cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
relaunchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From relaunch + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be launched again.
relaunchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relauncher
recustomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recustomizes
form: recustomizing
form: recustomized
form: recustomized
form: recustomise
Etymology: From re- + customize.
Senses: glosses: To customize again.
Related terms: recustomization
recustomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recustomize
recustomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recustomize
recustomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recustomize
recustomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recustomisation
Etymology: From re- + customization.
Senses: glosses: The act of customizing again.
Pestminster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of pest + Westminster
Senses: examples: text: Those following what has been dubbed “Pestminster” may nevertheless struggle to keep up with the Byzantine internal reporting structures, the range of accusations being levied and the sheer number of MPs involved.
ref: 2017 3 November, Julia Rampen, “A week in Pestminster”, in New Statesman:
text: Activists turned Westminster into “Pestminster” today to highlight a perceived lack of action over Parliament’s sexual harassment scandal.
ref: 2018 26 October, Kate Proctor, Ella Wills, “The next station is now Pestminster”, in Evening Standard:
text: It’s shocking that two years after the ‘Pestminster’ scandal, female MPs are fleeing politics.
ref: 2019 31 October, Catherine Mayer, “It’s shocking that two years after the ‘Pestminster’ scandal, female MPs are fleeing politics”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: A scandal involving sexual harassment by members of the British parliament.
DAISY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Digital Accessible Information System, an XML-based open standard for people whose disability makes it difficult to read print.
untriggerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + triggerable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be triggered.
misinformedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more misinformedly
form: most misinformedly
Etymology: From misinformed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a misinformed manner.
misinformedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From misinformed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being misinformed.
Gural
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gurals
Etymology: * From Polish Gural, a spelling variant of Góral, from Proto-Slavic *goraľь (“mountain dweller”).
* Alternative transliteration of Ukrainian Гураль (Huralʹ), which is likely also from Proto-Slavic *goraľь.
* From Turkish Güral.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lagery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lagery
form: most lagery
Etymology: From lager + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The aroma is mildly sweet and lagery with pleasant hops; very pale gold color; the taste is clean and fresh, mildly malty, with a touch of hops in both the middle and finish; a remarkably thin body and lots of carbonation.
ref: 2005, Beverage Media, volume 81, numbers 3-4, page 685:
glosses: Resembling lager.
antithickening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + thickening.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes flour is lightly or heavily prebrowned for roux. This process adds flavor and color but destroys some of the thickening power of the flour; acidic foods also have this antithickening effect.
ref: 1990, Lendal Henry Kotschevar, Short Order Cooking, page 95:
glosses: Preventing or inhibiting thickening.
cyanolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanolysis
macroinvertivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroinvertivore
ferrithiocyanides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferrithiocyanide
endoevaporites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoevaporite
dendrogliomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dendroglioma
chumboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chumbox
a change is as good as a rest
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: "I guess there's a novelty factor element involved in working them. I think drivers like driving different traction, and there might also be a 'change is as good as a rest' element.
ref: 2022 September 21, Brendan Rice, “Ready for inspection”, in RAIL, page 61:
glosses: Doing something different from one's routine is as refreshing as taking a break from work altogether.
breakpointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breakpoint
breakpointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of breakpoint
anthelixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthelix
pass the trash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: The anaconda variant of poker.
zulbiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zalabiya.
macrofibrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrofibril
netprov
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netprovs
Etymology: Blend of net + improv
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A form of online theatrical improvisation acted out on social media.
netprovs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netprov
cyberformance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberformances
Etymology: Blend of cyber- + performance
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cyberperformance.
synonyms: word: cyberperformance
cyberperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberperformances
Etymology: From cyber- + performance.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: dramatic performance presented online or in cyberspace
Synonyms: cyberformance
cyberformances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberformance
cyberperformances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberperformance
cyberperformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberperformers
Etymology: From cyber- + performer.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: One who enacts a cyberperformance.
cyberperformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberperformer
Joe Lunchbucket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Alluding to the container in which many employees bring food to work.
