cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sambusa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sambusas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sambuusa.
bullet catches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullet catch
funnel web
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnel webs
form: funnel-web
form: funnelweb
Senses: examples: text: Many a red-back, funnel-web, or other spider has found its resting days at the bottom of a vegemite jar shoved into some dark recess of the laundry.
ref: 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page 254:
text: I dived in right to the bottom and there it was, a three foot wide funnel-web with jaws like a tyrannosaurus and it was snapping at me.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 163:
glosses: A funnel-web spider, especially Atrax robustus.
glosses: A funnel-shaped web woven by a funnel-web spider or funnel-web tarantula.
Markush group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Markush groups
Etymology: See Markush claim.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any of the functionally equivalent chemical entities referenced in a Markush claim.
Markush groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Markush group
discoey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discoey
form: most discoey
Etymology: From disco + -ey.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of disco music.
long games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long game
kinzhal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinzhals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kindjal.
kinzhals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinzhal
whoreshits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whoreshit
pink tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pink ticket
umohoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umohoite
fatiha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatihas
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A prayer for the dead.
18C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Serious concerns have been raised about 18C's effect on freedom of expression. In this book, the authors argue that s 18C is too broad and too vague to be constitutional.
ref: 2016, Joshua Forrester, Lorraine Finlay, Augusto ZJoshua Forrester, Lorraine Finlay, Augusto Zimmermann, No Offence Intended: Why 18c Is Wrong:
text: The woman who pursued a racial discrimination action against Queensland University of Technology has dropped the case, just weeks after she failed in a last-ditch bid to restart her section 18C case against three students.
ref: 2017, Michael McKenna, Prior admits defeat in 18C uni battle, The Australian (Newspaper)
glosses: The section of the Racial Discrimination Act that makes it an offence to "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate" a person of a certain race, colour or national or ethnic origin.
rainbow unicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You're both still trying to make things the way they were before I was kidnapped. When I was all about fluffy rainbow unicorns and shit.
ref: 2017, Suzan Harden, Ravaged:
text: Her arms around him, his around hers, foreheads touching, eyes closed, they dream their dreamy dreams of rainbow unicorns and butteries. It doesn't get sweeter than this.
ref: 2018, Stefan Petrucha, Deadpool: Paws:
text: Hardly anyone wants to touch this subject, as it seems to be overwhelming and inconvenient. It's easier to believe in rainbow unicorns and pony.
ref: 2018, Jacob Niegowski, Forbidden Knowledge, page 48:
text: Just as in real life, you don't want anyone minimizing your loss with platitudes, you probably don't want a book about loss splattered with rainbow unicorns and bows, so think hopeful rather than happy for your ending.
ref: 2022, Rebecca Soffer, The Modern Loss Handbook:
text: Their need for attention is insatiable. It's pathological! No wonder they make up stories about angels and rainbow unicorns and cloud castles . They'll say anything to get noticed.
ref: 2024, Eric Schlich, Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife:
glosses: Alternative form of rainbows and unicorns.
creatard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creatards
form: creotard
Etymology: From create + -tard.
Senses: glosses: A creationist.
Synonyms: creo
Related terms: IDiot
creatards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creatard
evotard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evotards
Etymology: From evo- + -tard.
Senses: glosses: An evolutionist.
evotards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evotard
aborgoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aborgoins
form: abergoin
Etymology: Dialectal pronunciation of aborigine.
Senses: examples: text: A certain Mr. E., in early times in Ohio, who was very fond of the corn, as the Buckeyes call whiskey, took a notion to get married; and as the beverage in question was indispensable at all such gatherings of the aborgoins, in those days, the happy bridegroom could not resist his appetite for the bottle […].
ref: 1841, William Lyle Keys, Gleanings, page 33:
text: To Curwensville they hie them on frolic they are bent
And there indulge in all the sports the season can invent;
The "Aborgoins" are thunderstruck to see them cut up so,
And vow there's inspiration In this riding on the snow.
ref: 1858 March 10, The Raftsman's Journal, Pennsylvania, page 4:
text: And I may add that the severest critic of newspapers I ever met punctuated like a walking plow, pronounced "unique"' like it Is spelled, and referred to aboriginies as "aborgoins."
ref: 1916, Concordia Empire (Kansas), 2 March, p. 7
text: “I remember you could stand on Congress and hear billiards in one ear and whoopin' aborgoins out the other.”
