cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
friendboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendboys
form: friend boy
form: friend-boy
Etymology: From friend + boy.
Senses: examples: text: "Surprised, Lifee asked, "She has a friendboy?"
ref: 1998, J. California Cooper, The Wake of the Wind - A Novel, page 176:
glosses: A male friend, as opposed to a boyfriend or lover.
glosses: A boyfriend, although of less intensity.
Related terms: friendgirl
friend boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friend boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of friendboy.
friendboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friendboy
three fries short of a Happy Meal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one fry short of a Happy Meal.
wikipedia: Happy Meal
maschalagnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sexual attraction to the armpits.
Related terms: partialism
Södermalm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island, district, and borough in Stockholm, Sweden.
Ludvika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality (the town is the seat of Ludvika Municipality) in Dalarna County, Sweden.
hair-raisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hair-raisingly
form: most hair-raisingly
Senses: examples: text: a hair-raisingly long ascent
glosses: in a hair-raising manner
slime bacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Myxobacteria (Myxococcales).
great balls of fire
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: great balls of fire !
Senses: examples: text: Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
ref: 1957, Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer, Great Balls of Fire:
glosses: Expressing great surprise.
Synonyms: wow
Related terms: ball of fire
good gracious
goodness gracious me
oh my goodness gracious
Yueyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüěʹyäng′
Forms: form: Yueh-yang
form: Yoyang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 岳陽 /岳阳 (Yuèyáng).
Senses: examples: text: Japanese troops were pulled to Yuehyang, at the junction of the Hsiang and Yangtze rivers, from Hunan, Honan, and Hupeh provinces.
ref: [1982, Roy M. Stanley II, “The Land War in China”, in Prelude to Pearl Harbor, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128, column 1:
text: In his capacity as Thief-punishing General, after the grand birthday celebrations in Hankow, he transferred his headquarters to Yüeh-yang.
ref: [1999, Chiang Kuei, translated by Timothy A. Ross, A Translation of the Chinese Novel Chung-yang (Rival Suns) by Chiang Kuei (1908-1980), Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 342:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
examples: text: In Yueyang county, Hunan, some 22,000 people lost their homes during the building of Tieshan Reservoir.
ref: 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 170:
glosses: A county of Yueyang City, Hunan, China.
Synonyms: word: Yochow
depressor septi nasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛs.ɚ ˌsɛpˌtaɪ ˈneɪˌzaɪ/
Forms: form: depressor septi
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin dēpressor sēptī nāsī (“depressor of the septum of the nose”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: depressor
coordinate_terms: depressor anguli oris
depressor labii inferioris
depressor supercilii
tongue depressor
glosses: A small muscle of each side of the upper lip that is inserted into the nasal septum and wing of the nose on each side and constricts the nasal opening by drawing the wing downward.
St Leonard's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood in the city of Edinburgh, Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2672).
Related terms: St Leonards
quick response team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick response teams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of police tactical unit (PTU) / tactical squad / SWAT.
synonyms: word: police tactical unit
extra: (PTU) / tactical squad / SWAT
glosses: Synonym of drug abuse response team.
synonyms: word: drug abuse response team
examples: text: Quick-response teams to the Communications deck!
ref: 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:
glosses: Synonym of rapid response team.
synonyms: word: rapid response team
Synonyms: QRT
Derived terms: QRT
Yochow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 岳州 (Yuèzhōu), possibly through Nanjing Mandarin.
Senses: examples: text: The river between Hankow and Yochow is straight for the first and last parts of its course; part in the middle makes a loop twenty-eight miles round, the neck being only about a mile across… On the way from the river to Yochow at the head of the lake, a great number of sheep and goats with a few points were seen grazing on a low grassy flat, covered in floods; these were the only sheep seen on the river for a distance of 1,800 miles.
ref: 1861, Lieut.-Col. Sarel, “Notes on the River Yang-tse-Kiang from Hankow to Ping-shan”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 30, number 3, Calcutta: C. B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press, published 1862, page 224:
text: Owing to the cheapness of travel on the Yangtze, the railway lines tend to be at right angles, rather than parallel, to the river. In the west there is the southern section of the Peiping-Hankow Railway and the line from Wuchang to Yochow and Changsha. The central portion of the region has one railway, that from Kiukiang to Nanchang, while in the east there are three lines.
