cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Wadi Gaza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Britain's foreign office on Friday updated its travel guidance to tell its citizens in Gaza to follow Israeli advice and relocate to southern Gaza within the next 24 hours.
"The Israeli military announced on the morning of 13 October that the entire population of Gaza north of Wadi Gaza should relocate to southern Gaza within the next 24 hours," the update posted on the government website said.
ref: 2023 October 13, William James, “UK travel guidance says to follow Israeli advice on Gaza relocation”, in Kate Holton, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2023:
glosses: A wadi, a valley in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, Levant, between Egypt and Israel; dividing Northern Gaza from the rest of the Gaza Strip, and marking the southern boundary of Gaza City; containing the Besor Stream (Besor River).
Hyponyms: Besor River
Besor Stream
Gaza Valley
Gaza Wetlands
Wadi Gaza River
Wadi Gaza Stream
Wadi Gaza Wetlands
Derived terms: Wadi Gaza River
Wadi Gaza Stream
Wadi Gaza Wetlands
Related terms: Gaza
Gaza City
Gazan
Gaza Strip
North Gaza
polygyrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + gyre + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many closely-spaced spirals
guariuba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guariúba
Senses: glosses: An Amazon timber-producing tree Clarisia racemosa and its wood.
intramedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + median.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Located between the anterior and posterior media longitudinal veins on the wing.
Charig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
DAERA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Daera
Senses: examples: text: […]DAERA has a range of significant programmes under way to improve water quality … [and]^([sic]) the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) also undertakes extensive monitoring and inspection programmes as well as investigating all reported pollution incidents.
ref: 2023 August 23, Tommy Greene, “Lough Neagh ‘dying in plain sight’ due to vast algal blooms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: Defra
glosses: Initialism of Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.
NIEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […]DAERA has a range of significant programmes under way to improve water quality … [and]^([sic]) the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) also undertakes extensive monitoring and inspection programmes as well as investigating all reported pollution incidents.
ref: 2023 August 23, Tommy Greene, “Lough Neagh ‘dying in plain sight’ due to vast algal blooms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Northern Ireland Environment Agency.
glosses: Initialism of Nazarene International Education Association
glosses: Initialism of National Indian Education Association
doom-mongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doom-mongerings
Senses: examples: text: Some shrug all this off as doom-mongering. Great Britain and Ireland have similar problems, so it is unfair to cast Northern Ireland as dysfunctional, said Ian Marshall, a farmer and former Ulster Unionist party politician who also served in the Irish Senate.
ref: 2023 October 13, Rory Carroll, “‘The hope we had is gone’: how 20 months of stasis has paralysed Northern Ireland”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The spreading of doom or pessimism.
Related terms: doom-monger
Aberangell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh aber + Afon Angell, the mouth of the River Angell.
Senses: glosses: A village in Mawddwy community, south-east Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH8410).
wikipedia: Afon Angell
extra-temporalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extra-temporality
collapsologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collapsologists
Senses: examples: text: But in France, where they overlap to some extent with the gilets jaunes movement, collapsologists also consider society to be sick.
ref: 2020 October 11, Laura Spinney, “‘Humans weren’t always here. We could disappear’: meet the collapsologists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone concerned with collapsology.
Related terms: survivalist
collapsologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collapsologist
ipsation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ipsations
Etymology: From Latin ipse (“self”).
Senses: examples: text: Were this young boy a member of some primitive tribe he probably would find no need for ipsation, because at fifteen he would have found a sexual partner already and would be practising normal sexual intercourse with her.
ref: 1931, Wolfe W. Beran, Individual Psychology and Sex (1931):
text: At age of 10 he was initiated into ipsation after mutual inspection of a little girl but this was an isolated instance; he was only interested from a distance.
ref: 1941 October 24, Psychiatry Digest 1941-10: Vol 3 Iss 2:
text: In former times the dangers of ipsation were as much exaggerated as they have in recent times been underestimated. In the literature of modern medicine it is almost without exception considered an innocent action of compensation.
ref: 1961, albert niedermeyer, Compendium of Pastoral Medicine:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Solitary masturbation.
Duckenfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Saint Thomas parish, south-east Jamaica.
glosses: A locality in the City of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.
DPRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DPRAMs
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of dual-ported RAM.
dual-ported
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having two ports; (in particular, computing) allowing multiple reads or writes to occur at the same time.
