cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
open one's big mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens one's big mouth
form: opening one's big mouth
form: opened one's big mouth
form: opened one's big mouth
Senses: examples: text: Grr, why do I always open my big mouth after doing something wrong?
glosses: To speak about things rashly or foolishly, when it would be better to stay silent.
Related terms: hold one's tongue
RoI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Republic of Ireland.
big mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big mouths
form: bigmouth
Senses: examples: text: Shut your big mouth or I'll shut it for you.
glosses: The mouth of someone who talks too much, especially by making exaggerated claims or by inappropriately revealing information.
examples: text: Shut up, big mouth!
glosses: A person who talks too much, especially by making exaggerated claims or by inappropriately revealing information.
Derived terms: open one's big mouth
mouth music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Scottish Gaelic puirt à beul (“tunes from a mouth”).
Senses: examples: text: She herself or one of the other crofter women of the townland would sing to us the mouth music.
ref: 1877, Angus Macleod (speaker), “The Reciters' Lament, and Their Story”, in Alexander Carmichael, transl., edited by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, →ISBN, page 115:
text: ‘Mouth music’ evolved in those parts of the country where poor people had no instruments but still wanted to dance.
ref: 1996, George Odam with Joan Arnold and Alison Ley, Sounds of Music (Teacher's Book), →ISBN, page 61:
text: Listening to flamenco, or to English Gypsy or Russian Gypsy folk song, or to the “babba-deep-babbaa-doop” mouth music of the Hungarian Roma, one would be hard put to identify a commonality.
ref: 2002, Charles Keil, Angeliki V. Keil, “Foreword”, in Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives & the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia, →ISBN, page xxiii:
glosses: The vocal imitation of instrumental music.
examples: text: I lived both with no belief in a higher power and I lived with a so-called religious belief in a higher power that was purely a dead religion. It was just mouth music.
ref: 1982, Jess Lair, Ain't I a Wonder and Ain't You a Wonder Too, page 71:
text: Saying it applies to the civil service is just mouth music from people out to collect money from civil service employees.
ref: 1986, California Lawyer - Volume 6, page 51:
text: Julia made no reply to that remark; she was enchanted with him, as always, for the things he said, so unexpected, so very much there that she felt what he said was specifically for her, and not just mouth-music, like other grown-ups.
ref: 2018, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Julia:
text: Danny was pretty sure it was only mouth music, just as he was certain that Joseph only stayed under his parents' roof becausee it was cheaper than having a place of his own.
ref: 2022, Val McDermid, 1979, page 24:
glosses: Words (or sometimes actions) that sound good but do not mean anything.
examples: text: At some point in almost every gay encounter someone will play a little mouth music.
ref: 1977, Charles Silverstein, Edmund White, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Oral sex.
Related terms: puirt a beul
drown one's sorrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drowns one's sorrows
form: drowning one's sorrows
form: drowned one's sorrows
form: drowned one's sorrows
Senses: glosses: To drink alcohol heavily to deal with miserable feelings.
Related terms: cry in one's beer
ecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more ecological
form: most ecological
form: œcological
Etymology: From ecology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
text: To get doomier still, there’s also the pertinent question of whether, given current ecological speculation, the human race will even survive beyond the next century or so – an uncertainty which makes applying one’s imagination to a 22nd or 23rd Century rather academic.
ref: 2019 May 14, Hugh Montgomery, “HBO's Years & Years and the horrors of the near-near-future”, in BBC:
glosses: Relating to ecology, the interrelationships of organisms and their environment.
synonyms: word: ecologically friendly
word: environmentally friendly
word: environmentally friendly
word: environment-friendly
word: eco-friendly
word: ecological
word: ecologically friendly
word: green
glosses: Not harmful to the environment.
Derived terms: aeroecological
agroecological
antiecological
astroecological
bioecological
chemicoecological
chemoecological
chronoecological
dendroecological
ecoburb
ecological footprint
ecological grief
ecologically
ecological pyramid
ecological service
ecosan
ecotage
ecoteur
ethnoecological
geoecological
hydroecological
immunoecological
macroecological
microecological
morphoecological
nonecological
paleoecological
pedoecological
physioecological
phytoecological
psychoecological
radioecological
socioecological
subecological
thermoecological
unecological
visuoecological
Related terms: ecologic
ecologist
ecosystem
ecologically
geek code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geek codes
Senses: glosses: A set of codes used in sigblocks to broadcast the (typically computer-related) interests, skills, and aspirations of the poster.
deadlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdlɒk/
ipa: /ˈdɛdlɑk/
Forms: form: deadlocks
Etymology: From dead + lock.
