cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
works agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: works agreements
Senses: glosses: A contract between an employer and a works council specifying conditions of their industry binding the employer and all the workforce for whom the works council has been established.
Putley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in eastern Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6437).
glosses: A surname.
works agreements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of works agreement
Carshalton Beeches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Carshalton, borough of Sutton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2763).
Wragg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wraggs
form: Wragge
Etymology: From the Old Norse personal name Wraghi or Rag, a short form of any of the various names beginning with the Proto-Germanic element *raginą (“decision, advice”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
Amble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, harbour, and civil parish with a town council in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2604).
glosses: A minor river in Cornwall, England, which flows into the River Camel estuary (OS grid ref SW9974).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Winfield Township, Montcalm County, Michigan, United States.
foreign fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign fighters
Senses: glosses: a person who travels to a foreign country to engage in a war on the side of some polity other than their native country (which may or may not be engaged in that war)
Eng Choon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hokkien 永春 (Éng-chhun).
Senses: examples: text: Different clans formed their own associations; for example the Hokkiens from the County of Eng Choon of Fujian Province formed the Eng Choon Association as far back as 1800.
ref: 2004, The Guide to Melaka, Malaysia: Essential Information for Business and Pleasure in the Heart of South-East Asia, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50:
text: Lee was born in 1939 in Jeram, Kuala Selangor, north-east of Kuala Lumpur and his ancestral roots are from Eng Choon district of Fujian Province in China.
ref: 2012, “Lee Sin Cheng”, in Leo Suryadinata, editor, Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, →ISBN, page 544:
text: Father was from the third generation of the Gunn family whose patriarch hailed from Eng Choon county in the Chinese province of Fujian. (In Mandarin, this county is known as Yongchun.) Many of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia had come from Eng Choon.
ref: 2020, Gunn Chit Wha, chapter 1, in Waves of Independence: Memoirs of a Malaysian Doyenne, Singapore: Epigram Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=djfsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT15:
glosses: Synonym of Yongchun.
synonyms: word: Yongchun
Punt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Egyptian p-wn:n-t:N25 (pwnt).
Senses: glosses: A former kingdom in the Afar Triangle, Horn of Africa, Africa, in what is now Ethiopia. A country contemporaneous with the Old Kingdom of Egypt, where frankincense, gold, ebony, ivory is found.
Related terms: Puntland
feathered folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feathered folks
Senses: examples: text: Boshy, elated, improvised a series of unbirdlike notes, startlingly loud, and new to all feathered folk.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 136:
glosses: Birds in general; birds as a group.
feathered folks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feathered folk
tygre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tygres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tiger.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of tiger.
kabaab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabaabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kebab.
scholarhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scholar + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a scholar.
scholardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scholar + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm of scholars and scholarship.
Bourdain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bourdains
Etymology: From French Bourdain.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Kans.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ænz
Senses: examples: text: One of the largest manufacturers of electronic moisturemeters in the world is in the little river town of Atchison, Kans., which was mentioned here yesterday as a potential future growth city.
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations, Committee Prints, page 131:
glosses: Abbreviation of Kansas.
Ks.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Kansas: a state of the United States.
Kansases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kansas
jelly shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly shots
Senses: glosses: A Jell-O shot.
jelly shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly shot
wake up and smell the roses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wakes up and smells the roses
form: waking up and smelling the roses
form: woke up and smelled the roses
form: woke up and smelt the roses
form: woken up and smelled the roses
form: woken up and smelt the roses
Senses: examples: text: They may go and push the ‘order’ button on their computer and buy it cheaper elsewhere. So wake up and smell the roses. Compete with the internet.
ref: 2009, Dominic Littlewood, Don't Get Done, Get Dom, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of wake up and smell the coffee.
synonyms: word: wake up and smell the coffee
bean cowrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean cowries
Senses: glosses: A marine shellfish (Trivia merces)
Moyse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
saw-edged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'How green her eyes are!' thought Ursula, and more than ever her teeth seemed saw-edged.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 243:
glosses: Edged with teeth, as a saw; serrated.
