cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
McNeill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McNeil
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Mac (“son of”) + Niall (“possibly "the champion”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic of Scottish origin.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, United States.
Windie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Kokay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Culberson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Culberson County
Jernigan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jarnagin
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A settlement in Florida that developed into the modern city of Orlando.
Ashworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ashworths
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Culwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Culpepper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Culpeppers
Etymology: From Middle English Coulpeper, Cullepeper, equivalent to cull (“to cull, gather”) + pepper, i.e. ("spice-gatherer").
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Culpepper Island
Coutts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːts/
ipa: [kjyːt͡s]
rhymes: -uːts
Etymology: The bank takes its name from James Coutts and his descendants, who became partners at the bank in the 1750s and 60s.
The surname is also spelled Couts.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A private bank, famously that of Queen Elizabeth
Holbrooks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Holbrook.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Poston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Postons
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Topographic surname for someone who lived near a poster or back gate, from Old French posterne (“postern”).
* Habitational surname from a minor place in Shropshire, from an Old English personal name *Possa + þorn (“thorn”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A census-designated place in La Paz County, Arizona, United States.
Aliyha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Coker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: A former community now in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, United States, founded by John Coker (soldier).
Related terms: East Coker
West Coker
Eskesen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Skapin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Galvez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galvezs
form: Galvezes
Etymology: From Spanish Gálvez.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Galveston
Related terms: Galves
McClain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: McClain County
Furner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gallego
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish gallego (“Galician”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Related terms: Del Gallego
Jost
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Jost.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Related terms: Jest
Jœst
Joest
Johst
Joost
Jöst
Jost van Dyke
Onyechi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ivester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Oliveras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Willingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willinghams
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Wifel + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish of South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL408707).
examples: text: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed Emmy Award winner AJ Willingham will be the new voice of their morning newsletter, A.M. ATL.
ref: 2025 January 14, “Award-Winning Journalist AJ Willingham Joins The Atlanta Journal-Constitution”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: North Willingham
South Willingham
Willingham by Stow
Willingham St Mary
Kirstyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Mychaela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Michaela.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Carruth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carruths
Etymology: Scottish habitational surname, from a place in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Kilmacolm
Cureton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkjʊə(ɹ).tən/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈkjɔː(ɹ).tən/
ipa: /ˈkjʊɹ.tən/
ipa: /ˈkjɝ.tən/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Curetonian
curetonite
Koutsos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek κουτσός (koutsós, literally “limp person”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ropp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ropps
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rocklein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cabaniss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cabiness
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lyda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rhymer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From rhymer.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Catlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Catlins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village and township in Vermilion County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Raccoon Township, Parke County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Marion County, Kansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Chemung County, New York.
Fredna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Fred.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Hover
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stroman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Scribner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Scribners
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Ellipsis of Scribner Creek.
Derived terms: Scribner Creek
Pingry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Authenreith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Starnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tingom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
raying room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːm
Forms: form: raying rooms
Senses: glosses: A room, typically in a royal palace next to a royal bedchamber, in which a monarch would be dressed (arrayed)
Woodruff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See woodruff.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Woodruff County
Woodruff key
Woodlock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woodlocks
Etymology: From an Old English personal name Wudlac, composed of the elements wudu (“wood”) + lāc (“play, sport; battle, strife”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Loopy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sandlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McBee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McBees
form: MacBee
Etymology: Variant of McBeth.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, United States.
Nuckolls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unclear. Possibly ultimately from Nichols, a vernacular form of the given name Nicholas. Unlikely to be related to the noun "knuckles". A form of this name; "Knuckles", only seems to
appear after the 17th century, thus the spelling could be influenced by the noun becoming a homophone with the name due to the loss of the initial /k/ consonant.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Nuckolls County
Bratovich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
amœbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of amoebal.
actiwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actiwatches
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A device, in the form of a wristwatch, that measures and records a patient's activity
actiwatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actiwatch
adsymphysial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: adsymphyseal
Etymology: From ad- + symphysial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Near a symphysis
botosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: "As Table 1 demonstrates, we have investigated a very small region of the botosphere on the Internet" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171774
glosses: The part of the Internet in which bots operate
capillarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capillarisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of capillarization.
powah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powahs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of power.
inactigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inactigrams
Senses: examples: "Inactigrams for each elephant during the entire recording period, ..." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171903
glosses: A graphical record of inactivity
inactigrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inactigram
lacrimonasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From lacrimo- + nasal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the lacrimal sac and the nose
lophosteiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lophosteiforms
Senses: glosses: Any fossil fish of the family Lophosteiformes
maxillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a jaw (especially having maxillas)
onychodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onychodonts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of onychodontid.
synonyms: word: onychodontid
onychodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onychodont
osteolepidid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteolepidids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct sarcopterygian in the superorder Osteolepidida
Related terms: osteolepid
osteostracan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteostracans
Senses: glosses: Any extinct fish of the class Osteostraci
osteostracans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteostracan
palaeobasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeobasins
Etymology: From palaeo- + basin.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleobasin.
palaeobasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeobasin
paleobasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleobasins
form: palaeobasin
Etymology: From paleo- + basin.
Senses: glosses: An extinct river basin
paleobasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleobasin
palaeoniscoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the palaeoniscids
preconditionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preconditioning
need one's bumps feeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: needs one's bumps feeling
form: needing one's bumps feeling
form: needed one's bumps feeling
form: needed one's bumps feeling
form: need one's bumps felt
form: want one's bumps feeling
form: want one's bumps felt
Senses: glosses: Synonym of need one's head examined.
synonyms: word: need one's head examined
need one's head examined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: needs one's head examined
form: needing one's head examined
form: needed one's head examined
form: needed one's head examined
Etymology: Facetiously suggesting that a person has mental issues and should see a doctor.
Senses: examples: text: You paid how much for that piece of junk? You need your head examined!
glosses: Indicating that a person is very foolish, or making a stupid decision.
Synonyms: need one's bumps feeling
Related terms: need one's eyes checked
want one's bumps felt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wants one's bumps felt
form: wanting one's bumps felt
form: wanted one's bumps felt
form: wanted one's bumps felt
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of need one's bumps feeling.
need one's bumps felt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: needs one's bumps felt
form: needing one's bumps felt
form: needed one's bumps felt
form: needed one's bumps felt
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of need one's bumps feeling.
want one's bumps feeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wants one's bumps feeling
form: wanting one's bumps feeling
form: wanted one's bumps feeling
form: wanted one's bumps feeling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of need one's bumps feeling.
bond timbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bond timber
grandmother clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandmother clocks
Senses: glosses: A longcase clock that is relatively short in height, smaller than a grandfather clock.
grandmother clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandmother clock
prisoners of conscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prisoner of conscience
zincotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zincotypes
Etymology: From zinco- + -type.
Senses: glosses: A photographic print produced by coating zinc with bitumen, gelatin, etc. and exposing it under a negative.
zincotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zincotype
moments in the sun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moment in the sun
piezoaccelerometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piezoaccelerometers
Etymology: From piezo- + accelerometer.
Senses: glosses: A piezoelectric accelerometer
piezoaccelerometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piezoaccelerometer
polybasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + basal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having, or associated with multiple bases
Related terms: polybasic
porolepiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porolepiform
postbranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + branchial.
Senses: glosses: posterior to the gills
psarolepid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psarolepids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct fish of the genus Psarolepis
psarolepids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psarolepid
teleostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleostomes
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the clade Teleostomi
teleostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleostome
thelodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thelodonts
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Thelodonti
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct fish of the class Thelodonti, having small, spiny scales.
Hypernyms: agnathan
Hyponyms: archipelepidiform
furcacaudiform
thelodontiform
thelodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thelodont
in what world
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Use of a reference to alternative realities to imply that the thing criticized is inconsistent with our own reality.
Senses: examples: text: In what world is it "wholly unconscionable and politically unpalatable" to deny Nigeria a Security Council veto?
ref: 2005, Chicago journal of international law, volume 6, page 635:
text: In what world is the ability to be attacked by bees on command a superpower?
ref: 2014, Joseph R. Lallo, The Other Eight, volume 1:
synonyms: in what universe
glosses: How. (used in rhetorical questions to criticize something as completely inconsistent with reality and/or logic).
legal hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal holds
Senses: glosses: The preservation of documents and other information, suspending normal processing, when an organization expects litigation.
legal holds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal hold
self-deficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-deficient
form: most self-deficient
Etymology: From self- + deficient.
