cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
contrafibularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒntɹəˌfɪbjʊˈlæɹɪtiz/
Etymology: From contra- + fibular + -ity + -s. From a 1987 episode of the British television comedy Blackadder, after Dr. Samuel Johnson boasts about his newly completed dictionary containing every word in the English language. Blackadder wishes Dr. Johnson his "most enthusiastic contrafibularities", upsetting Johnson, who quickly adds the alleged word to his manuscript.
Senses: examples: text: I was a bit obscure with that one. Please accept my most sincere contrafibularities...
ref: 2005 November 15, Tsugumi Niyamoto, “Separate Ways”, in alt.games.resident-evil (Usenet):
text: My most enthusiastic contrafibularities go to the world-class HarperCollins construction team.
ref: 2011, Neil Strauss, Rules of the Game, →ISBN, page 194:
text: If you don't have time to watch the show itself, here is a taste of Stephen Fry's hosting patter: "the creamily edible Rosamund Pike". A few new words from the Fry lexicon include: "arsewash" and "amazian". Contrafibularities all round!
ref: 2015 September 2, Ali Plumb, “BAFTAs 2015: The Winners In Full”, in Empire:
glosses: False congratulations, sounding congratulatory while actually pulling someone's leg.
wikipedia: A Dictionary of the English Language
Blackadder the Third
Samuel Johnson
Related terms: anaspeptic
frasmotic
compunctuous
pericombobulation
yank someone's chain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yanks someone's chain
form: yanking someone's chain
form: yanked someone's chain
form: yanked someone's chain
form: jerk someone's chain
form: pull someone's chain
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: poke, prod
text: So, be careful what you are paying attention to. If it looks like someone is yanking your chain, he or she probably is.
ref: 2006, James A. McKenna, Beyond Bluffs: Master the Mysteries of Poker, →ISBN, page 198:
text: “For the same reason you were yanking my chain about the double ropes,” I said. “You want to see if I'm going to be any help to you or a total idiot when it comes to this retail thing.”
ref: 2008, Tom Morrisey, In High Places, →ISBN, page 198:
text: It was so easy to yank his chain, Tiree smirked to herself, as she dialled Les's London flat.
ref: 2012, Alison Fraser, His Mistress's Secret, →ISBN:
synonyms: pull someone's leg
coordinate_terms: get someone's goat
glosses: To tease someone; to lead someone on; to goad someone into overreacting.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yank, chain.
yanks someone's chain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yank someone's chain
yanking someone's chain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yank someone's chain
yanked someone's chain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yank someone's chain
Alabam'
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Alabama.
Brit-com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brit-coms
Senses: examples: text: Those Brit critics, recalling Laurie's days of the slightly undignified do-what-you-have-to-to-get-ahead routine of a young British actor on the way up are past him, like to imply that his new life — what some of them have called his “reinvention” — as an American star has only come about because of his days in the Brit-com boot camp of the 1980s and '90s.
ref: 2007, Paul Challen, The House That Hugh Laurie Built: An Unauthorized Biography and Episode Guide., →ISBN, page 59:
text: In an episode of the Brit-com Blackadder, Dr. Samuel Johnson boasts that his just-completed dictionary contains every single word in the English language, and in response Blackadder wishes Dr. Johnson his enthusiastic “contrafibularities.
ref: 2009, Jason Holt, The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News, →ISBN, page 220:
text: They were superhumans in the noncostumed, hard-as-nails Brit-com tradition that Ellis had honed to a knife edge, dressed in white suits, leather catsuits, and hoodies.
ref: 2011, Grant Morrison, Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, →ISBN, page 314:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Britcom.
tchaouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Attested 1741.
Senses: examples: text: Transylvania was vassal and tributary very nearly on the same conditions as Moldavia; on the death of John-Sigismond Zapoly, in 1571, the investiture was given by a tchaouch to Stephen Bathory, his successor.
ref: 1880, Sutherland Menzies (pseud. of Elizabeth Stone), Turkey old and new: historical, geographical and statistical, volume 1, London: W. H. Allen, →OCLC, page 255:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chiaus.
Brit-coms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brit-com
contrapose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contraposes
form: contraposing
form: contraposed
form: contraposed
Etymology: From French contraposer.