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 412:
glosses: An aboriginal inhabitant; a Native American.
aborgoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aborgoin
mijlen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mijl
Dartford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːtfəd/
Etymology: From Darent + ford.
Senses: glosses: A town and borough in Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5474).
Derived terms: Dartford warbler
Dartford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːtfəd/
Forms: form: Dartfords
Etymology: From Darent + ford.
Senses: glosses: The Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata).
Darent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Proto-Brythonic *dar (“oak”). Cognate to the river Dart.
Senses: glosses: A river in Kent, England, which flows into the Thames.
Derived terms: Dartford
Related terms: Darenth
Longfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Longfields
Etymology: From Old English lang (“long”) + feld (“field”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Longfield and New Barn parish, Dartford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ604688).
glosses: A suburb of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8657).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Swanley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sweġen (“swain”) + lēah (“clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England, just outside Greater London (OS grid ref TQ5168).
glosses: A small settlement in Burland parish and Baddiley parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6152).
Farningham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5466).
tear-cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tear-cat
Greenhithe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When ready for sea we went up to Greenhithe, that their lordships might inspect us, and then to Portsmouth, to take troops to Cork, a pleasant trip; […]
ref: 1892, Sir George Giffard, Reminiscences of a Naval Officer, page 45:
glosses: A small town in Swanscombe and Greenhithe parish, Dartford borough, Kent, England.
glosses: A suburb of North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand.
Freikorps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Freikorps
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Freikorps.
Senses: synonyms: free corps
glosses: A German-speaking corps of military or paramilitary and free (autonomous) nature, in some cases a private militia or army; in particular, such a group linked to Germany.
Pabloists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pabloist
North Shore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹθ ˈʃɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: The municipality in Prince Edward Island is named for its location on the northern shore of the eponymous island.
Senses: glosses: A region of Sydney.
glosses: A large suburban area and former city on the north side of Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand. The city was merged into Auckland Council in 2010.
glosses: A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
glosses: The northern coastline of Oahu island, Hawaii, stretching from Kaena Point to Kahuku.
glosses: A large suburban area on Lake Michigan in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
dumbocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbocrats
Etymology: Blend of dumb + Democrat, equivalent to dumb + -o- + -crat.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: commiecrat
Democrap
Democreep
Democunt
Demoncrat
Demotard
Nazicrat
coordinate_terms: Repooplican
Republicant
Republicunt
Retardican
Rethuglican
glosses: A foolish Democrat.
dumbocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumbocrat
Fisherian runaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Ronald Fisher, who proposed it in the early 20th century.
Senses: synonyms: runaway selection
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A suggested sexual selection mechanism to account for the evolution of exaggerated male ornamentation (such as a peacock's plumage) by persistent, directional female choice.
wikipedia: Ronald Fisher
runaway selection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fisherian runaway.
synonyms: word: Fisherian runaway
sweat equities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweat equity
Hodgkin's lymphomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hodgkin's lymphoma
simulated annealings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simulated annealing
Swanscombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Swanscombe and Greenhithe parish, Dartford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6074).
selective distortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selective distortion
magnesium alloys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnesium alloy
unmanfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unmanful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As for my so-called ailment—which I had presumed was a symptom of age, and Sally had presumed was yet another symptom of my unmanfulness—there has been not a single sign.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 418:
glosses: The quality of being unmanful; effeminacy.
Eutychians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eutychian
Eutychean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eutychian.
Eutychean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eutycheans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eutychian.
Eutycheanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eutychianism.
Eutycheans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eutychean
Northfleet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town within Gravesham borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6274).
Related terms: Ebbsfleet
Southfleet
Gravesham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪvʃəm/
Senses: glosses: A borough of Kent, England. The main town is Gravesend.
sound on the goose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: While not exactly sound on the goose, slavery struck me as the natural state: we had slaves, the Indians had slaves, you shall enjoy the spoils of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 440:
glosses: Loyal to the party line; specifically, supporting the pro-slavery position in the pre-Civil War United States.
Purfleet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town beside the Thames in Thurrock borough, Essex, England, just outside Greater London (OS grid ref TQ5578).
who-hit-John
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The bottle of Who-Hit-John was only a quarter full now and he was giving serious thought to taking another swallow of the stuff, as harsh as it might be on a man's system.
ref: 1993, Jim Miller, Border Marshal, page 16:
text: Our leader, Colonel Sibley, found the march considerable boring, and a few weeks into it, he retired to the bed of his wagon, accompanied by two prostitutes and a barrel of who-hit-John.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 441:
glosses: Hard liquor; whiskey.