Related terms: sawback
eggtray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggtrays
form: egg-tray
form: egg tray
Etymology: From egg + tray.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Stein now was swiftly but surely removing the egg-trays from the incubator.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 253:
glosses: A tray for holding eggs, as in an incubator, refrigerator, etc.
eggtrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggtray
meeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: (marginal gloss of Lins) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 9 p. 134:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of meres.
flamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of flamen.
flamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamin
unyard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unyards
form: unyarding
form: unyarded
form: unyarded
Senses: examples: text: She had gone that morning to unyard the ewes and lambs, and coming back had paid her good-bye visit to the little enclosure, and found that the graves had been opened by careless hands that had left convincing proof.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 272:
glosses: To move (stock) out of a yard.
unyards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unyard
unyarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unyard
unyarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unyard
out of the Ark
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of out of the ark.
Hailie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hailies
form: Hayley
form: Haylee
form: Hayleigh
form: Haylie
form: Hayle
form: Haley
form: Hailey
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
in tatters
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Badly torn in many places; in shreds.
examples: text: Its financial plans for 2020-24, published last December, lie in tatters. TfL Chief Financial Officer Simon Kilonback told his board in June: "It is unlikely, even with significant external support, that we will return to any similar plan or levels of investment in the medium term."
ref: 2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 45:
text: Most polls give the left, divided between Socialists, ecologists and far-left parties, less than 30 percent of the vote in a France drifting rightward. The once-proud “gauche” is in tatters.
ref: 2021 September 2, Roger Cohen, “The French Left Is in Disarray, but Here Comes Anne Hidalgo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2021:
glosses: Ruined, destroyed, wrecked.
boat-in theatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat-in theatres
form: boat-in theater
Senses: glosses: An outdoor theatre, on the water, where patrons can pilot their boat into an anchorage position, to watch the show. These have become more common with the need for social distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic.
boat-in theater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat-in theaters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boat-in theatre.
boat-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Accessible by boat, located on the water/waterfront, with dock or anchorage.
Derived terms: boat-in cottage
boat-in property
boat-in theatre
Related terms: drive-in
ski-in
ski-out
drive-in theatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive-in theatres
form: drive-in theater
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A drive-in cinema; Pedantic form of drive-in.
glosses: An outdoor theatre, suitable for concerts, stageplays, and the like; with a parking lot where patrons can drive into, to watch the show from their cars. These have become more common with the need for social distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Related terms: drive-in concert
Mistral
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Mistral.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: Frédéric Mistral (French writer)
Derived terms: Mistralian
intemperating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intemperate
intemperates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intemperate
specieses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […], and by consequence their language, would at first be confined to the lowest specieses, unless where it happened that the specific differences of such specieses were not so readily to be distinguished.
ref: 1774, Lord James Burnett Monboddo, Of the Origin and Progress of Language, page 526:
text: A Proposition of Relation, of the kind to be here discussed, has, for its Terms, two Specieses of the same Genus, such that each of the two Names conveys the idea of some Attribute not conveyed by the other.
ref: 1897, Lewis Carroll, Symbolic Logic: Part 1, Elementary, page 12:
text: We distinguish in the universe of phenomena two groups, specieses and representatives of specieses. This relation does not depend on the fact, if there is on these specieses and their representatives the question about specieses and ...
ref: 1942, Francè Veber, There is a God:
glosses: plural of species
non-white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + white.
Senses: examples: text: It is, frankly, a scandal that at the various rail industry events I attend, the number of non-white faces can be counted on one or (at best) two hands.
ref: 2020 July 15, Christian Wolmar, “Proper studies are required to lead us to greater diversity”, in Rail, page 50:
text: Coincidentally, support for race-conscious policies, such as affirmative action, financial reparations for slavery, and race-based government assistance, have reached record highs. In fact, by some measures, the racial liberalism of white Democrats and liberals has even surpassed that of their non-white counterparts.