Senses: examples: text: We certainly do not want to take our simple categorical statements and contrapose them into cumbersome natural language.
ref: 2005, Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic, Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking, →ISBN, page 214:
text: To contrapose an argument one swaps the conclusion with any one of the premisses and negates each of the swapped statements.
ref: 2006, Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science, →ISBN, page 461:
text: But subjunctive conditionals do not contrapose, and we are misled into accepting a sensitivity condition by confusing it with a safety condition.
ref: 2015, Ernest Sosa, Judgment and Agency, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To place in contraposition.
examples: text: At such moments, King was contraposed against the more frightening threat, his symbolism making the radicalism of the other party all the more apparent.
ref: 1999, Richard Lentz, Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King, →ISBN, page 119:
text: In fact, whereas the term existence is contraposed to non-existence, the term factual or empirical is contraposed to essential;
ref: 2004, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Does the World Exist?: Plurisignificant Ciphering of Reality, →ISBN:
glosses: To contrast with, or form an opposite to, something.
contraposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contrapose
contraposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contrapose
contraposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Inductive extrapolation, in effect, is grounded in the contraposed universal generalisation 'where the reason, so the target.'
ref: 2001, Jonardon Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason, →ISBN, page 118:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Forming a contraposition.
examples: text: ...drift has been completely retrograded and the result is a very young, contraposed shoreline.
ref: 1913, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, The Journal of Geology, page 539:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a coastal region of hard rocks that is separated from the sea by a belt of overlapping softer deposits.
contraposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contrapose
dickheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dickheaded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And it sucked extra, because for all Frankie's totally nonacademy-approved insubordination and occasional dickheadedness, he was an amazing chef.
ref: 2010, Louisa Edwards, Just One Taste, →ISBN, page 263:
glosses: Incivility and stupidity.
desk organizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desk organizers
Senses: examples: text: The company's desk accessories, which include clocks, letter holders and a desk organizer, were designed by Alan Fletcher and Kenneth Grange in London, Takenobu Igarashi in Tokyo and Massimo Vignelli in New York.
ref: 1988 February 4, Suzanne Slesin, “Currents: An International Set of Desk Accessories”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Apr 2015:
text: Helps you to keep your desk clear from small things like pens, rulers, mobile phone and USBs.
ref: 2015, “RISSLA Desk organizer, black $12.99”, in Ikea Canada Catalog, retrieved 18 Apr 2015:
glosses: box or open tray, typically kept on the surface of a desk, divided into compartments for such office supplies as pens, pencils, paperclips, etc. They are meant to help keep your items in a small compact space.
Synonyms: desk caddy
desk tidy
desktop organizer
desktop organizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desktop organizers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of desk organizer.
synonyms: word: desk organizer
desk organiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desk organisers
Etymology: From desk + organiser.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of desk organizer.
desktop organiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desktop organisers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of desk organizer.
synonyms: word: desk organizer
calorific rays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calorific ray
calorific ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calorific rays
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: infrared ray, heat ray
offglide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfɡlaɪd/
ipa: /ˈɑfɡlaɪd/
Forms: form: offglides
form: off-glide
Etymology: From off + glide.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A phase while the articulators are moving away from their position in articulating a speech sound.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The final, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /ɪ/ sound of the /ɔɪ/ in English boy.
offglides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offglide
off-glide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-glides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offglide.
off-glides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of off-glide
onglide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onglides
form: on-glide
Etymology: From on- + glide. Compare Middle English ongliden (“to glide over”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The first, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /j/ sound of the /juː/ in English few.
onglide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: onglides
form: ongliding
form: onglided
form: onglided
form: on-glide
Etymology: From on- + glide. Compare Middle English ongliden (“to glide over”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To produce this sound.
onglides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onglide
on-glide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: on-glides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of onglide.
on-glide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: on-glides
form: on-gliding
form: on-glided
form: on-glided
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of onglide.
on-glides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of on-glide
piphilologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪfɪˈlɒləd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ˌpaɪfɪˈlɑləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: piphilologists
Etymology: From piphilology + -ist, after philologist.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:piphilologist.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Someone who creates or uses mnemonics to memorize sections of the number pi (π).
first day covers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first day cover
exuviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exuviation
general population
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general populations
Senses: examples: Meronyms: subsubpopulation < subpopulation < population
synonyms: the masses
glosses: The general public.
synonyms: genpop
mainline
glosses: The main body of inmates in a prison, excluding those being detained in solitary confinement, protective custody, a medical wing or on death row.
general populations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of general population
gestational sacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gestational sac
gestation sacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gestation sac
Widia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortened form of German wie Diamant, "like diamond".