ref: 1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 293:
text: In the spring of 1852, therefore, they moved northward from Kwangsi into Hunan. Changsha, the capital of Hunan, beat off the rebel attacks; but Yochow, at the junction of the Siang and Yangtze rivers, was taken, and here the insurgents found an arsenal which furnished them with an abundance of weapons. From Yochow the now fully armed forces swept irresistibly down the Yangtze valley until in March, 1853, they established themselves at Nanking, the ancient capital of the Ming dynasty.
ref: 1944, G. Nye Steiger, A History of the Far East, Ginn and Company, →OCLC, page 546:
text: On October 21, 1938, four days before they took Hankow, they seized Canton. In November 1938, Yochow, above Hankow, fell to their arms, followed a number of months later, in June 1940, by Ichang, still farther up the Yangtze.
ref: 1946, Kenneth Scott Latourette, A Short History of the Far East, New York: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 601–602:
text: At the time Feng Yü-hsiang arrived in Pukow, Feng Kuo-chang had seemed to be gaining the upper hand over Tuan and his clique. Northern troops had been chased from Szechwan and from all of Hunan except Yochow, near the northern border between Hunan and Hupeh. On November 14, 1917, the leaders of the Northern troops defeated in Hunan circulated telegrams asking that the war be stopped.
ref: 1966, James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: Synonym of Yueyang; Yuezhou.
synonyms: word: Yueyang
extra: Yuezhou
PTU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PTUs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of police tactical unit.
glosses: Initialism of power transfer unit.
glosses: Initialism of paroxysmal tonic upgaze.
glosses: Abbreviation of propylthiouracil.
glosses: Abbreviation of phenylthiourea.
Oravița
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Oravița.
Senses: glosses: A city in Banat, in western Romania.
Vâlcea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Vâlcea.
Senses: glosses: A county of Romania.
Related terms: Râmnicu Vâlcea
twirl one's moustache
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twirls one's moustache
form: twirling one's moustache
form: twirled one's moustache
form: twirled one's moustache
Senses: glosses: To twist the ends of one's moustache hairs around the fingers, especially by way of fidgeting.
examples: text: Picard: Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged.
ref: 1991, Jeri Taylor, “The Drumhead”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 21, Patrick Stewart (actor):
glosses: To express stereotypical villainy in an obvious or comically exaggerated fashion.
Related terms: moustache-twirling
for all the world to see
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: for all to see
Senses: glosses: in plain view; clearly visible
Ayliffe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Crawforth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Milke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Milkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Milke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Milkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Milke
Moraces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Morace
Pehl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pehls
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pehl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Petruzzelli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Petruzzellis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Petruzzelli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Petruzzellis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Petruzzelli
Pehls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pehl
Oyster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oysters
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a nickname for someone who cultivated or sold oysters.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Seats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seat
Oysters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oyster
Panebianco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panebiancos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Panebianco.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Savoca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Savocas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Savoca.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Savocas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Savoca
Davyhulme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly related to both Davy and Hulme.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ7695).
Panebiancos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Panebianco
Kangting
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: kängʹdǐngʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 康定 (Kāngdìng).
Senses: examples: text: The drive westward, regardless of towering mountain ranges, brought the opening late in 1940 of the 133-mile section of the Szechwan-Sikang highway from Yaan to Kangting (Tachienlu), which, together with the 93-mile stretch Chengtu-Yaan (completed by the Szechwan provincial authorities in 1934), established the first motor route from Szechwan to Sikang.
ref: 1943, Hubert Freyn, Free China's New Deal, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 62:
text: Ya-an is the main market for a special kind of tea which is grown in this part of the country and exported in very large quantities to Tibet via Kangting and over the caravan routes through Batang to Degre.
ref: 1956, André Migot, translated by Peter Fleming, Tibetan Marches, London: Readers Union, →OCLC, page 57:
text: Interracial relations in Sikang are by no means entirely hostile, however. In Kangting, Chinese and Tibetans get along quite well, and there is a good deal of intermarriage. In the Sichang region, there is intermarriage between Chinese and Lolos. In both these areas, there are groups of non-Chinese who have been Sinicized. Furthermore, Liu Wen-hui currently seems to be pursuing a conciliatory policy toward the Tibetans and Lolos.
ref: 1963, A. Doak Barnett, China on the Eve of Communist Takeover, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 225:
text: Despite the Khampas’ efforts, between 1933 and 1949 the town of Chamdo and the entire area west of the Yangtze remained under the rule of governors appointed by Lhasa, and the border town of Kangting continued under Chinese rule.
ref: 1976, Pradyumna P. Karan, The Changing Face of Tibet: The Impact of Chinese Communist Ideology on the Landscape, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Dated form of Kangding.
