cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Palinesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Palinesque
form: most Palinesque
form: Palin-esque
Etymology: From Palin + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Sure enough, as the plane began its descent into Denver, cast member Amy Poehler appeared on screen with Fey, who was dressed in a Palinesque red outfit with her hair pulled up in that familiar way.
ref: 2009, Scott Conroy, Shushannah Walshe, Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar, PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 131:
text: I got out my Palinesque reading glasses, and we combed through the small print.
ref: 2011, Catherine Herridge, The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits, Crown Forum, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Many women disagreed with this Palinesque brand of post-feminist equality.
ref: 2013, Linda Beail, Rhonda Kinney Longworth, Framing Sarah Palin: Pit Bulls, Puritans, and Politics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of U.S. politician Sarah Palin.
Palin-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Palin-esque
form: most Palin-esque
Senses: examples: text: There were snowshoes, a turn-of-the-century broad axe, and a Palin-esque bumper sticker that said it all: “I'm Pro-Choice. I Choose to Hunt, Fish, Trap, Eat Meat, and Wear Fur.”
ref: 2011, Leslie Anthony, White Planet: A Mad Dash Through Modern Global Ski Culture, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 66:
text: So Bruce Springsteen, for instance, represents a kind of workingman's authenticity, just as Sandra Bullock seems to have become an icon of the Palin-esque down-to-earth "hockey mum."
ref: 2011, Pete Ward, Gods Behaving Badly: Media, Religion, and Celebrity Culture, Baylor University Press, →ISBN, page 36:
text: To wit: Many of us use "No problem" as a substitute for "You're welcome," "My pleasure," or the Palin-esque, "You betcha!"
ref: 2012, Harry Alford, Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide to Manners, Twelve, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Palinesque.
metaphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtæfəni/
Etymology: From meta- + -phony.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound change in which a vowel's pronunciation is affected by another.
Hyponyms: i-mutation
umlaut
vowel harmony
Derived terms: metaphonic
red scare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red scares
Etymology: From the historical association of the color red with communism.
Senses: synonyms: red menace
hypernyms: fearmongering
glosses: Fearmongering on the topic of a rise in communism that will threaten Western nations, especially from Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc in the past, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc. but also from any leftist movement.
Related terms: red-baiting
yellow peril
creepypasta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːpiˌpæstə/
ipa: /ˈkɹipiˌpɑstə/
rhymes: -æstə
rhymes: -ɑːstə
Forms: form: creepypastas
Etymology: Blend of creepy + copypasta. Originated from 4chan’s /x/ (paranormal) board sometime around 2006.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English creepy
Middle English copien
English copy
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
English copy-paste
Late Latin pasta
Italian pastabor.
English pasta
blend
English copypasta
English creepypasta
Senses: examples: text: The video is part of a growing phenomenon making its way around message boards and e-mail chains called “creepypasta” — bite-sized bits of scariness that have joined the unending list of things-to-do-when-you’re-bored-at-work. […] Most creepypasta manufacture their own authenticity.
ref: 2010 November 14, “Bored at Work? Try Creepypasta, or Web Scares”, in The New York Times, Austin Considine, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2022:
text: The game was born from the familiar 'Slenderman' image, which you may or may not be familiar with from internet memes and creepypasta horror stories.
ref: 2012 September 14, Kaz Scattergood, “Spooked by Slender, Fuse (Sheffield Students' Union)”, in magazine, volume 9, number 49, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2023, page 2:
text: "[…] Listen to the nineteen personal creepypasta-style stories to piece together the mysterious events of that fateful night in 1898, when twelve orphans simply… disappeared!"
ref: 2013 September 24, “Huntsman: The Orphanage”, in Adventure Lantern, number 46, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2023, page 7:
text: The eerie “Lavender Town” theme has infiltrated the nightmares of an entire generation of children and has even inspired one of the most well known “creepypastas” on the Internet.
ref: 2013 November 14, Joey Dussault, “The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World”, in Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern University), number 33, page 11:
text: A friend pointed her to Creepypasta, a collection of user-generated horror fan sites in which written, Photoshopped, and videotaped accounts of encounters with monsters and supernatural evil are presented as “real” in the form of encyclopedia entries, testimonials, and other “documentary” evidence.
ref: 2015 August 24, Lisa Miller, “Slender Man Is Watching”, in New York Magazine, page 62:
glosses: Frightening urban legends and short stories in the horror genre, circulated on the Internet.
