cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Morphie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh morfa (“sea plain”).
Senses: glosses: A locality in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland.
Derived terms: Mill of Morphie
Stone of Morphie
wych elms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wych elm
king's-hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king's-hoods
Senses: glosses: The second stomach of a ruminant.
glosses: The human stomach.
serve someone a trick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serves someone a trick
form: serving someone a trick
form: served someone a trick
form: served someone a trick
Etymology: See serve (“to treat someone in a given manner”).
Senses: glosses: To play a trick on someone.
Redmain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *rıd (“ford”) + *ı (“the, of the”) *mayn (“stone”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Allerdale district, Cumbria, England.
parapornography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sexuality in the realm of parapornography is not a place of humanist truths and psychological meaning (a vision of sexuality that dovetails all-too-neatly with the neo-liberal vision of the atomized, rationalist self) but rather an event that destroys 'meaning and identity through a mechanical repetition.'
ref: 2013, James Pate, “Introduction”, in Carl-Michael Edenborg, editor, The Parapornographic Manifesto:
text: In a painstaking takedown of Baker's “parapornography” in the London Review of Books, acknowledging its cleverness along with its suspect ethic, novelist-critic Adam Mars-Jones sees The Fermata as a book–being ultimately and only about masturbation–that is likely, in his clinching line, "to give self-abuse a bad name."
ref: 2022, Garrett Stewart, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors:
glosses: Literary work that is about sex or eroticism.
examples: text: In a recent interview for De Telegraaf, Johnson told me ESP was not an established fact, and he expressed eagerness for close cooperation with professional magicians in his battle against "parapornography."
ref: 1979, The Skeptical Inquirer - Volume 4, page 65:
text: The pervading presence of parapornography has considerably complicated the scientific debate over "the Paranormal" – to the point where proponents and opponents frequently exhibit nothing but utter confusion when asked to explain precisely what they disagree about.
ref: 2017, Gerd H. Hövelmann, Hans Michels, Legitimacy of Unbelief, page 137:
glosses: Popularizations of parapsychology that lack any scientific merit.
letters requisitory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of letters rogatory.
synonyms: word: letters rogatory
Blinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blink
BLINKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BLINK
pot-walloner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-walloners
Senses: glosses: Synonym of potwaller.
synonyms: word: potwaller
pot-waller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-wallers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of potwaller.
pot-walloners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot-walloner
pot-wallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot-waller
stonehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonehorses
Senses: examples: text: Physicians who prescribe horse dung on certain occasions, always are particular in directing that it shall be the dung of a stonehorse.
ref: 1759, Thomas Hale, A Compleat Body of Husbandry, page 175:
glosses: Alternative form of stone-horse.
stonehorses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonehorse
sand-pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand-pipes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sandpipe.
woolly mouse opossum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolly mouse opossums
Etymology: From woolly + mouse opossum.
Senses: glosses: Any opossum in the subgenus Marmosa (Micoureus).
sand-spout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand-spouts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sandspout.
screwstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwstones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of screw-stone.
screwstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwstone
screw nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw nails
Senses: glosses: A nail with a spiral shank.
screw nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screw nail
Jamjoom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jamjooms
Senses: glosses: A surname
truth sera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truth serum
circular buffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular buffers
Senses: glosses: A data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end.
homocerc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of homocercal.
synonyms: word: homocercal
lentisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lentiscs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lentisk.
rings of the fisherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring of the fisherman
Burwash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Burwash, spread along a ridge between the rivers Rother and Dudwell, was an important centre of the iron industry three centuries ago when the Weald was England's main source of iron ore.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98:
glosses: A village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6724).
glosses: A former community in Sudbury district, Ontario, Canada.
media archaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: media archaeologies
form: media archeology
Senses: examples: text: The history of media archaeology has been a history of discourse-oriented analysis in the sense of Foucault. However, it was Friedrich Kittler, the intellectual father of media archaeology, who inspired a focus on the materiality of the medium from the early 1980s onwards, one of his aims being to lay bare the epistemological structure underpinning studies in the humanities.
ref: 2022, Andreas Fickers, Annie van den Oever, Doing Experimental Media Archaeology, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:
glosses: A field that attempts to understand new and emerging media through close examination of the past.