Senses: glosses: A form of tungsten carbide used in machining tough materials.
Kafkaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kafka + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The literary style associated with Franz Kafka
kbyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kbytes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of kilobyte.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of kibibyte.
paans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paan
keikogi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keikogis
form: keikogi
Etymology: From Japanese 稽古着.
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
government
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
textiles
war
glosses: A set of uniform worn while training in some Japanese martial arts
wikipedia: keikogi
Kircherian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kircher + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of the German Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher.
e-textbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-textbooks
Etymology: From e- + textbook.
Senses: glosses: A textbook published in electronic form.
Hypernyms: e-book
e-textbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-textbook
brown-brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Such bartering in exchange for securing routes is not uncommon; the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) fighters in Sierra Leone regularly consumed crack cocaine and brown-brown (heroin) that were transshipped through their territories.
ref: 2009, Paul Rexton Kan, Drugs and Contemporary Warfare, page 53:
text: Only later in the afternoon, when the rebels ordered the child soldiers to kill did they carve slits into the boys' young temples, pierce holes into their tender veins, and rub cocaine and “brown-brown” heroin into their raw wounds.
ref: 2010, Sarah Culberson, A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All:
text: During this time, Aminata was often sent into Freetown to buy drugs—mostly a crude form of heroin (“brown brown”) and some cocaine—to bring back to the fighters.
ref: 2014, Susan Shepler, Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone:
text: In Liberia and Sierra Leone, child soldiers often take a substance called “brown-brown,” a potent mixture of cocaine or heroin with gunpowder.
ref: 2015, Daniel Ness, International Education: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems:
glosses: Powdered cocaine or heroin mixed with smokeless gunpowder.
steamway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steamways
Etymology: From steam + way.
Senses: glosses: An aperture or conduit for steam.
oilway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilways
Etymology: From oil + way.
Senses: glosses: An aperture or conduit for oil.
steamways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steamway
oilways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oilway
sleekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeker
blackwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blackwash + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: If Pindell opposes the 'whitewashing' of history, then Walker's is a revisionist blackwashing.
ref: 2008, Celeste-Marie Bernier, African American Visual Arts, page 215:
text: This “blackwashing,” in Hare's opinion, was the work of black studies departments and the black faculty […]
ref: 2013, Jonathan Scott Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom, page 118:
glosses: The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
examples: text: The blackwashing is here to be the very last operation, and to be well performed, and when dry must be polished by a large sleeker fitting the circle of the cylinder.
ref: 1852, Frederick Overman, The Moulder's and Founder's Pocket Guide, page 120:
glosses: The application of a coating of blackwash.
examples: text: Historical writing proliferates in examples of tendentious accounts of national history, where the “whitewashing” of one history goes hand in hand with the “blackwashing” of another.
ref: 2007, Robert Stam, Ella Shohat, Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
blackwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From blackwash + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackwash
bro-hug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹəʊhʌɡ/
Forms: form: bro-hugs
form: bro hug
Etymology: From bro + hug.
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't even one of the one-armed bro-hugs that we usually do, it was a full-on hug with my arms wrapped all the way around his pudgy body.
ref: 2012, John G. Hartness, Back in Black, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN:
text: “I'm proud of you,” Brees whispered in Griffin's ear when they met at midfield after the game for the traditional quarterback bro-hug.
ref: 2013, Dave Sheinin, RG3: The Promise, Plume, →ISBN:
text: He and Joe did that bro-hug thing that guys did that was not quite a hug but was more than a handshake.
ref: 2014, Erin Nicholas, Getting in the Spirit, →ISBN:
glosses: A hug shared between male colleagues or friends, especially a quick, physically reserved one.
bro-hugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bro-hug
bro hugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bro hug
Cubana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cubanas
Senses: glosses: A Cuban woman.
Cubanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cubana
metadebate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metadebates
Etymology: From meta- + debate.
Senses: glosses: Debate about a debate, or about debating in general.
metadebates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metadebate
countercriticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countercriticizes
form: countercriticizing
form: countercriticized
form: countercriticized
Etymology: From counter- + criticize.