Hypernyms: scarelore
Charukesi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit चारु (cāru) + केशि (keśi).
Senses: qualifier: Carnatic music
glosses: The 26th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
Sarasangi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit सरस (sarasa) + Telugu అంగి (aṅgi).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 27th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
aluminium nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of aluminium and nitrogen (AlN), used as semiconductor.
Srihari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit श्री (śrī) + हरि (hari).
Senses: glosses: Name of Hindu god Vishnu.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
Sriharikota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit श्री (śrī) + हरि (hari) + Telugu కోట (kōṭa).
Senses: glosses: A barrier island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It houses the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
unscorned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscorned
form: most unscorned
Etymology: From un- + scorned.
Senses: glosses: Not scorned.
descrambling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of descramble
descrambles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of descramble
descrambled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of descramble
lobbier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobbiers
Etymology: From lobby + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As he was a persistent lobbier for his case, this was often embarrassing.
ref: 2008, Franklyn Grace Lyo, M.A. Lyons, A Pause to Copy, page 340:
text: The chief lobbier for the 2004 exemption was Goldman Sachs' chair and chief executive, Henry Paulson, who in 2006 became Treasury Secretary to the George W. Bush administration.
ref: 2012, Rosemary Gail Rayfuse, Nicole Weisfelt, The Challenge of Food Security, page 174:
text: Swing was a shrewd politician and an effective lobbier.
ref: 2014, Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure:
glosses: One who lobbies; a lobbyist.
lobbiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobbier
Harikambhoji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit हरि (hari) + काम्बोज (kāmboja).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 28th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system.
beryllium carbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hard binary compound of beryllium and carbon Be₂C
roadtest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadtests
form: road test
Etymology: From road + test.
Senses: glosses: A trial or practice run of a piece of equipment in its intended usage environment to check for errors before final deployment.
glosses: A test which assesses the performance of an engine or vehicle on the road.
glosses: A driving test.
roadtest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roadtests
form: roadtesting
form: roadtested
form: roadtested
form: road test
Etymology: From road + test.
Senses: glosses: To make a trial of, or to test, (a piece of equipment) in its intended usage environment before its final deployment.
glosses: To test the performance of (an engine or vehicle) on the road.
roadtests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadtest
roadtests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roadtest
roadtesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roadtest
roadtested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roadtest
practice run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: practice runs
Senses: examples: text: We made a practice run with the automatic paint sprayer on a piece of scrap.
text: I took part in simulated exercises to prepare my country for the practical, economic and social shock waves from rare but devastating events – volcanic eruptions that affect whole hemispheres, meteor strikes, zoonotic epidemics and other calamities. I recall a practice run for an influenza pandemic in which about 200,000 people died.
ref: 2020 April 9, Ian Boyd, “We practised for a pandemic, but didn’t brace”, in Nature, volume 580, number 7802, page 9:
glosses: A trial or practice before a real-world deployment or occurrence.
Synonyms: dry run
dummy run
roadtest
trial run
practice runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practice run
Ferenczian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ferenczian
form: most Ferenczian
Etymology: From Ferenczi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Sándor Ferenczi (1873–1933), Hungarian psychoanalyst.
Savoy cabbages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Savoy cabbage
Telluride
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From telluride.
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.
prusten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹuːst(ə)n/
Etymology: From the German verb prusten (“to sneeze, to snort”).
Senses: examples: text: He made a sound, a snort from his nostrils. I pricked up my ears. He did it a second time. I was astonished. Prusten?
ref: 2001, Yann Martel, chapter 57, in Life of Pi, Canongate, published 2003, →ISBN, page 163:
text: Prusten is the quietest of tiger calls, a puff through the nose to express friendliness and harmless intentions.
ref: ibidem, pages 163–164
glosses: A sound made by tigers and snow leopards without the intent to threaten, producing a breathy snort by blowing through the nostrils whilst the mouth is closed — a low-frequency equivalent of the purring found in domestic cats.
Synonyms: chuff
chuffle
bodies politic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body politic
heirs presumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heir presumptive
AFOLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AFOL
bewend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewends
form: bewending
form: bewent
form: bewent
form: bewended
form: bewended
Etymology: From Middle English bewenden, biwenden, from Old English bewendan (“to turn around”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwandijan, from Proto-Germanic *biwandijaną. By surface analysis, be- + wend.