Senses: glosses: Joe Average; the typical working man.
perfect binding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfect bindings
Senses: glosses: A form of thermally activated book binding with a flat glued spine, resembling a paperback.
perfect bindings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfect binding
perfect-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Bound with a perfect binding.
immigrationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immigration + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A policy that favours immigration.
immigrationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immigrationists
Etymology: From immigration + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Immigrationists reason that France has always been a land of melting-pots and large-scale invasions. The proof of this? The endless waves of Celts, Germanics, Romans and Slavs that have entered the country. Sure, but these were neighbouring peoples, 'close cousins' to be more precise.
ref: 2010, Guillaume Faye, John B. Morgan, Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-catastrophic Age:
glosses: One who favours immigration.
immigrationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immigrationist
Nintendrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nintendrones
Etymology: Blend of Nintendo + drone
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A slavish supporter of Nintendo's video games or consoles; a Nintendo fanboy
Coordinate terms: Sony pony
Xbot
iSheep
Nintendrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nintendrone
prohairetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek προαιρετικός (proairetikós).
Senses: glosses: Relating to prohairesis.
prohairesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proairesis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προαίρεσις (proaíresis, “volition, moral choice, intention”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Stoic principle that people have a choice in how they judge, and are affected by, externalities.
keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's breath to cool one's porridge
form: keeping one's breath to cool one's porridge
form: kept one's breath to cool one's porridge
form: kept one's breath to cool one's porridge
Senses: glosses: Synonym of save one's breath to cool one's porridge.
synonyms: word: save one's breath to cool one's porridge
save one's breath to cool one's porridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saves one's breath to cool one's porridge
form: saving one's breath to cool one's porridge
form: saved one's breath to cool one's porridge
form: saved one's breath to cool one's porridge
Senses: glosses: To refrain from speech where it is futile or not wanted; to shut up.
Synonyms: keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
pseudolocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + localization.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The testing of software for internationalization compliance using modified versions of the original text (with the use of foreign script etc.) rather than genuine translations.
Averroean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Averroean
form: most Averroean
form: Averroian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the ancient philosopher and polymath Averroes.
Averroian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Averroian
form: most Averroian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Averroean.
bus factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus factors
Etymology: From the phrase “get hit by a bus” as an informal way to describe a person suddenly becoming unavailable.
Senses: examples: text: It's also important to strengthen what we call the bus factor of your project. Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed. What's your team's bus factor?
ref: 2012, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman, Team Geek: A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 7:
topics: business
glosses: A measurement of the risk of losing team members, in terms of information and abilities no longer available to the team.
Related terms: key person risk
key man risk
bus factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bus factor
teacher workday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teacher workdays
form: teacher work day
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see teacher, workday.
topics: education
glosses: A day when students do not attend school, but when teachers still come to school to work.
Coordinate terms: INSET day
Related terms: english: an in-service day is sometimes synonymous, in some places
translation: an in-service day is sometimes synonymous, in some places
word: in-service
teacher work day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teacher work days
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teacher workday.
teacher work days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teacher work day
teacher workdays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teacher workday
chonta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chontas
Senses: glosses: Any of various palm trees, such as Juania australis and Astrocaryum species.
chontas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chonta
Demetrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Demetrian
form: most Demetrian
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Demeter.
Bosniakization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bosniakisation
form: Bosniacisation
form: Bosniacization
Etymology: From Bosniak + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Making something more Bosniak, especially the formation of a Bosniak culture, customs, language or ethnicity or cultural assimilation into a Bosniak community.
flog someone round the fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flogs someone round the fleet
form: flogging someone round the fleet
form: flogged someone round the fleet
form: flogged someone round the fleet
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To row a prisoner around the fleet, where he would receive a number of lashes at each ship in turn, as a penalty for serious offences.
Fleiss' kappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fleiss' kappas
Etymology: Named after Joseph L. Fleiss.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A statistical measure for assessing the reliability of agreement between a fixed number of raters.
Fleiss' kappas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fleiss' kappa
toxifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxifiers
Etymology: From toxify + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which toxifies; something poisonous.
toxifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxifier
timeslotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of timeslot
timeslotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of timeslot
didn'tchya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: You ate it all, didn'tchya?
glosses: Contraction of didn't you.
postautistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + autistic, derived from the French autisme-économie (“autism economics”), itself from an older sense of French autisme to mean "abnormal subjectivity" or "acceptance of fantasy rather than reality."
