely nothing served cunt. April was so lame. In fact, I just chose to skip the column that month entirely.
ref: 2022 June 15, Linux, “What You Missed Last Month in New York City (According to Linux)”, in Paper, New York, N.Y.: ENTtech Media Group, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2023:
text: Look, I'm just gonna say it: she's serving cunt here.
ref: 2022 October 13, Isabella Corbett, “Another Horror Film About A Killer Doll Is Coming But This One Does *Checks Notes* TikTok Dances”, in Pedestrian.tv, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2023:
text: "Serving cunt" now connotes ultimate girlboss status. If you "live, serve cunt, then die," that's a life well lived.
ref: [2023 May 15, David Mack, “The C-Word Is Everywhere Right Now — And Not in a Bad Way”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2023:
text: Penelope Ann Miller 100 percent serves cunt as mafia princess Tina Sabatini.
ref: 2023 April 20, Bethy Squires, “The Funniest Mobster Comedies Ever Shot”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 30 May 2023:
glosses: To act in a powerfully and unapologetically feminine manner.
Related terms: cunty
eat cunt
put one's whole pussy into
slay
serves cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serve cunt
serving cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serve cunt
served cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serve cunt
Calder Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Situated south of the River Calder.
Senses: glosses: A suburban village near Crigglestone, Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3016).
Ae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, some distance north of Dumfries (OS grid ref NX9889).
wikipedia: Water of Ae
Related terms: Ae star
puppy guarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In capture the flag, a player might get accused of puppy guarding if they are constantly standing on top of their own flag.
text: I really like this idea. It would also help in DM by making it harder for people to sit in one spot the whole time. No puppy guarding...
ref: 1996 July 16, Arthur Sankey, quoting JRo...@idsoftware.com, “11 Quake Monster Ideas!!”, in rec.games.computer.quake.editing (Usenet):
text: Once play begins there will be no re-calls, no re-re- calls, no replays, no redos, no puppy guarding, and no time-outs—unless authorized by me.
ref: 2003, Allen Kurzweil, Leon and the Spitting Image, New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, →ISBN, page 34:
text: "No puppy guarding," Ryder complained. "Go back to the slide." / Brayden burst out laughing. "I haven't heard 'puppy guarding' in years. I can't believe kids still use it."
ref: 2015, Stacy Claflin, Seaside Heartbeats, →ISBN, page 149:
synonyms: monkey guarding
babysitting
glosses: In various sports, playground games, etc.: spending the entire game defending a certain objective and thus preventing the normal progression of play.
monkey guarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ha remember playing hide and go seek freeze tag power-ranger ninja, with no monkey guarding, nd sneak peeking?
ref: 2012 January 31, @Tre_Moody, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2023:
text: no monkey guarding
ref: 2017 April 23, @jesseepls, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2023:
glosses: Synonym of puppy guarding.
synonyms: word: puppy guarding
dollar-store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: ten-cent
text: Once, I thought I saw her, but it was only another girl, with an East German guy, in the same dollar-store dress she’d worn for my camera.
ref: 1995, Pico Iyer, Cuba and the Night, page 34:
text: Weave tracks askew, postpregnancy bellies pushing dollar-store seams, they look a hot mess.
ref: 2005, Ayana D. Byrd, Akiba Solomon, Naked: Black Women Bare All about Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts, page 95:
text: We may cost a buck from the box but we don’t put out dollar store journalism.
ref: 2012 October 31, Rose DiManno, “Star introduces digital subscription because it costs big bucks to put out a decent paper”, in Toronto Star:
synonyms: word: poor man's
word: Wish.com
word: Poundland
word: pound-shop
word: Tesco Value
word: BTEC
word: pound-shop
extra: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy
glosses: Synonym of pound-shop: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.
