cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crossplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crossplay
crossplays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crossplay
cross-progression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cross- + progression.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of cross-progress.
synonyms: word: cross-progress
cross-progress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cross- + progress.
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: cross-progression
coordinate_terms: crossplay
glosses: Cross-platform functionality by which the player's progress through the game on one device is replicated to another device.
cross-play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crossplay.
Balchik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bulgarian Балчик (Balčik).
Senses: glosses: A town in northeastern Bulgaria.
javelin dart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: javelin darts
Etymology: From javelin + dart.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lawn dart.
synonyms: word: lawn dart
javelin darts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of javelin dart
yard dart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yard darts
Etymology: From yard + dart.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lawn dart.
synonyms: word: lawn dart
yard darts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yard dart
remeander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remeanders
form: remeandering
form: remeandered
form: remeandered
Senses: glosses: To restore meanders to a previously straightened river.
jarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jart
lawn jart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawn jarts
Etymology: Blend of lawn dart + jart, a brand of lawn dart.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lawn dart.
synonyms: word: lawn dart
lawn jarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawn jart
Karnobat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in southeastern Bulgaria.
Svishtov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in northern Bulgaria.
out-of-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out-of-time
form: most out-of-time
Senses: glosses: Not keeping to the appropriate musical rhythm or tempo.
foizon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foizons
Senses: examples: text: Man taketh paine, God giueth gaine, / Man doth his best, God doth the rest, / Man well intendes, God foizon sendes, / else want he shall.
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, “The Authors life.”, in A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC, stanza 37, page 214:
glosses: Alternative form of foison.
foizons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foizon
mixed herbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A common mix of different dried herbs for general culinary use, containing some or all of basil, sage, rosemary, marjoram, oregano, thyme, and parsley.
Related terms: herbes de Provence
shinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shink
shinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shink
shinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shink
taxi-driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxi-drivers
Senses: examples: text: The difficulty of snuff in its return to the drawing-room is its popularity in the street—you remember the lady who put fur capes out of fashion by clothing her coachman and footman in them. It was on a Sunday morning that an observer saw the flower-girls around the Royal Exchange accepting a pinch of snuff from the taxi-driver.
ref: 1908 March 27, The Lichfield Mercury with Which Is Incorporated “The Tamworth Mercury” & “The Sutton Coldfield Mercury.”, number 1509, page 7, column 5:
text: “We need to hear from anyone who may have dash-cam footage, including taxi-drivers who were in the area of Long Row West and Angel Row at the time, or any mobile phone footage of the incident.”
ref: 2020 January 20, John Dunne, quoting Richard Monk, “Murder investigation launched as student dies after assault”, in Evening Standard, page 12:
text: As city centre taxi-drivers based at Leeds railway station, they had very few passengers yesterday due to the train strike and took a break in the park.
ref: 2022 July 28, Robyn Vinter, “‘She’s delusional’ MP’s disdain for former school wins her few friends in Leeds”, in The Guardian, page 12, columns 4–5:
glosses: Alternative form of taxi driver.
taxi-drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxi-driver
cab-driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cab-drivers
Senses: examples: text: […] concealment is the object in both these instances, which end would be entirely frustrated in the cabriolet, the limits of which could not contain the live lumber and nocturnal loads alluded to in the cab-driver’s defence.
ref: 1825 March 23, The National Gazette and Literary Register, volume V, number 1362, Philadelphia, Pa., page [2], columns 1–2:
text: […] they found a good many young ladies, and various old gentlemen, and a plentiful sprinkling of hackney-coachmen and cab-drivers, all drinking and talking together; […]
ref: 1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Making a Night of it”, in Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, page 46:
text: The cab-driver went down to the yard, and drove his hansom round to the house door.
ref: 1907 June 21, R. Norman Silver, “For Her Sister’s Sake or The Lavenden Secret”, in Irvine Herald and Ayrshire Advertiser, thirty-seventh year, number 1890, Irvine, chapter XXVIII (Merivale Plays His Game), page 2, column 3:
text: This has been going on for a while - ever since I came of drinking age and quickly learnt that a version of the truth on most national or local matters or at least an inkling can be found in the stranger sitting next to me in the pub; that woman in the mathree; that cab-driver late at night.