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a political movement that criticises neoclassical economics and advocates a pluralistic approach.
trance gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trance gates
Etymology: From its use in trance music.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sequencer effect that breaks up a continuous sound according to a programmed rhythm.
trance gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trance gate
Bushies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bushie
River Mumma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the River Mumma
Senses: glosses: A mythical figure in Jamaican folklore, said to protect bodies of water and the people who pay her tribute. River Mumma is an African retention in the vein of protective water spirits like Mami Wata or the Orisha Yemoja. When it comes to crossing a river she inhabits, she allows those with good intentions to cross her waters; the others either turn back or drown.
Jenny Greenteeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jenny GreenTeeth
Senses: glosses: A figure in English folklore, a river hag who pulls people into the water to drown them.
Jenny Greenteeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pondweed or duckweed, which forms a mat-like surface on water and makes it look treacherously like dry land
grundylow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grundylows
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of grindylow.
grundylows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grundylow
grindylow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grindylows
form: grundylow
Etymology: Possibly connected to Grendel, the monster from the epic Beowulf.
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: A folkloric creature, said to inhabit water and to grab children with its long sinewy arms and drown them.
wikipedia: Beowulf
grindylows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grindylow
eight-oar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eight-oars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eight (“narrow rowing boat with eight rowers”).
synonyms: word: eight
extra: narrow rowing boat with eight rowers
eight-oars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eight-oar
laryngealize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laryngealizes
form: laryngealizing
form: laryngealized
form: laryngealized
Etymology: From laryngeal + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To articulate as a laryngeal sound, to produce (a sound) through or with action of the larynx.
examples: text: But creaky or laryngealized quality throughout whole stretches of very low-pitched speech characterize boredom, reluctance [etc.] Children typically laryngealize their voice for coaxing adults.
ref: 1993, Fernando Poyatos, Paralanguage, page 209:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To modify (a pronunciation or a sound) by constricting the larynx.
Related terms: creaky voice
guttural
hairloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hair loss.
e-file
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: e-files
form: e-filing
form: e-filed
form: e-filed
Etymology: From e- + file, perhaps as a back-formation from e-filing.
Senses: glosses: To file (a lawsuit, a patent application, etc.) by means of computer technology.
e-files
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of e-file
e-filed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of e-file
e-filer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-filers
Etymology: From e- + filer or e-file + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who e-files.
e-filers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-filer
X-aerogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-aerogels
Senses: glosses: A kind of flexible, porous aerogel that can form a film.
X-aerogels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-aerogel
Ferguson effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ferguson effect
Etymology: From the name of the city of Ferguson, Missouri. The term was coined by police chief Doyle Sam Dotson III and popularized by a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Heather Mac Donald.
Senses: glosses: The idea that increased scrutiny of police following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has led to an increased crime rate (or sometimes murder rate) in major US cities.
Aristasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aristasian
form: most Aristasian
Etymology: From Aristasia + -n.
Senses: examples: text: In the Aristasian community, they honor Sai Rayanna and declare their allegiance to the Aristasian empire. For the worshipers of Dea who are not affiliated with Aristasia, it may seem odd to honor Sai Rayanna. She is, however, a heroine of this people for she defended them in the distant past from the forces of evil.
ref: 2015, Brythwen Sinclair, A Year with Dea, page 61:
text: How, then, to explain the presence of Melissa, 27, an uber-femme and out lesbian on the London scene, who on Sunday nights leaves the bars behind, pulls on a 1940s tea dress, stockings, and high heels, and drives out to the Aristasian embassy to become "Patricia."
ref: 1996, Out, volume 5, numbers 1-5, page 32:
text: Be that as it may, the existence of female-ruled civilizations is in no way necessary to the arguments of Deanic or Aristasian philosophy (Aristasians, in fact, have little real interest in Tellurian social order and certainly do not advocate matriarchy for Iron-Age Telluria).
ref: 2009, Keith David Henry, TERRA: Return of the Divine Feminine, page 18:
glosses: Of or relating to Aristasia, an all-female traditionalist subculture based around the idea of a parallel universe where the two sexes are the strong, adventurous brunettes and the weaker, delicate blondes.
defrog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defrogs
form: defrogging
form: defrogged
form: defrogged
Etymology: From de- + frog.