Warnham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ1533).
aestho-physiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æstho-physiology
Etymology: Coined by English philosopher and biologist Herbert Spencer in 1872, from (a)esthesis + -o- + physiology.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to this there is the aesthetics of the subject and that leads naturally to what is sometimes called aestho-physiology or the study of the organs of sensation.
ref: 1950, International Perfurmer, volumes 1–3, page iii:
text: A vast amount of unravelling has been going on in the field of aestho-physiology; a few people, like Trystan Edwards and Corbusier, have stated principles which throw new light on old facts, but we still await a Lord Rutherford.
ref: 1968, Heating and Ventilation for a Human Environment […], page 20:
text: Although there is no general agreement on either the nature of experience or the substance of aestho-physiology, certain kinds of experiences have been highly valued for their aesthetic quality.
ref: 1986, Shibani Roy, Nicotine Water to Heroin, page 6:
glosses: The science of the relation between conscious human sensation and the physical nervous system.
freeze tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As part of the NFL initiative "Play 60," Garrard stressed to the 300 or so students the importance of at least an hour of exercise a day. He told them he enjoyed playing freeze tag, hide and seek or just playing with frogs outside.
ref: 2009 November 10, Mary Kelli Palka, “Student takes Jaguars QB to school”, in The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, F.L.: Gannett Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2023:
qualifier: playground games
glosses: A variant of the playground game tag, in which a tagged player, rather than becoming "it", becomes "frozen" (and forbidden from moving) but may be unfrozen by being touched by an untagged player.
Related terms: ice ice water
æstho-physiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aestho-physiology.
Pevensey Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and bay in Pevensey parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6504).
Normans Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Normans' Bay
Senses: glosses: A coastal settlement west of Bexhill, Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6805).
prospiracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prospiracies
Etymology: A play on the word conspiracy, where the con- element, reinterpreted as con (“a disadvantage”), has been altered to pro (“an advantage”). By surface analysis, pro- + conspiracy.
Senses: examples: text: Prospiracy. A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing. [Page heading]
ref: 1897, Gelett Burgess, chapter 5, in Vivette: Or, The Memoirs of the Romance Association, 2nd edition, volumes 1–3, Boston: Copeland & Day, page 141:
text: According to this narrative, we are part of a vast ancient prospiracy to awaken humanity to its spiritual greatness and create a movement of solidarity that brings about a next age of conscious evolution.
ref: 2011 March 31, Daniel Pinchbeck, “Daniel Pinchbeck: 10”, in Dazed, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:
text: In my positive psychology class, I have student mentors who help lead small groups. One of the challenges I give each mentor is to create a "prospiracy" for someone in their group who could use a boost. You're familiar with conspiracies, which are organized, secret commitments to do wrong. A prospiracy keeps the organized secrecy part but swaps evil for good.
ref: 2019 March 19, Chase Mielke, The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again, ASCD, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: A secret plan by a group to do something beneficial.
prospiracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prospiracy
take something to one's grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes something to one's grave
form: taking something to one's grave
form: took something to one's grave
form: taken something to one's grave
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take something to the grave.
missharpen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missharpens
form: missharpening
form: missharpened
form: missharpened
Etymology: From mis- + sharpen.
Senses: examples: text: It is our opinion that this missharpening and thus consequent misuse would be the basic and primary source of the failure.
ref: 1981, Charles O. Smith, Products Liability: Are You Vulnerable?, page 128:
text: Curbow credibly testified that a production line supervisor brought one bad cutter to Curbow complaining about how it was sharpened; Curbow thereafter checked the toolcrib and found three others similarly missharpened.
ref: 1983, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1404:
text: If you have missharpened an instrument in this manner, you will notice that it does not engage calculus readily; instead , there is a tendency to slip over deposits.
ref: 1991, Anna Matsuishi Pattison, Gordon L. Pattison, Periodontal Instrumentation, page 298:
text: I no longer have to worry about the possibility of the bits being missharpened or poorly swaged.
ref: 2006, The Northern Logger and Timber Processor - Volume 55, page 8:
glosses: To sharpen incorrectly.
missharpens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missharpen
missharpening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missharpen
missharpened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missharpen
crewcab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crewcabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crew cab.
crewcabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crewcab; alternative form of crew cabs
pigfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally coined by American music journalist Robert Christgau in 1983 to derisively describe the raucous sound of Sonic Youth. Later took on a meaning of its own, describing a style not specifically associated with the band.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, there's the folks at Sub Pop, who've cashed in on this new Singlesmania big-time, turning every indie/pigfuck record buyer into a rabid collector by deliberately limiting the pressings of their Singles Of The Month and then finding the hippest bands around to record.
ref: 1989 September, Jim Testa, Jersey Beat, number 38, Weehawken, N.J.: Jim Testa, →OCLC, Constant Listener, page 26:
text: The camera is facing Slash’s back, so there is no way to see his reaction to the song that he is accompanying, but the crowd—thrown by the initial “cops and niggers,” even though Axl [Rose] builds a reaction into the song; “that’s right,” he sings, as if to say yes, I intended to say that—has caught up by the time he sings “immigrants and faggots,” and giggles appreciatively. It’s the Pussy Galore, Big Black, pigfuck era in post-punk terms. A lot of shit has been said at CB’s; this is just more.
ref: 2007, Eric Weisbard, Use Your Illusion I and II (33⅓), New York: Continuum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:
text: Monumentally caustic but hypothetically a dance band, Sleigh Bells sculpt infectious double-dutch funk from an unlikely acid bath of distorted drum machines and nasal pigfuck guitars.
ref: 2010 July, Christopher R. Weingarten, Spin, volume 26, number 6, New York, N.Y.: SPIN Media LLC., →ISSN, →OCLC, Reviews [Albums], page 90:
text: That band [Shellac] hit the ground sprinting with 1994’s At Action Park, a thunderous debut that seemed obsessed with one-upping all the pigfuck and post-rock outfits that had sprung up in Albini’s wake.
ref: 2014 July 30, Jason Heller, “Steve Albini's 10 Best Records”, in Pitchfork, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, archived from the original on 06 May 2023:
text: In 2016, the group [Bruges] released a five-song demo of sludgy pigfuck noise-rock layered with distorted bass and ear-piercing guitar feedback, but on their brand-new singles “Through a Muted Lens” and “Atop a Precipice,” the group really show what they're made of.
ref: 2018 December, Luce Cimarusti, edited by Anne Elizabeth Moore, Chicago Reader, volume 47, number 11, Chicago, IL: STM Reader, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, Music, page 32:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of punk rock that originated in the 80s American underground rock scene, incorporating more noisy, transgressive, and caustic elements than traditional punk rock and primarily associated with such acts as Big Black, Butthole Surfers, and The Jesus Lizard.
wikipedia: Sonic Youth
YouTube
Related terms: post-hardcore
noise rock
shralp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shralps
form: shralping
form: shralped
form: shralped
Senses: examples: text: Shralp on down to the show room and scope it out.
ref: 1989, Vermont Magazine, volumes 1-2, North Country Pub., page 25:
text: You see that turn and it looks like "shralp." You'd never imagine Pat Caldwell can do the things he does as big and tall as he is. He's so loose, he can turn on a dime and he's just... just Pat.
ref: 1990, Body Boarding, volume 6, number 4, Western Empire Publications:
text: In an attempt to find and "shralp the gnarl," or "extreminate," we wandered farther and farther from the lifts. We couldn't believe how good the snow was after an uncommon two weeks of rain.
ref: 1996, Skiing, Mar-Apr edition, volume 48, number 7, →ISSN, page 51:
text: Who is your hero? Dick Schmidt. Mad props to all the carps who still shralp on shortboards.
ref: 1999, Surfer, volume 40, numbers 7-12, Surfer Publications:
text: Web video producers who partner can get a lot further than those who attempt to do everything on their own. Publish a Blog You should use a blog platform to. Working with Public relations Firms forum snowboards shralp!
ref: 2012 August 6, Richard Harrington, Mark Weiser, Professional Web Video: Plan, Produce, Distribute, Promote and Monetize Quality Video, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 243:
text: You're right, Andrew Glouberman would kill himself. But Andrew Birch is gonna shralp this pow-pow.
ref: 2021 November 5, Victor Quinaz, “Sugarbush” (13:37 from the start), in Big Mouth, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Andrew (John Mulaney):
glosses: To shred, rip, or tear.
shralps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shralp
shralping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shralp
shralped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shralp
misshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misshifts
form: misshifting
form: misshifted
form: misshifted
Etymology: From mis- + shift.