Senses: examples: text: Glowing under day's warm sunning, Sparkling with thy ripples' running, Taking to thee brooks and rills, Valley-draining, dell-bewending, Water-taking, water- sending, Down to dairy farms and mills, [...]
ref: 1971, William Barnes, One hundred poems - Page 62:
text: In between modern technics, nearlier spoken the wale-bewended modern logistic outlaying of thinking and speaking, has already set oversetting machines in going.
ref: 2001, Douglas Robinson, Who Translates?:
glosses: To turn; turn around.
unworksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unworksome
form: most unworksome
Etymology: From un- + worksome. Compare German unwirksam (“ineffective, useless”), Swedish overksam (“inactive, passive, ineffective”).
Senses: examples: text: […] but then, again, the accumulation of much capital with fathers will tend to kill a lively piety of thankfulness in their children, and sometimes make them unworksome and vicious spendthrifts.
ref: 1859, William Barnes, Views of labour and gold - Page 8:
glosses: Not worksome; not diligent or work-intensive.
Synonyms: lazy
worksomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From worksome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Here is a specimen of his own workmanship under these conditions: — The mindstrength and body worksomeness of the Saxon, which are of great might for good when well spent, need a training in wisdom to keep them from mischief.
ref: 1888, Longman's magazine, volume 12, page 591:
text: When they lifted his poor flock out of the slum-hell into Christian, helpful worksomeness, and told the gentle Pastor, now growing old, what had happened, and that the loving people and their great Leader had made him Chief Pastor of the church, […]
ref: 1897, Henry Lazarus, The English revolution of the twentieth century:
text: Reality is indeed Wirklichkeit, a continued "worksomeness" or striving.
ref: 1906, The Westminster review, volume 166, page 555:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being worksome; diligence.
ghostking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostkings
form: ghost-king
form: ghost king
Etymology: Compound of ghost + king.
Senses: examples: text: At last Vikramaditya called to his aid Vetal, the great ghost king.
ref: 1918, Charles Augustus Kincaid, Dattātraya Baḷavanta Pārasanīsa, A history of the Maratha people - Volume 1 - Page 11:
text: Birds of all kinds live in Greensprings in summer, even the white eagle that we call the ghostking.
ref: 2002, Sean Russell, The One Kingdom: Book One of the Swans' War - Page 90:
text: Moreover, measureless great yaksha generals, rakshasa kings, putana kings, kumbhanda kings, pishacha kings, Vinayaka, the great ghost kings, and all the ghost commanders came before the Buddha, [...]
ref: 2003, Hsüan Hua, Sutra Text and Supplements - Page 198:
text: Conan, dispossessed of his throne and dead (or believed so) had in fact all the qualities of the Danish ghostking.
ref: 2004, Robert E. Howard, The Bloody Crown of Conan - Page 356:
text: They just grow out of cracks in the black rocks. "Never mind what it is! Will you give her back to us?" asked Noheb. He was holding the sword over the Ghost King's head. Jagat was holding the spear against the Ghost King's chest.
ref: 2005, Heidi Munan, Bidayuh Stories: Stories from Sarawak - Page 14:
text: The play, which began with the dead soldier ghost King appearance of which Horatio told Hamlet, comes full circle when Fortinbras, announces dead soldier honors and burial for ghost King's dead son Prince Hamlet, and prepares to listen to Horatio tell Hamlet's story, [...]
ref: 2005, Ursula Zzirg, Shakespeare and Michelangelo:
text: They are the ghost kings of the high country, more cautious and wary than deer, and more difficult to track.
ref: 2005, John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul:
glosses: A king of ghosts or spirits; a ghostly or spiritual king; a king of one's own spirit or soul; a god; God.
ghostlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost lore
form: ghost-lore
Etymology: From ghost + lore (“learning, knowledge”).
Senses: examples: text: Three other sections of the state are important in this connection: the Adirondack Mountains and parts of the Catskills, which while sparsely settled and only slightly represented in this collection, have much good ghostlore yet to be collected.
ref: 1982, Louis Clark Jones, Three Eyes on the Past:
text: When one person tells another of a frightening experience, he is passing on ghostlore.
ref: 1995, Charles Edwin Price, Haunted Tennessee:
text: From ruthless gangsters to restless mail order kings, from the Fort Dearborn Massacre to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the phantom remains of the passionate people and volatile events of Chicago history have made the Second City second to none in the annals of American ghostlore.
ref: 2004, Ted Okuda, Jack Mulqueen, The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television:
text: Ghost stories and tales of railroad heroics and tragedy may have mixed to create this unique type of ghostlore.
ref: 2019, Matthew L. Swayne, Haunted Rails: Tales of Ghost Trains, Phantom Conductors, and Other Railroad Spirits, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:
glosses: A genre of folklore concerning ghosts.