ref: 2003, Kwani?, number 4, Kwani Trust:
glosses: Alternative form of cabdriver.
cab-drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cab-driver
alghoza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alghozas
Senses: glosses: A kind of paired windwood instrument used in northern India.
ramyun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ramyeon (“Korean instant noodles”).
meethi rotis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meethi roti
scuttlebutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scuttle-butting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scuttlebutt
scuttlebutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scuttle-butted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scuttlebutt
scuttle-butting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scuttle-butt (alternative form of scuttlebutting)
scuttle-butted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scuttle-butt (alternative form of scuttlebutted)
ribble-rows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribble-row
forced throws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forced throw
garrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garrow
garrison towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garrison town
good morrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of good morrow
goodwill ambassadors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goodwill ambassador
John crows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of John crow
king crows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king crow
rhynchodaeums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhynchodaeum
rhynchostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhynchostome
rug pilots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rug pilot
Rugians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rugian
rugosimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rugosimeter
rumdrivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumdriver
run sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run sheet
saccharans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharan
safariers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safarier
safe places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safe place
saccharizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharization
Saint-Dominicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saint-Dominican
sail-by salutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sail-by salute
sail signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sail sign
sampson posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sampson post
samurai swords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samurai sword
San Antonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of San Antonian
scanning electron micrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scanning electron micrograph
rowdy-sheeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rowdy-sheeter
silver-leaved bloodwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver-leaved bloodwood
silver-sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver-sheet
silvery pouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silvery pout
silvergrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silvergrass
silver bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver band
fly-pasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-past
fly-sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-sheet
fly-throughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-through
flytippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flytipper
waiting-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiting-rooms
Senses: examples: text: In the third place, by its situation it serves only for a waiting-room, and a passage to the principal apartments, instead of being reserved, as it ought to be, for entertaining company […]
ref: 1817, Henry Horne, Elements of criticism:
text: The division bell was still ringing; peers and diplomatists and strangers were turned out; members came rushing in from library and smoking-room; some desperate cabs just arrived in time to land their passengers in the waiting-room.
ref: 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter III, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 166:
text: "Look keerfully arter that baggage, Kernel," said the expressman, with affected concern, as he looked after Colonel Starbottle, gloomily bringing up the rear of the triumphant procession to the waiting-room. Mr. Hamlin did not stay for dinner.
ref: 1875, Bret Harte, “Brown of Calaveras”, in The Tales of the Argonauts:
text: Her dress was as plain as an umbrella-cover, and she turned round without a word and preceded me into a waiting-room.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199, column 2:
text: She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.
ref: c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment:
text: Over on that platform's the general waiting-room,... and over there's the Gentlemen's, and, any'ow, everythink's written up.
ref: 1933, James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer as "Shamus Frazer", Acorned Hog, page 78:
text: The waiting-room was now less empty than Watt had at first supposed, to judge by the presence, some two paces to Watt's fore, and as many to his right, of what seemed to be an object of some importance.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: There his chains would be removed and he would be ushered into the waiting-room for a five-minute chat with his wife surrounded on all sides by security men and civilian-clad prison warders.
ref: 1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Section One, London: Heinemann, page 111:
glosses: Dated form of waiting room.
waiting-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waiting-room
smoking-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoking-rooms
Senses: examples: text: The division bell was still ringing; peers and diplomatists and strangers were turned out; members came rushing in from library and smoking-room; some desperate cabs just arrived in time to land their passengers in the waiting-room.
ref: 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter III, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 166:
text: To the "Nut" then, with its dirty little smoking-room, clouded with fumes arising from baccies of every description; curling upwards from the short black Irish clay bowl, full of strong ship's baccy, as well as from the best of Havannahs […]
ref: 1882, Chums: A Tale of the Queen's Navy, volume 1, page 200:
text: “It's a rum start, old John Madingley's coming down to Tunnleton,” said Grafton, one evening in the smoking-room; […]
ref: 1887, Hawley Smart, A False Start, volume 2, page 69:
text: That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.