Senses: examples: text: His expert testimony indicated that it would have been technologically feasible and economically viable to install a warning system, at a cost of between $20 to $50, that would cause a horn to go off and a light to flash on the shift indicator if the driver should misshift the vehicle or begin to leave it when the gear shift was not latched in park.
ref: 1989, Trial Lawyers Quarterly - Volume 20, page 13:
text: If you wait until later, your drivetrain is liable to misshift under the hard pedaling load.
ref: 1990, Joe Kita, Bicycling Magazine's New Bike Owner's Guide, page 28:
text: This skill takes a while to develop, and even the best riders misshift from time to time, but with time shifting becomes second nature.
ref: 1996, Dave King, Michael Kaminer, The Mountain Bike Experience:
glosses: To change gears incorrectly, such as switching into the wrong gear or ending up in a state when the vehicle is not in gear, or being in the wrong gear for a certain time of driving when another gear is required.
examples: text: After checking the original data, we found that this trace was misshifted in the original gather.
ref: 1992, Stanford Exploration Project - Issue 73, page 195:
text: "You misshifted?” He takes several deep breaths. “Into what?” “A panther,” I whisper down into my plate.
ref: 2010, Fresno Scifi, Fantasy Writers, I Dreamed a Crooked Dream, page 198:
text: By using this as a cue, it is thought that their sense of direction was less likely to misshift.
ref: 2022, Francisco Rebelo, Ergonomics in Design, page 515:
glosses: To change direction, location, or form incorrectly.
misshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misshifts
Etymology: From mis- + shift.
Senses: examples: text: So, the eventual coordinate misshift should not be significant.
ref: 2004, João Agria Torres, EUREF Publication No. 13, page 144:
text: A misshift or a dropped chain can really ruin your cadence and momentum.
ref: 2006, Marla Streb, Bicycling Magazine's Century Training Program, page 176:
text: Four misshifts and a throttle burp later, I couldn't stand it anymore, and made him surrender control of the vehicle.
ref: 2008, Chris Lemmon, A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father:
text: These hyperliterary historical misshifts centered in the superheated technological and cultural engine of the US-centric English-speaking imperium.
ref: 2009, Francisco J. Ricardo, Literary Art in Digital Performance, page 182:
glosses: An instance of misshifting (either sense).
misshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misshift
misshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misshift
misshifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misshift
misshifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misshift
Foxitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Fox + -itis, after Fox News, an American conservative news and political commentary television channel and website.
Senses: examples: text: In May, 2021, the defence for US Capitol rioter Anthony Antonio, put forward the argument that Mr. Antonio was suffering from “Foxitis” - a condition brought on by watching excessive amounts of FOX NEWS in the six months prior to the insurrection.
ref: 2021 July 20, Kyle Hamilton, edited by Ruben Verborgh, Anastasia Dimou, Aidan Hogan, Claudia d'Amato, Ilaria Tiddi, Arne Bröring, Simon Mayer, Femke Ongenae, Riccardo Tommasini, and Mehwish Alam, The Semantic Web: ESWC 2021 Satellite Events: Virtual Event, June 6–10, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, volume 12739, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 230:
text: “Lawyer Blames 'Foxitis' for His US Capitol Riot Client's Actions, as Another Defendant Derails Hearings With Profane Outbursts”
ref: 2022 October 15, Thomas E. Brymer, FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY: Our Dangerous Civic Illiteracy, A Conservative's Conscience, and Rethinking American Citizenship, BookLocker.com, Inc, →ISBN:
text: Indeed, several people arrested for participating in the insurrection attempt on January 6, 2021, used as their defense that they were victims of “Foxitis,” misdirected by the continuous misinformation.