Related terms: who shot John
cat wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat wagons
Senses: examples: text: “Kid, I like women too, but not that way. You need time to get acquainted, drink a little, talk a little. In the cat wagon you got to get it over with and out in five minutes, no time to button your pants.”
ref: 1975, Nels Anderson, The American Hobo, page 54:
text: There was an uproad from the fire-eaters, who imagined they were fighting for human dignity and freedom from the northern elite, but more cat wagons were requisitioned and the complaining stopped.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 441:
glosses: A small brothel operating out of a wagon or similar vehicle, servicing travelling labourers, soldiers etc.
cat wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat wagon
gorbuson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorbusons
form: gaubison
form: gauvison
form: gavyson
form: gawvandhra
form: gawison
form: gawvison
form: gorbuzon
form: gorvison
form: govison
Senses: examples: text: When I got into the kitchen, my mother looks at me; 'Sam,' says she, 'what have you done with your waistcoat?' 'Why, noat,' says I, and I looked down at it; and, like a great gorbuson as I was, I had forgot to put it on, and there if I hadn't bin to church without my waistcoat.
ref: 1836, Charles Hooton, The Adventures of Bilberry Thurland, volume 2, page 98:
glosses: A stupid person; a simpleton; an idiot.
Synonyms: idiot
Thurrock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈθʌɹək/
Senses: glosses: A unitary authority and borough of Essex, England.
Derived terms: West Thurrock
Chadwell St Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and (non-civil) parish north of Tilbury, Thurrock, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ6478).
smooth clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth clams
Senses: glosses: Any of species Callista chione of bivalve mollusks.
smooth clams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smooth clam
Chadwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Scalford parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7824).
glosses: A hamlet in Sheriffhales parish, Shropshire, England, on the border with Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7814).
Derived terms: Chadwell Heath
Chadwell St Mary
Chadwell Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the former nearby settlement of Chadwell (Street), inherited from Middle English Chaldwelle, from Old English *Ċeald(an)wielle, from ċeald (“cold”) + wielle (“well”).
A spurious connection to the name of St. Chad was popular in the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A suburb which lies mainly within the borough of Barking and Dagenham, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4887).
wikipedia: St. Chad
Ockendon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /okɪndən/
text: IPA
Senses: glosses: An area which straddles the boundary between Greater London and Essex, England; North Ockendon is in Greater London and South Ockendon in Essex.
Related terms: Ockenden
South Ockendon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and parish in Thurrock borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ5881).
Aveley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a small town in Thurrock, Essex, England.
glosses: A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
MHTML
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of MIME HTML: a web page archive format that combines in a single document the HTML code and its linked resources such as images.
disorderlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disorderly
mbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mboxes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of mailbox.
mboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mbox
odsooks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ɒdˈzuːks/
Senses: examples: text: “Why, that is what I say,” cries the landlord, “whenever folks say who knows what may happen! Odsooks! should not I be a blockhead to lend my money to I know not who, because mayhap he may return it again? I am sure it is safe in my own bureau, and there I will keep it.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of gadzooks.
not a bother on someone
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He spent no more than a couple of hours in hospital, not a bother on him.
ref: 2005, Mary T. O'Connor, On the beat: a woman's life in the Gárda Síochána, page 112:
glosses: Someone is fine; all is well with someone.
Stanford-le-Hope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Situated on a small river named the Hope.
Senses: glosses: A town in Thurrock borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ6882).
edgelords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edgelord
Daurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daurian
Dahurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dahurian
beta functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beta function
glam bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glam band
isomaltotrioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isomaltotriose
AGAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AGA
gawvison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gawvisons
Senses: examples: text: Why, you're a gawvison for not knowing what it is—I thought ye Londoners ha knawn every thing—a gawvison's a ninny hammer—Now, do you, think, Sur, at I look ought like a gawvison?
ref: 1761, Joseph Reed, “The Register-Office”, in A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces, volume 3, published 1792, page 328:
text: Dixon advanced, and made two or three unlucky attempts at a speech; which his wife observing, she edged forwards, hoping madam would excuse him for being such a gawvison, for she was sure he meant no harm.
ref: 1813, Barbara Hofland, Patience and Perseverance, volume 3, page 5:
text: "Kae! ye gawvison!" exclaimed the opposite party, evidently tickled with the implied compliment.
ref: 1830, Edward Duros, Derwentwater, page 86:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gorbuson.
gorbusons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorbuson
pendejismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pendejismo.