Senses: examples: text: Back in 1778, the citizens of Boston gave a banquet in honor of the French admiral, D'Estainge, who had recently arrived in New England to help the Americans in their war effort. The chef, hearing that the French considered frog a delicacy, went out and defrogged every pond in the city. He served them in a specially prepared cold soup — live.
ref: 1981, Gus McLeavy, Bathroom Almanac, Frederick Fell Pub, →ISBN:
text: Throat-clearing, preparatory defrogging of the throat, may itself be isolated as a marker of the public speaker, or the speaker on the verge of saying something rather difficult (preparing the voice box and dealing pre-emptively with nervousness).
ref: 2014, Raymond Tallis, The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Portrait of Your Head, page 80:
text: It was a live broadcast, some talk show; evidently Prentis had managed to get himself defrogged. Perhaps Tempestt had done her kissy duty after all.
ref: 2015, Nancy Springer, Fair Peril:
text: After feeding the cats and defrogging the litter box, she grabs her winter coat, hat, and scarf.
ref: 2015, Sherry Levesque, Demented:
glosses: To rid of frogs.
defrogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defrog
defrogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defrog
defrogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defrog
debentureholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debentureholders
form: debenture holder
Etymology: From debenture + holder.
Senses: glosses: The holder of a debenture.
debentureholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debentureholder
stubborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the stubborns
Etymology: From stubborn + -s, as if the plural of a singular noun.
Senses: examples: text: He's been proven wrong twice and keeps writing those protest articles! That old man definitely has a case of the stubborns.
glosses: stubbornness
flying fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying figs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flying fuck.
synonyms: word: flying fuck
stight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stights
form: stighting
form: stighted
form: stighted
Etymology: From Middle English stighten, stiȝten, from Old English stihtan, stihtian (“to dispose, arrange, regulate, direct, rule; instigate, incite”), from Proto-West Germanic *stihtijan, *stihtōn, from Proto-Germanic *stihtiz (“a step, track, overpass”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to go, climb”). Related to German stiften and Dutch stichten.
Senses: glosses: to found; establish; set
Derived terms: stightle
Related terms: stickle
flying figs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying fig
-o-matic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formation from automatic.
Senses: examples: text: The Fix-o-Matic 2000 set about repairing the old car.
glosses: Appended to titles of (often fictional) machines, especially to suggest that the verb to which the suffix is appended is its primary function.
moroccoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morocco + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made into morocco leather.
repetitive strain injuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repetitive strain injury
schoeni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoenus
for the cheap seats
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Alluding to the lower-priced seats in a theatre, where the audience might find it harder to hear the performers.
Senses: glosses: Used to emphasise a repeated assertion.
tradcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradcons
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A person of traditionalist conservative politics.
Coordinate terms: neocon
tradcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradcon
Ferguson reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Discussed in an academic paper by J. K. W. Ferguson in 1941.
Senses: glosses: The neuroendocrine reflex comprising the self-sustaining cycle of uterine contractions initiated by pressure at the cervix or vaginal walls in mammals.
tempogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tempograms
Senses: glosses: A kind of state distribution graph for temporally ordered sequence data.
tempograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tempogram
treshchotka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treshchotki
Etymology: From Russian трещо́тка (treščótka).
Senses: glosses: an old Russian percussion instrument
Kuwaitisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kuwaitization
Etymology: From Kuwaitise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of Kuwaitising.
Kuwaitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kuwaitize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kuwaitisation.
Kuwaitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Kuwaitizes
form: Kuwaitizing
form: Kuwaitized
form: Kuwaitized
Etymology: From Kuwait + -ize.
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of Kuwaitise.
Derived terms: Kuwaitization
Kuwaitising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Kuwaitise
Kuwaitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Kuwaitize
Kuwaitise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Kuwaitises
form: Kuwaitising
form: Kuwaitised
form: Kuwaitised
form: Kuwaitize
Etymology: From Kuwait + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To make Kuwaiti.