ref: 1891 [1887], Oscar Wilde, “The Model Millionaire”, in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories:
text: The smoking-room proper, with its mise en scène of Turkish divans, narghilehs, brass coffee-trays, and other Oriental properties, is no longer considered a necessity in the modern house; […]
ref: 1897, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., “The Library, Smoking-room, and “Den””, in The Decoration of Houses, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:
text: I dined alone and sat after dinner in the smoking-room, for Odell never suggested the library, though I would have given a lot to fossick about that place.
ref: 1924 July, John Buchan, “Our Time is Narrowed”, in The Three Hostages, London: Hodder & Stoughton, published January 1926, →OCLC, page 227:
text: He saw marriage as a settling down to the serious business of life; a settling down that was symbolized in the large stuccoed house in St John's Wood Park, with its long mahogany dining-table, its family portraits, its oak-panelled smoking-room, its leather-bound books running in long, dusty rows from floor to ceiling; its drawing-room whose heavily brocaded windows looked out on a trim garden, its thick carpets, its kitchened basement, its high, wide bedrooms, its airy nursery.
ref: 1932, Alec Waugh, That American Woman, page 20:
text: The most chairful of chairs are to be found in the smoking-rooms of clubs.
ref: 1972, To-day - Volumes 5-7, page 15:
glosses: Dated form of smoking room.
smoking-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoking-room
anti-pagan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-pagan
form: most anti-pagan
Senses: examples: text: The Christian followed on the Jewish and Egyptian Churches, and in this way a great tradition of sexual continence and anti-pagan morality came right down the centuries even into modern times.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 185:
glosses: Against or in opposition to paganism or pagan practices.
spiritual wifery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It seems he knew nothing of spiritual wifery before he came here. I suggested to him that, after such a discourse from Brigham, he was in duty bound to take two or three wives, at least.
ref: 1855 September, [Cornelia Ferris], “Life Among the Mormons”, in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine […], volume 6, number 33, page 265:
text: In it he stated his conviction that Bennett had not taught polygamy or spiritual wifery, and his belief that the church leaders at Voree were set “like flint” against spiritual wifery in every form.
ref: 1930, Milo Milton Quaife, The Kingdom of Saint James: A Narrative of the Mormons, page 97:
text: It is more than likely that the Rhode Island law against breaches of marriage covenants was a direct response to the rapid spread of spiritual wifery in this period.
ref: 1974, William G. McLoughlin, “Free Love, Immortalism, and Perfectionism in Cumberland, Rhode Island, 1748–1768”, in Rhode Island History, volume 33, page 70:
glosses: Polygyny; plural marriage.
Nessus shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nessus shirts
form: Nessus' shirt
form: shirt of Nessus
Etymology: In Greek mythology, a shirt (chiton) soaked with the poisoned blood of the centaur Nessus that killed Heracles upon wearing it.
Senses: examples: text: No wonder then that, with this age-long suppression (necessary in a sense though it may have been) which marks the Christian dispensation, there should have been associated endless Sickness and Crime and sordid Poverty, the Crucifixion of animals in the name of Science and of human workers in the name of Wealth, and wars and horrors innumerable! Hercules writhing in the Nessus-shirt or Prometheus nailed to the rocks are only as figures of a toy miniature compared with this vision of the great and divine Spirit of Man caught in the clutches of those dread Diseases which through the centuries have been eating into his very heart and vitals.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 189:
glosses: A fatal present or inescapable fate.
Related terms: poisoned chalice
milk-and-wateriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From milk-and-watery + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is (at any rate in modern days) a mawkish milk-and-wateriness about the Christian attitude, and also a painful self-consciousness, which is not pleasant; and though Nietzsche's blonde beast is a sufficiently disagreeable animal, one almost thinks that it were better to be that than to go about with one's head meekly hanging on one side, and talking always of altruism and self-sacrifice, while in reality one's heart was entirely occupied with the question of one's own salvation.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 191:
glosses: The condition of being milk-and-watery; mawkishness; insipidness.
high-tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of high-tail
high-tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-tailed
form: most high-tailed
Senses: examples: text: In the early 19th century high-tailed horses were in vogue.
glosses: Having a high tail.
world capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world capitals
Etymology: From world + capital.