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of nonwhite.
non-white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-whites
Etymology: From non- + white.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, to the extent that living in close proximity to non-white populations entails greater competition for local resources (e.g. jobs, public services) and unequal burden-sharing, one hypothesis predicts that white racial animus increases with the percent of non-whites residing in the local environment (Key, 1949).
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of nonwhite.
non-whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-white
-misic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -misia (or its root, Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”)) + -ic. Devised as an alternative to the suffix -phobic; see -misia for more.
Senses: antonyms: -philic
glosses: Hating (something); averse to (something).
Related terms: miso-
mis-
populiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: populisers
Senses: examples: 2009, Michael T. Van Dyke, "Kenneth Rexroth’s Integrative Vision: Anarchism, Poetry and the Religious Experience in Post-World War II San Francisco”, in Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives, edited by Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), page 45.
The embrace of Zen was fed from three sources: the returning G. I.’s who had experienced Asian culture while serving in the Pacific theatre; the writings of such Zen populisers as Daisetz Suzuki and Alan Watts; and the growing Asian-American population, especially on the West coast, that had brought with them, or carried down, inherited religious sensibilities.
glosses: Alternative form of populizer.
populisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of populiser
turbiteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbiteens
Etymology: From turbit + -een.
Senses: glosses: A breed of domesticated pigeon, Columba livia, with a frontal spot and large cheek patches.
turbiteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbiteen
wine lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine lakes
Senses: examples: text: I don't know what the volume of the wine lake is at present, but whatever it is, there ought not to be much added to it from France in 1989, which is a mercy.
ref: 1989 September 16, New Scientist, volume 123, number 1682, page 104:
glosses: A large surplus of wine, especially as produced by the European Economic Community or its successors.
Related terms: butter mountain
butter mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter mountains
Senses: glosses: A large surplus of butter, especially as produced by the European Economic Community or its successors.
Related terms: wine lake
drop target
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop targets
Senses: qualifier: pinball
glosses: A target which drops or is knocked over by the ball hitting it, often arranged in banks or sets of multiple adjacent drop targets.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The window or other object that receives the dragged item in a drag and drop operation.
skill shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skill shots
Senses: qualifier: pinball
glosses: A bonus obtained by hitting a target with a ball when either launched directly from the plunger or as the first shot done with flippers once the ball has entered play.
Yañalif
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Common Turkic Alphabet spelling of Tatar яңалиф (yañalif), which is a contraction of яңа (yaña, “new”) and әлифба (älifba, “alphabet”).
Senses: related: word: Jaꞑalif
glosses: The first Latin alphabet used during the Soviet epoch of Latinization from 1928 until 1938.
Taraškievica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian тарашке́віца (taraškjévica), after Branislaw Tarashkyevich.
Senses: glosses: A classical Belarusian orthography, also a current alternative standard.
wikipedia: Branislaw Tarashkyevich
de Havilland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: de Havillands
form: De Havilland
form: deHavilland
form: DeHavilland
form: Dehavilland
form: Havilland
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Haviland
interthreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interthread
interthreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interthread
interthreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interthread
Jarvis Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for brothers Edward, Thomas, and William Jarvis, who owed the ship, Eliza Francis, that discovered the island.
Senses: examples: text: By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of June 25, 1910, Ch. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the Act of August 24, 1912, ch. 369, 37 Stat. 497, and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Jarvis Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude 0°22'30" S. and longitude 160°01' W. from Greenwich; Baker Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude 0°13'30" N. and longitude 176°33' W. from Greenwich; and Howland Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude 0°49' N. and longitude 176°43' W. from Greenwich, as indicated upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be, and they are hereby, reserved, set aside, and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for administrative purposes.
ref: 1936 May 13, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7368—Placing Certain Islands in the Pacific Ocean Under the Control and Jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2023:
glosses: A small coral island located in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States.