Sarracino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sarracinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sarracino.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Ruszkowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ruszkowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Ruszkowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Ruszkowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ruszkowski
Sarracinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sarracino
Tefera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Teferas
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ተፈራ (täfära).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Amharic.
Thayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thaynes
Etymology: Variant spelling of Thain.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Thaynes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thayne
Teferas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tefera
Luding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lo͞oʹdǐngʹ
Forms: form: Lu-ting
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 瀘定／泸定 (Lúdìng).
Senses: examples: text: Originally, planks had been laid across the nine chains, and the whole bridge, suspended between two cliffs, swayed like a cradle with the motions of the person walking upon it. Now the planks were gone, having been taken by the enemy into Luting City. All that remained were the black hanging chains.
ref: [1971, Dick Wilson, “The Bridge of Iron Chains”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 168:
text: Luding (Dadu Rivier) Bridge on Ya'an-Kargilik County Highway spans the Dadu River in Luding County, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, Sichuan Province.
It shortens the distance between Ya'an City and Luding County, greatly benefitting local inhabitants.
ref: 2021 June 17, “'First Bridge of Sichuan-Tibet' spans two cliffs”, in Li Yuxin, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2021:
text: As aftershocks of 3.0 magnitude or higher continued to rock the area, rescuers transported over 50,000 people from the hardest-hit Luding county, according to local media
ref: 2022 September 6, “China earthquake death toll jumps to 65 as aftershocks rattle Sichuan”, in EFE, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2022:
glosses: A county of Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
like a bowl in a china shop
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of like a bull in a china shop.
examples: text: On an intuition, Jennifer offered, “That’s why you and Mr Tate get along so well. He’s like an earthenware bowl in a china shop because he’s more real … more solid and down-to-earth.”
ref: 2005, Ex Isle Forums: original fiction:
text: Now, I sit as quiet as a bowl in a china shop.
ref: 2007, Chuck Rybak, Liketown, page 6:
text: “Just get me whatever.” “Whatever what?” “Like a pen. Like a mug,” Jeff says. “Like a bowl in a china shop.”
ref: 2017 August 23, Hilary Leichter, “Like a Bowl in a China Shop”, in The New Yorker:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Mundane.
Staddons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Staddon
Astwood Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Redditch borough, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0462).
Doigs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Doig
Danylo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: -s
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Данило (Danylo)
Senses: glosses: Transliteration of A male given name from Ukrainian.
Fannys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fanny
Related terms: Fannies
Kitts Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the city of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1587).
Related terms: Kitt Green
Gavilanes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gavilaneses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Gavilanes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Raffaeles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Raffaele
Gavilaneses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gavilanes
epithecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epithecia
Etymology: From epi- + thecium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: An external layer over the fertile surface of some fungi, formed from extensions of the paraphyses.
Related terms: epithecial
Reșița
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Reșița.
Senses: glosses: A city in Caraș-Severin County, Romania.
Zureiq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zurayq
Etymology: From Arabic زريق.
Senses: examples: Constantin Zureiq, b. 1909
glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Zurayq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zureiq
Etymology: From Arabic زريق.
Senses: examples: Constantin Zurayq, b. 1909
glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Sinagra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sinagras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sinagra.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Mega
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Megas
Senses: glosses: A placename
A town in Dire, Borena, Ormia, Ethiopia.
glosses: A placename
A village in Moriad district, Tambrauw, West Papua, Indonesia, on New Guinea.
glosses: A surname.
Mega
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Rather he was outlining the Mega (Make Europe Great Again) project in support of the far right across Europe.
ref: 2025 February 18, Nathalie Tocci, “This assault on democracy has left Europe reeling – and alone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of MEGA (“Make Europe Great Again”).
MEGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MEGAs
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of Moon-Earth gravity assist.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of Mars-Earth gravity assist.
MEGA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Make Europe Great Again.
MEGAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MEGA
Megas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mega
honky-tonker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honky-tonkers
form: honky tonker
Etymology: From honky-tonk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To a redneck honky-tonker, nothing beats a dozen cold beers, a bloody fight and a woman usually in that order.
ref: 1977, Bill AuCoin, Redneck, Greatlakes Living Press, →ISBN, page 22:
text: In 1952 she signed with Decca Records and turned out a hit that settled her in as the reigning queen of country music and a prototypical honky tonker—“It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.”
ref: 1986, Charles T. Brown, Music U.S.A.: America's Country & Western Tradition, Prentice Hall, page 76:
glosses: Someone who runs or frequents a honky-tonk, or performs in one.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A honky-tonk song.
finger lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger limes
Senses: glosses: A thorny understorey shrub or small tree, Citrus australasica, of lowland subtropical forest and rainforest of eastern Australia.
glosses: The edible fruit of this plant.
Synonyms: Australian finger lime
caviar lime
Related terms: Australian lime
Australian round lime
dooja
round lime
finger limes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger lime
honky tonker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honkey tonker
form: honky tonkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honky-tonker.
honky-tonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honky-tonker
honky tonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honky tonker
fruit of the sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruits of the sea
Etymology: Calque of Italian frutto di mare.
Senses: glosses: Seafood.
fruits of the sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit of the sea
Etymology: Calque of Italian frutto di mare.
Senses: glosses: Seafood.
Lions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Lyon: the capital city of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The Sri Lanka national cricket team.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Singapore national football team
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: any sports team nicknamed the "Lions".
Culcheth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Culcheths
form: Culshaw
form: Kelshaw
form: Kilshaw
Etymology: From Welsh cul (“narrow”) + coed (“wood, trees”).
Senses: glosses: A large village in Culcheth and Glazebury parish, Warrington borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6595).
glosses: A habitational surname from Welsh.
situal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪt͡ʃuːəl/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin situalis, from situs (“site”) + -alis (“-al”).
Senses: glosses: Positional, relating to position or location.
Culcheth and Glazebury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Warrington borough, Cheshire, England, which includes these two villages.
Related terms: Culcheth
Glazebury
plate up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plates up
form: plating up
form: plated up
form: plated up
Senses: examples: text: Bugs, oysters, prawns and crabs [...] are plated up on the decks of four side-by-side trawlers bobbing on the calm waters of Trinity Inlet.
ref: 2021 February 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 39, column 2:
glosses: To dish out or place food on a plate prior to serving.
plates up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plate up
plating up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plate up
plated up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plate up
ball load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball loads
Senses: glosses: The weight placed on the towbar of a vehicle by a fully laden trailer, caravan, etc.
ball loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball load
open road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the open road
Etymology: From open + road.
Senses: examples: text: He had left the suburbs and was out on the open road.
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 75:
glosses: The part of the road system that is away from urban and suburban areas and on which large distances can be travelled without needing to frequently slow for traffic or intersections.
open-road
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They improved on their UFOV test and undertook fewer dangerous maneuvers in an open-road driving evaluation.
ref: 2014, Joan T. Erber, Lenore T. Szuchman, Great Myths of Aging, page 18:
glosses: Of or relating to travelling on the open road.
that's done it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: that's done it !
Senses: glosses: Used to express annoyance or announce that one has reached the limit of one's patience or temper.
glosses: Used to announce a successful solution to a problem.
Related terms: that's torn it
that dit it
that does it
Hinano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hinanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ひなの.
Senses: examples: Hinano Yoshikawa, b. 1979
glosses: A transliteration of the Japanese female given name ひなの
Hinako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 日菜子.
Senses: examples: Hinako Saeki, b. 1977
glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
kylym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɪˈlɪm/
Forms: form: kylyms
form: kylymy
Etymology: Borrowing of Ukrainian килим (kylym), influenced by English kilim.
Senses: glosses: A Ukrainian flat-woven rug or tapestry; kilim.
kylyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kylym
kylymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kylym
Norton-on-Tees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees.
synonyms: word: Norton
word: Stockton-on-Tees
stock photo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock photos
Senses: glosses: A photograph of a generic subject that is specified for a potential future need.
Related terms: stock footage
Chicxulub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃɪkʃəˈluːb/
Etymology: From Yucatec Maya ch’ik (“flea”) + Yucatec Maya xulub (“devil, demon”) — "devil's flea".