Related terms: media archaeologist
Lysaght
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Batuman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Batumans
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish Batuman.
Senses: examples: Elif Batuman, b. 1977
glosses: A surname from Turkish.
Grosseteste
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grossetestes
form: Grossetete
Etymology: From Middle English Grosseteste, ultimately from Anglo-Norman.
Senses: examples: Robert Grosseteste, b. ca. 1168
glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Grossetete
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grossetetes
form: Grosseteste
Etymology: Borrowed from French Grossetête or possibly from Middle English.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
pattadar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattadars
Senses: glosses: A leaseholder.
pattadars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattadar
patsocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patsoc
Bodymore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of body + Baltimore, in reference to the high murder rate.
Senses: synonyms: Baltimorgue
Bulletmore
glosses: Derogatory name for Baltimore: a large city in Maryland, United States.
salt-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt-waters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salt water.
salt-water
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saltwater.
hibernational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hibernation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hibernatory.
synonyms: word: hibernatory
Kingshurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1788).
Mirasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In North India and Pakistan, a group comprising the genealogists and traditional singers and dancers of a number of communities.
mirasidar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirasidars
form: meerasidar
form: meerassdar
form: meerassidar
form: mirasdar
form: mirasudar
Etymology: From Hindi मिरासडर (mirāsḍar).
Senses: glosses: A village landholder who paid rent directly to the sovereign; an aristocratic landowner in India.
mirasidars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirasidar
meerassidar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meerassidars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mirasidar.
meerassidars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meerassidar
meerasidar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meerasidars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mirasidar.
meerasidars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meerasidar
marahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marah
prosopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosopon
miniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: mini + -est
Senses: examples: text: She was wearing the miniest of mini skirts, if you please, and she was cursing away to glory, and you wouldn't have called her speech chaste by a long chalk, as the Brits would have put it.
ref: 1996, Keki N. Daruwalla, The Minister for Permanent Unrest & Other Stories, page 32:
text: I wouldn't think twice about taking off my trousers and putting on the miniest kilt imaginable and dancing a lively Scottish jig in the centre of any big, crowded place!
ref: 2004, Eugene Tuohy, A Favour Off the Dead, page 126:
text: The next person out was a stunning young woman in the miniest of skirts.
ref: 2018, Nathan Walpow, The Manipulated:
glosses: superlative form of mini: most mini
masculine caesura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masculine caesuras
form: masculine caesurae
Senses: examples: text: Where the main caesura is not followed by bucolic caesura, lines with feminine caesura differ from lines with masculine caesura in two respects: […]
ref: 1978, Denys Page, Rufinus: The Epigrams of Rufinus, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
coordinate_terms: feminine caesura
glosses: A caesura following a stressed syllable.
feminine caesura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feminine caesuras
form: feminine caesurae
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
synonyms: epic caesura
coordinate_terms: masculine caesura
glosses: A caesura following an unstressed syllable.
miltz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milts
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The spleen of an animal used as food.
raw_tags: in Jewish culture
Eurasian blackcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurasian blackcap
bar-headed geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar-headed goose
out-at-elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out at elbow.
Brinsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Broxtowe district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4649).
milording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of milord
milorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of milord
quarter-stave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-staves
Etymology: Back-formation from quarterstaves.
Senses: examples: text: Seizing a quarter-stave, he laid about him joyously.
ref: 1965, Fawn M. Brody, The Devils Drives, published 1971, page 116:
glosses: Alternative form of quarterstaff.
quarter-staves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter-staff
glosses: plural of quarter-stave
quarter-staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-staffs
form: quarter-staves
Senses: examples: text: [F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.
ref: 1881, Walter Besant, James Rice, “How Kitty First Saw the Doctor”, in The Chaplain of the Fleet […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, part I (Within the Rules), page 82:
glosses: Alternative form of quarterstaff.
quarter-staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter-staff
clep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cleps
form: clepping
form: clept
form: clept
Senses: examples: text: "They clep you Little Musgrave," she said.
ref: 1989, G. McCaughrean, Maypole, page 35:
glosses: Alternative form of clepe.
miniation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act or result of miniating; a painting or tingeing with vermilion.
license laundering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licence laundering
Etymology: After money laundering etc.