Johnston Atoll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Charles J. Johnston. He was one of the first people to sight and describe the island.
Senses: glosses: Johnston Atoll is a small atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States.
Coahuila de Zaragoza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The word Coahuila is believed to be of Nauhtl origin, meaning flying serpents, place of many trees, or place where the serpent creeps. The word Zaragoza was added to honor Spanish war hero, General Ignacio Zaragoza.
Senses: glosses: A state of Mexico.
Synonyms: Coahuila
portcrayon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portcrayons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of porte-crayon.
keymaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keymakers
form: key-maker
form: key maker
Etymology: From Middle English kay maker, equivalent to key + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who makes keys.
keymakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keymaker
polescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polescreens
form: pole-screen
Etymology: From pole + screen.
Senses: examples: text: The most prized of the furnishings perhaps is the polescreen in the front parlor, whose needlepoint is dated the second half of the seventeenth century .
ref: 1949, The Antiquarian, page 8:
text: The engravings, by J.-M. Delattre, were framed to make an attractive pair of Neoclassical shield-shaped pole-screens (sold by Sotheby's 18 May 1990, lot 202) around 1785.
ref: 1992, Malise Forbes Adam, Mary Mauchline, edited by Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books, published 1992, page 130:
text: His eyes rested absently on an embroidered polescreen, as if his mind had passed on to quite different matters.
ref: 2013, Tim Jeal, A Marriage of Convenience:
glosses: A screen mounted on a pole.
examples: text: The eighteenth-century designer Thomas Sheraton once qualified the purpose of a polescreen or firescreen as " a piece of furniture to shelter the face or legs from the fire . "
ref: 1995, Joan Barzilay Freund, Masterpieces of Americana, page 33:
text: The polescreen, with a sliding screen on a turned upright pole, four to five feet tall, supported on a tripod base, was also known as a screenstick in the late 17th century.
ref: 1997, Joanna Banham, Encyclopedia of Interior Design:
glosses: A style of firescreen consisting of sliding panels mounted on upright poles.
polescreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polescreen
short weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, in the face of irrefutable evidence that at a time when England was able to grow her own food supplies provision dealers wilfully adulterated their goods or gave short weight, we cannot be surprised that the punishments inflicted went beyond fines.
ref: 1931, Frederick Bradshaw, A Social History of England, 3rd edition, London: W. B. Clive, page 79:
text: The need to protect the customer against deception and short weight in the sale of coal led the Government to introduce legislation to prohibit the giving of short weight as early as 1889, hence the special provisions in Part II of the Weights and Measures Act, 1889, regulating the sale of coal and imposing penalties for short weight, frauds by draymen, etc.
ref: 1963, “Consumer Protection in Great Britain”, in Report of the 48th National Conference on Weights and Measures 1963, Washington D.C.: US Government Printing Office, page 34:
glosses: Weight that is less than that declared or less than one is charged for.
pre-booked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The trains will have stringent COVID-19 measures in place, with pre-booked seats in individual bays divided by perspex screens.
ref: 2020 July 15, Barry Doe, “Daily charter will break new ground”, in Rail, page 64:
glosses: Alternative form of prebooked.
predatory tunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predatory tunicates
Senses: glosses: Megalodicopia hians; a species of tunicate found in the Pacific Ocean. The animal has a simple, soft body, growing on a stalk from its hard substrate.
Peopleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9350).
seasonal hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: seasonal hours
Senses: examples: text: A second seasonally-varying time unit was the “seasonal hour,” equal to one-quarter of a watch or one-twelfth of the length of a day (daytime seasonal hour) or one-twelfth of the length of a night (nighttime seasonal hour).
ref: 2019, Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East, BRILL, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Or each seasonal hour of nighttime equals 45m 20s tropical hours. From this it is evident that one seasonal hour of daytime plus one seasonal hour of nighttime is equal to two tropical hours.
ref: 1990, George Noonan, Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, American Federation of Astr, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: Synonym of temporal hour.
synonyms: word: temporal hour
equal hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equal hours
Senses: synonyms: temporal hour
glosses: A unit of time defined as one twenty-fourth (¹⁄₂₄) of a full day–night cycle (as opposed to one twelfth of a varying daylight or nighttime cycle).
intrusive thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrusive thoughts
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An unwelcome involuntary thought, image, or idea.