Senses: glosses: A town in Yucatán, Mexico, famous for being near the geographic center of the Chicxulub crater.
ackersprit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: Chester
glosses: When the eyes of a potato tuber have germinated before the potato was got up, and have formed a number of small unripe tubers attached to the old, supertuberation.
qualifier: Chester
glosses: When the axillary buds on the stem of a potato grow into small green tubers, as is often the case in wet seasons.
ackerspyre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ackerspyres
form: ackerspyring
form: ackerspyred
form: ackerspyred
Senses: qualifier: Chester
glosses: to sprout, germinate
misempower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misempowers
form: misempowering
form: misempowered
form: misempowered
Etymology: From mis- + empower.
Senses: examples: text: I am afraid this must be regarded as another of the unwise attempts at tramelling; where incompetent and misempowered legislators, thinking of themselves instead of the public purposes (of which themselves were but agents) have frustrated, as far as their mistakes could frustrate, those public purposes;
ref: 1837, The Spectator - Volume 10, page 1097:
text: His scholarly interests explore the sociocultural dimensions of literacy education as it dis/misempowers youth and their teachers in urban environments.
ref: 2017, Keli GarasYork, Pixita del Prado Hill, Leslie K. Day, Doing PDS, page 168:
text: With their associated parties, “they are at the center and the periphery; they are at the forefront and at the margins; they are misempowered agents, and they are hapless victims; they are everywhere and nowhere, everything and nothing” (Olaiya, 2014:3).
ref: 2017 February, Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo, “Political party youth wings and political violence in sub-Sahara Africa: A case of Ghana”, in International Journal of Peace and Development Studies, volume 8, number 1:
glosses: To empower inappropriately.
misempowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misempower
misempowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misempower
misempowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misempower
adder's grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æs
Senses: qualifier: Chester
glosses: early-purple orchid, early spring orchis (Orchis mascula)
Related terms: adder's wort
adderwort
grass snake
snake in the grass
snakeweed
uppier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of uppy: more uppy
uppiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of uppy: most uppy
logarithmic integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logarithmic integrals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A special function written using the symbol li and defined as operatorname lix=∫₀ˣ(dt)/(ln t).
logarithmic integrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logarithmic integral
sheltercraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shelter + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: […] use of clothing and equipment, pre-trip preparation and packing, food preparation and preservation, sheltercraft, recognition and treatment of environmental injuries, and emergency survival techniques.
ref: 1980, Naturalist:
text: My first experience of real sheltercraft was during a visit as a teenager to a reconstructed Iron-Age roundhouse on the site of an ancient fort in south-west Wales. As I walked through the doorway, under the hewn timber lintel, […]
ref: 2012, Joe O'Leary, The Wilderness Survival Guide: The Practical Skills You Need for the Great Outdoors, Watkins Media Limited, →ISBN:
text: SHELTERCRAFT—Knowledge and skills utilized by the woodsman to select, prepare, and maintain bedding and tentage, as well as an understanding of campsite and environmental factors affecting the camp.
ref: 2015, David Wescott, Camping in the Old Style, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:
text: She was taught first about wilderness survival including firecraft, sheltercraft, traps and snares, food and water procurement, preservation and purifying and how to improvise when she didn't have the equipment she needed.
ref: 2019, Stephen Enna, The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday: The Story of the Making of the First United States Navy Woman Seal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: The set of knowledge and skills needed to construct and maintain shelter in the wilderness.
firecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fire + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: The keys to firecraft are as easy to remember as the letter "p." […] Firecraft can be mastered, but you must recognize and gather the right materials.
ref: 1986, Flying Safety, page 13:
text: FIRECRAFT. In many survival situations, the ability to start a fire can make the difference between living and dying. Fire can fulfill many needs. It can provide warmth and comfort. It not only cooks and preserves food, it also provides warmth […]
ref: 2016, Department of the Army, The Complete U.S. Army Survival Guide to Firecraft, Tools, Camouflage, Tracking, Movement, and Combat, Simon and Schuster
text: She was taught first about wilderness survival including firecraft, sheltercraft, traps and snares, food and water procurement, preservation and purifying and how to improvise when she didn't have the equipment she needed.
ref: 2019, Stephen Enna, The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday: The Story of the Making of the First United States Navy Woman Seal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: The set of knowledge and skills needed to make a (controlled) fire (for warmth, cooking, etc).