Related terms: Kuwaitisation
Kuwaitises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Kuwaitise
Kuwaitised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Kuwaitise
Kuwaitised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kuwaitised
form: most Kuwaitised
Senses: glosses: Having been made Kuwaiti.
bailival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Timber of the required length was not available in the bailival district of Morges, but it was possible to buy a sufficient quantity of oak trees from the government of Freiburg.
ref: 1977, The Mariner's Mirror: The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research, volumes 63-64, page 19:
glosses: Relating to, or ruled by, a bailiff.
playalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more playalike
form: most playalike
Etymology: From playa + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a playa (geological feature).
MND
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of motor neurone disease.
Hyponyms: english: Lou Gehrig's disease
translation: Lou Gehrig's disease
word: ALS
cryogels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryogel
you can't keep a good man down
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: "Isn't it perfectly splendid, Mr. Pepper, to think that Archie's genius has at last been recognized? How quiet he kept it. I had no idea that Mr. Brackett was even interested in his work. I wonder how he heard of it?"
"Oh, these things get about," I said. "You can't keep a good man down."
ref: 1915, P. G. Wodehouse, Concealed Art:
text: You can't keep a good man down. Like the corpse in The Trouble with Harry who just won't stay buried, Alfred Hitchcock keeps popping out of his grave to terrify and delight new audiences.
ref: 1984 March 26, Richard Corliss, “Cinema: The Master Who Knew Too Much”, in Time, retrieved 18 Jan 2018:
text: He cut a sorry figure after the thumping by England, but you can't keep a good man down. That familiar mix of manic energy and piratical lunacy enabled the totemic Irishman to reassert his status as a world-class performer.
ref: 2000 April 3, Chris Hewett, “Rugby: Running talent will put life into Lions”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 18 Jan 2018:
text: Dunlop suffered a coronary arrest—his heart stopped for almost six minutes. But even at 85, you can't keep a good man down, and he was able to recover.
ref: 2013 January 22, Jack Goodstein, “Music Review: Boyd Lee Dunlop—The Lake Reflections”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 18 Jan 2018:
glosses: A person who has talent, resolve, or moral strength will eventually succeed despite having been overlooked, injured, or defeated.
mono-ene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mono-enes
Etymology: From mono- + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of monoene.
synonyms: word: monoene
mono-enes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mono-ene
cotitular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + titular.
Senses: glosses: Being one of several saints to whom a church is dedicated.
telestereoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + stereoscopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the telestereoscope.
telestereoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of the telestereoscope.
habitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habiting
pledgemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pledgemasters
Etymology: From pledge + master.
Senses: glosses: A member of a fraternity who takes charge of new pledges.
pledgemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pledgemaster
pledgeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pledgeships
Etymology: From pledge + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of being a pledge in a fraternity.
pledgeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pledgeship
latch-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latch-ups
form: latchup
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A kind of short circuit caused by the inadvertent creation of a low-impedance path between the power supply rails of a MOSFET circuit.
latch-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latch-up
footslut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footsluts
Etymology: From foot + slut.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A submissive who has a foot fetish.
footsluts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footslut
aseitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪˈsiːɪˌtæs/
/əˈsiːɪˌtæs/
Forms: form: aseitates
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin asēitās.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aseity.
Yiwu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈwuː/
ipa: /jiːˈwuː/
enpr: ēʹwo͞oʹ
enpr: yēʹwo͞oʹ
Forms: form: I-wu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 伊吾 (Yīwú).