Senses: examples: text: The negotiation ended in deadlock, with neither party willing to compromise on the price.
glosses: A standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse.
examples: text: If synchronization is always performed in least-first order with respect to object tags, then situations can never arise in which one thread has the synchronization lock for x while waiting for y and another has the lock for y while waiting for x. Instead, they will both obtain the locks in the same order, thus avoiding this form of deadlock.
ref: 2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: livelock
starvation
glosses: An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation.
glosses: Synonym of deadbolt (“type of lock”).
synonyms: word: deadbolt
extra: type of lock
Derived terms: antideadlock
break the deadlock
deadlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdlɒk/
ipa: /ˈdɛdlɑk/
Forms: form: deadlocks
form: deadlocking
form: deadlocked
form: deadlocked
Etymology: From dead + lock.
Senses: examples: text: A suspect was arrested on November 30 and charged with attempted murder. The evidence against him consisted of two jailhouse informers and an eyewitness who picked him out of a lineup after having identified a different man in an initial photo array. A jury ultimately convicted the suspect of assault after deadlocking twice in three days of deliberation.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 6, in Illusion of Order:
text: Since we cannot solve this problem completely, it may sometimes be better to use explicit locks and risk deadlock if a thread exits unexpectedly. It may be better to have a deadlocked system than to have a corrupted system.
ref: 2004, Scott Oaks, Henry Wong, Java Threads, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: To cause or come to a deadlock.
Derived terms: deadlockable
lumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumberings
Senses: examples: text: Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings.
ref: 1887, Hall Caine, The Deemster:
glosses: The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
glosses: The business of felling trees for lumber.
lumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lumbering
form: most lumbering
Senses: examples: text: I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!
ref: 1995, Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Nintendo, →OCLC, SNES, scene: Pirate Panic:
glosses: Clumsy or awkward.
examples: text: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
glosses: Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
Derived terms: lumberingly
lumberingness
unsociable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsociable
form: most unsociable
Etymology: From un- + sociable.
Senses: glosses: not desiring the company of others
glosses: not congenial or compatible
glosses: unfriendly
unsociable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsociables
Etymology: From un- + sociable.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not sociable.
knit cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knit caps
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A soft, head-hugging cap usually without a specified front or back, barring those with designs or logos
Synonyms: word: beanie
word: skullie
word: stocking cap
word: toque
word: tuque
word: watch cap
word: woolly hat
flurry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌɹi/
ipa: /ˈflʊɹi/
ipa: /ˈflʌɹi/
ipa: /ˈflɝ.i/
ipa: /ˈflaɹi/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: flurries
form: flurrying
form: flurried
form: flurried
Etymology: Perhaps an American English blend of flutter and hurry. Alternatively, perhaps from an obsolete term flurr (“scatter”).
Senses: examples: text: And so venturing not to say another word, poor Jemima trotted off, exceedingly flurried and nervous.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 1, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: She was flurried by the term with which he had qualified her gentle friend, but she took the occasion for one to which she must in every manner lend herself.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
glosses: To agitate, bewilder, fluster.
glosses: To move or fall in a flurry.
Derived terms: flurrying
dyestuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪˌstʌf/
Forms: form: dyestuffs
Etymology: From dye + stuff.
Senses: glosses: Any soluble pigment used for dyeing the hair, fabric, etc.
Derived terms: azo dyestuff
DVLC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre.
Related terms: DVLA
DVLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.
durance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹəns/
/ˈdjʊəɹəns/
Forms: form: durances
Etymology: From Old French durance, from durer (“to last”).
Senses: examples: text: What bootes it him from death to be unbownd, / To be captived in endlesse duraunce / Of sorrow and despeyre without aleggeaunce!