Senses: examples: text: It was a self-deficient people with whom the self-deficient Hitler achieved that peculiar empathy: a resonance of injured self on injured self. Both shamed, they became united.
ref: 1991, Harold Barrett, Rhetoric and Civility: Human Development, Narcissism, and the Good Audience:
text: Importantly, however, researchers and philosophers contend that the ego that is created is not who an individual actually is since the ego erroneously believes that the true nature of oneself is self-deficient.
ref: 2014, Leroy Robinson, Jr., Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference:
glosses: Deficient in itself; not whole or complete; lacking.
self-coups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-coup
FTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FT
niseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nisey
humdudgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humdudgeon
chronological ages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronological age
metempirically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of metempirics.
geoelectrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geoelectrical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: These waters are found in many places in the saline coastal plain above the geoelectrically detected fresh-brackish-water boundary.
ref: 1969, W. De Breuck, G. De Moor, “The water-table aquifer in the eastern Coastal Area of Belgium”, in Bulletin of the International Association of Scientific Hydrology, volume 14, page 137:
text: The survey region is geologically and geoelectrically complex, and interpretation of the data in terms of two- and three-dimensional models remains to be done.
ref: 1986, William D. Stanley, “Magnetotelluric study of a compressed flysch system in the Healy and adjacent quadrangles”, in U.S. Geological Survey Circular:
text: It has the highest number of broadband Internet connections per capita of any OECD country, and its outlying winter landscape is punctuated by the glow of geoelectrically fueled sunlamps that feed vast, fruit-swollen greenhouses on the volcanic marches.
ref: 2009, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities, page 117:
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, geoelectricity.
slangless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slang + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Your lofty principles and your slangless diction do you honor, but they are too elegant for every-day existence.
ref: 1875, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, volume 15, page 286:
glosses: Free from slang.
regenerative medicines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regenerative medicine
letters of relaxation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter of relaxation
whatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whattas
Senses: examples: text: Small offerings of fruit and roots seemed to be daily made at this shrine, as some pieces were quite fresh. These were deposited upon a whatta, or altar, which stood without the pallisades; and within these we were not permitted to enter.
ref: 1784, James Cook, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean:
text: Not only the whattas or offering-places of the morais are commonly loaded with fruits and animals, but there are few houses lacking a small place of the same sort.
ref: 1906, Nicholas Senn, Tahiti: The Island Paradise, page 110:
glosses: A scaffold used by the Tahitians for animal sacrifices.
whattas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whatta
CWOTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CWOT
back stretch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back stretches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backstretch.
back-stretch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-stretches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backstretch.
back-stretches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-stretch (alternative form of backstretches).
back stretches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back stretch (alternative form of backstretches).
flyover country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: flyover state
glosses: The parts of the United States between the East and West Coasts.
ureo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: urea
Chippewyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chippewyan
nigger-rigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nigger-rig
nigger-rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nigger-rig
hagiocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hagiocratic
form: most hagiocratic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hagiocracy.
unbrainwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbrainwashes
form: unbrainwashing
form: unbrainwashed
form: unbrainwashed
Etymology: From un- + brainwash.
Senses: glosses: To reverse the process of brain-washing or indoctrination; to free (a person) from beliefs forced on them by others.
unbrainwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbrainwash
unbrainwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having been brainwashed.
unbrainwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbrainwash
unbrainwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbrainwash
achondroplasiaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From achondroplasia + -phobia, in reference to a genetic disorder that causes dwarfism.
Senses: glosses: The fear of little people, or dwarfs (those with short stature).
genticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genticide.
prints out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of print out
catches out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catch out
balls out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ball out
bawls out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bawl out
unstays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstay
carks it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cark it
buys it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buy it
drops anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop anchor
nods off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nod off
sacks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sack out
unstaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstay
breaks wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break wind
passes wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass wind
rips one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rip one
passes water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass water
Rastitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rastitutes
Etymology: Blend of Rastafarian + prostitute
Senses: glosses: A male sex worker in the Caribbean, catering to female sex tourists.
Synonyms: rent-a-dread
Related terms: sanky-panky
Rastitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rastitute
sacking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sack out
whacks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whack off
rent-a-dread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rent-a-dreads
Etymology: In reference to the dreadlocks they typically wear.