Senses: examples: text: In the city, the old drum-tower now has the mottoes over each gate restored. West to Yiwu (Araturuk) in Xinjiang, north to the desert, south to the Qilian Mountains, and east to Hua Shan, it is certainly a graceful addition to a modernizing city.
ref: 1979 October, Rewi Alley, “Gansu”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 10, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 2:
text: In the Kaiyuan reign period of the Tang Dynasty, Beiting commissioner was appointed to command the troops in Hanhai, Tianshan and Yiwu (Araturuk). The troops in Yiwu (Araturuk) were stationed in Ganluchuan.
ref: 1997, “Strategic Passage of the Western Regions”, in Travelling around Xinjiang: A Land of Enchantment, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 211, column 1:
text: “Aratürk (Yiwu) County’s party committee and government has issued a plan to liberate farmers from the ketmen and herders from the qamcha,” said a high ranking county official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A ketmen is a traditional digging took used by Uyghur farmers, while a qamcha is a type of whip used by Uyghur herders.
ref: 2016 July 21, Eset Sulaiman, Brooks Boliek, “In China's Xinjiang a Way of Life Waits to Die”, in Eset Sulaiman, transl., Radio Free Asia, sourced from RFA’s Uyghur Service, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2016:
text: The Yiugurs called the city Yiwu or Aratürük, close to Hami, Tuhulu 吐葫蘆.
ref: 2018, Zhivko Voynikov, “INFORMATION ON BULGARIAN PEOPLE IN THE CHINESE DYNASTIC CHRONICLES”, in WHO ARE THE ANCIENT BULGARIANS OR PROTOBULGARIANS?, page 68:
glosses: A county of Hami, Xinjiang, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Uyghur
word: Aratürük
word: Araturuk
Yiwu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈwuː/
ipa: /jiːˈwuː/
enpr: ēʹwo͞oʹ
enpr: yēʹwo͞oʹ
Forms: form: I-wu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 義烏 /义乌 (Yìwū).
Senses: examples: text: Wu Han was born in Yiwu, Chekiang, in 1909, in a middle-class family too poor to pay for his education at National (Tsing Hua) University, where Wu supported himself by tutoring until his graduation in 1934.
ref: 1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 559:
text: The text of to-night's "communique" says:-
[...]Heavy fighting is continuing in the East Chekiang province with the Japanese launching vigorous attacks at Kienteh and Yiwu to the north-east of Kinhawa, the provincial capital.
The Japanese troops on the Railway first attacked the Chinese positions in the vicinity of Yiwu in mass formation and then split up into several small units and attempted infiltration tactics.
ref: 1942 May 25, “Chinese Occupy Strategic Points On Old Caravan Road”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXX, number 123, →OCLC, page 1:
text: Wu Han was born in Iwu, Chekiang in 1909 and took his first degree at the Tsinghua University.
ref: [1969, “Mass Line”, in Jerome Chʼen, editor, Mao (Great Lives Observed) (History), Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:
text: If it’s small, cheap and made of plastic, it can probably be found in Yiwu, a city in China’s southeastern Zhejiang province.
ref: 2013 December 13, Julie Bosman, “Welcome to Tchotchke Town”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020, Magazine:
text: From the widget wholesalers of Yiwu, south of Shanghai, to the halls of Communist Party power in Beijing, there is consternation that the trade war has dragged on for so long and doubt that the next battle could be a turning point.
ref: 2019 October 30, Anna Fifield, “In China’s capital of Halloween slime and ooze, the trade war is a scary subject”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2019, Asia & Pacific:
glosses: A county-level city of Jinhua, Zhejiang, China.
Yiwu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈwuː/
ipa: /jiːˈwuː/
enpr: ēʹwo͞oʹ
enpr: yēʹwo͞oʹ
Forms: form: I-wu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 義武 /义武 (Yìwǔ).
Senses: glosses: A former province in Hebei, China, during the Tang and Five Dynasties eras.
Synonyms: Yiding
aerostructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + structural.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an aerostructure
chlorometalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorometalates
Etymology: From chloro- + metalate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metal oxyanion that also contains one or more chlorine atoms; a salt containing such an ion
controllabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of controllability
multislices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multislice
pseudomoment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomoments
Etymology: From pseudo- + moment.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A numerical entity that combines the properties of moments and metrics
rethermalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rethermalizations
Etymology: From re- + thermalization.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent thermalization
satellitesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satellitesimals
Etymology: Blend of satellite + planetesimal
Senses: examples: text: The restudy of cosmological processes led to a new view as to the relations of the erratic elements of the solar system, the meteors, meteorites, and comets, to the normal elements, the planets, planetoids, planetesimals, satellites, and satellitesimals, to the effect that they were all formed by the same type of dynamic action, save that the former were given erratic orbits, while the latter were given concurrent orbits.