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: the parson concurred, saying, the Lord forbid he should be instrumental in committing an innocent person to durance.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 373:
glosses: Imprisonment; forced confinement.
glosses: Duration.
examples: text: Fal. Thou ſay'ſt true Lad: is not my Hoſteſſe of the Tauerne a moſt ſweet Wench? / Prin. As is the hony, my old Lad of the Caſtle: and is not a Buffe Ierkin a moſt ſweet robe of durance?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 49, column 2:
text: O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall / Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap / May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small / Durance deal with that steep or deep.
ref: 1885–1887, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “[Poem 41]”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 63:
glosses: Endurance, durability.
Derived terms: durance vile
dumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈdʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dumpers
Etymology: From dump + -er.
Senses: glosses: A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites; a dumpcart.
glosses: A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill or recycling sites.
glosses: One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship.
examples: text: The choice of a dumper can be disastrous for a comparatively unskilled surfer […]
ref: 1959, John Bloomfield, Know-how in the Surf, page 28:
text: […] learning how to slide across the face of a wave is put to practical use when inadvertently catching a dumper (plunging wave).
ref: 2004, Australian Mathematical Society, Gazette, volume 31, page 249:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A wave that knocks a surfer into the water.
examples: text: Protected programs implement various measures of counteraction against debuggers, disassemblers, dumpers, and other hacker tools.
ref: 2005, Kris Kaspersky, Hacker Debugging Uncovered, page 51:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.
examples: text: My ass doesn't have to be that big, right? I'll kick you a few CCs and then you and me will take our brand-new dumpers and we'll just go, you know, flaunting around Copacabana Beach.
ref: 2025, Dave Chernin & John Chernin, Frank Is In a Coma, season 17, episode 2, spoken by Dee Reynolds (Kaitlin Olson):
glosses: A person's buttocks.
Synonyms: sense: person who terminates the relationship
word: break-upper
Derived terms: belly dumper
dumper truck
Related terms: dump truck
dumpee
dumbstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmˌstɹʌk/
Forms: form: more dumbstruck
form: most dumbstruck
Etymology: From dumb + struck. Comapare strike dumb.
Senses: glosses: So shocked as to be unable to speak.
Synonyms: dumbfounded
dulce de leche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdulseɪ də ˈlɛtʃeɪ/
ipa: /ˌdʌlseɪ də ˈlɛtʃeɪ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish dulce de leche (literally “sweet [made] of milk”). Compare dolcelatte.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike dulce de leche, in which milk is cooked down with sugar until it thickens into gold, the milk stays white here — burfi comes from the Persian word for snow — for a purer flavor.
ref: 2023 May 24, Ligaya Mishan, “The Shortcut to Homemade Milk Candy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A South American sweet spread made from sugar and boiled milk.
Chewbacca defense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chewbacca defenses
Etymology: Chewbacca (a character from the 1977 film Star Wars) + defense; coined in "Chef Aid", a 1998 episode of South Park.
Senses: examples: text: But at this point John Taylor, at least — and I believe he's not alone — has gone full Chewbacca defense.
ref: 2013 July 12, Paul Krugman, “The Monetary Debate: Enter Chewbacca”, The Conscience of a Liberal, in The New York Times:
topics: law
glosses: Any legal strategy or propaganda strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience with nonsensical arguments, as a way of confusing the audience and drowning out legitimate opposing arguments.
wikipedia: Chef Aid
Chewbacca
South Park
Related terms: argumentum ad nauseam
non sequitur
red herring
straw man
blowsabella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowsabellas
form: blousabella
form: blousalinda
form: blouzabella
form: blouzalinda
form: blowsalinda
form: blowzabella
form: blowzelinda
Etymology: 18th-century Great Britain. From a character in John Gay's 1714 poem The Shepherd's Week.