Related terms: ghostology
ghost lore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ghostlore.
ghost-lore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ghostlore.
chuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃʌf(ə)l/
Forms: form: chuffles
form: chuffling
form: chuffled
form: chuffled
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, but compare chuff (the sound of the exhaust of a steam engine) and -le (verbal suffix conveying frequentativity).
Senses: glosses: To produce prusten.
raw_tags: of a tiger or snow leopard
chuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃʌf(ə)l/
Forms: form: chuffles
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, but compare chuff (the sound of the exhaust of a steam engine) and -le (verbal suffix conveying frequentativity).
Senses: glosses: An uninterrupted sounding of prusten.
apple-bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple-bees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apple bee.
apple bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple bees
form: apple-bee
Senses: qualifier: southwest England
glosses: A wasp.
glosses: Apple bumblebee (Bombus pomorum)
glosses: A social gathering of farmers to help gather in the apple harvest, or process the fruit.
apple bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple bee
bechill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bechills
form: bechilling
form: bechilled
form: bechilled
Etymology: From be- (“on, upon, over, all over”) + chill.
Senses: examples: text: The god, in fine, of every savage tribe. And as he stood, a thrill of dread instinct, As from a serpent coiled, bechilled the whole Assembly.
ref: 1875, Nathaniel Dunn, Satan chained: a poem - Page 69:
text: What brings the tears to other eyes But freezes them in mine, And what bechills another heart Fans into flame my own.
ref: 1890, Samuel R Brown, May-day dreams, Passion flowers, Poetic flights and prosy thoughts:
text: Louder on nights when in cold glory The full moon made its meditative tour, To rich chords from her grand black piano She sang the disappointment that is Man For all her lawns and orchards: Slowly The spreading ache bechills the rampant glow Of fortune-hunting blood, [...]
ref: 1991, W. H. Auden, Collected Poems: Auden - Page 342:
text: "[...] The weather bechills me, and the wounded rampant will not show again this day, to be sure."
ref: 2006, Michele Hauf, Rhiana:
text: Attempting rescue from bechilled tomorrows [...]
ref: 2009, Marion Dianne Werra-Baburchak, Reflections on Water - Page 113:
glosses: To effect a chill upon; give a chill to; chill all over; make chilly.
Derived terms: bechilled
bechilling
bescrape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bescrapes
form: bescraping
form: bescraped
form: bescraped
Etymology: From be- (“about, around, excessively, all over”) + scrape.
Senses: examples: text: I had rather hear A pedlar's kit bescrape a dancing dog.
ref: 1789, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly review - Volume 81 - Page 218:
glosses: To scrape all over; scrape excessively.
giantling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giantlings
Etymology: From giant + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: No dramatist of European stature had emerged from the theatre. The artists were not giants but giantlings.
ref: 1982, Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, page 89:
text: My mother died giving birth to me and I often thought while a giantling that I had killed her.
ref: 2008, Michele Avanti, GreeHee the Journey of Five:
text: The Giantling was furious, but the mercenary turned Lord was not daunted.
ref: 2011, J.A. Giunta, Only The Strong:
glosses: A young giant.
giantlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giantling
sag wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sag wagons
Etymology: Probably sag + wagon; sometimes also said to stand for "support and gear" or "support and grub" (i.e. food).
Senses: glosses: A truck, van or other support vehicle used during cycling events, designed to hold food and other equipment for participants, and to pick up and carry any cyclists (and their bicycles) who can no longer ride.
Related terms: broom wagon
MAMIL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MAMILs
form: Mamil
form: mamil
Etymology: Coined in a 2010 UK marketing report.
Senses: examples: text: ‘We have just been overtaken by a M.A.M.I.L.’ Karen pointed to the cyclist that was now far in the distance. ‘What is a MAMIL?’ ‘It's a Middle Aged Man In Lycra. That is what happens to lots of middle aged men, they decide to take up cycling and wear lycra, which is not the most fetching look on a middle aged man.’
ref: 2017, Kathleen Kirkland, Mum Runners, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: Cycling has created the phenomenon of the MAMIL—Middle-Aged Men In Lycra—because it's enjoyable, it's accessible and it's easy to take up. All you need to know is how to ride a bike.
ref: 2019, John Bishop, How to Grow Old: A middle-aged man moaning, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Acronym of middle-aged man in Lycra, a previously non-athletic man, between 35 and 50, who has taken up cycling seriously for health and/or social reasons.
glosses: Acronym of middle-aged matron in Lycra, a female equivalent.