Senses: glosses: A male sex worker in the Caribbean, catering to female sex tourists.
Synonyms: Rastitute
rent-a-dreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rent-a-dread
runs down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run down
bangs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bang up
picks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pick off
Epona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from a suffixed form of Gaulish epos (“horse”), from Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Gallo-Roman religion, a goddess of fertility and protector of horses, ponies, donkeys, and mules.
stops by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stop by
stops down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stop down
stops up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stop up
stopping down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stop down
drops by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop by
hits it off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit it off
hits it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit it up
gits along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of git along
gives by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give by
puts by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put by
sets by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set by
sticks by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stick by
punches above
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of punch above
happens across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of happen across
cuts across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut across
moves along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of move along
chathead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatheads
Etymology: From chat + -head.
Senses: examples: text: Other site attributes include links to additional music sites, and a Choiceradio chatroom where chatheads can listen to music from their genre of choice while cyber-gabbing. Now that's what we call some mighty choice radio.
ref: 1999, Bill Konig, “Web Site of the Week”, in CMJ New Music Report, volume 60, number 635, page 36:
glosses: A chat room user.
chatheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chathead
penal law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penal laws
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Criminal law.
penal laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penal law
Ino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰνώ (Inṓ).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A queen of Boeotia who, after her death and transfiguration, was worshipped as a goddess under the epithet Leucothea.
clubism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clubbism.
autofluoresce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autofluoresces
form: autofluorescing
form: autofluoresced
form: autofluoresced
Etymology: From auto- + fluoresce.
Senses: glosses: To produce autofluorescence
hemacytomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hemocytometer.
naifness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From naif + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of naiveness.
nonleukemogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From non- + leukemogenic.
Senses: glosses: That does not cause leukemia
purpose-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: purpose-made, custom-built, custom-made, custom, bespoke; see also Thesaurus:custom-made
text: purpose-built equipment
text: purpose-built vehicles
text: Their factory in Ohio has purpose-built epoxy-curing ovens that accommodate even the largest models.
text: Southampton is also the country's top port for car exports and imports, handling 900,000 vehicles a year. DB Cargo runs purpose-built wagons bringing cars by rail from Midlands factories into the port.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Rail freight sector warns of slump in container traffic”, in Rail, page 10:
hypernyms: built#Adjective
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made#Adjective
glosses: Designed and constructed to serve a particular purpose.
Related terms: homebuilt
homemade
jerry-built
scratch-built
pneumatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pneumatization.
Pony Express
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pony Express
Senses: glosses: A 19th-century mail service delivering messages across North America by means of riders on horseback.
preplant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + plant.
Senses: glosses: Prior to planting
preplant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preplants
form: preplanting
form: preplanted
form: preplanted
Etymology: From pre- + plant.
Senses: glosses: To plant prior to another action (especially another planting)
Pogolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group based in Iringa Region and Morogoro Region, Tanzania.
Pogolo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
personal ad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal ads
Etymology: Clipping of personal advertisement.
Senses: glosses: A classified advertisement placed by an individual, typically with the aim of finding a friend or romantic partner.
Related terms: lonely-hearts
missed connection
personal column
personal ads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal ad
parrot-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parrot-like
form: most parrot-like
Etymology: From parrot + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parrotlike.
parliament cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪk
Senses: synonyms: parliament
glosses: Gingerbread in flat slices.
parking disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parking disks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parking disc.
parking disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parking disk
-gony
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “generation”).
Senses: examples: telegony (tele- + -gony)
gametogony (gamete + -o- + -gony)
glosses: Forms nouns that describe the genesis of a class of thing.
parahydroxybenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hydroquinone
parasol mushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasol mushrooms
Senses: glosses: Macrolepiota procera (syn. Lepiota procera, a basidiomycete fungus with a large, prominent fruiting body resembling a parasol.
parasol mushrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasol mushroom
blue badge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue badges
Senses: examples: text: Fifty car parking spaces, a drop-off point, five spaces for blue badge holders and lighting masts are all included in the plan, as is cycle parking on the station forecourt and ticket vending machines.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Network News: Plan submitted for £18.6 million station at Soham”, in Rail, page 21:
glosses: A blue parking disc issued to disabled drivers that allows them to park on most double yellow lines
blue badges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue badge
zubron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zho͞oʹbrôn
ipa: /ˈʒuːbɹɔːn/
Forms: form: zubrons
form: zubronie
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish żubroń, from żubr.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid between domestic cattle and wisent.