ref: 2022 October 24, David L. Altheide, Gonzo Governance: The Media Logic of Donald Trump, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
text: Because they weren't strong enough to pull away. It's not my fault; it was “Foxitis.” Imagine the lives saved and destruction avoided if honesty, integrity, and maintaining the highest ethical standards in journalism were the norm instead of the exception.
ref: 2023 January 6, Nitki's Dad, The Warrior Within, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A notional disease caused by overconsumption of right-wing media.
wikipedia: Fox News
Related terms: Fox News brain
thumb fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumb fights
Senses: examples: text: You make a fist and then you move your thumb on top of the bent fingers, like you're ready to have a thumb fight with someone. It's not a natural human gesture. It tries to straddle both sides, you know? To be powerful, but not aggressive.
ref: 2012 April 15, Carina Chocano, quoting Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Julia Louis-Dreyfus Takes the White House”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2023:
text: There would be confusion over where to place the thumb, and for a thumb fight I think you would win in terms of speed and movement!
ref: 2020 November 27, Katie Hunt, quoting Ameline Bardo, “Neanderthals may have used their hands differently from humans”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2020:
glosses: Synonym of thumb war.
synonyms: word: thumb war
thumb fights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumb fight
misship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misships
form: misshipping
form: misshipped
form: misshipped
Etymology: From mis- + ship.
Senses: examples: text: Agent Garretson had suggested to Yoshida that he could arrange for an IBM employee to misship a kit, and if Yoshida could find a buyer he would give Yoshida a sizable share of the profits.
ref: 1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Unfair Foreign Trade Practices, page 33:
text: The FBI would come, find our bundles and water them down, or misship our stuff on purpose.
ref: 2011, Sean Stewart, On the Ground:
text: Rations were coming to us direct from Pusan, but carloads of supplies from Pohang-dong, which had been delayed or misshipped, were still arriving.
ref: 2017, Cpt. John G. Westover, Combat Support in Korea:
glosses: To ship incorrectly, such as to the wrong location or at the wrong time.
misships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misship
misshipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misship
misshipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misship
misshipment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misshipments
Etymology: From mis- + shipment.
Senses: examples: text: In an action for loss sustained by misshipment of freight to the wrong destination, plaintiff was entitled to testify to a statement by defendant's agent as to what the freight would be, when directions were given to ship the car to a correct destination.
ref: 1913, Atlantic Reporter - Volumes 85-86, page 162:
text: L.A. Gear, which, Schilit explains, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with overstating its income by including as revenue one-time credits from vendors for supplier misshipments and other sourcing troubles.
ref: 1993 October, Janet Bodnar, “Books”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 47, number 10, page 122:
text: Occasionally, as in the case of Bobby Collins, employees were not disciplined for misship ments.
ref: 2000, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 270:
text: Cables accounted for only 16% of the short shipments and misshipments.
ref: 2017, Paul Gardiner, Project Management: A Strategic Planning Approach, page 233:
glosses: A shipment that is misdelivered; an instance of misshipping.
misshipments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misshipment
momarazzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of mom + paparazzi.
Senses: examples: text: Her mother was snapping pictures with wild abandon. When Cindy apologized for the "momarazzi," Night saw again the real Cindy—the one who needed to act, not just for the pay, but for others to hear her.
ref: 2006, Michael Bamberger, The Man Who Heard Voices, Gotham Books, →ISBN, pages 129–130:
text: The momarazzi describes moms who take so many pictures of their kids that they have a new album for every day, week, or month of their lives. They're documoms who specialize in photos of everyday life, like bath time or playtime or naptime. Momarazzis can't even determine which pictures are worth posting on Facebook anymore because they have hundreds and hundreds to choose from.
ref: 2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents: The Jaw-Dropping, Self-Indulgent, and Occasionally Rage-Inducing World of Parent Overshare, New York, N.Y.: Pedigree Books, →ISBN, page 186:
text: I'd made a mental note to step my fashion game up a notch moving forward, and bought a cute new chevron-print blouse before I left the store with my order in hand. All I needed was a few more hot stores like that—especially ones the Main Line momarazzi frequented—and I'd be set.