Mohs scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mohs scale
Senses: glosses: A scale of the hardness of minerals based on their ability to scratch one another.
pirks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pirk
ABC books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ABC book
rackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæ.kəl/
Forms: form: rackles
form: rakkill
Etymology: From Middle English rakyl (“chain”), apparently related to Old Frisian rakels (“chain”), French racle ("the iron ring of a door" (from a Germanic source)), and also Middle English rakente, from Old English racente (“chain, fetter”). More at rackan.
Senses: glosses: A chain.
glosses: Noisy talk.
rackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæ.kəl/
Forms: form: rackles
form: rackling
form: rackled
form: rackled
form: rakkill
Etymology: From Middle English rakyl (“chain”), apparently related to Old Frisian rakels (“chain”), French racle ("the iron ring of a door" (from a Germanic source)), and also Middle English rakente, from Old English racente (“chain, fetter”). More at rackan.
Senses: glosses: To talk noisily; rattle on.
rackle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæ.kəl/
Forms: form: more rackle
form: most rackle
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably from rack (“to drive; move; go forward rapidly”), alteration of Middle English reken (“to drive; move; tend”), from Old Norse reka, vreka (“to drive; drift; toss”) + -le (“tending or prone to”). Related to Icelandic reka, Swedish vräka, Danish vrage, English wrack.
Senses: glosses: Of a person: rash, impetuous, reckless
glosses: Rough, crude
glosses: Sturdy in old age
rackan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rackans
form: racon
form: rackin
form: racken
form: reckan
form: recon
form: reckin
form: reckon
Etymology: From Middle English rakente, from Old English racente (“chain, fetter”) and Old Norse rekendi (“chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *rakintǭ (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“to bind”). Cognate with Old High German rahhenza (“chain”). See also rackle.
Senses: glosses: A chain or bar drilled with holes to accommodate pot-hooks from which cooking vessels can be suspended over a fire; a pot-hook.
Derived terms: reckan-crook
reckin-hook
MOOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞ok
ipa: /muːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: MOOCs
Senses: examples: text: In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom.
ref: 2011 August 4, Audrey Watters, “Are MOOCs the Future of Online Learning?”, in KQED.org, retrieved 17 Jan 2013:
text: Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning (104,000 registered, and 13,000 completed the course), and Introduction to Databases (92,000 registered, 7,000 completed).
ref: 2012 March 4, Tamar Lewin, “Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2020, retrieved 17 Jan 2013:
text: With MOOCs offered by the most renowned professors in their respective fields, students have less incentive to relocate for postsecondary education.
ref: 2013 January 16, Anita Singh, Howard Adelman, “How open courses are changing the modern university”, in University Affairs, Canada, retrieved 17 Jan 2013:
text: Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it. […] Led by the Open University, which pioneered distance-learning in the 1970s, FutureLearn, a consortium of 21 British, one Irish and one Australian university, plus other educational bodies, will start offering MOOCs later this year.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:
hyponyms: cMOOC
xMOOC
glosses: Acronym of massive open online course; a course designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and typically free of charge.
Related terms: distance learning
Oscarologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oscarologists
Senses: examples: text: Or maybe it was sheer irritation at the four solid months of feverish speculation from Oscarologists as to what they would do?
ref: 2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An expert in the Oscars
lay one's hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays one's hands on
form: laying one's hands on
form: laid one's hands on
form: laid one's hands on
Senses: examples: text: There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.
ref: 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131/132:
text: Perhaps the best news to come out of the nominations was the brightened box-office prospects for such films as Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a dazzling piece of magic realism pieced together from just $1.8m, some rusty bathtubs and whatever Louisiana bric-a-brac its youthful collective of film-makers could lay their hands on.
ref: 2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian:
glosses: To lay hands on.
hate fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hate fucks
form: hatefuck
form: hate-fuck
Senses: examples: text: "If you fuck me, it'll be a hate fuck. This what you want? This what you mean by aggressive?"
ref: 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Scribner, published 1998, →ISBN, page 293:
text: "I hate you," said Renee. "Let's have a hate fuck."