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: The replacement of the license of a copyrighted creative work with a different license, for which the copyright holder has not given their permission.
licence laundering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of license laundering.
bimpert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bimperts
form: bimfert
Senses: examples: text: Arrywun knows one bimpert like, it's always one inna group ov frenz. Arrybody keeps sayin' umma bimpert but ah'een curr like it's whateva coz I know who de real bimperts are.
ref: 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda’s first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
synonyms: dreama
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: A foolish or idiotic person; a moron.
Related terms: wuffless
bimperts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bimpert
bimfert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bimferts
Senses: qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Alternative form of bimpert.
bimferts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bimfert
wuffless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wuffless
form: most wuffless
Senses: examples: text: A bimpert is justah wuffless bye. Arrywun knows one bimpert like, it's always one inna group ov frenz.
ref: 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of worthless.
pour with rain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pours with rain
form: pouring with rain
form: poured with rain
form: poured with rain
Senses: glosses: to rain heavily
insect powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insect powders
Senses: glosses: Any insecticide in powder form.
Derived terms: Persian insect powder
fed-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fed-up
form: most fed-up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fed up.
guiding star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guiding stars
Senses: synonyms: lodestar
glosses: A star used as a navigation reference
synonyms: guiding light
glosses: A person who provides inspiration
baritenor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baritenors
Senses: glosses: A singing voice combining parts of baritone and tenor
empty-headedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From empty-headed + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: braininess
intelligence
;
presence of mind
;
mindfulness
coordinate_terms: absent-mindedness
absence of mind
;
mindlessness
;
thoughtlessness
;
vacuousness
vacuity
glosses: The state of being empty-headed.
stoneshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoneshots
Etymology: From stone + shot.
Senses: glosses: A stone used as a projectile.
glosses: Synonym of stonecast (“a stone's throw; a short distance”).
synonyms: word: stonecast
extra: a stone's throw; a short distance
nose dive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose dives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nosedive.
laps up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lap up
lapped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lap up
lapping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lap up
flutteriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluttery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being fluttery
shallow-wittedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shallow-witted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being shallow-witted
cross-eyedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cross-eyed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being cross-eyed; esotropia
ganzee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganzees
Senses: qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Alternative spelling of ganzy.
fed-upness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fed up + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being fed up
ganzees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganzee
Bermy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: So I'll prolly say de biggest threat to Bermy is de new selfish mentality like, she ank helpin no one in de end.
ref: 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Bermuda.
aelurilline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aelurillines
Etymology: From translingual Aelurillini.
Senses: examples: text: The genus Stenaelurillus contains medium-sized aelurillines with a moderately high carapace, widest posteriorly at coxae of third legs.
ref: 2018, PA Ali, WP Maddison, M Zahid, A Butt, “New chrysilline and aelurilline jumping spiders from Pakistan (Araneae, Salticidae)”, in ZooKeys:
glosses: Any spider in the tribe Aelurillini.
Hypernyms: simonid
Hyponyms: sense: subtribes
word: aelurillinan
word: freyinan
word: thiratoscirtinan
blister lichen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blister lichens
Etymology: From blister + lichen, from their appearance.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
synonyms: bruised lichen
glosses: Any lichen in the genus Toninia.
coliadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coliadines
Etymology: From translingual Coliadinae.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
lepidopterology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any butterfly in the subfamily Coliadinae.
mindral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindrals
Etymology: Derived from mineral.
Senses: examples: text: Drunk, like, a gallon of orange mindral. Tasted wel.
ref: 2013 September 5, James Burton, “Burton's Banter: Our rich dialogue — as moreish as a cold burr...”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Any carbonated drink; soda, pop.
mindrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindral
club tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally the receiving tape machines were installed in gentlemen's clubs.