Senses: glosses: To respond to (a person who is criticizing) with a criticism of one's own.
countercriticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of countercriticize
countercriticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of countercriticize
countercriticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countercriticize
countercriticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercriticisms
Etymology: From counter- + criticism.
Senses: examples: text: No critic is exempted from countercriticism.
glosses: A criticism offered in response to a criticism by the opposing party.
countercriticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercriticism
mundialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒn.dɪ.ə.lʌɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌmɑn.di.ə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /-ˌlaɪ-/
Forms: form: mondialisation
form: mondialization
Etymology: From French mondialisation, from mondial (“global, worldwide”) + -isation; or from Latin mundus (“the world”) + -ization, by analogy with the French word.
Senses: examples: text: The mundialization movement was born in Hiroshima, in 1945, when the surviving citizens declared their resolve to work for a world federation that would make impossible any repetition of the tragedy that their city had undergone.
ref: 1978, Israel W. Charny, editor, Strategies Against Violence: Design for Nonviolent Change, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, →ISBN, page 315:
text: Mundialization is a psychological mechanism toward peace by which the "in-group" is enlarged until it encompasses all humans.
ref: 1988, Peace Research Reviews, volume 11, Oakville, Ont.: Canadian Peace Research Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:
text: Renato Ortiz made the distinction between globalization and "mundialization" (that is, between the global and the worldly).
ref: 2003, Juan Poblete, Critical Latin American and Latino Studies (Cultural Studies of the Americas; 12), Minneapolis, Minn.; London: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: An ideology based on the solidarity and diversity of global citizens and the creation of supranational laws, intended as a response to dehumanizing aspects of globalization.
coxie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏk'sē
ipa: /ˈkɒksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Forms: form: coxies
Etymology: From cox + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A coxswain.
brohawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brohawks
Etymology: Blend of bro + Mohawk.
Senses: examples: text: Your brohawk.
ref: 2004, Andrew Schwab, It's All Downhill From Here: On The Road With Project 86, Relevant Books, →ISBN, page 193:
text: Other fighters started filing in: tribal-tattooed, creatine-slamming, brohawk-sporting dudes; […]
ref: 2009, Christopher Curtis, "Stop, drop and fight", The Link (Concordia University), Volume 30, Issue 16, 1 December 2009, page 22
text: Residents of the third floor of Memorial Hall and their “brohawks.”
ref: 2011, Noah Walker, "'Bro Night' in Memorial", The Collegian (Grove City College), Volume 72, Number 9, 11 November 2011, page 4 (image caption)
glosses: A Mohawk hairstyle worn by a bro.
brohawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brohawk
brohemian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brohemians
Etymology: Blend of bro + Bohemian.
Senses: examples: text: Celebrity brohemians abound. The Strokes, the Hives, and any group lumped into that nouveau rock thing MTV's so in love with right now – all brohemian.
ref: 2003, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, page 56:
text: Diddlysquatters beat out the Brohemians in terms of ganja savvy because they have ample alone time to devote to the discovery and practice of nuances in marijuana manner.
ref: 2010, Brian Griffin, The Trustafarian Handbook: A Field Guide to the Neo-Hippie Lifestyle - Funded by Mom and Dad, page 60:
text: We figured it was probably time to give you some tips on how to tell if the individual you are dealing is simply a ”brohemian” who will just steal your weed, or a gypsy who will take you for everything you are worth.
ref: 2014, Brooke Geery, "Snow Boarder Or Gypsy?", Yobeat, Winter 2014/2015, page 46 (approx.)
glosses: A bro who has adopted or affects a Bohemian lifestyle.
brohemians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brohemian
couchlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couch-lock
form: couch lock
Etymology: From couch + lock.
Senses: examples: text: Silver Goo is strong medicine—a bit heavy for some but not a complete couchlock. The Haze influence brings an up edge that balances the high nicely.
ref: 2011, Jason King, The Cannabible 3:
text: The young saleslady at the medical marijuana distribution center told me that one brownie was equal to one dose. Later I found out that it was equal to four doses. The brownie caused complete couchlock for about four hours, but I had no trouble whatsoever with the experience itself because I was already familiar with how to handle high doses.
ref: 2013, Robert E. Leihy, PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE FOR PERSONAL BENEFIT - Page 12:
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A state of idleness, laziness, or inactivity brought about by excessive consumption of drugs, typically marijuana.
blackwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From blackwash + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackwash
blackwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blackwash + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: My cell had blackwashed walls, and I spent the next year in almost total darkness.
ref: 2004, Hans Halberstadt, War Stories of the Green Berets, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: Covered in the color black.
glosses: Having been villainized through a blackwashing campaign
brodown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brodowns
Etymology: Blend of bro + hoedown.