ref: 2001, Sam Lipsyte, The Subject Steve, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 117:
text: (I'm not proud to say that arguments like this fueled the hate fucks that were the cornerstone of our sham of an ex-relationship.)
ref: 2006, Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 284:
synonyms: hate sex
glosses: The act or an instance of sexual intercourse between people who hate each other.
hate fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hate fucks
form: hate fucking
form: hate fucked
form: hate fucked
form: hatefuck
form: hate-fuck
Senses: examples: text: The chance to hate fuck the woman who tore my best friend up since birth would have been a trip.
ref: 2007, Brian Krans, A Constant Suicide, Rock Town Press, →ISBN, page 130:
text: I've fucked plenty of girls I've hated, but I will not fuck her tonight. I'll need it badly enough to hate fuck a girl like Nancy, but I don't need it now.
ref: 2008, Austen James, Hate Starve Curse, Broken Science Press, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with someone one hates.
hate-fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hate-fucks
Senses: examples: text: […] And they have a lot of grass-is greener fantasies…. People that I don't like are not sexually attractive to me at all. I remember in my early twenties I had a few hate-fucks and they were groovy. But now now."
ref: 1975, Norman Dickens, Jack Nicholson: The Search for a Superstar, New American Library, published 1975, page 108:
text: I think the most important thing was the attitude; she always wanted the music to sound like rough sex, like a hate-fuck.
ref: 2007, Steve Chick, Psychic Confusion: The Sonic Youth Story, Omnibus Press, published 2009, →ISBN:
text: I want to have sex with her. Not even sex. I want to fuck her. A hate-fuck.
ref: 2008, Tripp Millican, Stories for Boys, Lulu.com, published 2008, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of hate fuck.
hate-fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hate-fucks
form: hate-fucking
form: hate-fucked
form: hate-fucked
Senses: examples: text: He might even hate-fuck the Winona Ryder character once or twice when their relationship goes sour, […]
ref: 1995, Amy Taubin, “Under His Thumb”, in Adele M. Stan, editor, Debating Sexual Correctness: Pornography, Sexual Harassment, Date Rape, and the Politics of Sexual Equality, Delta, →ISBN, page 172:
text: "I wasn't going to hate-fuck you, because I don't hate you. I love you, but I just can't make love to you either."
ref: 2011, Jaden Lane, If You Could Read My Mind, Xlibris, published 2011, →ISBN, page 358:
text: Zelda likewise blasted Hemingway as a "poseur," "pansy," and "professional he-man," but they might've wanted to hate-fuck each other.
ref: 2012, Marty Beckerman, The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within, Just Like Papa!, St. Martin's Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: Alternative form of hate fuck.
hatefuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatefucks
Senses: examples: text: Amber O'Malley "For your information, Mike and I pound each other every night in the most epic of hatefucks."
ref: 2008 (August 24, David Willis, Shortpacked!
text: Fighcking is totally different from your classic hatefuck — as opposed to hating her but still wanting to fuck, you hate fighting with her and would rather fuck.
ref: 2008, Daniel Maurer, Brocabulary, HarperCollins, published 2008, →ISBN, page 144:
text: You don't want this girl as your wifey, but you kind of want her to stop talking shit about you. Hey, maybe you can even get a hatefuck out of it.
ref: 2009 March 2, James Greenberg, “The Greenberg Guide: Part 3”, in Obiterdicta:
text: Looks like product of a hatefuck between Dawn French, a peacock, and a snickers bar.
ref: 2011, "Lisa-Skye Is Not Like Other Boys", The Inpress Guide to the 25th Melbourne International Comedy Festival, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of hate fuck.
hatefuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hatefucks
form: hatefucking
form: hatefucked
form: hatefucked
Senses: examples: text: […] and you'd keep wanting to leave and then you'd hatefuck Dwight and then when you got home he would e-mail you for years after and ask for naked pictures and you'd know he was an asshole.
ref: 2009, Zak Smith, We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings, Tin House Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 277:
text: I just hatefucked a Bush administration appointee. Now having celebratory mimosas.
ref: 2010, Lauren Leto, Ben Bator, Texts From Last Night: All the Texts No One Remembers Sending, Gotham Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: "Is that why every girl you meet wants to be hatefucked?"
ref: 2012, Kol, Fools, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Alternative form of hate fuck.
hate fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hate fuck
hate fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hate fuck
hate-fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hate-fuck
hate-fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hate-fuck
hate fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hate fuck
hate fucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hate fuck
hate-fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hate-fuck
hate-fucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hate-fuck
hatefucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatefuck
hatefucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hatefuck
hatefucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hatefuck
hatefucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hatefuck
embrace the penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embraces the penguin
form: embracing the penguin
form: embraced the penguin
form: embraced the penguin
form: embrace the Penguin
Etymology: A reference to Linux's official mascot, Tux the penguin.