Senses: examples: text: They have turned part of Santa Clara County into "Silicon Valley," the world capital of semiconductor technology.
ref: 1976, United States, Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Technology and Economic Growth, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Growth of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, July 15 and 16, 1975, page 95:
glosses: A city that is widely recognized for its global influence in a particular domain, often acting as a hub for diplomacy, finance, culture, or innovation.
examples: text: During the past several months Tito has visited a number of world capitals, including Moscow and Peking. He was believed to have briefed Carter on his impressions gained in talks with Soviet and Chinese leaders.
ref: 1978 March 7, Dusko Doder, “Carter Welcomes Tito, Underscores Friendly Relations”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see world, capital.
world capitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of world capital
milk-and-watery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more milk-and-watery
form: most milk-and-watery
Etymology: From milk-and-water + -y.
Senses: glosses: Weak, insipid; lacking strength and vigour.
a straw shows which way the wind blows
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a straw shows how the wind blows.
a straw shows how the wind blows
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: a straw shows which way the wind blows
Senses: glosses: A general situation can be inferred from minor indications.
Chedworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, known for its ancient Roman villa (OS grid ref SP0512).
New Critic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Critics
Senses: glosses: An adherent of or participant in New Criticism.
queer theoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Homophobic public discourse, ecocritical norms, and queer-theoretical tendencies have all had the effect of alienating "the queer" from "the natural" and "the environment," conceptually and otherwise.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 23:
glosses: Relating to queer theory.
diner-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diners-out
Senses: examples: text: The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 195:
glosses: One who dines out.
diners-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diner-out
notch girdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notch girdles
Senses: coordinate_terms: peel girdle
glosses: A V-shaped girdle (removal of a ring of tree bark) extending slightly beyond the bark into the sapwood.
notch girdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notch girdle
nump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fare-well my prettie Nump, I am verie sorrie / I cannot beare thee companie.
ref: 1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act II, signature [D4], recto:
text: I guess I will go, by hokey—there, Miss Ruth, I forgot I promised you I wouldn't say that ere word again, but it seems as though I couldn't keep from sayin' big words, when I hear what that nump of a Barlett has been doin'.
ref: 1861 October 24, Mrs. S. E. Daes, “The Tory Spy. A Story of the Revolution”, in Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume XIV, Boston, page 356, column 1:
text: "There's plenty others. Like—like Zack Harper. Such a nice clean boy—"
"That nump!
ref: 1954, Alan LeMay, The Searchers, New York: Jove, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Alternative form of numps.
co-creation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-creations
Senses: examples: text: Participants at the three-decade old festival, which is based on an ethos of co-creation and mutual self-reliance, traditionally all pitch in to build the event.
ref: 2016 September 5, Damien Gayle, “Luxury camp at Burning Man festival targeted by 'hooligans'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cocreation.
'llo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lo (“hello”).
maid-of-honour tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maid-of-honour tarts
Senses: examples: text: It was a terribly hot day, and yet that week’s hostess had knocked herself out making maid-of-honour tarts and jam sponge in a kitchen that must have been over one hundred degrees.
ref: 1986, Audrey Thomas, Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, Markham, Ont.: Viking, →ISBN, page 98:
text: […] Joan Bennet’s Forces’ Favourites were ‘Raspberry buns, rock cakes, Australian flapjacks, maid-of-honour tarts, and doughnuts.[…]’
ref: 1989, Jane Waller, Michael Vaughan-Rees, Women in Uniform, London: Papermac, →ISBN, page 111:
text: It was over a maid-of-honour tart that her complacent mood took a turn for the worse – when Robert said in a low sympathetic voice, ‘How is Tessa?’
ref: 1992, Kathleen Rowntree, Between Friends, London: Black Swan, published 1993, →ISBN, page 238:
text: He was home, or at least what he had so quickly come to regard as home, and the few women — not a man there — who had come to the burial had had their tea and boiled ham sandwiches, their home-made sausage rolls and their maid-of-honour tarts.
ref: 2007, Allen Makepeace, And Such Great Names as These, Leicester: Matador, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Alternative form of maids of honour tart.
maid-of-honour tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maid-of-honour tart
Maid of Honour tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maid of Honour tarts
Senses: examples: text: If desired, reheat slightly for 10 minutes in 200° oven, but Maid of Honour tarts can also be served cool—not cold, however!