Senses: examples: text: So ridiculous was Waller's second wife in the eyes of Johnson, even with Tetty, his own red-faced Blowsabella, vividly surviving in his remembrance!
ref: 1864, Charles Kent, “Edmund Waller—The Court Poet”, in Footprints on the Road, page 211:
text: Before his beard was grey, he took to wife the offspring of one of his own tenants; a buxom Blousalinda, who outlived all his brutality, and buried him at last, more decently than he deserved; though she professed herself heart-broken before the honeymoon had waned.
ref: 1869, George Alfred Lawrence, Sans Merci, or, Kestrels and falcons, page 29:
text: This was no Blowsabella, this was no buxom, forward, romping girl, to meet with a reward for her folly.
ref: 1888, Margaret Oliphant, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Second Son, Macmillan and Company, page 216:
glosses: A rural woman; a country wench.
glosses: A hot-tempered, unjustifiably angry woman, usually stereotyped as a red-haired Irish maidservant.
examples: text: "I declare I have not been able to get a single glance in the glass, and I am sure I shall look a regular Blouzabella," remarked a sparkling brunette.
ref: 1850, Marguerite Gardiner, Country Quarters, volume 1, page 145:
glosses: A disheveled woman; a slattern.
examples: text: It is the way of the world. It is just as well Polly is faithless. If it were otherwise, she would very likely break her heart for him.¶ And deep down in his muddled mind he knows that stately ship as the symbol of his first love, a love more cruel in her way than this poor Blowsabella of Paradise Street, a love whose gifts are hardship, and cold, and peril in great waters—yet to whom, while breath is in his body, he will continually return.
ref: 1923, Cicely Fox Smith, Sailor Town Days, page 137:
glosses: A promiscuous woman or prostitute.
Synonyms: prostitute
anaglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.əˌɡlɪf/
Forms: form: anaglyphs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναγλυφή (anagluphḗ, “work in low relief”); from ανα- (ana-, “up”) + γλῠ́φειν (glŭ́phein, “carve out”). By surface analysis, ana- + glyph.
Senses: glosses: A decorative ornament worked in low relief or bas relief, such as a piece of cameo jewelry.
glosses: A matched pair of images designed to produce a three-dimensional effect when viewed using spectacles that have usually one red and one bluish-green lens, corresponding to the colors of the pairs of images.
Derived terms: anaglyphic
Related terms: glyph
amaxophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: Formed in English from the Ancient Greek ἅμαξα (hámaxa, “waggon”) + the -phobia, the latter element itself deriving from the Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía). The etymologically consistent spelling is *hamaxophobia, but that spelling is not attested outside word-lists and dictionaries.
Senses: examples: text: I have known of at least two well marked instances of amaxophobia originating in the fright of being run away with and the effect of the shock abiding with them throughout the after life[…]
ref: 1908, Charles Hamilton Hughes, The Alienist and Neurologist, volume 29, page 65:
glosses: Fear of being in or riding in a vehicle.
Hyponyms: motorphobia
Related terms: amaxophobic
amathophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Senses: glosses: Fear of dust.
molly-guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒli ɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˈmɑli ɡɑɹd/
Forms: form: molly-guards
Etymology: From Molly (female given name) + guard.
Originally a Plexiglas cover improvised for the Big Red Switch on an IBM 4341 mainframe after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) tripped it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
Senses: examples: text: There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
text: The radial heat losses are minimized by the Molly Guard foil which establishes a linear temperature profile between the hot heater housing and the water cooled base plate.
ref: 1978, Proceedings of the 13th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, volume 3, Society of Automotive Engineers, page 1948:
text: 1998 August 10, kensmark, “Vi versus Word. The pros and cons (or why does Vi remiond me of a bigger version of notepad?)”, rec.arts.sf.composition, Usenet,
Therefore, we have many "molly guards," which are kludged covers that protect the on/off switch and keep you from hitting it by accident.
text: To include switch, cut-out and molly guard, you'll probably need to order at least two, probably three components.
ref: 2008 September 6, Simon Slavin, “Manual on/off switch with electrical off-trip?”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet):
glosses: A physical barrier to protect something from unwanted contact, especially a shield to prevent accidental tripping of an emergency shutdown or power switch.
keep someone in the loop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps someone in the loop
form: keeping someone in the loop
form: kept someone in the loop
form: kept someone in the loop
Senses: examples: text: "A number of regions have certainly shown interest, and everybody is keen to be kept in the loop with developmnts.
ref: 2022 September 21, Brendan Rice, “Ready for inspection”, in RAIL, number 966, page 60:
glosses: To furnish someone with sufficient relevant information and include them in the decision-making process.