Senses: examples: text: Good idea to embrace the penguin and let go of the Bill.
ref: 1999 October 23, Rohana Rezel, “Re: Thinking Linux”, in alt.linux (Usenet), message-ID <38121C6F.864D48E2@stud.umist.ac.uk>:
text: I have tried gnome on a 440Mhz Ultra10 and a dual 450Mhz Ultra60, and if a P5-200 […] will run it any better I'll throw all of my Suns away tomorrow and embrace the penguin.
ref: 2002 September 23, tucansam <tucansam@whodis.org>, “Re: Sun Linux desktops”, in comp.sys.sun.misc (Usenet), message-ID <an8u3q$ep5$3@reader1.panix.com>:
text: Linux continues to look spiffier and spiffier. That's good news whether you're ready to embrace the penguin, or just like Microsoft getting a little motivation to improve its own software […]
ref: 2004 November 29, Chris Keall, “Meet the parents”, in New Zealand PC World:
ref: 2012, “Hood River's libraries embrace the penguin: public computers now running on Linux”, in Hood River County Library District:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To switch one's operating system to Linux.
wikipedia: Linux
Tux (mascot)
0-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of zero-day.
0-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-days
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of zero-day.
menticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more menticidal
form: most menticidal
Senses: examples: text: Significantly, the author does not stop after discussing the criminal menticidal tactics of totalitarian states.
ref: 1956, Institute of Living, Digest of neurology and psychiatry, volume 24, page 341:
glosses: Relating to, or causing, brain-washing.
Related terms: menticide
downmix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downmixes
form: downmixing
form: downmixed
form: downmixed
Etymology: From down- + mix.
Senses: glosses: To mix (a number of distinct audio channels) to produce a lower number of channels.
Synonyms: fold down
downmix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downmixes
Etymology: From down- + mix.
Senses: glosses: The mixing of a number of distinct audio channels to produce a lower number of channels.
Synonyms: fold-down
downmixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downmix
downmixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downmix
downmixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downmix
downmixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downmix
battery mates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battery mate
fold down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: folds down
form: folding down
form: folded down
form: folded down
Senses: examples: text: Folding down to mono can create problems if essential material has been recorded into the surrounds, as it will be lost.
ref: 2012, Hilary Wyatt, Tim Amyes, Audio Post Production for Television and Film:
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To downmix.
Adlerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Adlerian
form: most Adlerian
Etymology: From Adler + -ian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Alfred Adler (1870–1937), Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.
ethicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethicalisms
Etymology: From ethical + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Weber found two aspects of Judaism of particular significance: its rationality and its ethicalism.
ref: 1998, William H. Swatos, Peter Kvisto, Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, page 254:
glosses: ethical beliefs and behaviour generally
ethicalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethicalism
cryptophthalmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare congenital anomaly in which the skin is continuous over the eyeball, with absence of eyelids.
buphthalmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs, “ox or cow”) + Ancient Greek ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmós, “eye”), referring to the bulging eyes common to bovines.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abnormal enlargement of the eyeball.
Synonyms: buphthalmia
buphthalmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buphthalmias
Senses: glosses: buphthalmos; abnormal enlargement of the eyeball
Related terms: buphthalmic
buphthalmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buphthalmia
buphthalmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ælmɪk
Etymology: From buphthalmia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting, or relating to, buphthalmia.
megalocorneas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalocornea
aniridias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aniridia
aniridic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + iridic.
Senses: glosses: Lacking the iris of the eye; exhibiting aniridia.
aphakias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphakia
aphakic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: aphacic
Etymology: From aphakia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Aphakic people are reported to be able to see ultraviolet wavelengths that are normally excluded by the lens.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
synonyms: word: aphakial
glosses: Exhibiting aphakia; lacking the lens of the eye.
aphakic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphakics
form: aphacic
Etymology: From aphakia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: One who has aphakia.
ectopia lentis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: The displacement or malposition of the eye's lens from its normal location.
distichia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distichias
form: distichiae
Senses: glosses: An eyelash that arises from an abnormal spot on the eyelid, usually exiting from the duct of the Meibomian gland at the eyelid margin.