ref: 1973, Rae Lindsay, The International Party Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Drake Publishers Inc., →ISBN, page 229:
text: Past Newens (the traditional English tea shop serving Maid of Honour tarts), Kew Gardens Rd dog-legs around towards Station Approach.
ref: 1988, Carrie Segrave, editor, The Mitchell Beazley London Property Guide ’88: For Buyers, Sellers and Owners of Homes in London, London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, →ISBN, pages 354–355:
text: The Original Maids of Honour, 288 Kew Rd, Kew, is opposite Kew Gardens on the road leading off the Common, a teashop as English as its environs. It was here that Maid of Honour tarts were baked for Henry VIII and his household, and the present incumbents resolutely continue the tradition along with the other fineries of olde Englishe tea culture.
ref: 2001, Charlie Godfrey-Faussett, Footprint London Handbook: The Travel Guide, Bath: Footprint Handbooks, →ISBN, page 391:
text: “What’s that you’re eating?” “Order your own,” Penny said sharply as he leaned over as if to sample her Maid of Honour tart.
ref: 2001, Elizabeth Daish, Green Spaces, Sutton: Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 16:
text: We were told that the auditorium could actually hold seven hundred, but that the caterers could only provide enough scones, Maid of Honour tarts and Victoria sponges for the smaller number.
ref: 2003, Guy Hunting, Adventures of a Gentleman’s Gentleman: The Queen, Noel Coward and I, London: John Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 254:
text: And this is a Maid of Honour tart, as baked for Henry the Eighth. A closely guarded secret recipe, but we’ve produced our own version, with almonds and butter pastry.
ref: 2008, Amy Appleton, The Bride Hunter, London: Orion, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of maids of honour tart.
Maid of Honour tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maid of Honour tart
clustering coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clustering coefficients
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A quantitative measure of how often the nodes of a graph cluster together, defined as the ratio of the number of links among the nodes to the maximum possible number of links.
clustering illusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clustering illusions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The tendency to erroneously perceive random streaks and clusters arising in small samples from random distributions as non-random.
key change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key changes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A change in key during a song or composition; a modulation.
Lorrain Smith effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the 19th-century researcher who studied the condition.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Paul Bert effect
glosses: Oxygen toxicity affecting the lungs.
Paul Bert effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the 19th-century researcher who studied the condition.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Lorrain Smith effect
glosses: Oxygen toxicity affecting the central nervous system.
oxygen toxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Oxygen toxicity is a concern for underwater divers, those on high concentrations of supplemental oxygen, and those undergoing hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
hyponyms: Lorrain Smith effect
Paul Bert effect
glosses: The harmful effects of breathing dioxygen at increased partial pressures.
slow TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of slow television.
slow television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: slow TV
glosses: A genre of television coverage in which an ordinary event, such as a sailing voyage, is broadcast at its complete length.
kamayan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog kamayan (literally “with the hands”).
Senses: glosses: The traditional Filipino method of eating with the bare hands, often as a communal feast where food is served on banana leaves and eaten without utensils.
Related terms: boodle fight
maid of honour tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maid of honour tarts
Senses: examples: text: Types of tarts made with sweet short paste (some may be made using puff paste trimmings): Linzer tart, Brittany tart, treacle tart, jam tart, Belgian tart, Dutch apple tart, curd tart, maid of honour tart, congress tart, conversation tart, strawberry cream tart and assorted fruit tarts.
ref: 1993, Roland Foote, “Unit 2D8: Preparing and cooking pastry dishes”, in Food Preparation and Cooking; Student Guide: Cookery Units (Catering and Hospitality, NVQ Level 2), Stanley Thornes (Publishers) Ltd, →ISBN, page 195:
text: The pair returned in 2014 with a program dedicated to forgotten British classic dishes such as Bedfordshire clanger (a crusty dumpling with a savory filling) and maid of honour tarts (puff pastry filled with cheese curds).
ref: 2017, Don Rauf, “Back to the Business of Being Jamie”, in Jamie Oliver (Celebrity Chefs), New York, N.Y.: Enslow Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 98:
text: When he brought the tea, he had put a maid of honour tart on a little plate for her too.
ref: 2021, Poppy Alexander, chapter 26, in The 12 Days of Christmas, London: Orion Fiction, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of maids of honour tart.
maid of honour tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maid of honour tart
USMAPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of United States Military Academy Preparatory School.