Related terms: beefalo
comes apart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come apart
puts aside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put aside
steps aside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of step aside
came forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come forth
comes forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come forth
jail fodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jailfodder
Etymology: From jail + fodder, i.e. food to be fed to jails. Probably by analogy with cannon fodder.
Senses: examples: text: Philos grew redly truculent. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I don’t need the advice of a lump of Jewish jailfodder—’
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 4, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson:
text: Between 1718 and 1775, the empire transported about fifty thousand felons, more than half of all English emigrants to America during that period. The transported were overwhelmingly young, unmarried men with little or no economic skill: the cannon fodder of war and the jail fodder of peace.
ref: 2001, Alan Taylor, chapter 14, in American Colonies, Penguin, published 2002, page 315:
text: 2016, Vickie Roach, quoted in Elle Hunt, “Safe space,” The Guardian, 24 November, 2016,
The history of Australia since colonisation has been telling us that we’re stupid, dumb, we’re drunks, we’re just jail fodder, we’re all criminals, we’re dirty, we can’t look after our kids, we all sniff petrol, now we do ice.
coordinate_terms: jailbait
glosses: A person with criminal tendencies who is considered to be expendable, worth nothing more than to occupy a jail.
jailfodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jail fodder.
pushes someone's buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of push someone's buttons
gets into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get into
thinks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of think up
cowboys up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cowboy up
hutches up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hutch up
cosies up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cosy up to
gets with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get with
does out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do out of
fucks over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuck over
fucks around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuck around
fucks with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuck with
dicks around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dick around
bitches off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bitch off
sucks face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suck face
gets off with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get off with
goes with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go with
goes to bed with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go to bed with
comes to terms with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come to terms with
cops off with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cop off with
fools with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fool with
makes off with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make off with
auctions off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of auction off
squares off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of square off
switches off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of switch off
wanders off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wander off
footles about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of footle about
FSc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Foo Swee Chin.
basement-dweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basement-dwellers
form: basement dweller
Senses: glosses: An adult who lives in their parents' house (stereotypically in their basement); often with implications of idleness or social awkwardness.
glosses: A nerd or geek; a person lacking a social life.
Related terms: basement-dwelling
cellar dweller
failure to launch
NEET
hikikomori
neckbeard
streetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From street + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of streets and roads, in the context of urban planning.
glosses: The life experience gained from living on the streets.
BANANA principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism of "build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything".
Senses: examples: text: Clearly it is tempting to say "no more pipelines" or to adopt the BANANA principle — Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody.
ref: 1994, United States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Pipeline safety:
text: When it comes to nuclear facilities, the NIMBY (notin-my-backyard) principle has evolved into the BANANA principle; “build-absolutely-nothing-anywhere-near-anything.”
ref: 2008, Tamás Farkas, The Investor's Guide to the Energy Revolution, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Faburel (2003) describes a general trend away from the NIMBY ('not in my backyard') attitude towards the BANANA principle ('build absolutely nothing anywhere near anybody').
ref: 2009, Saulo Cwerner, Sven Kesselring, John Urry, Aeromobilities, →ISBN:
text: In an uncommon show of humor in a government report, it says this: "What used to be termed the 'not-in-my-backyard' (NIMBY) principle has evolved into the 'build-absolutely-nothing-anywhere-near-anything' (BANANA) principle, which is increasingly being applied to facilities of any type, including low-income housing, cellular phone towers, prisons, sports stadiums, water treatment facilities, airports, hazardous waste facilities, and even new fire houses."
ref: 2011, Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal, →ISBN:
glosses: A policy that prohibits building anything that could disturb those who already reside in an area.
Related terms: nimby
NIMBY
liquid bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From being a liquid made from the ingredients used to make bread (grain, yeast, water).