sports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːts/
ipa: /spɔɹts/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /spo(ː)ɹts/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /spoəts/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Etymology: From sport + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of sport
sports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːts/
ipa: /spɔɹts/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /spo(ː)ɹts/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /spoəts/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Etymology: From sport + -s.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sport (“the class of physical activies; athletics”).
synonyms: word: sport
extra: the class of physical activies; athletics
Derived terms: air sports
airsports
disabled sports
e-sports
eSports
motorsports
multisports
nonsports
parasports
powersports
rotisserie sports
sportsaholic
sportsball
sports bar
sports-bet
sportsbook
sports car
sports card
sportscast
sportscaster
sportscasting
sportscoat
sports coat
sportsdom
sportsfest
sportsfield
sportsfinder
sportsfishing
sports game
sportsgirl
sportsground
sportshall
sports hall
sportsification
sportslike
sportsluxe
sportsman
sportsmedical
sportsperson
sportsplex
sports tape
sportswash
sportswashing
sportswatching
sportswear
sportswise
sportswoman
sportswriter
sportswriting
sportsy
watersports
water sports
winter sports
wintersports
sports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːts/
ipa: /spɔɹts/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /spo(ː)ɹts/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /spoəts/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Etymology: From sport + -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sport
sports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːts/
ipa: /spɔɹts/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /spo(ː)ɹts/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /spoəts/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Forms: form: sportses
form: sportsing
form: sportsed
form: sportsed
Etymology: From sport + -s.
Senses: examples: text: But I have a feeling that in many senses the American consumer is getting over-sportsed.
ref: 1981, Broadcasting, Broadcasting Publications, page 84:
text: And so sports they did! They put on their very own athletic shorts and jerseys and headed down to the field. There, they met other people similarly attired, who also desired to sports with them. And so they sportsed.
ref: 2011, Sean Ahern, What It Tastes Like to Be Sane, self-published through Lulu.com, page 140:
glosses: To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.
ptomaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊmeɪn/
ipa: /ˈtoʊmeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: ptomaines
form: ptomain
form: ptomaïne
Etymology: From French ptomaïne, from Italian ptomaina, from Ancient Greek πτῶμα (ptôma, “corpse”).
Senses: examples: text: On 6 February 2001 the Yaremche Environmental Health Inspectorate (санітарно-епідеміологічна станція) concluded that the cemetery should not have been constructed on the VL [Vorokhtya Lisokombinat] plot in view of its proximity to residential buildings and the risk of contamination of the surrounding environment by ptomaine.
ref: 2014 April 9, European Court of Human Rights, Dzemyuk v. Ukraine, number 42488/02, marginal 10:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various amines formed by putrefactive bacteria.
examples: text: "There have been cases of ptomaine poisoning from them, haven't there? Mr. Abbott put on a horrified expression.
ref: 1940, Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress: A Poirot Mystery, page 92:
text: You remember Leonard Skinner. He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.
ref: 1963, Allan Sherman, ‘’Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)
text: That is the place to find the kinds of shikses Who Will Do Anything! If only a person is willing to risk polio from the pool, gangrene from the footbath, ptomaine from the hot dogs, and elephantiasis from the soap and the towels, he might possibly get laid.
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 165:
text: Sandwiches arrived from outside, strange granular bread, the butter on it liquid, some sort of beige meat paste that hinted at ptomaine.
ref: 1989, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:
glosses: Food poisoning.
xenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈziːnɪəl/
ipa: /ˈziːnjəl/
Forms: form: more xenial
form: most xenial
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitality; relations of hospitality between states or between a person and a state; the status of an alien, i.e., not a citizen”), equivalent to xenia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Thus then society is not arranged in clans, but in tribes, united by the general sense of a common name, a common abode, a common history, a common religion, and a remote sense of a common tribal stock, without any sense of personal affinity in each individual case. Again, it is curious to observe that the xenial relation was not less vivacious than that of blood.
ref: 1858, W. E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, volume 2, Oxford University Press, pages 459–460:
text: House Democrats will always put American values over autocracy, benevolence over bigotry, […] working families over the well-connected, xenial over xenophobia, “Yes we can!” over “You can’t do it,” and zealous representation over zero-sum confrontation!
ref: 2023 January 7, Hakeem Jeffries, A–Z speech:
glosses: Hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners.
glosses: Of the relation between a host and guest; friendly.