Senses: examples: text: After a few false starts I finally meet the Swiss French snowboarder at Europe's winter sports brodown Babylon.
ref: 2009, Gemma Freeman, "Just A Girl?", Huck, Issue 14, April/May 2009, page 53
text: “Probably the same old thing—another Saturday-night brodown.”
Becka laughed. “A brodown, huh? Sounds fierce. What do you boys do? Play video games and burp a lot?”
ref: 2012, James Preller, Before You Go, Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN:
text: All these developments are a sign of the times ahead: the drink, mostly associated with brodowns, is slowly but surely making its way onto the fancy part of the menu.
ref: 2013, Nick Green, "A year in beer", City Bites, Issue 49, November/December 2013, page 6
glosses: A gathering featuring and/or appealing primarily to men.
Synonyms: brodeo
dickfest
sausage fest
sausage party
Coordinate terms: taco fest
brodowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brodown
bluntnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluntness
gin and tonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gin and tonic
Neo-Hellenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-Hellenism
form: Neohellenism
Etymology: From neo- + Hellenism.
Senses: glosses: Hellenism as surviving or revived in modern times; the practice or pursuit of Ancient Greek ideals in modern life, art, or literature, as in the Renaissance.
Related terms: Neo-Hellenic
nero antico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian, literally "black ancient".
Senses: examples: text: A table of red granite, above which is a relief in nero antico on a ground of lapislazzuli […]
ref: 1843, Jeremiah Donovan, Rome, Ancient and Modern: And Its Environs, volume 3, page 730:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Ancient Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.
Neo-Scholasticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoscholasticism
form: neo-Scholasticism
Etymology: From neo- + Scholasticism.
Senses: glosses: A revival and development of medieval scholasticism in Roman Catholic theology and philosophy which began in the second half of the 19th century.
Related terms: neo-Scholastic
Neo-Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neo-Greek
Etymology: * From French néo-grec
* neo- + Greek
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Describing a style of French painters and architects of the mid-19th century.
panselectionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + selection + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The theory that natural selection acting on genetic variation is virtually the only acceptable mechanism of evolutionary change.
Related terms: panselectionist
Neo-Lamarckism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-Lamarckism
Etymology: From neo- + Lamarckism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by later biologists, especially as maintaining that the offspring inherits traits acquired by the parent from change of environment, use or disuse of parts, etc.
Related terms: neo-Lamarckian
villainises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of villainise
Neo-Malthusian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neo-Malthusians
form: neo-Malthusian
Etymology: From neo- + Malthusian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Neo-Malthusianism
Related terms: neo-Malthusian
Neo-Malthusians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neo-Malthusian
Neo-Malthusianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-Malthusianism
Etymology: From neo- + Malthusianism.
Senses: glosses: A later form of Malthusianism that advocates for population control programs, especially birth control, to ensure resources for current and future populations.
Related terms: neo-Malthusian
Neo-Malthusian
villainising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of villainise
brodeo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brodeos
Etymology: Blend of bro + rodeo.
Senses: examples: text: Dude! The hottest chick just walked in. The ratio just got a bit better, but this party is still a brodeo.
ref: 2007, Robert Morris, "This punch is way better, bro", Texas Travesty (University of Texas), Volume 9, Issue 6, September 2007, page 14
text: It's Jell-O shots, beer pong, backwards baseball caps and a full-on brodeo every day of the week in this three-barred behemoth. It's a club for the sports-bar set.
ref: 2010, "10th Annual Coldest Beer", Boise Weekly, Volume 20, Issue 1, 29 June 2010 - 5 July 2010, page 35
text: Chillin' with the Chet-meister waiting for the rest of the brodeo to show up so the foosball tournament can begin.
ref: 2014, "What Did You Give Wee Baby Jesus For Christmas?", The Black Sheep (University of Kentucky), 11 December 2014, page 16
glosses: A gathering featuring or primarily appealing to men.