ref: 2015, Kristin Contino, The Legacy of Us: A Novel, Tempe, A.Z.: SparkPress, →ISBN, page 171:
text: And later, Ross glaring into the camera, impatient with me, the Momarazzi—Enough with the pictures!—a string of pink taffy hanging out of his mouth.
ref: 2017, Claudia Hunter Johnson, Hurtling Toward Happiness: A Mother and Teenage Son's Road Trip From Blues to Bonding in a Really Small Car, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 66:
text: "We call her the momarazzi because she takes too many photos, and I really thought we were going to get busted," Wilson continues. "Like someone was going to report us for just like driving really slowly up to kids and taking their photo, but we're just two Australian chicks wanting to learn about trick-or-treating."
ref: 2018 October 31, Paige Gawley, “Ellen DeGeneres Deserves the Final Rose for Her 'Bachelor' Contestant Costume”, in ET Online, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023:
glosses: A mother who takes an excessive amount of photos of her children.
Related terms: documom
Isekiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Isekiris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Itsekiri.
Isekiri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Itsekiri.
Ishekiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ishekiris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Itsekiri.
Ishekiri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Itsekiri.
emu bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emu bobs
Etymology: The motion of the people repeatedly bending down and standing up is likened to emus bobbing their head as they forage on the ground.
Senses: synonyms: emu parade
emu patrol
glosses: A task assigned to a group of people, especially schoolchildren or army recruits, where they move around an area and pick up rubbish from the ground.
glosses: Any activity which involves repetitive bending down over a wide area, such as searching for clues relating to somebody's disappearance.
emu parade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emu parades
Senses: glosses: Synonym of emu bob.
synonyms: word: emu bob
emu patrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emu patrols
Senses: glosses: Synonym of emu bob.
synonyms: word: emu bob
serdyuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serdyuks
form: Serdiuk
form: serdiuk
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian сердю́к (serdjúk), in turn originated from Ottoman Turkish سورتوك (“streetwalker, dirty vagrant”). Compare Turkish sürtük.
Senses: glosses: a Cossack soldier who serves as a mercenary for the hetman under the Zaporizhian Army.
Korku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Korku
form: Kurku
Senses: glosses: A member of a Munda people of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Korku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kurku
Senses: glosses: A Munda language spoken in central India.
Kurku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kurku
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Korku.
Kurku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Korku.
submentonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Beneath the chin
blahajs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blahaj
Alamada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Cotabato, Philippines.
aerothermodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an aerothermodynamic manner.
alkylbenzenesulfonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkylbenzenesulfonates
Senses: glosses: An alkyl derivation of benzenesulfonate.
allotetraploidisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotetraploidisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allotetraploidization.
alpha-adrenoreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha-adrenoreceptors
Senses: synonyms: alpha-receptor
glosses: An alpha-adrenergic receptor.
alpha-hydroxyprogesterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha-hydroxyprogesterones
form: 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone
Senses: glosses: An alpha derivative of hydroxyprogesterone used for the diagnosis of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
good-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: goodass
form: good ass
Etymology: From good + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: In an interview with the Root, Megan Thee Stallion addressed this seemingly gendered nature. “[Hot girl summer]^([sic]) is basically just about women — and men — just being unapologetically them, just having a good-ass time.”
ref: 2019 July 19, Carlos De Loera, quoting Megan Thee Stallion, “The ‘hot girl summer’ meme, explained”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Very good.
alpha-methyltryptamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alphamethyltryptamine.
mini skip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini skips
form: mini-skip
form: miniskip
Senses: glosses: A small-sized waste container, which can be hired for waste disposal when a standard-size skip is too large.
mini skips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini skip.
Caucasian shepherd dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caucasian shepherd dogs
Senses: examples: text: However, the director of a circus in the Teltow area told local media he was not aware of any lions being held in circuses or private zoos in the area and said the animal could be a misidentified Caucasian shepherd dog.
ref: 2023 July 20, Philip Oltermann, “Lioness believed to be on loose in Berlin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of Caucasian shepherd.
synonyms: word: Caucasian shepherd
Caucasian shepherd dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caucasian shepherd dog
anti-environmentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antienvironmentalism.
anti-establishmentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-establishmentarians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiestablishmentarian.
anti-foundationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antifoundationalism.
anti-foundationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-foundationalists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antifoundationalist.
anti-intellectualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-intellectualists
Senses: glosses: One who opposes intellectualism.
antiintellectualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiintellectualists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-intellectualist.
cryptorheic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From English crypto- (prefix meaning ‘hidden’) + Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, gush, stream”) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: A reasonable deduction would be that under karst (cryptorheic) conditions no surface streams would exist and that we should not look for a "drowned" surface drainage pattern.
ref: 1973, W. Manser, New Guinea Barrier Reefs, page 171:
text: Sonoran — extends from Río Sonoyta to the Río Yaqui and intervening small basins, most of them cryptorheic, through desert and semi-desert areas, west of the Sierra Madre Occidental.
ref: 1998, David P. Olson, Freshwater Biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean, page 35:
text: One of these is the cryptorheic basin (hidden river) in the Yucatan State, north of Quintana Roo.
ref: 2020, JA León-Borges, F Viveros-Jiménez, A. E. Rodre/guez-Mata, M.A. Lizardi-Jiménez, “Hydrocarbon contamination patterns in the cenotes of the Mexican caribbean: the application of principal component analysis”, in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, volume 105:
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: Draining through invisible, subterranean outflows.
raw_tags: of a basin or lake
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to an unspecified or unidentified discharge or secretion.
hysterosalpingostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A surgical procedure that connects the uterus to an occluded Fallopian tube.
ichthyoacanthotoxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Poisoning caused by the venomous spines of certain fishes.
inter-denominational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interdenominational.
inter-departmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interdepartmental.
inter-departmentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interdepartmentally.
inter-organizational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interorganizational.
inter-organisational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inter-organizational.
intercrystallization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercrystallizations
Senses: glosses: The crystallization of two or more substances at the same time.
intercrystallisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercrystallisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intercrystallization.
intercrystallize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intercrystallizes
form: intercrystallizing
form: intercrystallized
form: intercrystallized
Senses: glosses: To crystallize two or more substances at the same time.
intercrystallise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intercrystallises
form: intercrystallising
form: intercrystallised
form: intercrystallised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intercrystallize.
isopropylbenzylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A specific methamphetamine diluent.
Horsehead Nebula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From its resemblance to the head of a horse.
Senses: glosses: A small dark nebula in the constellation Orion.
Blanpain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Tannahill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tannahills
form: Tannehill
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Ayrshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Suell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Suells
Etymology: Variant spelling of Sewell.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Suells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Suell
Tannahills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tannahill
Simpler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Simplers
Etymology: Probably an altered form of German Simperl or Semperl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Siskos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sisko
Simplers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Simpler
Smithees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Smithee
Spindle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spindles
Etymology: Originally a nickname for someone who made, sold, or used spindles.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
Spindles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spindle
Odenthal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Odenthals
Etymology: Borrowed from German Odenthal.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Nagengast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nagengasts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Nagengast.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Nagengasts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nagengast
Odenthals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Odenthal
Pembleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pembletons
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Pemberton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pembletons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pembleton
Monfortes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Monforte
Paullin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paullins
Etymology: Variant of Paulin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Parrill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parrills
Etymology: From a pet form of the personal name Peter.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Parrills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Parrill
Paullins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paullin
Heygates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Heygate
lulzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lulzers
Etymology: From lulz + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The young hackers, crackers, whackers, lulzers get to take over a world that old fuckers like me have screwed up so fucking badly that I personallty am ashamed of what we've done …
ref: 2008 January 28, Friendly Xenu, “Friendly Xenu, a couple things”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: However, IMHO, it depends. Ignoring adolescent lulzers playing king of the hill is always prudent.
ref: 2011 February 17, hierophant, “Adem Will Attempt Any (Privacy) Li(e)”, in alt.privacy (Usenet):
text: [See title]
ref: 2011 September 15, Nigel Oldfield, “The Sun, the biggest troll, flamer and lulzer of them all, is on the case ...”, in uk.legal (Usenet):
glosses: A laughable person who makes one "lulz" (alteration of lol).
Related terms: LOLer
Woodhatch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woodhatchs
Etymology: Topographic surname for a keeper of a gate to a wood, from Old English wudu (“wood”) + hæċ (“hatch, door”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Woodhatchs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Woodhatch
Highgates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Highgate
lisdextroamphetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: lisdexamfetamine
magnetofluiddynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of magnetofluidodynamics.
micro-electro-mechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microelectromechanical.
micropaleontologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a micropaleontologic manner.
micropalaeontologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of micropaleontologically.
middle-of-the-roadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of adopting a centrist attitude.
nano-electro-mechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanoelectromechanical.
lulzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LULZers
Etymology: lulz + -ers
Senses: glosses: plural of lulzer.
examples: text: LMAO! This is the funniest shit...lulzers!!!
ref: 2012 January 6, Dotta Cypress, “Hey txTurdertx...”, in alt.sports.football.pro.gb-packers (Usenet):
glosses: Fun; amusement; humor; especially schadenfreude.
Derived terms: lulz0rs
lulz0rs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lulzers, derived from lulz + -ers, itself an alteration of lol. The replacing of e with a zero is a leetspeak rendering; see -0r.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lulz.
synonyms: word: lulz
Derived terms: for the lulz0rs
sumpsimuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumpsimus
downish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnɪʃ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪʃ
Forms: form: more downish
form: most downish
Etymology: From down + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Feeling somewhat depressed.
neuroophthalmologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroophthalmological.
neuro-ophthalmologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroophthalmologic.
spring bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring bars
Senses: glosses: A device consisting of two bars linked by a spring, held and squeezed to exercise the upper body.
neuro-ophthalmological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroophthalmological.
spring bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring bar
non-biodegradability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonbiodegradability.
Hollywooded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Hollywood
overcommercialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overcommercialization.
overintellectualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overintellectualisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overintellectualization.
New Hollywood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, characterized by a new generation of young filmmakers and by the prominence of the individual film director as opposed to the studio.
mad queen chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The modern variety of chess, in which the queen can travel any number of squares in one move, as opposed to earlier varieties in which the queen was less powerful.
Stern-Brocot tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stern-Brocot trees
Etymology: Introduced independently by Moritz Stern (1858) and Achille Brocot (1861).
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: An infinite complete binary tree whose vertices correspond one-for-one to the positive rational numbers, whose values are ordered from the left to the right as in a search tree.
Stern-Brocot trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stern-Brocot tree
Cuando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kwando
Senses: glosses: A river in south-central Africa, flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip and into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana.
Kwando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cuando (“river”).
beach bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach bags
Senses: examples: text: We were each carrying a beach bag filled with towels and sunscreen. Plus an ice chest filled with water, juice pouches, and beer, the absolute essentials for a day spent frolicking in Port A.
ref: 2020, Gigi Riggs, The Fookie Shack:
glosses: A bag for carrying items on a recreational trip to the beach, such as swimsuit and towel.
beach bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach bag
LISK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Long Island serial killer.
Lachine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A borough within the city of Montreal on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada; originally part of the settlement of New France.
Drakensberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, Southern Africa.
paint and sips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paint and sip
LITH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Lake in the Hills, Illinois.
Brienz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality on the northern shore of Lake Brienz, at the foot of the Brienzer Rothorn mountain, and in the Bernese Oberland region of Bern canton, Switzerland.
living stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of living rock (“rock carved in situ; trovant”).
synonyms: word: living rock
extra: rock carved in situ; trovant
synonyms: living rock
glosses: Any of various dwarf succulent plants that resemble stones.