Related terms: compulsive behaviour
compulsive behaviour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compulsive behaviours
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An action that is performed compulsively without necessarily leading to an actual reward or pleasure.
Duggins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: E. C. +
Vaughn +
scoop neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoop necks
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
synonyms: scoop neckline
glosses: A low, U-shaped neckline.
Related terms: V-neck
scoop necks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoop neck
Aylard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Related to Allard, from given name Adelard (also Adelhard, Adalhard, Adalard) from French Italian Adelardo.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rattery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7461).
swimmies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swimmy
glosses: plural of swimmie
Colyton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: (Devon) From the River Coly + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY2494).
glosses: A suburb in the city of Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
Related terms: Coylton
a watched pot never boils over
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a watched pot never boils.
Leckonby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Larry +
William +
raky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪki/
rhymes: -eɪki
homophone: reiki
Forms: form: more raky
form: most raky
Etymology: From rake + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Aimwell, on the contrary, plays not only the lord, but also shows a truly gentlemanlike behaviour. He has kept company with libertines and got a raky air about him, but honesty sways his breast […]
ref: 1880, Otto Hallbauer, George Farquhar's life and works, page 32:
glosses: rakish
Eucharistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eucharistic
form: most Eucharistic
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of eucharistic.
Rainford Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after railway junctions and a station with this name. The junctions have since been removed and the station is now named Rainford.
Senses: glosses: A village in the north of Rainford parish, Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD4702).
wikipedia: Rainford
Rainford railway station
creeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krēkə
ipa: /ˈkɹiːkə/
ipa: /ˈkɹikɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪkɚ/
rhymes: -iːkə
rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
homophone: creaker
Forms: form: creekers
Etymology: From creek + -er, denoting someone who lives in such a rural place that he has no hometown or settlement but a nearby creek.
Senses: examples: text: I want, at the outset to differentiate between those Appalachians who grow up in the towns and those from rural areas—the creeks and the hollers… This is a story from rural Appalachia, recently brought to consciousness, and reported by a creeker.
ref: 2002 June 21, Linda Scott DeRosier, Creeker: A Woman's Journey, Lexington, Kentucky, United States: The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
text: But at my alma mater in West Virginia, we had a unique "Us & Them" sorting classification: you were either a “hiller” or a “creeker.”
ref: 2017 August 23, Trey Kay, “Us & Them: 'You're Either a Hiller or a Creeker'”, in Us & Them, Charleston, West Virginia, United States: West Virginia Public Broadcasting, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2020:
glosses: A poor rural person.
examples: text: Children of the old Vikings, or "Creekers", they took, in their great need, to the seaward and the estuaries, as other conquered races take to the mountains, and died, like their forefathers, within scent of the salt sea from whence they came.
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 12:
text: Wick, a creek or bay - Ipswich, Greenwich, Berwick. (Viking = a creeker.)
ref: 1882, anonymous author, Outline of the history of the English language and literature, Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers:
glosses: A Viking.
Coordinate terms: hiller
the next highest socioeconomic class
creeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krēkə
ipa: /ˈkɹiːkə/
ipa: /ˈkɹikɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪkɚ/
rhymes: -iːkə
rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
homophone: creaker
Forms: form: creekers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of krieker (“pectoral sandpiper”).
creekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creeker
hiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪlə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈhɪlə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈhɪlɚ/
ipa: [ˈhɪɫlɚ]
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hillers
Etymology: From hill + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But at my alma mater in West Virginia, we had a unique "Us & Them" sorting classification: you were either a “hiller” or a “creeker.”
ref: 2017 August 23, Trey Kay, “Us & Them: 'You're Either a Hiller or a Creeker'”, in Us & Them, Charleston, West Virginia, United States: West Virginia Public Broadcasting, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2020:
glosses: A poor rural person.