Synonyms: brodown
dickfest
sausage fest
sausage party
Coordinate terms: taco fest
mustahfiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustahfizes
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the territorial militia of the Ottoman Empire.
flourishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flourishment
never have I ever
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of I have never (game of forfeits)
synonyms: word: I have never
extra: game of forfeits
never ever have I
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of I have never (game of forfeits)
synonyms: word: I have never
extra: game of forfeits
county brownie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: county brownies
Etymology: Named for their brown uniforms and cars.
Senses: qualifier: Indiana
glosses: A sheriff.
county brownies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of county brownie
John Q. Law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: John Q. Laws
Senses: examples: text: Now if we cross the path of any John Q. Laws, nobody does a fuckin' thing 'til I do something.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by The Wolf (Harvey Keitel):
synonyms: Johnny Law
glosses: A generic police officer.
Related terms: John Q. Public
Johnny Law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Johnny Laws
Senses: glosses: A police officer.
Synonyms: John Q. Law
Johnny Hopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Johnny Hoppers
Etymology: Rhyming slang for copper.
Senses: glosses: A police officer.
Johnny Hoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Johnny Hopper
Blucher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbluːkə/
Etymology: Named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), Prussian general.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning sextuple, or losing treble the fixed stake (an amount agreed upon before the game begins).
glosses: A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Blucher No. 343.
glosses: A community within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan.
Blucher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbluːkə/
Forms: form: Bluchers
Etymology: Named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), Prussian general.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blucher.
moon cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon crickets
Etymology: From moon + cricket. Perhaps a reference to slaves singing songs during the night.
Senses: examples: text: Her Dad had been someone her Mom didn't know in Houston. I always used to joke, "Maybe he was a Moon-Cricket from Alabama," but Trish is totally not black.
ref: 2018, Tzvi Peckar III, Mini Thins, page 285:
text: Quoted in 2020, Leslie Picca, Joe Feagin, Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage
When we were leaving it was getting dark and my husband says to me “look at all of those moon crickets.” I confusingly asked him what he had meant by that. When we got into the car, he explained to me that all of the black people walking around under the moonlight look like a bunch of crickets scurrying around.
text: Rooney Baxter, The Bluegrass Kid (page 182), 2015.
They don't have a good enough reason to come at us now. And besides, moon crickets do drive-bys. This feels like a message from someone else.
glosses: A black person.
hipster glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “I think we totally need to talk about the StarMart thing,” a girl with chunky hipster glasses and a blunt, black bob says, and rapidly the rest of the council agrees.
ref: 2012, Madeleine George, The Difference Between You and Me, Viking, →ISBN:
text: He had these watery blue eyes behind a pair of black hipster glasses and was holding a fancy camera.
ref: 2012, Emily Ecton, Project Jackalope, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 79:
text: He was wearing hipster glasses, jeans, a red-and-white striped shirt, and red sneakers.
ref: 2014, Heather Vogel Frederick, Absolutely Truly, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by members of the hipster and nerd subcultures.
Synonyms: nerd glasses
unceremonially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unceremonially
form: most unceremonially
Etymology: From unceremonial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unceremonial manner, abruptly, without the due formalities.
Synonyms: unceremoniously
sudden
abrupt
hasty
impolite
cat-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cat-eye
form: most cat-eye
Etymology: Due to the shape that is reminiscent of the eyes of a domestic cat.
Senses: glosses: Having frames with an upward-slanting point at the top outer edges of the front.
raw_tags: of glasses
cat-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-eyes
Etymology: Due to the shape that is reminiscent of the eyes of a domestic cat.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cat's eye (“glass marble with colourful inclusions”).
Bötzinger complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in 1978 by Professor Jack Feldman of UCLA, after a variety of white wine served at a scientific meeting in Hirschhorn, Germany.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A group of neurons located in the rostral ventrolateral medulla and ventral respiratory column in mammals. It plays an important role in controlling breathing and responding to hypoxia.
Related terms: pre-Bötzinger complex
youth center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youth centers
form: youth centre
Senses: glosses: A building operated as a place for young people to meet and take part in recreational activities.
youth centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youth center
youth centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youth centres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of youth center.
youth centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youth centre
antibisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibisexual
form: most antibisexual
Etymology: From anti- + bisexual.
Senses: glosses: Opposing bisexuality.
Synonyms: biphobic
antistraight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antistraight
form: most antistraight
Etymology: From anti- + straight.
Senses: examples: text: The laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation apply to all people, gay and straight alike. If an antistraight boss starts firing heterosexuals, they're protected.
ref: 2001, John K. Wilson, How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People:
text: So you think Gregg is antistraight, but he is best friends with a straight guy. Russell and he have a very close relationship.
ref: 2013, Steven Zeeland, Sailors and Sexual Identity, page 140:
text: One of the key points of this paper is to create legitimacy for a set of representations of antistraight discourses. […] In a world where any antistraight manifestation, either sexual or nonsexual, is a reason for exclusion, ridicule, and persecution […]
ref: 2014, David W. Foster, Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities, page 233:
glosses: Opposing heterosexuality.
Chiauss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Whereupon hee ſent another Chiauſs with Letters directed to all the kingdome,by which he commaunded that euery should obey and reuerence him,as being againe confirmed in all his former honours and degrees.
ref: 1600, Rooke Churche, The historie of the troubles of Hungarie: containing the pitifull losse and ruine of that kingdome, and the warres happened there, in that time, betweene the Christians and Turkes, London: Felix Kyngston, translation of Histoire des troubles de Hongrie by Martin Fumée, →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of chiauss; obsolete spelling of chiaus.
blippiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of blippy: most blippy
blippier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of blippy: more blippy
radicalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more radicalistically
form: most radicalistically
Etymology: From radicalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a radicalistic manner
wargus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɔː(ɹ)ɡəs/
Forms: form: wargi
Etymology: From Anglo-Latin wargus, from wearg, wearh (“outlaw, criminal”), from Proto-West Germanic *warg, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz (“criminal, wolfish individual”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to twist, bend, crook”).
Senses: examples: text: If anyone has dug up or despoiled a body already in the sepulchre, let him be an outlaw (wargus) — that is, let him be expelled from that district until it is agreeable to the relatives of the dead and those relatives themselves have sought on his behalf that he be allowed to live within the district.
ref: 1991, Katherine Fischer Drew, The Laws of the Salian Franks - Page 188:
text: Rather, civilization is made when the wolf becomes sovereign. Hobbes's sovereign wolf resembles instead Giorgio Agamben's sovereign, the correlative figure to the homo sacer characterized as the banned Germanic outlaw, the wargus, or wolf-man: […]
ref: 2012, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Joanne H. Wright, Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, page 87:
text: In ancient Germanic law, the wargus was a figure 'excluded from the community' whom 'anyone was permitted to kill'.
ref: 2013, Gideon Baker, Hospitality and World Politics - Page 131:
text: The Old Norse word for wolf (vargr) was also the legal term for “outlaw”—that is, the wolf is that person who is outside the law. In ancient Germanic law, the term wargus was used to refer to both the outlaw and the wolf-man.]
ref: [2013, Peter Nyers, Rethinking Refugees: Beyond State of Emergency - Page 74
glosses: An outlaw, outcast, or exile; one driven out of society for their crimes.
Related terms: warriangle
warry
warful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warful
form: most warful
Etymology: From war + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the long Train of never-ending Jars / Of warful Peaces, and of peaceful Wars, […]
ref: 1733, Paul Whitehead, The State Dunces:
text: Sabotage being itself a warful act and carrying its own penalty, would not excuse the original unwarful act nor any subsequent unwarful acts of counter-retaliation.
ref: 1943, Linus R. Fike, No nation alone: a plan for organized peace, page 56:
text: The similarity of these Indian and Greek tales of far-ranging warful travels should not surprise us: their authors were people of the horse, they rode far in several directions—south, west, east—from their “origins” in the Caucasus region; […]
ref: 2003, Richard Schechner, The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance, page 181:
glosses: Indicative of war; warlike.
Derived terms: warfully
counterretaliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterretaliations
Etymology: From counter- + retaliation.
Senses: glosses: retaliation against a previous retaliation
counterretaliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterretaliation
warfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more warfully
form: most warfully
Etymology: From warful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Now Bartty's a-galloping most warfully; Sweet John must needs do the same.
ref: 2002, William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith - Page 82:
text: We arrive not-warfully. Is there a Rachel Mansour here?" Well, here goes. She stood up and cleared her throat. "Who wants to know?" The Critic grinned at her, baring frighteningly long tusks: "I am Sister Seventh. You come in time!
ref: 2004, Charles Stross, Singularity Sky - Page 314:
text: In Ruddick's formulation, men think “warfully,” or, more abstractly, they are given to abstraction (1983b: 249-252). Women think concretely.
ref: 2012, Nicholas Onuf, World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations - Page 125:
glosses: In a warful, or warlike, manner.
Appaduraian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Appaduraian
form: most Appaduraian
Etymology: From Appadurai + -an.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Of or relating to Arjun Appadurai (born 1949), social-cultural anthropologist known for his work on globalization.
otherhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From other + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: This otherhood, itself based on solidarity with other human beings, provides the difference which evades paradox.
ref: 1994, Norbert Wiley, The Semiotic Self, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 131:
text: The attempt to remake nature in terms of grace and to restructure the world according to other-worldly postulates resulted in the eventual loss of transcendent otherhood.
ref: 1997, Adam B. Seligman, The Problem of Trust, Princeton University Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 48:
text: The result is a life of “otherhood” where the individual is divided from any sense of community or social identity.
ref: 2010, Robert Vanderlan, Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: The state or quality of being other.
Synonyms: otherness
finanscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finanscapes
Etymology: Blend of finance + -scape
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of financescape.
finanscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finanscape
technoscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technoscapes
Etymology: From techno- + -scape, coined by Arjun Appadurai.
Senses: glosses: Figuratively, the technological landscape; the global distribution of technology allowing ideas and information to be communicated.
wikipedia: Arjun Appadurai
technoscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technoscape
unterritorialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + territorialized.
Senses: glosses: Not territorialized.
territorializable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more territorializable
form: most territorializable
Etymology: From territorialize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being territorialized.
inhibitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inhibitabilities
Etymology: From inhibit + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being inhibitable.
inhibitabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inhibitability
paucivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paucivalent
form: most paucivalent
Etymology: From pauci- + -valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a low valency
Related terms: paucivalency
imagology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imagologies
Etymology: From Latin imago (“image”) + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Applied to American Studies, imagology—the term derives from Latin “imago”/image—asks not how Americans themselves see America, but how other cultures view the United States. In other words, what is the image of the United States as seen in literatures from outside the United States?
ref: 2016, Reingard M. Nischik, “On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood’s Works”, in Comparative North American Studies, page 93:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: The study of cultural stereotypes as presented in literature etc.
Derived terms: imagological
Related terms: imageology
imagologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imagology
chiauss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chä.o͞osʹ
ipa: /t͡ʃəˈus/
Forms: form: chiausses
Etymology: Attested since 1600.
Senses: examples: text: Whereupon hee ſent another Chiauſs with Letters directed to all the kingdome,by which he commaunded that euery should obey and reuerence him,as being againe confirmed in all his former honours and degrees.
ref: 1600, Rooke Churche, The historie of the troubles of Hungarie: containing the pitifull losse and ruine of that kingdome, and the warres happened there, in that time, betweene the Christians and Turkes, London: Felix Kyngston, translation of Histoire des troubles de Hongrie by Martin Fumée, →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of chiaus.
imagological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imagological
form: most imagological
Etymology: From imagology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to imagology.
palo blanco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palo blancos
Etymology: From Spanish, literally "white stake" or "white pole".
Senses: glosses: A western American hackberry (Celtis reticulata) with light-coloured bark.
glosses: A Mexican mimosaceous tree (Lysiloma candidum) whose bark is used in tanning.
palo blancos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palo blanco
Senses: glosses: plural of palo blanco
mimosaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Mimosaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Mimosaceae.
Bull Moose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bull Mooses
form: Bull Mooser
Etymology: Journalists quoted Roosevelt saying "I feel like a bull moose" shortly after the new party was formed.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Progressive Party (United States, 1912), an American political party formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt after a split in the Republican Party.
Bull Moose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Journalists quoted Roosevelt saying "I feel like a bull moose" shortly after the new party was formed.
Senses: glosses: A township in Cass County, Minnesota, United States, named after the Bull Moose Party.
Bull Mooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bull Moose
mooers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mooer