ref: 1921, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, editor, The Journal of Geology, University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 408:
glosses: A very small (natural) satellite.
suprasaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: suprasaturations
Etymology: From supra- + saturation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of supersaturation.
synonyms: word: supersaturation
ZIP code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZIP codes
Senses: examples: text: New York State had two ZIP codes in the top 10 nationally, both in the Hamptons, famous for its high-end beachfront properties.
ref: 2024 November 28, Josh Ocampo, “Expensive ZIP Codes Have Something in Common”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of zip code.
ZIP codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ZIP code
eco-city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-cities
Etymology: From eco- + city.
Senses: glosses: A city which is regarded as having sound environmental protection policies.
eco-cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eco-city
re-employ
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-employs
form: re-employing
form: re-employed
form: re-employed
Etymology: From re- + employ.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reemploy.
Derived terms: re-employment
re-employed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-employ
re-employing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-employ
re-employs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-employ
rose-coloured spectacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rose-colored glasses.
rose-tinted spectacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.
[...] One cannot but feel, however, that when writing, Mr. Nock was wearing a particularly rose-tinted pair of spectacles, such is his enthusiasm for the "Premier Line".
ref: 1960 October, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, →ISBN, page 640:
glosses: Alternative form of rose-colored glasses.
evilfavouredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thou ſhalt offer vnto the Lorde thy God no oxe or ſhepe where in is any deformyte, what ſoeuer euell faueredneſſe it be: for that is an abhominacion vnto the Lorde thi God.
ref: 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Deuteronomye xvij:[1], folio xxxj, verso:
text: This day (good Christian people) shall be declared unto you, the unprofitableness and shameful unhonesty of contention, strife and debate, to the intent, that when you shall see as it were in a table painted before your eyes, the evilfavouredness and deformity of this most detestable vice, your stomachs may be moved to rise against it, and to detest and abhor that sin, which is so much to be hated, and pernicious, and hurtful to all men.
ref: 1623, Religion and Society in Early Modern England: A Sourcebook, published 2005, →ISBN, "The Homily Against Contention and Brawling", page 164:
glosses: Ugliness or deformity.
Akhasheni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ახაშენი (axašeni).
Senses: glosses: A village in Kakheti, Georgia (country).
glosses: A semi-sweet red wine, produced around Akhasheni.
Khvanchkara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ხვანჭკარა (xvanč̣ḳara).
Senses: glosses: A village in Racha, Georgia (country).
glosses: A semi-sweet red wine, produced around Khvanchkara.
Mukuzani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian მუკუზანი (muḳuzani).
Senses: glosses: A village in Kakheti, Georgia (country).
glosses: A dry red wine, produced around Mukuzani.
Kindzmarauli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ქინძმარაული (kinʒmarauli).
Senses: glosses: A semi-sweet red wine, produced in Kakheti, Georgia.
loot box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːtbɒks/
ipa: /ˈlutbɑks/
Forms: form: loot boxes
form: lootbox
Senses: examples: text: Admittedly, the loot boxes first of all monetize video games, by reinforcing the pay-to-win logic, but they also contribute to their gamblification (Johnson 2018), […]
ref: 2021, Stéphane Le Lay, Emmanuelle Savignac, Jean Frances, Pierre Lénel, editors, The Gamification of Society, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 107:
topics: video-games
synonyms: loot crate
prize crate
glosses: A consumable virtual item, often in the shape of a box or another container, that gives a player a random selection of in-game items.
glosses: A subscription box, particularly one that provides a random assortment of apparel and merchandise.