Related terms: xenophobia
prolepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹoʊˈlɛpsɪs/
Forms: form: prolepses
Etymology: From Latin prolepsis, from Ancient Greek πρόληψις (prólēpsis, “preconception, anticipation”), from προλαμβάνω (prolambánō, “take beforehand, anticipate”).
Senses: glosses: The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
examples: text: Prolepsis makes objections; then replies;
And wisely thus anticipates surprise.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Prolepsis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 59:
glosses: The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
examples: text: Point (1) seems to imply that one may have a false judgement because of a mismatch between different criteria for truth. For example, my sensation is paired with a prolepsis of a horse, therefore I make an assertion that ‘there is a horse’, which upon further inspection may turn out to be a cow.
ref: 2017, Attila Németh, Epicurus on the Self, page 42:
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A so-called "preconception", i.e., a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
examples: text: […] [Edmund] Plovvden being of the Romiſh perſvvaſion, ſome Setters trapanned him (pardon the prolepſis) to hear Maſſe: But aftervvards Plovvden underſtanding, that the pretender to Officiate vvas no Prieſt, but a meer Lay-man (on deſigne to make a diſcovering) Oh! The caſe is altered quoth Plovvden: No Priest, no Maſſe.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Shrop-shire”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 3:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
Synonyms: sense: anticipation of objection to an argument
word: procatalepsis
sense: anticipation of objection to an argument
word: prebuttal
topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: left dislocation
topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: cataphora
topics: narratology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: anachronism
topics: narratology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: flashforward
topics: narratology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: foreshadowing
Derived terms: proleptic
Related terms: -lepsy
syllepsis
choreographed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choreographed
form: most choreographed
Senses: glosses: made to work together; orchestrated
Derived terms: unchoreographed
underchoreographed
choreographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of choreograph
pooping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpuːpɪŋ/
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of a wave (or other vessel) striking the poop (stern) of a vessel.
Derived terms: pooping wave
pooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpuːpɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poop
foreclosure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreclosures
Etymology: From foreclose by analogy with closure, equivalent to fore- + closure.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: The absence of a symbolic father for a fatherless child, as a cause for psychosis.
Derived terms: antiforeclosure
market foreclosure
nonforeclosure
preforeclosure
widow foreclosure
Related terms: foreclose
distraint
ductus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌk.təs/
Forms: form: ductus
form: ductuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun). Doublet of duct and douit.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: The number of strokes that make up a written letter, and the direction, sequence and speed in which they are written (Compare graph; see also aspect.)
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: A subtle reduction of weight towards the middle of the stroke of the letter.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A duct, tube or canal in the body.
Related terms: ductus arteriosus
ductus choledochus
ductus deferens
ductus ejaculatorius
ductus longitudinalis epoophori
betatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiː.təˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.təˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: betatrons
Etymology: From beta + -tron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of cyclotron used to accelerate electrons to high speed.
Derived terms: betatronic
paska
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paskas
Etymology: From Ukrainian па́ска (páska) and Russian па́ска (páska), borrowing from Ancient Greek πάσκα (páska), phonetic variant of πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פסחא (pasḥa), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pesaḥ). Doublet of Pasch, Pascha, paskha, and Pesach.
Senses: synonyms: kulich
Russian Easter bread
glosses: A traditional Ukrainian egg bread, often decorated, used in Easter traditions.
glosses: Alternative form of paskha.
gean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: geans
Etymology: From Middle French guine (modern French guigne).
Senses: examples: text: Thus in the early year the blue pearl clusters of the grape hyacinth bloomed, and in autumn the geans rejoiced us with the red Chinese lantern gleam of their fruit.
ref: 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:
text: ‘Given the circumstances, Effie,’ he whispered, ‘I could blossom again like a gean-tree.’
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 45:
glosses: A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.
basti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bʌstiː/
Forms: form: bastis
form: bustee
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बस्ती (bastī, “settlement”).