Coordinate terms: creeker
the next poorest socioeconomic class
hillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiller
Westcliff-on-Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8685).
Puzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Putzu
form: Puzih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 朴子 (Pǔzǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Young people in the country are welcome to come to Puzi to enjoy the event, Chen said. The Santaizi-inspired Electric Techno Neon Gods originated from Puzi, and has been one of the most distinct elements of religious culture in Chiayi County, he added.
ref: 2022 October 19, George Liao, “Tai Zi Culture Festival in Taiwan’s Chiayi caters to youths”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2022, Travel & Cuisine:
text: Of those, a receipt for a NT$10 million Special Prize was issued at the PX Mart branch in Chiayi's Puzi City, to a customer who spent NT$339 on a cake, soy milk, and other snacks, the MOF said.
ref: 2024 September 25, Tseng Chih-yi, Matthew Mazzetta, “Winning numbers for July-August uniform invoice lottery released”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2024, Business:
glosses: A county-administered city in Chiayi County, Taiwan.
æthiops mineral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: cinnabar
forbarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forbar
turfed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turf out
underganged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undergang
passed through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass through
staved in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stave in
abegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abegge
made amends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make amends
sifted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sift out
dealt out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deal out
doled out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dole out
sundered out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sunder out
desumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desume
sundering out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sunder out
elded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eld
jumped on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump on
penelopised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of penelopise
Shango
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yoruba Ṣàngó.
Senses: glosses: An orisha in Yoruba religion, the god of thunder, fire, justice, dance and virility.
K'un-lun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 崑崙 /昆仑 (Kūnlún), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻun¹-lun².
Senses: examples: text: On the south this hunge drainageless area is bordered throughout by the northernmost chain of the mighty mountain system of the K'un-lun and by the spurs it sends down toward the plains.
ref: 1923, Aurel Stein, Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the Surveys Made during Sir Aurel Stein's Explorations, Dehra Dun: Trigonometrical Survey Office, page 41:
text: The Ho-t'ien Special District in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, lying north of the K'un-lun Mountain and south of the T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Desert, suffered regularly before the liberation from the menace of drought and sand storm. Agricultural production was very backward. In 1958, the peasants of the whole district, relying on the great power of the people's communes and showing their spirit of self-reliance, used pebbles to build dikes which channeled the melted snow from the K'un-lun Mountain for irrigation.
ref: 1966 May 31 [1966 March 11], “Managing Water Conservancy Through 500,000,000 Peasants”, in Translations on Communist China's Food and Agriculture, number 102, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao (People's Daily), page 2, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:
text: This city lies in an oasis in the Taklamakan Desert, a region which can be characterised by a near-lunar landscape where little life is found. The city lies at the foot of the K’un-lun mountains and jade is collected from two rivers, the Kara-kash and the Yurung-kash, meaning ‘Black Jade River’ and ‘White Jade River’ respectively.
ref: 2001 November/December, Murray Eiland, Quentin Williams, “All That Is Green Is Not Jade”, in Minerva, volume 12, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Kunlun.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
NETosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NEToses
form: netosis
Etymology: From NET (“neutrophil extracellular trap”) + -osis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A death process for neutrophil cells, whereby the neutrophils expel their chromatin to form a neutrophil extracellular trap (“NET”), a net-like structure to capture invader chemicals and bodies, and cause clotting to block off a region of the body.
syncophant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncophants
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sycophant.
syncophants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syncophant
NET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NETs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of neutrophil extracellular trap.
Derived terms: sense: neutrophils
word: NETosis
NET
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no earlier than or not earlier than.
Tatirang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 塔提讓 /塔提让 (Tǎtíràng).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tatrang.
synonyms: word: Tatrang
complementise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: complementises
form: complementising
form: complementised
form: complementised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of complementize.