Related terms: USMA
maids of honour tarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maids of honour tart
maids of honour cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maids of honour cake
preprovides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preprovide
preproviding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preprovide
preprovided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preprovide
plebeskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plebeskins
Etymology: From plebe + skin.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any of various clothing items (blouse, overcoat or trousers) issued to a new cadet at a military academy.
plebeskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plebeskin
WGR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WGRs
Senses: coordinate_terms: WGR
glosses: Initialism of written general review (“type of test given at West Point military academy”).
WPR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WPRs
Senses: coordinate_terms: WGR
glosses: Initialism of written partial review (“type of test given at West Point military academy”).
WGRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WGR
WPRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WPR
DoDMERB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Department of Defense Medical Examination Review Board.
full bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full birds
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of full bird colonel.
full birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full bird
awokenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awokening
Mentoukou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 門頭溝 /门头沟 (Méntóugōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Mên²-tʻou²-kou¹.
Senses: examples: text: The coalfields of Mentoukou and Chaitang, in the Western Hills of Peking, of Yuhsien, Yangyuan, and Hsuanhua in south-western Chahar, and of Kuangling and Tatung in northern Shansi are among the best known for their valuable Jurassic coal.
ref: 1939, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China, London: Thomas Murby & Co., →OCLC, page 172:
text: I looked out the window of the former Grand Hotel de Pekin and thought of the days before World War II when I waltzed there with assorted Nazi, fascist and Scandinavian diplomats. On the street the slow‐moving bicycles moved silently where once I listened to the shuffling pad‐pad of camels bringing coal from Mentoukou. On these streets on Dec. 9, 1935, desperate Peking students had declared war on all kinds of fascism (so had I) and marched to break the “white terror,” as they called it.
ref: 1973 May 31, Nym Wales, “‘I Was Back in Peking’”, in The New York Times, sourced from MADISON, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2024, page 41:
text: Under the private rule of Hsiehhokou brigade of Miaofengshan commune in the Mentoukou area, one work point per day was deducted from commune members who raised sheep. Furthermore, some communes and brigades would not allow the members to engage in "minor autumn crop harvesting" or to collect fodder grass in the mountains.
ref: 1978 February 8 [1978 February 2], “Abolished 'Indigenous Policies' of Gang Denounced”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 27, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 14:
glosses: Alternative form of Mentougou.
green girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green girls
Senses: examples: text: Several decades ago […] , cadets would pack picnics and their "green girls" in typewriter cases for a private dinner with a favorite female friend.
ref: 2007, Maureen Oehler DuRant, Peter E. Carroll, West Point (page 92)
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The green sleeping-blanket issued to cadets at a military academy.
green girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green girl
IOCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IOCTs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of indoor obstacle course test.
IOCTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IOCT
Cullum number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cullum numbers
Etymology: Introduced by brevet Major General George W. Cullum in the mid-19th century.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A reference and identification number assigned to each West Point graduate.
Cullum numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cullum number
cullud people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cullud pusson
compromisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compromising
football-player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: football-players
Senses: examples: text: We praiſed our Nativity-caſter’s pleaſantneſs, and he went on then again: The whole Heaven is Taurus, and wonder it e’er bore Football-Players, Herds-men, and ſuch as can ſhift for themſelves.
ref: 1694, Titus Petronius Arbiter, translated by Mr. Burnaby and another Hand, The Satyr of Titus Petronius Arbiter, a Roman Knight. With Its Fragments, Recover’d at Belgrade., London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], page 66:
text: But of late we have had some difficulties to contend with: first, in the advent of a troop of rough and noisy football-players, who, by driving their ball up and down, directly across the ground, effectually prevented all play.
ref: 1860 June 22, a Wavertree Park cricketer, “Cricket Ground, Wavertree Park”, in The Daily Post, volume VI, number 1,574, Liverpool, published 23 June 1860, page [8], column 4:
text: But let’s take them at their word and ask this: if a football-player’s team drew, or lost, would he still be paid a win bonus?
ref: 2017 March 27, Jim Armitage, “Football stars can only dream of bonuses for a balls-up”, in Evening Standard, page 32:
glosses: Rare form of football player.
football-players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of football-player
assinico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assinicos
form: assinicoes
form: assinego
form: asinego
Etymology: From Spanish asnico, diminutive of asno, from Latin asinus, cognate with English ass (donkey).