Senses: examples: text: There is a dreary bustee in the neighbourhood which is said to make the most of any cholera that may be going.
ref: 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The City Of Dreadful Night:
text: With the population growth in the jhopadpattis, favelas, bastis and bidonvilles higher than any other environment in the world, we are seeing the emergence of Megaslums, where one million urban poor live in an area measuring just 1.5 square miles.
ref: 2012, Sarwant Singh, New Mega Trends: Implications for Our Future Lives, page 63:
text: Her mother-in-law, in her half-delirious state, was sure that their basti would be broken down and had aggressively begun to push her sons to buy a plot of land elsewhere.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 294:
glosses: A slum.
cyclotron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.klə.tɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.kləˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: cyclotrons
Etymology: From cyclo- + -tron.
Senses: examples: text: The two cyclotrons achieve their biological effects by focusing charged particles on the tumor. However, the mechanisms differ.
ref: 1982 March 9, Lawrence K. Altman, “PARTICLE BEAMS USED TO TREAT RARE CANCERS”, in The New York Times:
text: We do not examine the 6 hours surrounding perikron as the ion cyclotron waves in this region have already been extensively discussed [Leisner et al., 2006]. Perikron was close to 2100 on 24 December and the inbound pass cuts through the dayside magnetosphere.
ref: 2006 December 24, CT Russell, JS Leisner, CS Arridge, MK Dougherty, X Blanco-Cano, “Nature of magnetic fluctuations in Saturn's middle magnetosphere”, in Journal of Geophysical Research, volume 111, number A12:
glosses: An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic field and alternating electric fields.
Derived terms: cyclinac
cyclotroneer
synchrocyclotron
Related terms: cyclotronic
venomously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛnəməsli/
Forms: form: more venomously
form: most venomously
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English venymously; by surface analysis, venomous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He spat venomously over the side of the tree and proceeded to tell me how different things had been when he was young.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 192:
glosses: In a venomous manner; with venom.
Synonyms: spitefully
poisonously
jukebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːkbɒks/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒukbɑks/
Forms: form: jukeboxes
form: juke box
Etymology: 1939, juke (“roadside café”) + box, replacing older collocational terms such as nickel-in-a-slot phonograph, coin-in-the-slot phonograph, and coin-operated phonograph.
Senses: examples: text: Glenn Miller plays more sweet numbers than hot. His greatest success has been with the “juke boxes”, the nickel-in-a-slot automatic phonographs. Miller is easily the most outstanding juke-box artist of 1939.
ref: 1939 December 18, Life, p. 27:
text: "I love rock 'n roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock 'n roll
So come and take your time and dance with me"
ref: 1975 July, Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker, “I Love Rock 'n' Roll”, in I Love Rock 'n Roll, performed by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, published January 1982:
glosses: A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections.
examples: text: Before you export a movie to tape, double-check the following: Make sure all unnecessary programs are closed, including your e-mail program, MP3 jukebox, and Web browser.
ref: 2011, Keith Underdahl, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software application capable of replaying tracks from a digital music collection.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.
examples: text: Jukeboxes have frequently been compared to the megamusicals and are considered a direct offshoot.
ref: 2022, Kevin Byrne, Emily Fuchs, The Jukebox Musical: An Interpretive History, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Ellipsis of jukebox musical.
Derived terms: jukeboxlike
jukebox musical
jukebox soundtrack
jukie
video jukebox
Related terms: Nickelodeon
dramatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: dramatisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dramatization.
disregarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪd/
ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑːdɪd/
Forms: form: more disregarded
form: most disregarded
Senses: glosses: ignored
glosses: neglected
disregarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪd/
ipa: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑːdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disregard
depressurisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: depressurisations
Etymology: From depressurise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of depressurization.
depressurization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depressurizations
form: depressurisation
Etymology: From depressurize + -ation or de- + pressurization.
Senses: antonyms: pressurization
glosses: The act, or an instance, of depressurizing; a reduction of atmospheric pressure within a chamber or space vehicle etc.
definitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌdɛfɪˈnɪʃənəɫ]
Etymology: From definition + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Individually, some of these definitions fall into the common definitional trap of being overly precise.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7:
text: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled in 2018 that lab-grown diamonds are included in the same definitional universe as mined diamonds but warned against the use of terms like "natural" in marketing that confused the two categories.
ref: 2020 March 10, Oliver Milman, “Are laboratory-grown diamonds the more ethical choice to say 'I do'?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023:
glosses: Of or relating to a definition.
glosses: Used to define something.