Hepu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hŭʹpo͞oʹ
Forms: form: Ho-p'u
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 合浦 (Hépǔ).
Senses: examples: text: Here in Hepu County, an impoverished agricultural district just north of China's border with Vietnam, Chan and his business partners are hatching plans for a mammoth food processing operation they promise will be the world's largest producer of foie gras.[…]
Hepu farmers say they can raise a single goose for less than 40 yuan--about $5. That's a fraction of what competitors in France must spend.
ref: 2000 August 1, Clay Chandler, “A Golden Goose in Red China? Entrepreneur Bets Millions That Foie Gras Will Fatten Export Figures”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017:
glosses: A county of Beihai, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: english: Postal Romanization, from Cantonese
translation: Postal Romanization, from Cantonese
word: Hoppo
ursicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ursicide
millimol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millimols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of millimole.
tech guru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tech gurus
Etymology: tech + guru
Senses: glosses: An influential advisor or mentor in technology.
Jingjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪŋˈd͡ʒ(i)æŋ/
Forms: form: Ching-chiang
form: Tsingkiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 靖江 (Jìngjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: Chingchiang county was once a large sandy island that became a part of the north shore in the first half of the 17th century. Chungming Island was close to the south shore two centuries ago, but today it is separated from the north shore by only a narrow strip of water and is still moving closer to it.
ref: [1975 February, “Deltas”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 2, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →OCLC, page 38, column 2:
text: The government of Jingjiang city in China's eastern Jiangsu province said on Friday that a fire at a chemical plant had been put under control and there were no casualties.
ref: 2016 April 22, Brenda Goh, Elias Glenn, Beijing newsroom, Michael Martina, Pete Sweeney, “China local government says chemical fire under control, no casualties”, in Ed Davies, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2023, EMERGING MARKETS:
text: Many of the dozens of people who stood outside a courthouse in Jingjiang, eastern China’s Jiangsu province, four years ago had never met the man they were demanding to be released.
ref: 2017 September 24, Mimi Lau, “Wang Quanzhang: the last ‘709’ lawyer left in China’s legal limbo”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2017, Policies & Politics:
glosses: A county-level city of Taizhou, Jiangsu, China.
wire cartridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire cartridges
Senses: examples: text: When we arrived at the knoll, after having crossed the frozen bog, I took on account of the considerable distance at which the bird would have to be shot at, if he, as we supposed, would settle in the top of the fir tree the shot out of my gun, and loaded again with a wire cartridge.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An early type of shotgun cartridge that had wire lining in the case to assist concentrating the shot.
wire cartridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wire cartridge
veesick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veesicks
Etymology: Ultimately from Old Norse vísa (“verse, strophe, stanza”) (perhaps via Norn [Term?]), whence also Danish vise (“song, ballad, ditty”).
Senses: examples: text: Football was the amusement of the men while the brief day lasted, dancing and veesicks (impromptu rhymes) the fun of the evening. Trows, being excessively fond of dancing, always tried to join the revels, but this they can only do in the […]
ref: 1914, Alfred Wintle Johnston, Amy Johnston, Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness and Sutherland ..., page 28:
text: During his visit to Shetland, Low was fortunate in obtaining two local versions of a veesick, the first from Cunningsburgh on the south Mainland:
'Myrk in e Liora,
Luce in e Liunga,
Timin e, Guestin e guengna'
and the second from the northern island of Yell:
'Mirka Lora,
Lestra Linga,
[…]
ref: 1971, John Geipel, The Viking Legacy: The Scandinavian Influence on the English and Gaelic Languages, David & Charles, page 95
text: The ballads were commonly recited in winter by the fireside while the veesicks were the verses which used to accompany the old ring dances, once an essential feature of social gatherings. That ballads were recited as well as sung is not at […]
ref: 1990, Nancy Cassell McEntire, Sitting Out the Winter in the Orkney Islands: Folksong Acquisition in Northern Scotland:
text: Sometimes the gue—the ancient two-stringed violin of the islands—would appear; sometimes one of the company would sing a Norn veesick while the young people performed a circular dance, their steps changing with the tune.