Senses: examples: text: Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows; an assinico may tutor thee.
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida:
glosses: A stupid fellow, an ass.
page-three girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: page-three girls
Senses: examples: text: Their style is shock, horror, probe-tabloid journalism: big, dark headlines, buxom page-three girls and lots of sport.
ref: 1982 March 13, Lindsay Murdoch, “Shock! Horror! Sydney tabloid war rages”, in Saturday Extra (The Age), page 5, column 1:
text: London pub patron Ben Miles, 32, said the Royal Family is “more important now than ever.” “Who else do we have to look up to apart from shabby pop stars, page-three girls, or winners of (the TV program) Big Brother?” he said.
ref: 2010 November 17, Sarah Lyall, “Royal wedding bells: Prince William, Kate Middleton to be married next spring or summer”, in Edmonton Journal, page A4, column 5:
text: On another occasion, Tessa brought page-three girls to my birthday lunch.
ref: 2017 February 10, Susannah Butter, quoting Stuart Wheeler, “My wife had a rare gift for getting on with everyone terribly well”, in Evening Standard, page 35:
glosses: Alternative form of page three girl.
page-three girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of page-three girl
butter measures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter measure
Kisumu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the third-largest in Kenya, situated on Lake Victoria.
glosses: Kisumu County, one of the 47 counties in Kenya, of which the city is the capital.
Virilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Virilian
form: most Virilian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Paul Virilio (1932–2018), French cultural theorist, urbanist, architect and aesthetic philosopher, known for writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power.
lorry-driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lorry-drivers
Senses: examples: text: The detectives, after much labour, succeeded in discovering that quantities of sugar were being sold to parties in Greenock and Port-Glasgow, and, following the clue thus obtained, they succeeded in discovering a lorry-driver who had from time to time carted away a number of barrels of sugar from a shed in the neighbourhood of the store in Dellingburn Street, by order of Scott and Briggs.
ref: 1872 March 28, “Extensive Theft of Refined Sugars in Greenock”, in The Glasgow Herald, number 10,060, page 3, column 5:
text: A lorry-driver who arrived in Yugoslavia after travelling through the area said that he had seen tanks outside Timisoara and armoured cars in the centre.
ref: 1989 December 19, Sue Masterman, “‘Piles of bodies in the streets’”, in Evening Standard, page 1, column 2:
text: She was very careful with the little cash she had, and to save money hitched lifts with lorry-drivers to the nearest town.
ref: 2012 December 15, Jane Jakeman, “The spinster, her killer and the copper’s theatre of crime”, in Independent Radar (The Independent), page 30, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of lorry driver.
lorry-drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lorry-driver
Ngankin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Early Thursday morning we passed the fine old city of Ngankin, the capital of Nganhwui province, which we entered, not far from it.
ref: 1895, Helen S. Coan Nevius, “Trip Up the Yang-tse-kiang”, in The Life of John Livingston Nevius: For Forty Years a Missionary in China, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 252:
text: Weighed anchor early and came down to Ngankin or Anching as it is now generally called.
ref: 1908 October 22, Henry Bridgeman, “The Diary of Hon Henry Bridgeman”, in I Remember it Well: The Diaries, Recollections and Art of Three Generations over Three Centuries, published 2015, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171:
glosses: Alternative form of Anqing.
Anch'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng), Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-chʻing⁴.
Senses: examples: text: The other strongholds had also been won, and the armies were preparing to march on Anch’ing.