Senses: glosses: stupidity, assholery, the quality of being a pendejo.
Lincoln County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋ.kən ˈkaʊn.ti/
rhymes: -aʊnti
Etymology: Named after Abraham Lincoln, except where noted.
Senses: glosses: One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Star City.
glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Hugo.
glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Lincolnton. Named after Benjamin Lincoln.
glosses: One of 44 counties in Idaho, United States. County seat: Shoshone.
glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Lincoln Center.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Stanford. Named after Benjamin Lincoln.
glosses: One of 16 counties in Maine, United States. County seat: Wiscasset. Named after Lincoln, England.
glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Ivanhoe.
glosses: One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Brookhaven.
glosses: One of 114 counties in Missouri, United States. County seat: Troy. Named after Benjamin Lincoln.
glosses: One of 56 counties in Montana, United States. County seat: Libby.
glosses: One of 93 counties in Nebraska, United States. County seat: North Platte.
glosses: One of 16 counties in Nevada, United States. County seat: Pioche.
glosses: One of 33 counties in New Mexico, United States. County seat: Carrizozo.
glosses: One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Lincolnton. Named after Benjamin Lincoln.
glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Chandler.
glosses: One of 36 counties in Oregon, United States. County seat: Newport.
glosses: One of 66 counties in South Dakota, United States. County seat: Canton.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Fayetteville. Named after Benjamin Lincoln.
glosses: One of 39 counties in Washington, United States. County seat: Davenport.
glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Hamlin.
glosses: One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Merrill.
glosses: One of 23 counties in Wyoming, United States. County seat: Kemmerer.
glosses: A former county in Ontario, Canada. Named after Lincolnshire, England, then known as County of Lincoln.
Derived terms: Lincoln County process
Related terms: word: Lincoln Parish
Lincoln County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋ.kən ˈkaʊn.ti/
rhymes: -aʊnti
Etymology: Named after Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln.
Senses: glosses: A cadastrial division in New South Wales, Australia. Local government areas in Australia are not called counties.
glosses: Lincoln Land District, Tasmania.
kirtling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kirtle.
gauvison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 'And why sud ye, Mr. Arthur? 'specially aboot such a gauvison as awd Barjona. He's like a coo, has twea sides to his tung, a rough un and a smooth un; but neebody minds him, sir, nae matter which side he licks 'em with.'
ref: 1870 March 24, “The Chronicles of Heatherthorp”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 18, number 121, page 70:
text: Gauvison.—It is customary amongst the country people of Yorkshire, when wishing to designate a person as awkward and foolish to call him "a gurt Gauvison!" Whence comes the word "Gauvison?" Is it, as I have heard it asserted, the name of an old Yorkshire highwayman; and if so why should his name be used with such a significance?
ref: 1878 January 24, “Local Notes and Queries”, in The Yorkshire Magazine, volume 2, number 16, page 192:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gorbuson.
Derived terms: gauvey
gauving
gauvison
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gauvison
form: most gauvison
Senses: examples: text: At this inn we hear the Craven dialect in all its purity, but as a certain anonymous writer has said in that speech, "What a fearful girt gauvison mun he be at frames to larn th' talk of another country afore he parfitly knaws his awn," I will not attempt to transfer this peculiar language to print.
ref: 1875, James Burnley, “A Run Through Craven”, in West Riding Sketches, pages 83–84:
glosses: Silly; foolish.
wissle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wissles
form: wissling
form: wissled
form: wissled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wrixle.
magwinya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tswana.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vetkoek.
synonyms: word: vetkoek
magwinyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magwinya
Needham Market
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0855).
Needham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Needhams
form: Neadham
Etymology: From Old English nīed (“need, necessity”) + hām (“homestead”), i.e. a place that provided a poor living.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM2281).
glosses: A town in Choctaw County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Indiana, United States, derived from the surname.
examples: text: Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.
ref: 2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025:
glosses: A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Needham Market.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Needhamian
Needham Market
Needham-Schroeder protocol
Needham's sac
aqualunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aqualung
aqualunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aqualung
foot-balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot-ball
accordion pleats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accordion pleat
Choctaw County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: All named after the Choctaw tribe.
Senses: glosses: One of 67 counties in Alabama, United States. County seat: Butler.
glosses: One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Ackerman.
glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Hugo.
PIRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIR
Johnson County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Clarksville. Named after Benjamin Johnson.
glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Wrightsville. Named after Herschel Vespasian Johnson.
glosses: One of 102 counties in Illinois, United States. County seat: Vienna. Named after Richard Mentor Johnson.
glosses: One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Franklin. Named after John Johnson, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.
glosses: One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Iowa City. Named after Richard Mentor Johnson.
glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Olathe. Named after Thomas Johnson, a Kansan politician.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Paintsville. Named after Richard Mentor Johnson.
glosses: One of 114 counties in Missouri, United States. County seat: Warrensburg. Named after Richard Mentor Johnson.
glosses: One of 93 counties in Nebraska, United States. County seat: Tecumseh. Named after Richard Mentor Johnson.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Mountain City. Named after Thomas Johnson, an early settler.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Cleburne. Named after Middleton Johnson, a Texas Ranger, soldier and politician.
glosses: One of 23 counties in Wyoming, United States. County seat: Buffalo. Named after E. P. Johnson, a Cheyenne attorney.
Wickham Market
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England; previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM3056).
talo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: talus
Woodbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Farway parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SY1895).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Holwell parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST7112).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small settlement in Withington parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0314).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A town and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM2749).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A settlement and inn (The Woodbridge) in North Newnton parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1357).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A suburban housing development in Orange County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in New Haven County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Detroit, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and census-designated place therein, in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Lake Highlands, Dallas, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia.
glosses: A suburban community in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, formerly a town.
glosses: A locality in Kingborough council area, southern Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Perth in the City of Swan, Western Australia, previously named West Midland.
glosses: A surname.
inertia selling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An attempt to sell goods or services by first supplying them unsolicited and then demanding payment.
Related terms: negative option
e-repository
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-repositories
Etymology: From e- + repository.
Senses: glosses: A repository for digital content such as computer files.
e-repositories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-repository
Deben
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Suffolk, England, which flows into the North Sea.
abductional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From abduction + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to abduction.
arcuate fasciculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ärʹkyo͞oət fəsĭʹkyo͝oləs
ipa: /ˈɑːkjuːət fəˈsɪkjʊləs/
Forms: form: arcuate fasciculi
Etymology: A partially Anglicised borrowing of the New Latin fasciculus arcuātus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: fasciculus arcuatus
glosses: A bundle of axons that forms part of the superior longitudinal fasciculus.
framees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of framee
arcuate fasciculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ärʹkyo͞oət fəsĭʹkyo͝olī
ipa: /ˈɑːkjuːət fəˈsɪkjʊlaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of arcuate fasciculus
topologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of topologize
topologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of topologize
downdrainage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downdrainage
form: most downdrainage
Etymology: From down- + drainage.
Senses: glosses: Downstream in the direction of drainage.
Related terms: updrainage
suprareligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uː.pɹəɹɪˈlɪ.d͡ʒəs/
ipa: /su.pɹəɹɪˈlɪ.d͡ʒəs/
Forms: form: more suprareligious
form: most suprareligious
Etymology: From supra- + religious.
Senses: examples: text: It may be asked whether the religion of the Bab would have taken this universal and in a sense suprareligious turn had their leader not been exiled and forced to flee from Iran and whether this evolution is due to its estrangement from Iran and the Western influences.
ref: 1946, William S. Haas, Iran, page 91:
text: Among the number of specialists the scholars and intellectuals of the House of Life should be included. We will later have occasion to study in detail what we know of these suprareligious institutions; let us say simply that these were the rooms near the temple where the liturgical books necessary to the cult were written, among others, and where the elements of the sacred body of knowledge were worked out.
ref: 1960, Serge Sauneron, The Priests of Ancient Egypt, Grove Press, page 63:
text: The rules of the game based on such a suprareligious and supranational morality would seriously conflict with many of our current habits in living.
ref: 1961, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct, Hoeber-Harper, page 205:
text: We may believe that narrative preaching remains the most appropriate vehicle for the witnessing of the Name in our day. Much that generally annoys the systematician remains indispensable if one is to do even partial justice to the suprareligious character of preaching.
ref: 1967, Kornelis Heiko Miskotte, When the Gods Are Silent, Harper and Row, page 206:
text: A new suprareligious and supraphilosophical moral elite of people full of concern and sacrifice for the problems of the entire humanity is growing in the whole world. Many governments are today working to avoid common dangers (contamination, starvation, overpopulation) threatening the whole humanity.