Related terms: free-to-play
gacha
microtransaction
pay to win
haggi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haggis
Senses: examples: text: With numberless demonstrations of joy, preceded by drums and music, the time is passed in continued embraces; and although ever so limited in their means, the day of return is sure to be one of liberal festivity, in which the Haggi treats all his friends, and relates the wonders he has seen.
ref: 1818, Filippo Pananti, Narrative of a Residence in Algiers, page 273:
text: The Christians on the east bank were ready to ravage the hold cities, when the Saracen massacrers let few escape; and as to the prisoners, these were handed over to the haggis, who mostly cut their throats at Mecca […]
ref: 1852, The History of the Holy, Military, Sovereign Order of St. John, page 313:
text: The Mecca arrived to-day with what are practically the last pilgrims; for there is only the Zagazig to come now, with the remaining two or three hundred Egyptian 'haggis,' and my time at El Tor will probably be ended for this year.
ref: 1895, Donald Harvey Attfield, A Private Journal in Egypt: From May 1894 to May 1895, page 120:
glosses: Alternative form of hajji (one who has participated in a hajj)
beat boxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beatboxing.
beat-boxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beatboxing.
ladhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lad + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: For all the novel's examination of the more negative aspects of male bonding, however, James Campbell detects more commonly an assertion of the New Lad image which has spawned so many men's magazines, television programmes and cultural forums from the 1990s onwards: 'Glue has an epic scale; it charts the rites of passage from boyhood to ladhood (no Welsh character has progressed beyond the latter)'.
ref: 2005, Aaron Kelly, Irvine Welsh, page 188:
text: Like a father he raised me from ladhood,
And pleasant his presence made all.
ref: 2010, Hillel Halkin, Yehuda Halevi, page 333:
glosses: The state or condition of being a lad
playerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From player + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: A generous helping of Goldie from The Mack, a little Willie Dynamite, and a sprinkle of Dolemite for comedic flavoring add up to a recipe for playerhood.
ref: 2007, Kenji Jasper, Ytasha Womack, Beats, Rhymes, and Life: What We Love and Hate about Hip-hop:
text: “Don't be messin' up my game, boy. I'm gonna have to give you the rules of playerhood.” I said, following his joking. “I wrote the book.”
ref: 2008, Eric Childs, I Waited For You:
text: Gideon, with his suave charm and hankering for hotties, was on the fast track to playerhood.
ref: 2014, Lisa Marie Perry, Just for Christmas Night, page 177:
glosses: The state or condition of a player
Related terms: pimpdom
pimp juice
player hater
Teela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈti.lə/
rhymes: -iːlə
Forms: form: Teelas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Synonyms: sense: female given name
word: Tila
celebritihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From celebrity + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of celebrityhood.
Bde Maka Ska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈdeɪ məˈkɑ skɑ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Dakota Bdé Makhá Ská (“Lake White Earth”); see bdé, makhá, and ská.
Senses: examples: text: "When I go to Bde Maka Ska with my kids – my three-month old,^([sic]) and my two-year old^([sic]) who is just learning to talk – I teach them our family’s story of survival,” says Kate. “I teach them that we have a powerful connection this place as Dakota people.
ref: 2016 March 8, Jon Lurie, “Reclaiming Bde Maka Ska for the Future Generations”, in The Circle News:
text: We should erect side-by-side plaques on the shore of Bde Maka Ska (formally Lake Calhoun).
ref: 2017 November 28, Timothy Hennum, “Bde Maka Ska/Lake Calhoun: True, we can't change history, but we can chart change”, in Minneapolis Star Tribune:
text: The downtown skyline is seen from across Bde Maka Ska after a snow storm December 12, 2010 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
ref: 2018 January 19, Sameer Rao, “Minnesota Changes Lake Calhoun to Original Dakota Name, Bde Maka Ska”, in ColorLines magazine:
glosses: A lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota; more commonly known by its former official name, Lake Calhoun.
and all the rest of it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of and so forth.
synonyms: word: and so forth
bajocchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bajocco
structural integrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of structural integrity
bathyplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bathy- + plankton.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: plankton living in the bathyal zone
cycliophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycliophorans
Etymology: From translingual Cycliophora + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: cycliophore
glosses: A member of the phylum Cycliophora, rare aquatic invertebrates living in the mouths of lobsters.
cycliophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycliophores
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cycliophoran.
synonyms: word: cycliophoran
horseshoe worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseshoe worms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phoronid; member of order Phoronida.
synonyms: word: phoronid
extra: member of order Phoronida
radiozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiozoans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of radiolarian.
synonyms: word: radiolarian