Senses: examples: text: “The well-known Dr. Kitchener,” however, has discovered, that homebrewed beer is “liquid bread.”
ref: 1841, “To the Rev. Mortlock Daniell of Ramsgate”, in The New British and Foreign Temperance Magazine, page 231:
text: As “liquid bread” (see Schiefenhovel and Macbeth 2011), the nutritional benefits of beer are commendable, with barley-beer containing more B vitamins and the essential amino acid lysine than barley bread.
ref: 2015, Kaori O'Connor, The Never-ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting:
glosses: Synonym of beer.
synonyms: word: beer
jaw-jutting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jaw-jutting
form: most jaw-jutting
form: jawjutting
Senses: glosses: Having one’s lower jaw protruding forward
examples: text: 1954, Lars Lawrence (pseudonym of Philip Stevenson), Morning, Noon, and Night, New York: Putnam, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 147,
What he called her “genius” for diplomacy, her tolerance of the precious sensitivities of intellectuals, was as useless in his rough-and-tumble relations with goons and jailers as his jaw-jutting aggressions would be in her mannered and scrupulous artistic circle.
text: Up on the Gianicolo the Jewish stallholders sold metal replicas of St. Peter’s and Romulus and Remus and jawjutting pictures of the Duce.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 43, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson:
text: The actors give it their all, especially Knightley, whose jaw-jutting, heavily accented and unfairly criticized portrayal gives the film its fighting spirit.
ref: 2011 November 21, Peter Travers, “A Dangerous Method”, in Rolling Stone:
text: Harold was different: stylishly clad in black and often in sunglasses, he was a man’s man, a proper bloke, a whiskey-drinking, women-loving, sweary, jaw-jutting fella, brought up on the hard, war-bittne streets of Hackney […]
ref: 2016 February, Gary Kemp, “Drama’s pause célèbre”, in GQ:
glosses: determined, dogged, strong-willed, defiant
jawjutting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jawjutting
form: most jawjutting
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jaw-jutting.
μeV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: μeVs
Etymology: From μ- + eV.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of microelectronvolt.
neV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neVs
Senses: glosses: nanoelectronvolt
peV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peVs
Senses: glosses: picoelectronvolt
feV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feVs
Senses: glosses: femtoelectronvolt
femtoelectronvolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femtoelectronvolts
Etymology: From femto- + electronvolt.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of energy equal to one quadrillionth of an electronvolt, symbol feV
picoelectronvolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picoelectronvolts
Etymology: From pico- + electronvolt.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of energy equal to one trillionth of an electronvolt, symbol peV
nanoelectronvolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoelectronvolts
Etymology: From nano- + electronvolt.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of energy equal to one billionth of an electronvolt, symbol neV
microelectronvolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microelectronvolts
Etymology: From micro- + electronvolt.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of energy equal to one millionth of an electronvolt, symbol μeV.
Synonyms: ueV
μeV
kite jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kite + jumping.
Senses: glosses: The pastime of using a strong kite to provide lift to jump into the air.
Coordinate terms: kite jump
kite jumper
Related terms: kite surfing
kite skiing
kite sailing
kite flying
kiting
kite jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From kite jump + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kite jump
microelectronvolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microelectronvolt
nanoelectronvolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoelectronvolt
kite jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kite jumpers
Etymology: From kite jump + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who kite jumps, who participates in kite jumping
picoelectronvolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picoelectronvolt
femtoelectronvolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femtoelectronvolt
kite jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kite jumps
Etymology: From kite + jump from being equipped with a kite to jump.
Senses: glosses: An enhanced jump with a kite providing lift
Coordinate terms: kite jumper
kite jumping
kite jump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kite jumps
form: kite jumping
form: kite jumped
form: kite jumped
Etymology: From kite + jump from being equipped with a kite to jump.
Senses: glosses: To jump into the air with the aide of a kite
Related terms: kite surf
kite ski
kite sail
kite
kite jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kite jump
kite jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kite jump
kite jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kite jumper
kite jumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kite jump
Goldstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goldstones
Senses: glosses: A placename
A small village in Cheswardine parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7028).
glosses: A placename
A ghost town in California, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Goldstone boson
Goldstone's theorem
Nambu-Goldstone boson
goldstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldstones
Senses: glosses: A glittering ornamental glass made in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere. It can be polished and carved.
glosses: Alternative form of gold stone (“gold ore”).
interpolatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: interpolable
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That can be interpolated