ref: 1973, Arvind N. Das, Dialectics and Humanism, Volume 1, Warsaw University, World Order and Peace Research Project, →ISBN, page 27:
text: In 1968, I came very close to death, to suicide, and giving myself up in that sense. But after that I found a suprareligious way for myself. I didn't think of myself any longer as a member of a particular social group.
ref: 1974, Jonathan Cott, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Some recent events like the Kisan agitation led by Chaudhry Mahendra Singh Tikait and the several Gujjar gatherings commandeered by Rajesh Pilot have made it clear that these are suprareligious occurrences.
ref: 1994, Arvind N. Das, India Invented: A Nation-in-the Making, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Transcending religion; unbound by any limits of religion itself.
Berkshires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Berkshire
Berkshires
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Berkshires
Senses: glosses: A highland region in western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut in the United States.
Brangus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Branguses
Etymology: Blend of Brahman + Angus.
Senses: glosses: A breed of beef cattle.
Related terms: Wangus
Branguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brangus
Chianina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kiːəˈniːnə/
Forms: form: Chianinas
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian chianina
Senses: glosses: A breed of beef cattle from Italy.
Chianinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chianina
pro tem.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pro tem.
pro tem.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pro tem.
p. t.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pro tem.
p. t.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pro tem.
vestibulo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛ.stɪb.jəl.oʊ/
Etymology: From vestibule or vestibulum + -o-.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the vestibule.
H.H.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of HH.
H.I.M.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Her or His Imperial Majesty (an honorific used of certain nobility).
H.I.H.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Her or His Imperial Highness (an honorific used of certain nobility).
H.R.H.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of HRH.
H.S.H.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of HSH.
M.B.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M.B.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MB (“Bachelor of Medicine”).
self-commutator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-commutators
Etymology: From self- + commutator.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Given a bounded linear operator B and its adjoint B*, the self-commutator is B*B - BB*.
scr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of scruple (“unit of measure”).
Rs.
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rs (“rupees”).
Soke of Peterborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historic area associated with the City and Diocese of Peterborough in England, at one time part of Northamptonshire. It became an administrative county in 1888, and was merged with Huntingdonshire in 1965, becoming the county of Huntingdon and Peterborough.
outdrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outdrink
fits in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fit in
fitting in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fit in
fitted in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fit in
enclining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encline
ecclesio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: church
efflower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕflouərʹ
ipa: /ɛˈflaʊɚ/
Forms: form: efflowers
form: efflowering
form: efflowered
form: efflowered
Etymology: Borrowed from French effleurer.
Senses: examples: text: Chamois or Shamoy leather.—The skins are first washed, limed, fleeced, and branned as above described. They are next efflowered, that is, deprived of their epidermis by a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, upon the convex horse-beam.
ref: 1864, Andrew Ure, “A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines”, in Leather, volume II:
text: In the pregnant bounds / Of delicatest breath, that but efflowers the ear / And lapses into nothingness[.]
ref: 1913, John Galen Howard, “From olive groves of academe”, in University of California Chronicle, page 101:
text: Chamois leather—The skin of the Alpine goat of that name, which has been “efflowered” or deprived of the epidermis.
ref: 1972, Sophia Frances Ann Caulfeild, Blanche C. Saward, Encyclopedia of Victorian Needlework: Dictionary of Needlework, page 64:
glosses: To graze; (leatherworking) to remove the outer surface of (a skin) with a knife.
Related terms: effleurage
effigurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin effiguratus; compare figurate (figuratus).
Senses: examples: text: Thallus thin, whitish to somewhat greyish, continuous, occasionally minutely rimulose, margin somewhat darkened and determinate but not clearly effigurate;
ref: 1948, A. Grenfell Price, The winning of Australian Antarctica. Mawson's B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. voyages: 1929-31: based on the Mawson papers, page 105:
text: Thallus about 1 cm. in diameter, light gray irregular areoles 0:30,4 mm. in diameter on a black hypothallus, giving a deciussate appearance, marginal areoles slightly radially elongate and very narrowly black margined but not clearly effigurate;
ref: 1965, Nova Hedwigia, volumes 15-16, page 326:
topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
antonyms: effuse
glosses: Having a definite (lobed) shape; not effuse.
Derived terms: subeffigurate
Knuth equivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Donald Knuth
Senses: glosses: A relationship that considers two elements equivalent if one can be obtained from the other by a sequence of transformations of the form yzx -> yxz whenever x < y ≤ z or xzy -> zxy whenever x ≤ y < z.
wikipedia: Donald Knuth
downside up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upside down.
downside up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upside down.
hilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hilt
heterocatalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + catalysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: heterogeneous catalysis
Related terms: heterocatalyst
heterocatalytic
heterocatalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + catalytic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to heterocatalysis
air transport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The transport of people and/or cargo by air
Synonyms: aviation
braceface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bracefaces
Senses: glosses: A person with visible braces (orthodontic device)
brain fade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain fades
form: brain-fade
Senses: glosses: A temporary condition of not thinking clearly
WOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WOC
Senses: examples: the contributions of WOC to the development of rock and roll
glosses: Initialism of woman of color or women of color.
Coordinate terms: MOC
sex labourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex labourers
form: sex laborer
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sex worker.
synonyms: word: sex worker
low-lifes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low-life
Synonyms: low-lives
Belis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte, Philippines.
betoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betone
Halesowen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /heɪlzˈoʊ.ɪn/
Etymology: From Old English halas, plural of halh (“nook”) + Welsh personal name Owain (Owen).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England; previously in Worcestershire and historically an exclave of Shropshire (OS grid ref SO9683).
Oldbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From old + -bury. Doublet of Aldborough, Aldbrough, and Aldeburgh. Compare Oldenburg.
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9889).
glosses: A place in England:
A settlement and fortification in Ightham parish, Tonbridge and Malling district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5856).
glosses: A place in England:
A village in Bridgnorth parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO7192).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Hartshill parish, North Warwickshire district, England (OS grid ref SP3194).
glosses: A rural locality in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Western Australia.
Related terms: Newburgh
Newbury
Old City
Old Town
old town
oldtown
New City
Newton
New Town
Newtown
new town
Newville
lanyap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanyaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lagniappe.
lanyappe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanyappes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lagniappe.
hit squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hit squads
form: hit-squad
form: hitsquad
Etymology: From hit + squad.
Senses: glosses: A squad of assassins.
glosses: A gang of people who physically harass others, often in a coordinated fashion.
hit squads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hit squad
lanyaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanyap (alternative form of lagniappes).
lanyappes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanyappe (alternative form of lagniappes).
Leominster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛmstə/
ipa: /ˈlɛmənstəɹ/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Lemynster, Lemyster, from Old English Lēomynster, from Lēon (a region name) + mynster (“monastery”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in northern Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4958).
glosses: A city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
rainscald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rain + scald.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skin disease made more likely by excessive dampness that facilitates skin penetration by the infectious zoospores; a bacterial infection by Dermatophilus congolensis found mostly in ruminants.
Synonyms: dermatophilosis
streptothricosis
rain rot
Coordinate terms: pastern dermatitis
mud fever
scratches
Worcester County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɚ ˈkaʊn.ti/
rhymes: -aʊnti
Etymology: The county in Massachusetts is named after the city of Worcester.
Senses: glosses: One of 23 counties in Maryland, United States. County seat: Snow Hill.
glosses: One of 14 counties in Massachusetts, United States. County seat: Worcester.
Redditch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and local government district with borough status in Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0467).
beheadee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beheadees
Etymology: From behead + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a real beheading in this picture with John as the beheadee and Lionel Barrymore the beheader.
ref: 1927 April 15, “Colleen Moore, Clara Bow, John Gilbert Top Film Bills Here Next Week: Two Features at Broad Street; Grand, Capitol Have Good Programs”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume XCVII, number 90, Harrisburg, Pa., page 14:
text: Three beheadees are up in the block again in Iran to be beheaded, to be hung or beheaded, to be executed.
ref: 2000, The Status of Religious Liberty in Russia Today: Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 17:
text: Some of the most notable beheadees are mentioned, including James Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater.
ref: 2015, Matthew Green, London: A Travel Guide Through Time, Michael Joseph, →ISBN:
glosses: One who is beheaded.
Synonyms: decapitatee
decapitee
Coordinate terms: beheader
Harper County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname in both cases.
Senses: glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Anthony.
glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Buffalo.
Sunningdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from the neighbouring village of Sunninghill in the 19th century, by substituting dale for hill.
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England, which was also partly in Surrey until 1995 (OS grid ref SU9567).
Related terms: Sunninghill