[…]
With the decay of the Norn language in the eighteenth century (though many Norn words still survive in the Orkney and Shetland dialect), the veesicks gradually disappeared. Scottish dances were introduced into the islands, and […]
ref: 2013, F. Marian McNeill, Silver Bough Volume 3, →ISBN:
glosses: A Norn song or rhyme, a ballad in Shetland or Orkney.
veesicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veesick
Northron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Northrons
Etymology: Related to northern; see southron for more.
Senses: antonyms: Southron
glosses: A person from the North (of some country, region, etc); a Northerner.
Northrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Northron
idle asset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idle assets
Senses: examples: text: I have a bunch of idle assets, such as tools, in my garage that I only use once a year.
glosses: An asset that is used rarely or never at all.
DOAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DOACs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: NOAC
glosses: Initialism of direct oral anticoagulant.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Acronym of description of a career, an RDF format describing a person's professional background.
DOACs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DOAC
Baise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪ.si/
ipa: /baɪ.sə/
enpr: bīʹsǔʹ
Forms: form: Pai-se
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 百色 (Bǎisè).
Senses: examples: text: After having made contact with General Chennault and the OSS, Ho left for Kwangsi to visit the Dong Minh Hoi. This time he went to Paise instead of Liuchow because Liuchow had fallen into Japanese hands on November 11, 1944.
ref: [1969, King C. Chen, Vietnam and China, 1938-1954, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 94:
text: Liu Jih-fu was an oldtime Kwangsi military leader. When the Kwangtung army captured Nanning, he withdrew his 3,000 to 4,000 men to Paise (Poseh) near the Yunnan border and fought on there.
ref: [1979, Te-kong Tong, Li Tsung-jen, “Establishment of the Self-governing Armies”, in The Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Studies of the East Asian Institute of Columbia University), Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90:
text: According to Xinhua news agency, both the route and the timetable of the torch relay were adjusted on Sunday in order to minimize disturbance on the examinees in Baise, a city in southwestern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
ref: 2008 June 11, Flora Zhang, “How College Entrance Exams Shortened the Olympic Torch Relay”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023:
text: Why did the outbreak in Baise spark fears around the world about the key metal?
Where is Baise?
Located near the border with Vietnam, Baise is nicknamed the "aluminium capital of southern China".
Home to around 3.5 million people, Baise is a hub for aluminium mining and production.
ref: 2022 February 9, “Why has a Chinese city's lockdown sent aluminium prices surging?”, in France 24, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2022:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: Postal Romanization
word: Poseh
Poseh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bǔʹsǔʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 百色 (Bósè).
Senses: examples: text: The South River is often also called the West River (constituting, as it does, the main trade route) up to a point 30 miles above Nanning, where it is bifurcated into the Left Branch leading to Lungchow, and the Right Branch leading to Poseh, whence is a main trade route into Yunnan, by which the trade with Hongkong and Canton via Wuchow and via Pakhoi finds its way; Poseh is accessible to large native craft, of perhaps 30 tons capacity, navigated through the many rapids with great skill.
ref: 1920, Hosea Ballou Morse, The Trade and Administration of China, 3rd revised edition, Longmans, Green & Co., page 289:
text: Two lines of travel lead south and east from Yunnanfu. One is the route of the railway through Mengtsz to French Indo-China, with a caravan trail which branches off to Szemao in the southwest. The other road is the big east highway to Kwangtung. This road goes overland to Poseh at the head of navigation on the Si Kiang in western Kiangsi^([sic – meaning Kwangsi]), 355 miles distant, and requires twenty days of travel. From Poseh boats go down stream to Canton.
ref: 1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →OCLC, →OL, page 379:
text: The strange caravan was met by military authorities in Nanning, and Bill was told it would not be safe to stay there. He was advised to proceed to the little town of Poseh. The authorities felt the Japanese would be contained at Nanning, and if Bill and his group could reach Poseh, surely they could stop and begin their ministry.
ref: 1963, Jesse C. Fletcher, Bill Wallace of China, Nashville: Broadman Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89:
text: River traffic is important on the Si, although navigation is obstructed at many points by rapids and shallows. Ships of 10,000 tons call at Whampoa, Canton’s outer port, and vessels of 9-foot draft can travel upriver to Wuchow, the limit for ocean-going ships. Junks reach far into Kwangsi, and the Yuh is navigable for many months right up to Poseh on the Yunnan border, in spite of the difficult rapids between Kweiping and Nanning.