Derived terms: distichiasis
distichias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distichia
distichiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distichia
galactocerebrosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactocerebrosidases
Etymology: From galacto- + cerebrosidase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: galactosylceramidase
galactocerebrosidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactocerebrosidase
Marcus Gunn phenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marcus Gunn phenomena
Etymology: The condition was first described by the ophthalmologist Robert Marcus Gunn in 1883.
Senses: glosses: An autosomal-dominant synkinesis in which two or more muscles that are independently innervated have simultaneous or coordinated movements.
wikipedia: Robert Marcus Gunn
Marcus Gunn phenomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marcus Gunn phenomenon
ablepharon macrostomia syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare autosomal-recessive genetic disorder characterized by malformations of the skull, skin, fingers and genitals.
blepharophimosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blepharophimoses
Etymology: From blepharo- + phimosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition involving bilateral ptosis with reduced eyelid size, vertically and horizontally, a flat nasal bridge, and hypoplastic orbital rim.
blepharophimoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blepharophimosis
Ramachandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit रामचन्द्र (rāmacandra), made of Sanskrit राम (Rāma) + चन्द्र (candrá).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
dead money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Chips that a player who has since folded has put into the pot.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Money of weaker players.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Money paid by a team to a player or coach who is no longer a player or coach with the team.
freehub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freehubs
Etymology: From free + hub, genericized trademark.
Senses: examples: text: In many high-end and midrange bicycles, freehubs have replaced freewheel systems.
glosses: A type of bicycle hub incorporating a ratcheting mechanism, with a cassette, or set of sprockets, mounted onto a splined shaft of the hub to engage the chain.
Related terms: freewheel
freehubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freehub
proptosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: exophthalmos
Norrie disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Danish ophthalmologist Gordon Norrie (1855–1941).
Senses: glosses: A genetic disorder that primarily affects the eye, usually leading to blindness, and sometimes involves mental retardation and/or progressive loss of hearing.
supermicroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + microscopic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to supermicroscopy.
glosses: Smaller than microscopic.
Dheerasankarabharanam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit धीर (dhīra) + शंकराभरण (śaṃkarābharaṇa).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
head_nr: 1
glosses: A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 29th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
mesofluidics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + fluidics.
Senses: glosses: The application of millimeter- to centimeter-sized hydraulics to problems that require substantial amounts of power to be generated and applied in a limited space.
sound post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound posts
form: soundpost
form: sound-post
Etymology: From sound + post.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
glosses: A wooden rod located inside the body of a violin-family instrument, close to the treble-side bridge foot.
Derived terms: sound post setter
mesofluidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + fluidic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or using mesofluidics
Pauli vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pauli vectors
Senses: examples: The eigenvectors of the first Pauli matrix "encode" — as it were — the +X and −X directions. Likewise, the eigenvectors of the second Pauli matrix "encode" the +Y and −Y directions and those of the third Pauli matrix, the +Z and −Z directions. The dot product of the Pauli vector with any unit vector ⃑N yields a matrix which likewise has eigenvalues +1 and −1 and a pair of eigenvectors; the eigenvector with positive eigenvalue "encodes" the +N direction and the eigenvector with negative eigenvalue "encodes" the −N direction. The dot product of any two such "encoded" directions yields the probability amplitude that the spin of an electron prepared in the first direction will collapse to the second direction when measured along that second direction.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A vector whose components are Pauli matrices; e.g., ⃑σ=σ₁̂i+σ₂̂j+σ₃̂k.
probability amplitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probability amplitudes
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A complex number which is the coefficient of a component of a quantum state and whose product with its own complex conjugate gives the probability that the state will collapse to that component (when measured). (Note: the quantum state being thought of as a linear combination of its components.)
quantum logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A form of non-classical logic which has been abstracted out of quantum mechanics.
examples: The representation theorem (for quantum logic) shows that these quantum logics form a lattice which is isomorphic to the lattice of subspaces of a vector space with a scalar product.ᵂᴾ
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A set of events that is closed under a countable disjunction of countably many mutually exclusive events.ᵂᴾ
boroxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A six-membered inorganic heterocycle containing three boron and three oxygen atoms
Bors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Either of two knights in Arthurian legend, an elder and a younger.