The attack on Anch’ing, a large walled city built near a lake fed by the Yangtze River, was an open attack.
ref: 1971, Dale Carson, “Five Gates”, in The Beggar King of China, First edition, New York: Atheneum, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 142-143:
text: After six months of teaching in Shanghai, I was appointed head civil servant of Wuhu County in Anhwei Province. Without much delay, I got the permit to leave and caught a river steamer to Anch’ing first and then to Wuhu.[…]
Both Wuhu and Kiukiang Counties had a county court to deal with important legal matters, especially criminal cases. So I was free of that there, but this had not been so in Tan-tou County where I dealt with all legal and criminal cases with the help of a lawyer appointed from the higher court in Anch’ing, the capital of Anhwei Province.
ref: 1977, Chiang Yee, China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 24, 28:
text: In early 1358 Ch’en Yu-liang captured Anch’ing, and soon afterwards Nanch’ang, the key to central Kiangsi, fell without serious resistance. Ch’en then took the remaining prefectural cities of northern and central Kiangsi and detached a force to invade Fukien (it was Ch’en Yu-ting’s successful resistance to this invasion that led to Yu-ting’s rise to power there). Ch’en Yu-liang’s attempt to invade Chekiang in 1359 was also unsuccessful, but by mid-1359 he was in control of all of Kiangsi except the extreme south, as well as eastern Hupei and the Anch’ing area of Anhwei.
ref: 1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “The Rise of the Ming Empire, 1352–1368”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355–1435, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of Anqing.
window-cleaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window-cleaners
Senses: examples: text: If these, and a few additional trifling repairs, were made on the common windows, the most ignorant window-cleaner might be taught to turn the sashes in three minutes; […]
ref: 1824 April 6, A Journeyman Wright, “On Windows”, in The Glasgow Mechanics’ Magazine; and Annals of Philosophy, volume I, Glasgow: W. R. M‘Phun, page 251, column 1:
text: For instance, there was an item of 5l. 18s. for surplices for the rector [shame!]. He could not conceive that had anything to do with the maintenance of the church establishment, any more than payments to the beadle, the pew-openers, the window-cleaners, &c.
ref: 1837 October 13, “Refusal of a Church-Rate”, in The Morning Chronicle, number 21,190, London, page [3], column 5:
text: Leonard was well-respected in the communities of Hinton, Edson, Jasper and Grande Cache as a professional window-cleaner.
ref: 2020 September 23, “HAMBLIN, Leonard Charles”, in Houston Today, number 39, page A13:
glosses: Alternative form of window cleaner.
window-cleaners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window-cleaner
window-washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window-washers
Senses: examples: text: Yesterday morning a window-washer, employed at the Tremont House, lost his footing and fell from a second-story window on Dearborn street to the sidewalk.
ref: 1867 March 13, Chicago Tribune, volume XX, number 277, Chicago, Ill., page [4], column 1:
text: Two window-washers died Oct. 23 after a 10-metre fall when the equipment carrying them, commonly known as a cherrypicker, tipped.
ref: 1989 December 6, “Teenager back home after SkyDome plunge”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page F-1, column 6:
text: She participated in some memorable feature segments, including by joining some window-washers 20 stories up and by riding on the shoulders of Meadowlark Lemon, the Harlem Globetrotter, to dunk a basketball.
ref: 2022 June 8, Neil Genzlinger, “Martha Myers, 97, taught dancers how to move and more”, in The Buffalo News, page B5, column 5:
glosses: Alternative form of window washer.
window-washers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window-washer
Memorare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Memorare
Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin memorāre (“remember”, imperative), from the opening of the prayer in Latin, “Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria …”.
Senses: examples: text: With this in mind, the second part of the Memorare is the prayer of one who is aware of his or her sin and unworthiness and humbly seeks the mother’s mercy, prayers, and intercession.
ref: 2002, María Ruiz Scaperlanda, The Seeker’s Guide to Mary, →ISBN, page 157:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A prayer for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, beginning in English, “Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary …”
isonitrosoacetanilide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isonitrosoacetanilides
Senses: examples: text: The isonitrosoacetanilides sometimes separate from the hot solution, sometimes only on cooling.
ref: 1958, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological sciences, Series B, volume 148:
text: The most frequently used synthesis of isatins is the Sandmeyer procedure, which involves the formation of an isonitrosoacetanilide from an aniline, chloral hydrate, and hydroxylamine.
ref: 1975, Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, volume 18, page 2:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxime of acetanilide.
isonitrosoacetanilides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isonitrosoacetanilide
Sandmeyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Sandmeyer procedure
Sandmeyer's procedure
Sandmeyer reaction
Sandmeyer's reaction