Derived terms: definitionally
nondefinitional
definitionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From definitional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a definitional manner; as a definition.
disorientation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˌɔːɹɪənˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /dɪsˌɔ.ɹi.ɪnˈteɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: disorientations
Etymology: From dis- + orientation or perhaps disorientate + -ation.
Senses: glosses: the loss of one's sense of direction, or of one's position in relationship with the surroundings.
examples: text: For the first time since arriving in Nigeria, she felt a gaping disorientation; for a split second she couldnʼt even remember where she was.
ref: 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 50:
glosses: a state of confusion with regard to time, place or identity.
glosses: a delusion.
Related terms: disorient
disorientate
orientation
depolarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: depolarisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of depolarization.
definitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɪnɪtɪvli/
Forms: form: more definitively
form: most definitively
Etymology: From definitive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Far from making the kind of statement of hard fact that editors had readily made regarding claims about Trump’s racism, the article fails to definitively state that the laptop is not, in fact, Russian disinformation.
ref: 2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:
glosses: In a way that is not only decisive, but also conclusive and final.
Related terms: definitely
definitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈfɪn.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [dɪˈfɪn.ə.ɾɪv]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɛfɪnɪʈɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɪfɪˈnɪʈɪv/
Forms: form: more definitive
form: most definitive
Etymology: From Middle French définitif.
Senses: glosses: explicitly defined
examples: text: definitive vote
text: She will have the definitive say in the matter, after consulting her board of directors.
glosses: determining finally, conclusive, decisive
examples: text: A strict and definitive truth.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: Some definitive […] scheme of reconciliation.
ref: 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:
glosses: definite, authoritative and complete
examples: text: a definitive word
glosses: limiting; determining
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: general, not issued for commemorative purposes
examples: text: Never crave him. We are definitive.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 424:
glosses: Determined; resolved.
Derived terms: definitive agreement
definitive host
definitively
definitiveness
definitive treatment
nondefinitive
definitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈfɪn.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [dɪˈfɪn.ə.ɾɪv]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɛfɪnɪʈɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɪfɪˈnɪʈɪv/
Forms: form: definitives
Etymology: From Middle French définitif.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a word, such as a definite article or demonstrative pronoun, that defines or limits something
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
synonyms: definitive stamp
glosses: an ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand
depersonalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: depersonalisations
Etymology: From de- + personalisation.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve read that depersonalisation is one of the body’s stress responses. You can’t deal with a situation, so it almost ejects you, makes you feel disconnected.
ref: 2015 December 29, Hannah Ewens, “I was terrified when my mind detached from my body – this is depersonalisation”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
depersonalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depersonalizations
form: depersonalisation
Etymology: Calque of French dépersonnalisation, equivalent to de- + personalization.
Senses: examples: text: He was in a critical state of depersonalization.
glosses: The act of depersonalizing or the state of being depersonalized.
examples: text: His depersonalization causes a great deal of stress as he searches for an authentic personal identity.
text: Musil is committed to the dissolution of the ego and to the defictionalization and depersonalization of character as Woolf expresses it in “The Narrow Bridge of Art.”
ref: 1983, William Thomas Hobdell Jackson, George Stade, Jacques Barzun, European Writers, New York: Scribner:
text: Many people experience some form of temporary depersonalisation in their lives, typically at moments of extreme fatigue or high stress, such as during a car crash, where both the established defence options of fight or flight are removed. A number of recreational drugs also precipitate similar episodes.
ref: 2015 September 4, Howard Swains, “Depersonalisation disorder: the condition you’ve never heard of that affects millions”, in The Guardian:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: derealization
glosses: The loss of one's sense of personal identity.
examples: text: His severe depersonalization causes an aloof demeanor.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A feeling of being unreal, detached or unable to feel emotion.
Derived terms: depersonalization-derealization disorder
disorganisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: disorganisations
form: disorganization
Etymology: From dis- + organisation.
Senses: examples: text: Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].
ref: 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:
glosses: Alternative spelling of disorganization.
disembodied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɪmˈbɒdiːd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disembody