ref: 1965, R. Kay Gresswell, Anthony Huxley, editors, Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Rivers and Lakes, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 248:
text: Liu Jih-fu was an oldtime Kwangsi military leader. When the Kwangtung army captured Nanning, he withdrew his 3,000 to 4,000 men to Paise (Poseh) near the Yunnan border and fought on there.
ref: [1979, Te-kong Tong, Li Tsung-jen, “Establishment of the Self-governing Armies”, in The Memoirs of Li Tsung-jen (Studies of the East Asian Institute of Columbia University), Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: Synonym of Baise.
synonyms: word: Baise
Greatham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Hartlepool borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4927).
glosses: A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7730).
glosses: A small village in Parham parish, Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ0415).
couldn't help
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of can't help
Kweiping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 桂平 (Guìpíng).
Senses: examples: text: The Japanese took Kweiping south of Kweilin after bitter street fighting in which the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. The Chinese ‘communique’ issued on the night of October 15 says that the Chinese garrison which was out-numbered fought until they were killed to the last man, while the Japanese dead littered the streets.—Reuter.
ref: 1944 October 17, “Japs Capture Kweiping”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 1:
text: River traffic is important on the Si, although navigation is obstructed at many points by rapids and shallows. Ships of 10,000 tons call at Whampoa, Canton’s outer port, and vessels of 9-foot draft can travel upriver to Wuchow, the limit for ocean-going ships. Junks reach far into Kwangsi, and the Yuh is navigable for many months right up to Poseh on the Yunnan border, in spite of the difficult rapids between Kweiping and Nanning.
ref: 1965, R. Kay Gresswell, Anthony Huxley, editors, Standard Encyclopedia of the World's Rivers and Lakes, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 248:
text: On January 11, 1851, “the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’’ was proclaimed in Chintien village in Kweiping county in Kwangsi. The official ideology was Christian. This was the greatest uprising in China since the fall of the Ming dynasty.
ref: 1979, Jan Myrdal, translated by Ann Henning, The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:
text: Once their boat reached Tai Hong Kwong, a village alongside a sharp bend in the Pearl River north of Kweiping (Guiping), Ka Yik led his American friends down the muddy, narrow streets to a shop belonging to his father.
ref: 2016, Bill Lascher, “"Why Should I Contribute a Little More Trash?"”, in Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two World War II Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific, 1st edition, William Morrow, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: Synonym of Guiping.
synonyms: word: Guiping
brough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʌf/
ipa: /bɹʊf/
Forms: form: broughs
form: bruff
Etymology: A metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”).
Senses: examples: text: […] about the moon , called a brough, stormy weather is looked for within twenty-four hours; hence it is said, "a far off brough and a near hand storm." If small floating white clouds appear, which are called cat hair, rain is[…]
ref: 1832, Samuel MacSkimin, The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus: From the Earliest Records to the Present Time ; Also a Statistical Survey of Said County, page 271:
text: The corona or brough occurs when the sun or moon is seen through a thin cirro-stratus cloud, the portion of the cloud more immediately around the sun or moon appearing much lighter than the rest.
ref: 1852, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, Steward, Plowman, Hedger, Cattle-man, Shepherd, Field-worker, and Dairyman:
text: The County Antrim farmers say that bad weather may be expected whenever the new moon appears "on her back, with the new moon in her arms, and a brough round her," meaning by this the appearance[…]
ref: 1859, Robert Macadam, Francis Joseph Bigger, Robert Magill Young, Ulster Journal of Archæology ..., page 84:
text: Swainson, in his Weather Folklore, quotes: About the moon there is a brough, The weather will be cauld and rough.
ref: 1912, Chambers's Journal, page 527:
text: ... broughs which appeared around the moon […]
ref: 1955, British Bee Journal:
glosses: A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.
hill-troll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hill-trolls
Senses: examples: text: There is a hill on the lands of Skjelverod near Bingsted called Kirsten's-hill (Kirsten's Bjerg). In it there lived a Hill-troll whose name was Skynd, who had from time to time stolen no less than three wives from a man in the village of Englerup.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 198:
text: "What shall I do now? he said. As soon as the king had had time to consider, he told him that he must go the hill-troll, who had taken his grandfather's sword.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A troll that lives in or under a hill.
hill-trolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hill-troll
Rufford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ruffords
Etymology: From Old English rūh (“rough”) + ford (“ford”); compare the doublet Rufforth.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4615).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6465).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.