Senses: glosses: a ticker tape service for news or stock reporting
row of pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the disposable rows of pins used in sewing.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] they wouldn’t let us have even a row of pins without the money for ’em—no, not if we was to drop down dead for want of bread in their shops.”
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia […] , volume 1, page 358:
text: He knew that big nations did not care a row of pins for small nations, but only used them as pawns, and he knew that the role of a pawn in a game is, too often, to be taken.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 109:
text: As far as the admissions tax is concerned, it doesn’t amount to a row of pins anyway.
ref: 1963 October 14, John McFarland, Revenue Act of 1963: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-Eighth Congress, Fifth Session, on H.R. 8363 […] , page 608:
synonyms: hill of beans
glosses: An insignificant thing, a whit.
raw_tags: in the negative
Cunningham's Law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Supposedly proposed by programmer Ward Cunningham sometime in the early 1980s, but Cunningham himself denies having ever said it.
Senses: glosses: A humorous law of Internet forums, stating that "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
wikipedia: Ward Cunningham
paradise skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradise skippers
Etymology: From paradise + skipper.
Senses: glosses: Any butterfly in the genus Abantis.
South Norwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Croydon, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3468).
counteropinions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counteropinion
Cyrus–Beck algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A generalized algorithm for line clipping.
Nicholl–Lee–Nicholl algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A fast algorithm for line clipping that reduces the chances of clipping a single line segment multiple times.
disinformationing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinformation
disinformationed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disinformation
Liang–Barsky algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A line clipping algorithm that uses the parametric equation of a line and inequalities describing the range of the clipping window to determine the intersections between the line and the clip window.
ringed spinytail iguana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringed spinytail iguanas
Etymology: From ringed + spinytail + iguana.
Senses: glosses: Morunasaurus annularis, a species of iguana.
Serle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːl/
ipa: /sɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: Serles
Senses: glosses: A surname, alternative form of Searle.
Serles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Serle
moiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moser.
moisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moiser
Somerdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6569).
glosses: A borough in Camden County, New Jersey, USA.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fairfield Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States.
victory sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victory signs
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to feel superior to the Kpop-obsessed koreaboos at camp who held up double Victory signs in all their pictures.
ref: 2018 December 13, Julia Hedges, “Hopefully You've Learned Korean By Now”, in The New Journal:
glosses: The V sign, the peace sign.
engirth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: engirths
form: engirthing
form: engirthed
form: engirthed
Senses: examples: text: I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.
ref: 1867, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, page 98:
text: There between the flesh of pasta and stuffed olives pressed against glass to see the bright noose of his love take shape and engirth the rest of his days.
ref: 2009, Susan B A Somers-Willett, Quiver, page 33:
text: Nay, but much more remember them - who led the living first from dwelligs of the dead, and rent the cereclohs that were wont to engirth souls wrapped and swathed and swaddled from their birth wih lies that bound them fast from heel to head.
ref: 2020, Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems, page 57:
glosses: To surround; to engirt.
discorrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discorrupts
form: discorrupting
form: discorrupted
form: discorrupted
Senses: examples: text: I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.
ref: 1867, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, page 98:
text: It is more than possible to hear Brünnhilde in the immolation scene voicing a nationalist promise that if modernity will only discorrupt itself, the next Siegfried will not have to die in squalor.
ref: 2004 October 2, Lawrence Kramer (musicologist), Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss, page 103:
text: […]today he goes, no, until late he went merrily to discorrupt and tranquillize readers[…]
ref: 2007, Austryn Wainhouse, Hedyphagetica, page 21:
glosses: To purify; to make less corrupt
nonspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-speak
form: non speak
Etymology: From non- + speak.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the action reports are carefully worded statements by ship's officers who have been trained in the art of nonspeak.
ref: 2002, Burl Burlingame, Advance Force Pearl Harbor:
text: The only possible originality advertising could claim is in technique, and even then this is doubtful; certainly never in content, which consists entirely in pseudo-speech, Orwellian non-speak.
ref: 2005, Armand Mattelart, Advertising International:
text: There was no primary media spokesperson for the Department. Earl had some very basic training in the finer art of “non-speak.” which was the RCP language of choice. As long as your media target was satisfied that they heard something tangible—the delivery boy was off the hook.