Related terms: complementisation
complementiser
complementises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of complementise
complementising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of complementise
complementised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of complementise
complementisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From complement + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of complementization.
Related terms: complementiser
mammatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammati
Etymology: From New Latin mammatus.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of mammatus cloud.
Nant-y-Bwch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌnant ə ˈbuːx/
Forms: form: Nantybwch
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1210).
Nantybwch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nant-y-Bwch.
penisocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penis + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: To prove you're not part of the dreaded penisocracy, pretend to share her beliefs.
ref: 2003 November, “How To Cure A Feminist”, in Maxim, page 58:
text: Some would go so far as to say that the workforce is a penis-ocracy rather than a meritocracy […]
ref: 2013 May 8, Helen Stringer, “The Looking Glass”, in Time Off, page 23:
text: What happened to the righteous indignation toward the Penisocracy? Now you want a male doctor?
ref: 2019, Therese Oneill, Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children, unnumbered page:
glosses: A government or social order dominated by men.
Synonyms: phallocracy
down jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down jacket
puffer jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puffer jackets
Senses: examples: text: he heard heavy footsteps clumping through the undergrowth nearby, and saw two men approaching, both wearing black puffer jackets, one fiddling with a flat handheld device—a control pad of some sort—and the other scanning the trees around them in a practised sweeping motion.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 241:
synonyms: down jacket
puffa
puffer coat
glosses: An insulated padded jacket.
puffer jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puffer jacket
Gwilliam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gwilliams
Etymology: Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Gwilym.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
Ambon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Old Javanese Ambwan (“Ambon”), attested in the Nagarakṛtāgama, likely through Classical Malay and reinforced by modern Indonesian. Compare nearby names such as Fordata Yabun. See also Amboyna, ultimately from Portuguese, and likely from a similar source.
Senses: glosses: An island of Moluccas, Indonesia.
glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Maluku, Indonesia.
Derived terms: Ambonese
Malayu Ambon
Colnbrook with Poyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and council ward in Slough borough, Berkshire, England.
mother-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mother-birds
Senses: examples: text: From the branch of a tree overhead she heard a watchful mother-bird's warning call, and the twitter of the disturbed nestlings.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 5:
glosses: A female parent of a chick or chicks.
mother-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother-bird
hark who's talking
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of look who's talking.
synonyms: word: look who's talking
you can't talk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: you can't talk !
Senses: glosses: Synonym of look who's talking.
synonyms: word: look who's talking
Poyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mainly industrial area in Colnbrook with Poyle parish, Slough borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref TQ0376). Historically in Middlesex until 1965, then in Surrey 1965-1995.
Related terms: Hampton Poyle
you shouldn't talk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: you shouldn't talk !
Senses: glosses: Synonym of look who's talking.
synonyms: word: look who's talking
you should talk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: you should talk !
Senses: glosses: Synonym of look who's talking.
synonyms: word: look who's talking
wilfe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wilfes
Senses: examples: text: After that we have cutte our wilfes and saughs[…]
ref: 1857, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641:
glosses: A kind of willow.
wilfes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wilfe
doome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doomes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of doom.
Demetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Neere Denevoir, the seat of the Demetian King (marginal gloss: Of South-wales.)
Whilst Cambria was herselfe, full, strong, and florishing,
There is a pleasant Spring, that constant doth abide
Hard-by these winding shores wherein wee nimblie slide
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 5 p. 78:
glosses: Related to Demetia or Dyfed in southern Wales.
Bizantium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Byzantium.
sebometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sebo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of surface lipids in skin
stubble field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubble fields
form: stubble-field
form: stubblefield
Etymology: Compound of stubble + field.