Coordinate terms: multi-ported
brain chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain chip
brain chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain chips
form: brainchip
Senses: examples: text: Most shockingly, Delgado wanted to exercise psychophysical control of everybody’s mind using brain chips to suppress behaviours that violate social norms.
ref: 2017, Armin Krishnan, Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare (Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs), Routledge, →ISBN, page 208:
text: Once installed, brain chips could potentially reverse engineer the amygdala by changing the patterned behaviour of neural circuitry as a way of circumventing the neurological sources of traumatic injury.
ref: 2022, Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, Technologies of the New Real: Viral Contagion and Death of the Social, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 39:
text: In terms of the use of a brain chip to enhance healthy people’s brain power, another interviewee raised concerns about challenges to human dignity.
ref: 2023, Kiyoshi Murata, Yohko Orito, Andrew A. Adams, Mario Arias-Oliva, Yasunori Fukuta, “The ethics of body modification: Transhumanism in Japan”, in Thomas Taro Lennerfors, Kiyoshi Murata, editors, Ethics and Sustainability in Digital Cultures (Routledge Series on Digital Spaces), Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A chip implanted in a brain.
brainchip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainchips
Senses: examples: text: Something didn’t fit, and it wasn’t Father A’s newest brainchip. Something was eating me.
ref: 1990, Esther Friesner, “In the Can”, in Don Sakers, editor, Carmen Miranda’s Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 236:
text: A timorous sibling tched softly within striking distance of the breakfast head of the Harpe in command of the great ark in orbit around Trencher with its stuffing of deepsleeps snoring through their brainchip tasks.
ref: 2001, John Clute, Appleseed, Orbit, →ISBN, page 8:
text: “Did you just enter my brain?” / “Your brainchip. Not your brain. I can’t read thoughts. Just brainchips.”
ref: 2010, Philip Palmer, Version 43, Orbit, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Given that most governing authorities have not shown themselves to be either fair or straight throughout history, the most serious predicament with the wholesale distribution of brainchips will be similar to the problem around today’s culture of official fact-checkers and censorship but inflated to momentous levels. In the same way that not having a digital ID could at some point make it almost impossible to function in society, turning down a brainchip will leave a disenfranchised and probably despised underclass pushed to the fringes, while the compliant get on, happy enough with their distractions as long as their basic needs are met – the very kind of dystopia truthers find abhorrent.
ref: 2021, Andy Thomas, The New Heretics: Understanding the Conspiracy Theories Polarizing the World, Watkins, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of brain chip.
brainchips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brainchip
Idaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Idaean
form: most Idaean
form: Idean
form: Idæan
Etymology: From Latin Idaeus (from Ancient Greek Ἰδαῖος (Idaîos)) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Where Ellen's hand had taught to twine / The ivy and Idaean vine […].
ref: 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 1.XXVI:
glosses: Pertaining to Mount Ida, the name given to a mountain near ancient Troy, and to a mountain of Crete, sometimes held to be the birthplace of Zeus.
self-protective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-protective
form: most self-protective
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ability to protect oneself.
ichu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A grass of species Stipa ichu.
keeps on truckin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep on truckin'
kept on truckin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep on truckin'
keepin' on truckin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep on truckin'
Tirebolu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turkish Tirebolu and Ottoman Turkish تیرهبولی (Tirebolu), from Byzantine Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis), from Ancient Greek τρι- (tri-, “tri-: three”) + πολις (polis, “city, city-state”). Doublet of Tripoli and Tripolis.
Senses: glosses: A town in Giresun Province, Turkey.
glosses: A district of Giresun Province, Turkey, around the town.
Synonyms: word: Tripolis
anpans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anpan
Tumakuru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tumkur
Etymology: Borrowed from Kannada ತುಮಕುರು (tumakuru).
Senses: glosses: A city in Karnataka, India.
Lapal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Halesowen, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9883).
inhærently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inhærently
form: most inhærently
Etymology: From inhærent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of inherently.
Hubballi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hubli
Etymology: Borrowed from Kannada ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿ (hubbaḷḷi).
Senses: glosses: A city in Karnataka, India.
Shivamogga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shimoga
Etymology: Borrowed from Kannada ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗಾ (śivamoggā).
Senses: glosses: A city in Karnataka, India.
Hosapete
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hospet
Etymology: Borrowed from Kannada ಹೊಸಪೇಟೆ (hosapēṭe).
Senses: glosses: A city in Karnataka, India.
lagona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagonae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lagoena.
Chikkamagaluru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chikkmagalur
Etymology: Borrowed from Kannada ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರು (cikkamagaḷūru).
Senses: glosses: a city and district in Karnataka, India.
refined sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refined sugars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crushed sugar.
synonyms: word: crushed sugar
pie crust collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie crust collars
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A high collar which has an even ruffle in the shape of a fluted pie crust.
pie crust collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie crust collar
small-dick energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He’s currently working as a legal secretary and, other than believing he is severely underpaid, his main complaint seems to be that he works under a woman, and that having ‘secretary’ in his job title is somehow emasculating too. I’m getting serious small-dick energy from this one.
ref: 2022 May 4, Portia MacIntosh, chapter 10, in The Meet Cute Method, London: Boldwood Books Ltd, →ISBN:
text: Lucas looked around at the small-dick energy, taking in the colored stitching, the bright gauges, and the fire extinguisher bolted to the floor.
ref: 2022 August 9, Robert Pobi, Do No Harm (Lucas Page; 3), New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: Over the past week, he has been engaged in a Twitter standoff with the climate activist Greta Thunberg, attempting to troll her by telling her about his large collection of emission-heavy cars. Thunberg responded by implying Tate had “small-dick energy”.
ref: 2022 December 31, Shaun Walker, Kari Paul, Dan Milmo, “Social media influencer Andrew Tate held after police raid in Romania”, in The Guardian, page 8:
text: With enough small-dick energy to power Las Vegas, Putin insisted he take direct control of his armed forces, expecting capitulation from the home side would bring a swift end.
ref: 2023 January, “2022: What the Hell Was That All About?”, in BN1, page 38, column 1:
text: I know it’s hard not to take ghosting personally, but I promise you, if a guy ghosts it is one hundred percent about him not having the confidence to express himself. Because let’s face it—it’s not that hard to send a text saying, “Hey, it was nice getting to know you, but I’m just not feeling the vibe.” The fact that he cannot do that says all you need to know about how he handles anything that presents more difficulty than remembering his Hulu password. The petty side of me would call it small-dick energy.
ref: 2023 May 23, Tinx [pseudonym; Christina Najjar], “Beware, Hazards Ahead: Ghosting: Breadcrumbing, and Love Bombing”, in The Shift: Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself: A Guide to Dating, Self-Worth and Becoming the Main Character of Your Life, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of small dick energy.
ecphorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ecphorizes
form: ecphorizing
form: ecphorized
form: ecphorized
form: ecphorise
Senses: examples: text: While sensations are the most elementary psychophysiological processes, perceptions arise when the new sensations ecphorize traces of similar former sensations.
ref: 2008, Conditioning behavior and psychiatry, page 55:
glosses: To ecphore.
blister agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blister agent
parametrisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parametrisable
form: most parametrisable
Etymology: From parametrise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parametrizable.
penicillin VK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of phenoxymethylpenicillin.
synonyms: word: phenoxymethylpenicillin
gorlic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gorli + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Referring to gorli.
Derived terms: gorlic acid
gorli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Another small group has received the ethyl esters of the fatty acids of the oil expressed from the seed of the gorli tree, which contains more chaulmoogric acid and less hydnocarpic acid than does chaulmoogra oil . From a chemical standpoint, gorli oil should be a fair substitute for chaulmoogra oil in case of a shortage of the latter.
ref: 1924, United States. Public Health Service, Annual Report of the Surgeon General, page 53:
text: Gorli (Caloncoba echinata) is known for its characteristic small whitish flowers, borne in the axils of the leaves, and in clusters on common stalks, which are a few millimeters long.
ref: 2016, Maurice M. Iwu, Food as Medicine: Functional Food Plants of Africa:
glosses: A tropical shrubby tree (Caloncoba echinata, formerly Oncoba echinata) with small white flowers and inedible greenish-yellow berries, used both as an ornamental shrub and for medicinal purposes.
Derived terms: gorli oil
gorlic
gorlic acid
self-stim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-stims
form: self-stimming
form: self-stimmed
form: self-stimmed
Etymology: From self- + stim.
Senses: examples: text: He self-stims when I'm not watching, and sometimes even when I am.
text: Perhaps that is why your child is rocking back and forth, tapping his finger, or whatever he does![…]Or your child could be sensation seeking. That is, he self-stims because it feels good!
ref: 2007, Robert E. Cimera, Making Autism a Gift, page 117:
glosses: Synonym of self-stimulate.
synonyms: word: self-stimulate
self-stim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-stims
Etymology: From self- + stim.
Senses: examples: text: "Looks like Mommy really screwed up this time," she said to the nonverbal child who looked only briefly at her then wiggled to the floor where he rocked back and forth while flipping his eyes left and right, a move he could do for hours and which the doctors called a "self-stim". They said it was common with kids with Angelman Syndrome.
ref: 2010, Heath Sommer, The Human Obsession, page 283:
synonyms: stim
glosses: An instance or habit of self-stimulation.
gamist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The gamist agenda operates with a meta-directive in mind — in this case, to obtain the 'best ending'; […] While achieving a best ending in Suikoden II virtually requires a player to work, at some level, from a gamist stance, the desire or motivation that informs the sense that that 'best' ending is the desirable outcome is not as easily located. A player draws equally from gamist or narrativist agendas in this regard.
ref: 2012 February 16, Gerald A. Voorhees, Joshua Call, Katie Whitlock, Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens: The Digital Role-Playing Game, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 337:
text: At the same time, Brooks also suggests a 'gamist' attitude to the undead threat. 'Gamist' immersion contrast with narrativist or dramatist modes because it suggests players will focus on overcoming game challenges and finding optimal strategies rather than becoming involved in the story […]
ref: 2020 August 20, Matt Coward-Gibbs, Death, Culture & Leisure: Playing Dead, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 144:
qualifier: game design
glosses: Focused on gameplay (e.g. combat mechanics, winning the game) more than on roleplaying.
Cox's Bazar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named in honor of Captain Hiram Cox, an officer of the British East India Company.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Cox's Bazar District, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh.
wikipedia: Hiram Cox
Derived terms: Cox's Bazar District
Palakkad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam പാലക്കാട് (pālakkāṭŭ).
Senses: glosses: A city and district in Kerala, India.
Derived terms: Palakkad Gap
Vijayapura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Kannada ವಿಜಯಪುರ (vijayapura).
Senses: synonyms: Bijapur
glosses: A city in Karnataka, India.
Ballari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bellary
Etymology: Borrowed from Kannada ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ (baḷḷāri).
Senses: glosses: A city in Karnataka, India.
Hoshangabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hindustani होशंगाबाद (hośaṅgābād) / ہوشنگ آباد.
Senses: synonyms: Narmadapuram
glosses: A city in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Baranagar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barahanagore
Etymology: From Bengali বরাহনগর (borahnogor).
Senses: glosses: A city in West Bengal, India.
mistabulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistabulates
form: mistabulating
form: mistabulated
form: mistabulated
Etymology: From mis- + tabulate.
Senses: examples: text: To illustrate, should the machine operator mistabulate the amount of $534.28, and start writing in the tens of dollars column, the keys automatically lock upon attempting to write "4."
ref: 1929, Harry Gregory Schnackel, Henry Carlton Lang, Accounting by Machine Methods, page 35:
text: These pressures might lead them, in Conk's view, to deliberately mistabulate the enumerators' records, biasing the published occupation figures to show fewer women in "men's" ccupations and fewer children at work.
ref: 1995, Susan B. Carter, Richard Sutch, Fixing the Facts: Editing of the 1880 U.S. Census of Occupations with Implications for Long-term Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics, page 33:
text: Challenges may be based on allegations that elections officials or voting machines mistabulated the ballots or on charges of election fraud, which could result in a change in the result if enough ballots were invalidated.
ref: 2022, Deborah Kalb, Elections A to Z:
glosses: To tabulate incorrectly.
mistabulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistabulate
mistabulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistabulate
mistabulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistabulate
Mayiladuthurai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tamil மயிலாடுதுறை (mayilāṭutuṟai).
Senses: synonyms: Mayavaram
Mayuram
glosses: a city and district in Tamil Nadu, India.
mistackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistackles
form: mistackling
form: mistackled
form: mistackled
Etymology: From mis- + tackle.
Senses: examples: text: If the attacker tricks the defender into going for the tackle and she mistackles the ball, the attacker will most likely be in an advantageous position for a clear shot at the goal.
ref: 2015, Albert M. Luongo, Soccer Drills: Skill-Builders for Field Control, page 51:
text: If, for some reason, he mistackled the ball, you could be sure that the man was going to stay there and be planted square on his ass.
ref: 2016, George McDermott, Success In The Streets "The Great Save" A Survival Story:
text: However, consider the dramatic and very public case of the highly skilled international footballer, Eduardo da Silva of The Arsenal — who suffered a compound fibula fracture to his left leg and a dislocated ankle with medial ligament damage in Febrary 2008 when brutally mistackled in the away game at Birmingham City.
ref: 2018, John Spiers, Philip Booth, Neil Russel, Who Decides Who Decides?:
text: And, in what may seem a fusion of the previous two mistackling incidents, there was a third embarrassing episode.
ref: 2020, Eugene L. Wolfe, Boris Johnson in 100 Facts, page 47:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To tackle improperly, such as when it is not legal, or not in the correct manner.
examples: text: The two thought the agreement had mistackled the shari'a by referring it to the proposed constitutional conference.
ref: 1989, Africa Events - Volume 5, page 15:
text: […] mistackled while others are neither properly grasped nor tackled at all.
ref: 1992, Agbafor Igwe, Nnamdi Azikiwe: The Philosopher of Our Time:
text: The issue of technology, in general, was very wrongly conceived and thus mistackled in many developing countries during the past three decades.
ref: 1999, Maher Aziz Bedrous, Emad El-Sharkawi, S.B. Abdel Hamid, and Waeil Saleh Kaddour, “Re-Appraisal for Energy Technology Sustaining Development in Developing Countries: Egypt Case”, in Energy & Environment, volume 10, number 4:
glosses: To attempt to deal with (a problem) in the wrong way.
mistackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistackles
Etymology: From mis- + tackle.
Senses: examples: text: A mistackle counts two yards for the team with the ball.
ref: 1927 October, William Cletus Doyle, “Games for First Year Latin”, in The Classical Bulletin, volume 4:
text: Common errors leading to a mistackle:
ref: 1983, Ed Torba, The Boys Club Guide to Youth Football, page 166:
text: The defense had misreads and mistackles in abundance.
ref: 1998 September 9, The Grizzly:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An illegal or badly executed tackle.
mistackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistackle
mistackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistackle
mistackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistackle
mistackled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistackle
rekicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rekick
rekicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rekick
'Poonster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'Poonsters
form: Poonster
Etymology: From a clipping of Lampoon + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Also staring at the script and tossing in a suggestion every 30 minutes or so are Lewis Morton, 24, and Steve Lookner, 23, both in their second year at SNL, and both graduates of the Harvard Lampoon. The Lampoon has been a bountiful source of SNL talent from the start, when Doug Kenney, a founder of the National Lampoon and a Michaels consultant early on, paved the way for fellow 'Poonster [Jim] Downey to get a job at SNL.
ref: 2008 June 5, Chris Smith, “Comedy Isn't Funny”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2023:
text: Poonsters, posing as Crimson staffers, snapped photos with a smiling Trump seated on the president's chair and later published a rave review of the real estate mogul, calling him "the most formidable and competitive candidate on the Republican side."
ref: 2015 August 3, Neetzan Zimmerman, “Harvard Lampoon tricks Trump with fake endorsement”, in The Hill, Washington, D.C.: Nexstar Media Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2021:
text: The Belmont High School band and the Harvard Crimson dance team led the procession, and two additional chariots, one carrying a jester and the other a panda-suited 'Poonster, followed the honoree.
ref: 2015 October 25, R. Blake Paterson, Daniel P. Wood, “Lampoon Crowns Jimmy Fallon 'Emperor of Comedy'”, in The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard Crimson, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2023:
glosses: A writer for the humour magazine The Harvard Lampoon.
Related terms: pooner
'Poonsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'Poonster
Poonster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poonsters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'Poonster.
Poonsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Poonster
Nagaon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nowgong
Etymology: From Assamese নগাওঁ (nogaü̃).
Senses: glosses: A town in Assam, India.
flairsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flairsome
form: most flairsome
Etymology: From flair + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Nay, I niver get ony harm, as I know on, fro' th' little chaps though I do shiver whiles, for their curses is summat flairsome to hearken to.
ref: 1900, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Shameless Wayne:
text: […] blow-ups in some crises, has also kept him from rising to the big, flairsome gesture at other times.
ref: 1952, Newsweek, volume 40, page 37:
text: Flairsome shoe shapes with a flutter of bow or a sliver of T-strap...and the merest butterfly touch on the foot.
ref: 1958, Mademoiselle, volume 47, page 15:
text: A special issue of the National Business Review had chosen 54 newsmakers of the decade, so the newsletter included Colin James's assessment that I was 'Parliament's most flairsome member, 1980.
ref: 2019, Marilyn Waring, Marilyn Waring: The Political Years:
glosses: Characterised or marked by flair.
mistailored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mistailored
form: most mistailored
Etymology: From mis- + tailored.
Senses: examples: text: At issue in this case is whether plaintiff Maurice Uchitel may maintain a suit for breach of warranty on the part of seller F.R. Tripler and Company (Tripler), for the latter's sail to plaintiff of allegedly mistailored and defectively manufactured garments.
ref: 1981, Reports of Selected Cases Decided in Courts of the State of New York Other Than the court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, page 311:
glosses: Badly fitted;
raw_tags: of a garment
examples: text: Quite likely that is what it still is in some of the new nations writhing under mistailored, illfitting western democratic constitutions
ref: 1971, Pacem in maribus, page 43:
text: These are things that we, as a government—executive and legislative—must enter into collectively, not independently. This would correct some of the mistailored clothes that are imposed to try to clothe figuratively the needs of the islands .
ref: 1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Federal Policies Regarding the U.S. Insular Areas, page 213:
glosses: Not well suited to the purpose to which something is put.
illfitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illfitting
form: most illfitting
Senses: examples: text: Illfitting saddles produce sore backs, sitfasts, injury in the region of girth and bruises resulting in fistulous withers.
ref: 1910, Albert Thomas Kinsley, A Text Book of Veterinary Pathology, page 41:
text: The great drawback however as has already been stated, is the unbearable pain, which renders perfect preparation impossible, and makes an illfitting band with its attendant evils, the sequel to all such efforts.
ref: 1914 June, A. W. Thornton, “What We Know and What We Should Do in Crown and Bridge Work”, in Dental Review, volume 28, number 6, page 537:
text: Quite likely that is what it still is in some of the new nations writhing under mistailored, illfitting western democratic constitutions
ref: 1971, Pacem in maribus, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of ill-fitting.
if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "It has transwarp drive," Sulu said matter-of-factly. "Aye," Scott said, "and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon."
ref: 1984, Vonda N. McIntyre, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, page 108:
text: Then again, as my father used to say, if my grandmother had wheels , she'd be a wagon.
ref: 2004, Jonny Bowden, Living the Low Carb Life: From Atkins to the Zone, page 165:
text: Behind him, Isaacs heard Slater mutter, "And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon."
ref: 2007, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Resident Evil: Extinction, page 115:
glosses: Synonym of if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.
synonyms: word: if my aunt had balls
word: she'd be my uncle
Related terms: if wishes were horses, beggars would ride
if we had ham we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs
dark funguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark fungus
dark fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark fungus
technofeudalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technofeudalist
form: most technofeudalist
Etymology: From techno- + feudalist.
Senses: examples: text: Zuboff and her followers in the technofeudalist current believe these companies — principally Google, then Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon — have turned the slippery slope of digital surveillance into a hamster wheel, a new self-perpetuating system of exploitation.
ref: 2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: Relating to technofeudalism.
technofeudalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technofeudalists
Etymology: From techno- + feudalist.
Senses: examples: text: Technofeudalists have a bad habit of repeating the industry’s self-promotional puffery.
ref: 2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: An advocate, practitioner, or theorist of technofeudalism.
technofeudalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technofeudalist
ben-shie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ben-shies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of banshee.
Baldoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Irish Baile Dúill.
Senses: glosses: A coastal suburb of Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland (Irish grid ref O2440).
Ireland's Eye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "Eye" is from Old Norse ey (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A small island in the Irish Sea north of Howth, County Dublin, Ireland, long uninhabited but visited by day trippers (Irish grid ref O2841).
glosses: A ghost town on an island of the same name near Random Island, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
teppo snapping shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teppo snapping shrimp
El-Obeid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital of North Kordofan state, Sudan.
sq yds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sq yd
hard luxury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard luxuries
Senses: coordinate_terms: soft luxury
glosses: A category of consumer luxury goods including watches and jewellery.
amapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A South American tree, Parahancornia fasciculata.
soft luxury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft luxuries
Senses: coordinate_terms: hard luxury
glosses: A category of consumer luxury goods including clothing, cosmetics, and accessories.
flycrank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flycranks
Etymology: From fly + crank.
Senses: examples: text: Final drive is by reduction gears on the jackshaft, and through flycranks and rods to the wheels.
ref: 1950 October, “S.R. Diesel-Mechanical Shunter”, in Railway Magazine, page 692:
glosses: A type of mechanical crank.
flycranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flycrank.
drencht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drench
quiet luxury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiet luxuries
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps I would mind this “quiet luxury” less if the clothes were fabulous. But, instead, they’re bloodless, grandly bland, dreary.
ref: 2023 April 30, Eva Wiseman, “Why do we buy into ‘stealth wealth’ and the class who wear it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “Quiet luxury” is a kabuki performance of moneyed ease and indifference.
ref: 2023 October 7, Robert Armstrong, Lauren Indvik, “How to look rich”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 4:
text: There was also an ostentatiously open-top boat ride down the Seine, where I think the ladies went to view the floating corpse of a trend once known as “quiet luxury”.
ref: 2025 May 20, Marina Hyde, “Was this a hen do or a humanitarian mission to liberate Paris? Either way, give Lauren Sánchez an award”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A form of inconspicuous or subdued luxury, often by lesser-known brands.
Related terms: stealth wealth
Ahlat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and district of Bitlis Province, Turkey.
IFG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of impaired fasting glucose.
Bapaume
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A community in the Rural Municipality of Spiritwood No. 496, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia, named after the place in France.
drenchest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of drench
drenchedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of drench
Spiritwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in central Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, which surrounds the town; in full, the Rural Municipality of Spiritwood No. 496.
glosses: A census-designated place in Stutsman County, North Dakota, United States.
oversuperlative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəsuːˈpɜː.lə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəsjuːˈpɜː.lə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚsuˈpɝː.lə.tɪv/
Etymology: From over- + superlative.
Senses: examples: text: Such a statement can hardly be said to be oversuperlative considering his life-time devoted to a profound study of Eastern and Western civilization, to philosophical disquisitions in a prolific stream of books, and to extensive lecturing.
ref: 1948, A Garland of Tributes: Homage to Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Volume 1, page 45:
text: Although Kempe's expressions are perhaps oversuperlative as one would expect from a laudatory poem of this kind, these qualities really were Haak's and the only one mentioned in the poem which one might is his statesmanship ("Und was einem Staatsman mehr/Vor ----- als ein Orakel ---- stellet/ Scheinet in Euch vergesellet"! Kempe is obviously happy to have made Haak's acquiantance, to have been introduced by him to the Royal Society and to have its work explained to him, and he ends with the request that he shall be allowed to join the band of friends who are linked with Haak by correspondence.
ref: 1962, Anglica Germanica, Volume 3, page 143:
text: From the typically oversuperlative way Frankie describes the current lineup and McCauley in particular it seems to me his mind was made up to do the McCauley thing as kind of an indulgence of a pet project: ie:^([sic]) really digs my man, has wanted for a while to see what survivor would be like with him, will have a 2-3 year MAYBE 1 album trial and if it's a failure we'll be reading the praises of Dave again or about how Jimi is "Golden Throat" again.
ref: 2007 April 6, Slander, Red13JoePa, “YOUTUBE Link To Survivor On Dancing With The Stars”, in forums.melodicrock.com:
glosses: Overly superlative; of excessive superlativeness.
fer instances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fer instance
fer-instances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fer-instance
fer-instance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fer-instances
Senses: examples: text: “If it ain’t already coming at you, you bluff. Stand still, make loud noises. Try to look bigger, like maybe standing on a stump or opening a big umbrella.” / “Gee! I forgot my umbrella! Can I borrow yours?” / “Naw, I haven’t got one either. That was just a fer-instance. What they use to scare off polar bears is firecrackers and air horns.”
ref: 2000, Andrew Dequasie, Vermont Mosaic: Whizzers and Other Short Fictional Tales of Vermont, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 31:
text: To give you a fer-instance, it was whispered to me not five minutes before you come in here that the same thieves did over the wine warehouse as did the brewery.
ref: 2003, Don Gutteridge, Solemn Vows (a Marc Edwards mystery), New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: Take one scene, as a fer-instance: Goldman’s script very carefully sets up, via Westley’s explanation for Vizzini, the elusive qualities of iocane powder, the perfect poison—colorless, odorless, tasteless, impossible to detect, and, as we witness, almost instantly fatal.
ref: 2006, MaryAnn Johanson, The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride, →ISBN, pages 40–41:
glosses: Alternative form of fer instance.
jang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fermented ingredients used as the base for many Korean dishes and sauces.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: jing-jang
overdeity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdeities
Etymology: From over- + deity.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: supreme being, Supreme Being
text: Their liege —, the Undoing,—was the last to convene. He was a being of unknown descent, but Rune believed he was lt least a demigod. Perhaps a full deity, even an overdeity.
ref: 2015, Kresley Cole, Sweet Ruin, Simon & Schuster, pages 24-25:
text: Are there equivalent overdeities in other settings such as Eberron or Grayhawk? Like a top dog who gets to decide if someone can be a god or not as one of their jobs.
ref: 2020 May 29, CosmicWolf14, “Alabastor: Age of Heroes”, in reddit.com:
text: I generally assume that, whatever they are, you’re not going to face any problems with the local overdeities deciding you don’t belong and just noping you the moment you Jump in; whether that’s by power or negotiation is up to you.
ref: 2020 July 7, AmazonClimber, RandomOTP, “The Jumpchain Benefactor versus A Jump's Gods”, in reddit.com:
text: As I said overdeities don't require worship to survive, as such other Gods of Death can form without intruding, but they can't become a Overdeity of Death without somehow destroying the one currently there. As such they would more likely become another form of overdeity, assuming they get that far. And no Discord server as of yet, I might make one if the quest becomes more popular.
ref: 2021 April 29, nwish425, “Apotheosis - A Deity Quest”, in forums.sufficientvelocity.com:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
video-games
glosses: A superior or supreme deity.
overdeities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdeity
alumiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æljʊˈmɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more alumiferous
form: most alumiferous
Etymology: From alum + -iferous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aluminiferous.
synonyms: word: aluminiferous
panached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From panache + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a panached helmet
glosses: Having a panache (an ornamental plume).
aetheling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aethelings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atheling.
aethelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aetheling
brindlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brindling
'least
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: ASH / lights the fire with his Zippo lighter and huddles near the flame for warmth. / ASH / 'least I won't freeze to death.
ref: 1991 January 3, Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, The Army of Darkness (screenplay), page 38:
text: “Who’s playin’ here tonight?” Jack asked. / “The Rusty Cadillacs. They’re real good. ’Least I like ’em.” […] Everybody down here recognizes the first three notes of ‘Faded Love.’ ’Least the older folks do.” […] Think I’m feelin’ better somewhat, ’least tonight I am.
ref: 1995, Robert James Waller, Border Music, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, pages 30, 170, and 237:
text: Murtaugh regards the body a moment. / MURTAUGH / 'Least he's no one's slave now.
ref: 1998 May, Channing Gibson, Lethal Weapon 4 (screenplay), via the Internet Movie Script Database, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2018, page 24:
text: She didn’t seem to want me much, either. ’Least she didn’t throw me off no ladder.
ref: 2001, Jacquelyn L. Miles, Roseflower Creek, Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
text: “[…] You get a call, you go out, ask some questions, figure out why. Sometimes it’s easy. Guy robs a convenience store, shot the clerk.” Sam scratched his head. “Actually, don’t think we’ve had one of those around here. ’Least not while I was on the job. But that’s just a fer instance.[…]”
ref: 2004, Parnell Hall, And a Puzzle to Die On (The Puzzle Lady Mysteries), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Dell, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Alternative form of least (“at least”).
calibash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calibashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calabash.
calibashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calibash
coeff.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coeffs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of coefficient.
coeffs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coeff.
flutophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flutophones
Etymology: From flute + -o- + -phone; possibly originally a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: Then he and Bob had to put off playing detective until they practiced on their flutophones.
ref: 2004, Nancy McArthur, The Mystery of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, page 81:
text: Our fifth grade teacher organized the class into a flutophone band. The ones we played were a two piece instrument. The mouth piece was red and the body of the instrument was white.
ref: 2010, Richard Donald Pietz, A Walking Miracle: Just For My Kids, page 33:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small wind instrument, resembling the recorder or clarinet, used in elementary music education.
flutophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flutophone
kabalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabalists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kabbalist.
kabalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabalist
imperatorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imperatorious
form: most imperatorious
Senses: glosses: Imperial; befitting a ruler.
good-for-naught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of good-for-nothing.
synonyms: word: good-for-nothing
good-for-naught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good-for-naughts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of good-for-nothing.
synonyms: word: good-for-nothing
good-for-naughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good-for-naught
flutterment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flutter + -ment.
Senses: glosses: A state of fluttering excitement.
phys.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of physics.
phys.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of physical.
Related terms: phys ed
physiol.
pai-lou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pai-lous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pailou.
pai-lous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pai-lou
gyatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyatt
uncrackability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + crackability.
Senses: examples: text: So that although the Director may have been the anguished figure earlier described, distressed at having to sacrifice a handful of agents in order to save his country, it is equally possible that he was a stolid bureaucrat pinning his simple faith on the uncrackability of his codes.
ref: 1969, Gilles Perrault, translated by Peter Wiles, The Red Orchestra, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1970, →ISBN, page 293:
text: The makers argue that foreign encryption software will rush in to fill the gap, doing nothing about the uncrackability problem – indeed, making it worse.
ref: 1996 July 27, “Speaking in Code on the Internet . . .”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2023, page A22:
text: The uncrackability of one-time pads requires they must be completely random and never seen or used before or after.
ref: 2008 July 31, Elliott Roper, “Yahoo switches off the DRM servers”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet):
glosses: The quality of being uncrackable.