ref: 2010, Lou Morissette, Rolicking City Police: Blue Deceit:
text: The tendency for obscure communication or what human rights and refugee advocate Julian Burnside AO QC calls “nonspeak”, most commonly found in complex and jargon-ridden language used by governments and business, leads to the “wilful misuse” of language in public utterances.
ref: 2013, Eva Desiree van den Berg, Language of the Heart:
glosses: Speech that is intended to satisfy a needed response, yet lacking in any real pertinent information; speech about nothing, empty words; useless talk or babble.
examples: text: By nine, Hodson said, boys have learned to be incurious about other people; they aren't inclined to conversation; they aren't interested in discovering more about other people. They have already learned nonspeak and nonlisten.
ref: 1990, Patricia W. Lunneborg, Women Changing Work, page 190:
glosses: An aversion to speaking; speechlessness.
Related terms: talk in circles
local taxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local taxis
form: local taxies
Senses: examples: text: On Saturday, we paid a visit to two of the local taxi ranks to see whether drivers, commuters, and vendors adhere to the regulations.
ref: 2021 January 21, Bernard Chiguvare, “Local taxi ranks to be disinfected”, in Limpopo Mirror:
glosses: Synonym of shared taxi.
synonyms: word: shared taxi
local taxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of local taxi
local taxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of local taxi
baht bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baht buses
Etymology: From its former usual fare of one baht.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of songthaew, a pickup truck converted for use as a shared taxi.
synonyms: word: songthaew
extra: a pickup truck converted for use as a shared taxi
baht buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baht bus
oligophagism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Historically , polyphagism is younger than either oligophagism or monophagism among the palearctic Papilionoidea.
ref: 1968, Geographia Polonica - Issue 13, page 187:
text: Within these groups, different species display various trophic patterns, from polyphagism through oligophagism to monophagism.
ref: 1984, P. Trojan, Trojan Przemysław, Ecosystem Homeostasis, page 44:
glosses: Synonym of oligophagy.
synonyms: word: oligophagy
polyphagism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Historically, polyphagism is younger than either oligophagism or monophagism among the palearctic Papilionoidea.
ref: 1968, Geographia Polonica - Issue 13, page 187:
text: Within these groups, different species display various trophic patterns, from polyphagism through oligophagism to monophagism.
ref: 1984, P. Trojan, Trojan Przemysław, Ecosystem Homeostasis, page 44:
glosses: Synonym of polyphagy.
synonyms: word: polyphagy
incommunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.kəˈmjunɪkət/
Senses: examples: text: 8.22 Incommunicate principal : the solution . Draft section 163G would apply to a power of attorney if the principal became incommunicate. The difficulty is that the defect which prevents him from controlling his attorney also prevents him from applying to the Court, yet does not, or at least may not, amount to mental illness […]
ref: 1975, LRC:
text: Under the Conveyancing Act 1919 ( NSW ) the term "incommunicate" is defined as follows:
 "incommunicate", in relation to a person, means under such a handicap of body or mind, by way of coma or paralysis or otherwise, whether or not induced by any drug [...], that he is unable to receive communications respecting his property or affairs, or to express his will [...].
[...] Judicial control in New South Wales over the operation of a power of attorney executed by a donor who subsequently becomes incommunicate, is the same as that exercisable over a protected power of attorney [...]
ref: 1992, Berna Collier, Shannon Lindsay, Powers of Attorney in Australia and New Zealand, Federation Press, →ISBN, page 229:
topics: law
glosses: Incapable of communicating or being communicated with.
Related terms: incommunicado
litigon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litigons
Etymology: Blend of liger + tigon.
Senses: examples: text: In 1979 the staff went further and crossed a tigon with a lion , producing a litigon . This male litigon has recently matured and is one of the most restless of his family . He is 2 feet longer than a lion and 8 inches taller .
ref: 1985, World Union:
text: Largest litigon An adult male litigon ( a hybrid of an Indian lion and a tigon - itself the offspring of a tiger and a lioness ) named Cubanacan at Alipore Zoological Gardens , Calcutta , India is believed to weigh at least 800 lb.
ref: 1994, Norris McWhirter, The Guiness Book of World Records 1994, Bantam, →ISBN:
text: (Photo: Jacana Agence de Presse/ E. Dragesco) Largest litigon An adult male litigon (a hybrid of an Indian lion and a tigon — itself the offspring of a tiger and a lioness) named Cubanacan at Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta,[…]
ref: 1992 October 1, Peter Matthews, Michelle Dunkley McCarthy, The Guinness book of records, →ISBN:
glosses: An animal born to a male lion and a female tigon.
Whal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Whals
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: Waal
Wahl
Wal
Wall
Walle
AIQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AIQs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of artificial intelligence quotient.
artificial intelligence quotient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artificial intelligence quotients
Etymology: Blend of artificial intelligence + intelligence quotient
Senses: glosses: The IQ of an AI
Vervaeke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɝˈveɪ.ki/
ipa: /vɚˈviː.ki/
ipa: /vɚˈveɪ.ki/
ipa: /vɚˈviː.ki/
ipa: /vɜːˈveɪ.ki/
ipa: /vɜːˈviː.ki/
rhymes: -eɪki
rhymes: -iːki
Etymology: From Dutch Vervaeke.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zinoman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zinomans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sheins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Xyla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪ.lə/
Forms: form: Xylas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Attikesse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Attikesses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zionist entity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Zionist entity
Etymology: Calque of Arabic الكِيَان الصِّهْيَوْنِيّ (al-kiyān aṣ-ṣihyawniyy). First use appears c. 1956. See citations page.
Senses: glosses: Israel, viewed by Palestinians and their supporters as an illegitimate regime ruled by Zionists.
Herchenroeder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Herchenroeders
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Delkic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delkics
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lindfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Sydney in Ku-ring-gai local government area, New South Wales, Australia.
examples: text: Throughout the land there is a great variation in the shape and size of village greens, from the many of pocket-handkerchief size to a roadside common of 20 acres or more - as at Lindfield in West Sussex.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, pages 264-265:
glosses: A suburban village and civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3425).
glosses: A surname.
Ku-ring-gai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Kuringgai people.
Senses: glosses: A local government area in north Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
wikipedia: Kuringgai
imaginary lat syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌmæd͡ʒɪn(ə)ɹi ˈlæt ˌsɪndɹəʊm/
ipa: /-dɹəm/
ipa: /ɪˌmæd͡ʒɪˌnɛɹi ˈlæt ˌsɪndɹoʊm/
ipa: /-dɹəm/
Etymology: From imaginary + lat (“(slang) latissimus dorsi muscle”) + syndrome.
Senses: examples: text: Neophytes, for example, risk being ridiculed by other gym members if they walk this way: ‘Aghh, look at him! He’s got ILS [Imaginary Lat Syndrome]’.
ref: 2001, Lee F. Monaghan, Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 42:
text: [Brendan] Ranford does not have washboard abs, like many of his prospect camp counterparts, and he does not walk around with Imaginary Lat Syndrome — or a deliberate, imposing gait to impress or attract.
ref: 2011 July 13, Frank Seravalli, “Ranford tackling some weighty issues”, in Philadelphia Daily News, page 48:
text: Not everyone who does regular resistance training has to end up with tight muscles, inflexible joints, and a bad case of imaginary lat syndrome.
ref: 2015 March 19, Michelle Churchill, “Using your body weight to work out”, in Cape Life, Cape Coral, Fla.: The News-Press Media Group, page B2:
text: ILS, or Imaginary Lat Syndrome, became popular in the late 1980s when pro wrestling peaked and every guy wanted to be like Hulk Hogan.
ref: 2017, Andrew Ginsburg, Pumping Irony: How to Build Muscle, Lose Weight, and Have the Last Laugh, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:
text: His [Kenneth’s] arms talk: elbows cocked out, hands into fists, when illustrating the tough, dominant image he has worn for much of his time in white gay enclaves — jokily referring to “imaginary lat syndrome.”
ref: 2020 February 29, Patrick Strudwick, “This Is Why Queer People Of Color Are Becoming Addicted To Meth And Sex”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2020:
synonyms: ILS
invisible lat syndrome
glosses: A tendency for one to adopt a posture as if one had larger latissimus dorsi muscles than one actually has, especially a posture where the arms are held away from the torso.
Sitka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtkə/
Forms: form: Sitkas
form: Sitka
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Си́тка (Sítka), itself from Tlingit Sheetʼká.
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous tribe of people from Baranof Island, in the area of Sitka, Alaska.
Sitka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtkə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Си́тка (Sítka), itself from Tlingit Sheetʼká.
Senses: synonyms: New Archangel
holonyms: Baranof Island
Chichagof Island
glosses: A consolidated city and borough in Alaska, United States.
glosses: An island, the modern Baranof Island, where the city of Sitka is located.
Derived terms: Sitka alder
Sitka crab
Sitka cypress
Sitka deer
Sitka spruce
Sitka spruce beetle
Sitka spruce weevil
Sitka willow
radar detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radar detectors
Senses: glosses: A device used by motorists, often mounted on the car's dashboard, to evade punishment for speeding; it detects the radar used by traffic police to measure whether motorists are driving above the speed limit.
Related terms: radar gun
radar trap
goofier ahh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of goofy ahh: more goofy ahh
goofiest ahh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of goofy ahh: most goofy ahh
pharyngostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngostomy
gliadines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gliadine
Crimbles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crimble
question stem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: question stems
Senses: examples: text: If there are multiple correct answers to a question stem, don’t try to predict all of them.
ref: 2014, Shelley L. Giordano, Examination Review for Radiography, →ISBN, page 9:
text: The question stem is presented in the largest font and is bolded; it is the most visually dominant element on the page help draw respondents’ attention to it. The response options and spaces are in a smaller font and indented underneath the question stem.
ref: 2014, Don A. Dillman, Jolene D. Smyth, Leah Melani Christian, Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 319:
text: 10. Which of the following ethnographic studies indicate the use of the “emic” approach? Select all that apply. […] Test-Taking Tip: The key word in the question stem is “emic,” which means the insider’s view.
ref: 2016, Geraldine N. Valencia-Go, Research Success: A Q&A Review. Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking, →ISBN, pages 197, 202:
glosses: In a survey or examination, the focus or salient part of a particular question that the respondent or examinee is asked to answer, excluding any additional prompts or information provided as context; often, the opening part of a multiple choice question.
question stems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of question stem
dot the i's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dots the i's
form: dotting the i's
form: dotted the i's
form: dotted the i's
Senses: examples: text: And Mussolini obligingly dotted the i’s.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 115:
glosses: Synonym of dot the i's and cross the t's.
synonyms: word: dot the i's and cross the t's
dotted the i's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dot the i's
dots the i's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dot the i's
dotting the i's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dot the i's
Khrestivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Хре́стівка (Xréstivka)
Senses: glosses: A city in Horlivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Khrystynivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Христи́нівка (Xrystýnivka)
Senses: glosses: A city in Uman Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine.
hamburgerologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamburgerologists
Etymology: From hamburger + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: [caption] Alan Peterson the "mega-hamburgerologist" in action consuming 20 3/4 in 3 minutes
ref: 1979, The Guinness Book of Records, page 235:
glosses: A person skilled at making or eating hamburgers.
hamburgerologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamburgerologist
Yahotyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Яготи́н (Jahotýn)
Senses: glosses: A city in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
elephantitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephantitis
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of elephantiasis.
Yaremche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Яре́мче (Jarémče, literally “a little half”), from Turkic languages
Senses: glosses: A city in Nadvirna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Yasynuvata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Ясинува́та (Jasynuváta)
Senses: glosses: A city in Donetsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
katchoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: katchoo!
form: kerchoo
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: SIR GORGEOUS [Sneezes and looks about him] Katchoo! Kazz-ee! Oh, D. this cough!
ref: 1951, Huge McCrae, The Ship of Heaven, volume I, page 19:
glosses: Synonym of achoo, characteristic sound of a person sneezing.
synonyms: word: achoo
word: characteristic sound of a person sneezing
multipliability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multipliabilities
Etymology: Formed in Modern English as multipliable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In order to explain the multipliability of individuals in a species it is not necessary to introduce the idea of matter as principle of individuation
ref: 1953, Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, page 378:
glosses: the ability to be multiplied
Fernihough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fernihoughs
Etymology: Variant of Fernyhough.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mashhadi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Mashhad
Mashhadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mashhadis
Senses: glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Mashhad
urdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He bears as arms the lion of St. Mark, sejant-guardant, crowned and winged, bearing in the dexter jambe a closed book surmounted by a cross urdy.
ref: 1908, Adrian Fortescue, The Orthodox Eastern Church, page 350:
text: As to the term urdy, which is given in Woodward and Burnett and also in Berry , I can only say I personally have never come across I an instance of its use as a partition line. A cross or a billet urdy one knows, but urdy as a partition line I have yet to find.
ref: 1925, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 95:
text: Order For Services, first class (star) same silver centre roundel but without the gold cross urdy. The star of the Order is an eight-pointed star of plain gold rays with an eight-pointed silver centre bearing a light blue[…]
ref: 2006, Guy Stair Sainty, Rafal Heydel-Mankoo, World Orders of Knighthood & Merit:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of urdé.
media archaeologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: media archaeologists
Senses: examples: text: For the media archaeologist, such operations provide at best a starting point, a symptomatic moment, which may or may not prove pregnant with historical insights.
ref: 2018, Nicoletta Leonardi, Simone Natale, editors, Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century, Penn State Press, →ISBN:
text: I want to suggest, with media archaeologist Wolfgang Ernst, that when we recognize the continuity or otherwise of an elegiac tradition, […]
ref: 2020, Pantelis Michelakis, Classics and Media Theory, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: Someone who studies or practises media archaeology.
Mashhadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mashhadi
O Antiphon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O Antiphons
Senses: topics: Christianity
Western-Christianity
synonyms: Greater Antiphon
glosses: One of the antiphons sung or read at vespers at the end of Advent, in the days immediately before Christmas, each beginning “O …” in Latin and English, addressing Christ and beseeching him to come; the basis for the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”.
wikipedia: +s
O Antiphons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of O Antiphon
Ocker Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Tipton, Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9793).
a-cock-bill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acockbill.
Oslin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oslins
Etymology: Americanized form of Swedish Åslin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Oslins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oslin
Mosels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mosel
Fernihoughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fernihough
Outley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Outleys
Etymology: Probably an altered form of Outlaw.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Peshlakais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Peshlakai
Outleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Outley
agrarian scissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Primarily a calque of Hungarian agrárolló. See price scissors, scissors crisis.
Senses: examples: text: For a time it looked as if even ideological protests against the ruling system had been discredited. But the traditional wounds of the country were still there, and they soon began to bleed again, partly because of the stopping of emigration to America, partly because of the “agrarian scissors” which put the living standard of the people on a starvation level.
ref: 1938, Oscar Jászi, “Feudal Agrarianism in Hungary”, in Foreign Affairs, volume 16:
text: The price of wheat was down now to 7.76 gold francs per quintal, opening the “agrarian scissors” to the extraordinary angle of 70.4 per cent. […]
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 118:
text: The agrarian scissors were set at an angle of 59.4% as late as 1940, and the living standard was 33% to 64% lower than it had been in 1916.
ref: 1998, Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, Nicolae Iorga: A Biography, page 356:
qualifier: chiefly Hungary
glosses: The disparity between the prices of agricultural and industrial products.
Hypernyms: price scissors
Hunnington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9681).
Ravindran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ravindrans
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam രവീന്ദ്രൻ (ravīndraṉ), from Sanskrit रवींद्र (ravīṃdra).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Malayalam.
Related terms: Ravindra
Puccinis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Puccini
Ravindrans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ravindran
Aydarken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Kyrgyz Айдаркен (Aydarken)
Senses: glosses: A city in Kadamjay district, Batken, Kyrgyzstan.