Senses: examples: text: Where wood is plentiful enough, there cannot be a better method than thus spreading dry small wood over a stubble field, and burning that and the stubble together.
ref: 1758, Thomas Hale et al., A Compleat Body of Husbandry […], 2nd edition, volume 1, page 194:
text: Standing under a gray washed sky, the blonde stubble fields around him, Mr. Bear dropped his head for a moment and then suddenly brightened.
ref: 1979 December 3, Karen de Witt, “Rebellious Mennonite Faces New Test”, in The New York Times:
text: Essex Fire and Rescue Service said the fire started in a tractor and a hay baler and then began to spread to the stubble fields.
ref: 2023 August 24, Helen Burchell, “Great Sampford tractor fire spreads to stubble field”, in BBC News:
glosses: A field covered in stubble after harvesting.
laid it on thick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay it on thick
China virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: China viruses
Etymology: From China + virus, from its presumed origin in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.
Senses: examples: text: @RudyGiuliani […] has tested positive for the China Virus.
ref: 2020 December 6, tweet by Donald Trump
glosses: Synonym of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
synonyms: word: SARS-CoV-2
extra: the virus that causes COVID-19
examples: text: A compound known as polyethylene glycol (PEG) that was added to the matrix structure surrounding the mRNA ingredients used in Pfizer and BioNTech’s China virus jab is believed to be triggering severe anaphylaxis, prompting authorities to issue warnings about its dangers.
ref: 2021 February, Terence A. Smart, Covid-19 the LIES and the FRAUD, page 227:
glosses: Synonym of coronavirus, the disease COVID-19.
synonyms: word: coronavirus
extra: the disease COVID-19
Related terms: Chinese virus
Wuhan coronavirus
Wuhanvirus
Wuhan virus
Wuhan flu
kung flu
say the quiet part out loud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: says the quiet part out loud
form: saying the quiet part out loud
form: said the quiet part out loud
form: said the quiet part out loud
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of say the quiet part loud.
-graphic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -γραφικός (-graphikós), or formed in English from -graphy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Forming adjectives pertaining to writing (of a type specified by the first element).
Related terms: -graph
-graphical
-graphy
Chengmai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: chǔngʹmīʹ
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: From Mandarin 澄邁 /澄迈 (Chéngmài).
Senses: examples: text: Zhao Caisen was arrested on suspicion of causing the accident in Chengmai County on April 10, Xinhua said, citing a warrant issued by the prosecutor of Wenchang City.
ref: 2014 April 25, Koh Gui Qing, “China arrests driver in fatal school bus crash - Xinhua”, in Alison Williams, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2024, Autos & Transportation:
glosses: A county of Hainan, China.
lukewarmest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lukewarm: most lukewarm
Bexhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Bexhill-on-Sea
glosses: A coastal town in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ7407).
glosses: A village in the City of Lismore, northern New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: An unincorporated community in southern Saskatchewan, Canada.
bibliophilately
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biblio- + philately.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: The collection or study of postage stamps and other philatelic material thematically related to books or libraries.
Pedro Ximénez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛdɹəʊzɪˈmɛnɛz/
ipa: /ˌpeɪdɹoʊzɪˈmeɪnɛz/
Forms: form: Pedro Ximénezes
form: Pedro Ximenez
form: Pedro Jiménez
form: Pedro Jimenez
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pedro ximénez.
Senses: glosses: A grape variety grown in several Spanish wine regions.
rookie card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rookie cards
Senses: qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: A sports card that is the first to feature an athlete after that athlete has participated in the highest level of competition within his or her sport.
Sandersian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sanders + -ian.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to E. P. Sanders (1937–2022), American New Testament scholar and a principal proponent of the "New Perspective on Paul".
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or pertaining to Bernie Sanders (born 1941), American politician and senator.
Related terms: Sanderista
Zeebrugge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzeɪˌbɹʊɡə/
/ˈziːˌbɹʊɡə/
Etymology: Apparently from Flemish Dutch Brugge aan zee.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and port on the North Sea in West Flanders, Belgium.
alt-rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alt-right
droolsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more droolsome
form: most droolsome
Etymology: From drool + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by drooling.
glosses: Droolworthy.
boatmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatmaster