cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fall on someone's neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls on someone's neck
form: falling on someone's neck
form: fell on someone's neck
form: fallen on someone's neck
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen Theseus saw him, his heart leapt into his mouth, and he longed to fall on his neck and welcome him.
ref: 1856, Charles Kingsley, The Heroes, Story III: Theseus
text: If he expected either of them to fall on his neck and weep tears of gratitude at his pompous announcement, the colonel was disappointed.
ref: 1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 15, in Bucky O'Connor:
text: I ought to fall on your neck with joy. . . . You are my father's friend, my mother's, mine.
ref: 1920, Harold MacGrath, chapter 24, in The Drums Of Jeopardy:
text: "[T]he moment your delinquent showed the slightest sign of decency . . . you fell on his neck as if he had rescued you from drowning."
ref: 1990 March 18, Anne Tyler, “Review of Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 May 2015:
text: [A]fter falling on my neck and hugging me and calling me “cousin” like a character from a Jane Austen novel, . . . she sat me down.
ref: 2012, Karen Templeton, chapter 25, in Hanging by a Thread, →ISBN:
glosses: To embrace someone affectionately or thankfully.
Austenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːsˈtiːnɪ.ən/
ipa: /ɔsˈtɛni.ən/
ipa: /ɔsˈtɪni.ən/
ipa: /ɔsˈtini.ən/
rhymes: -iːniən
Forms: form: more Austenian
form: most Austenian
Etymology: From Austen + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jane Austen (1775–1817), English novelist noted for realism and biting social commentary.
Synonyms: Jane Austenian
Related terms: Austenesque
Austenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːsˈtiːnɪ.ən/
ipa: /ɔsˈtɛni.ən/
ipa: /ɔsˈtɪni.ən/
ipa: /ɔsˈtini.ən/
rhymes: -iːniən
Forms: form: Austenians
Etymology: From Austen + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: And in the sect—fairly large and yet unusually choice—of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the novels.
ref: 1894, George Saintsbury, Pride and Prejudice, London: George Allen, Preface, page ix:
text: This compilation is addressed to Austenians in general rather than to the fastidious collector, who is already provided for, on the grand scale, by Dr. Geoffrey Keynes’s Bibliography of 1929, with its wealth of detail and its precise facsimiles.
ref: 1953, R[obert] W[illiam] Chapman, “Preface”, in Jane Austen: A Critical Bibliography, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, page v:
text: Not only do Austenians buy and read these books, but they maintain a lively conversation, in person and online, about sequels, continuations, adaptations, and completions.
ref: 2003, Marjorie Garber, Quotation Marks, Routledge, →ISBN, page 74:
text: We do not know what Jane Austen herself intended to call the book, since her manuscript had no title. It is widely held among Austenians that her own title would have been The Brothers – which would have been appropriate to the theme and subject matter – but there is only one source for this information, Edward Thomas Austen, fifth son of Jane’s brother Frank, who communicated it to his daughter, Janet Sanders, in a letter of 8 February 1925.
ref: 2013, Antony Edmonds, Jane Austen’s Worthing: The Real Sanditon, Amberley Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A fan or admirer of Jane Austen; someone who studies the works of Jane Austen.
Synonyms: Austenite
Janeite
autotoxication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + toxic + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autointoxication.
synonyms: word: autointoxication
fall upon someone's neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls upon someone's neck
form: falling upon someone's neck
form: fell upon someone's neck
form: fallen upon someone's neck
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fall on someone's neck.
analgene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analgen
Etymology: Former trademark; compare analgesic.
Senses: glosses: An antipyretic and analgesic, derived from quinoline and mainly used to treat rheumatism and neuralgia.
analgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of analgene.
alfilaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæl.fɪˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ælˌfɪləˈɹiː.ə/
ipa: /ˌæl.fəˈlɛɹi.ə/
ipa: /ælˌfɪləˈɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: alfilarias
form: alfileria
form: alfilerilla
form: alfilerillo
Etymology: From Spanish alfilerillo, from alfiler (“pin”). The ending was assimilated to the familiar botanical suffix -aria.
Senses: synonyms: redstem filaree
glosses: common storksbill (Erodium cicutarium), a flowering plant of the family Geraniaceae.
alfileria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alfilaria.
alfilerilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alfilaria.
ampere-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampere-feet
Senses: glosses: A unit used in calculating the fall of pressure in distributing electrical mains, equivalent to a current of one ampere flowing through one foot of conductor.
ampere-feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampere-foot
drop ceilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop ceiling
cheeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheekers
Etymology: From cheek + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Australian cheeker is used in conjunction with a snaffle on hardpulling horses.
ref: 1999, Carloyn Henderson, Snaffles:
qualifier: horse-riding
glosses: A rubber ring that holds the bit high in the horse's mouth.
examples: text: Then there is a "cheeker" which takes the meat off the cheek.
ref: 1915, Walter Barlow Stevens, Missouri the center state: 1821-1915, page 608:
text: Cheekers cut or trim the cheek meat from heads.
ref: 1922, Wages and Hours of Labor in the Slaughtering and Meat-packing Industry, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics:
text: Butchers such as cheekers and belly trimmers held a series of positions paying 22 cents to 32½ cents.
ref: 2006, Roger Horowitz, Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation:
glosses: A butcher who specifically processes cheek meat.
Related terms: bit lifter
cheekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheeker
bit lifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bit lifter
equestrianess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equestrianesses
Etymology: From equestrian + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: We saw a goodly number of equestrians and equestrianesses as we passed along, the former accoutred in the brilliant and graceful Peruvian costume.
ref: 1851, Emmeline Stuart Wortley, Travels in the United States, Etc, page 378:
text: Who could sit still and pore over dog-eared books, when a few hundred yards from us the highly trained pony was no doubt ringing bells and firing pistols, and the daring equestrianess, all smiles and gauze skirts, was bounding through one hoop after another […]
ref: 1882, Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff, Our homemade stories, page 53:
synonyms: equestrienne
glosses: A female equestrian.
equestrianesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equestrianess
rubberish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubberish
form: most rubberish
Etymology: From rubber + -ish.
Senses: glosses: rubbery
miaowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miaowls
form: miaowling
form: miaowled
form: miaowled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meowl.
miaowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miaowl
miaowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miaowl
miaowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miaowl
pork out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: porks out
form: porking out
form: porked out
form: porked out
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pig out (“to eat greedily”).
synonyms: word: pig out
extra: to eat greedily
glosses: Synonym of pork up (“to grow fat”).
synonyms: word: pork up
extra: to grow fat
air pockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air pocket
air holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air hole
it ain't the meat, it's the motion
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: it's not the meat, it's the motion
Etymology: From the song It Ain't the Meat (it's the Motion) by Lois Mann and Henry Glover, written in 1951 and recorded by The Swallows. Often mistakenly attributed to Maria Muldaur, who sang a cover of the song on her 1974 album Waitress In The Donut Shop.
Senses: examples: text: It ain't the meat it's the motion/That makes your daddy want to rock/It ain't the meat it's the motion/It's the movement it ain't the stock.
ref: 1951, Lois Mann, Henry Glover, It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion):
text: We girls know the truth in that old song “It Ain't the Meat, It's the Motion,” but no matter how confident a man is, he secretly believes that the motion just isn't enough.
ref: 1999, Anonymous Too, Monica Lewinsky's Guide to Dating, →ISBN, page 63:
text: 'What that they say, girl: it ain't the meat it's the motion?' 'They lie.' And I go and kiss his cock as it rests half soft on his thigh.
ref: 2006, Mo Foster, A blues for Shindig, page 53:
glosses: When it comes to sexual satisfaction, the size of the penis does not matter, but technique during intimacy does.
examples: text: When the engineer was asked by other clients, "Can you make the drums sound like Bonham?," he simply smiled and said, "Sure! Just play like 'im!" So lesson number one is that it ain't the meat, it's the motion, to paraphrase the old blues tune.
ref: 1985, Sonic Options Network, Option, page 15:
text: By focusing on the medium rather than the message, the pottery rather than the pattern, the typeface rather than the tale, philosophers who claim that something ineffable about carbon's chemistry is indispensable for consciousness miss the boat. As Daniel Dennett once wittily remarked in a rejoinder to John Searle's tiresome "right-stuff" refrain, "It ain't the meat, it's the motion."
ref: 2008, Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, →ISBN, page 195:
text: So it ain't the meat, it's the motion. That said, we all like new tools and cool gear.
ref: 2009, Derek Pell, Shoot to Thrill: A Hard-Boiled Guide to Digital Photography, →ISBN:
glosses: The tools that one uses to accomplish a goal are not as important as what one does with them.
Related terms: it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean
it's not the meat, it's the motion
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Richard's hands are on her hips and he's poking once in a while but he isn't as big as she'd have thought but then again it's not the meat it's the motion that makes your baby want to rock...
ref: 2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: Alternative form of it ain't the meat, it's the motion (size doesn't matter as much as technique)
examples: text: There's a book of simple answers for that: The Codes. But you miss the context. It's not the meat, it's the motion. It's the way they reason.
ref: 2005, Jonathan Rosen, Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of it ain't the meat, it's the motion (actions matter more than tools)
rephonologization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + phonologization.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: word: cheshirization
word: transphonologization
glosses: Synonym of transphonologization.
nonphonologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + phonologically.
Senses: glosses: In a manner or context that is not phonological.
blimps out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blimp out
blimping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blimp out
blimped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blimp out
subapically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sub- + apically.
Senses: glosses: In a subapical manner; below the apex.
labiovelarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of labiovelarize
floating tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floating tones
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighbouring morphemes.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A phonemic tone which is not associated to a syllable and is only pronounced in its effect on neighboring tones, such as by causing downstep.
floating tones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floating tone
tridirectionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tridirectional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In three directions.
quadridirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + directional.
Senses: glosses: In or relating to four directions.
downdrifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downdrift
tone terracing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A graph of the change in pitch over time of a particular tone resembles a terrace.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A form of downdrift in which the high or mid tones, but not the low tone, shift downward in pitch after certain other tones. The result is that a tone may be realized at a certain pitch over a short stretch of speech, shifts downward and then continues at its new level, then shifts downward again, until the end of the prosodic contour is reached, at which point the pitch resets.
uncalculatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + calculate + -able.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be calculated.
unentrepreneurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unentrepreneurial
form: most unentrepreneurial
Etymology: From un- + entrepreneurial.
Senses: glosses: Not entrepreneurial.
nondining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-dining
Etymology: From non- + dining.
Senses: examples: text: In front of this arrangement is a circular dining table; along the walls are chairs for nondining seating.
ref: 2012, Jordan Paper, The Deities Are Many: A Polytheistic Theology, page 62:
glosses: Not (for) dining.
inmantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inmantles
form: inmantling
form: inmantled
form: inmantled
Etymology: From in- + mantle.
Senses: examples: text: [...] They pleased him, fresh from brawling courts And dusty purlieus of the law. O joy to him in this retreat, Inmantled in ambrosial dark, To drink the cooler air, and mark The landscape winking.
ref: 2013, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
glosses: To inwrap in a mantle; enshroud.
make bricks without straw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes bricks without straw
form: making bricks without straw
form: made bricks without straw
form: made bricks without straw
form: make bricks without straws
Etymology: From Exodus 5:18: "Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks." (NIV).
Senses: examples: text: The founders did more than "make bricks without straw; they dreamed of a great cathedral and laid the foundations for it.
ref: 1938, Jonas A. Jonasson, Bricks without straw: the story of Linfield College, page 168:
text: To call on the owners of little farms, the tradesmen, labourers and sailors to pay their proportion of a [£20,000] tax, when perhaps there is not half that sum in circulation is something harder than being forced to make bricks without straw,” he wrote; "it is to make them without clay."
ref: 2008, Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The problems that we may find ourselves confronted with may be similar to a make bricks without straw condition, imposed by not only others but in large measure ourselves.
ref: 2014, Peter F. Serra, Snapshots of Inspiration, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: To accomplish a task without the proper materials or under unreasonable conditions; to do the impossible.
Related terms: you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
phonemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phoneme + -ical.
Senses: glosses: phonemic
makes bricks without straw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But I do not want to imply that Miss Suckow makes bricks without straw. Indeed, her method is that of the skilled realist.
ref: 1931, Julius Temple House, Present-day American Literature - Volumes 5-6, page 137:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make bricks without straw
making bricks without straw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This was not quite making bricks without straw, but it certainly moved us a lot closer to it at a time when very little straw was available. Taking account of data limitations in theoretical work is one thing. Being complacent about those limitations is quite another.
ref: 1991, Jacob A. Frenkel, Morris Goldstein, International Financial Policy: Essays in honor of Jacques J Polak, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: present participle and gerund of make bricks without straw
chromoxylography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chromo- + xylography.
Senses: glosses: The art or technique of producing chromoxylographs.
Derived terms: chromoxylographic
chromoxylographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chromoxylography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chromoxylography.
made bricks without straw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In the next few years, while Celtic continued with their suicidal youth policy, Stein made bricks without straw at Dunfermline.
ref: 2011, John Cairney, The Sevenpenny Gate: A Lifelong Love Affair with Celtic FC, →ISBN:
glosses: simple past and past participle of make bricks without straw
hot truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot trucks
Senses: glosses: A vehicle from which hot (and sometimes also cold) food can be purchased.
Related terms: food truck
hot trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot truck
inmatehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inmate + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Prisons and mental hospitals show certain fundamental similarities in organizational structure, in goals, and in the nature of "inmatehood."
ref: 1964, Daniel Jacob Levinson, Eugene B. Gallagher, Patienthood in the mental hospital:
text: Conceptualizing "inmatehood" as involving a two-way "causal flow" between personality and social-system determinants reflects a transactional epistemology.
ref: 1967, American Journal of Mental Deficiency - Volume 71 - Page 646
text: The picture that Schreber provides of his confinement is one of onesided confrontations, innuendos, and unimaginable torture, while to all outward appearances he was the model of docile inmatehood.
ref: 2004, Marshall Needleman Armintor, Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity:
glosses: The state or condition of an inmate.
Synonyms: inmatecy
Disraelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Disraelian
form: most Disraelian
Etymology: From Disraeli + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), British Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister.
diachronist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diachronists
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One who takes a diachronic approach.
diachronists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diachronist
synchronist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchronists
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One who takes a synchronic approach.
synchronists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synchronist
undazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undazed
form: most undazed
Etymology: From un- + dazed.
Senses: glosses: Not dazed.
unfloored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + floored.
Senses: examples: an unfloored attic
glosses: Not furnished with a floor.
pedantocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedantocrats
Etymology: From pedant + -o- + -crat.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of pedantocracy.
pedantocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pedantocratic
form: most pedantocratic
Senses: glosses: Promoting or relating to pedantocracy.
pedantocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedantocrat
breedermobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breedermobiles
Etymology: From breeder + -mobile.
Senses: examples: text: What is there, a line of breedermobiles (minivans) waiting at the bus stop?
ref: 1998 March 26, GHarris938 [username], “Re: Buses”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: Someone wrote about being stuck behind a breedermobile with the license plate "5OFUS" I was about to post "I read that as '50 of us.' Shudder"
ref: 1998 September 9, Beth George, “Re: Very weird theory”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: Last night I went to the local Target to resupply cat litter. I noticed a breedermobile, loaded with a litter, pulling into a handicapped space... without a handicap permit or handicap plates.
ref: 2007 May 17, REP, “Fun With Breeders, or Dude, Where's Our Car”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: A vehicle (particularly a minivan) used by parents to transport their child/children.
breedermobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breedermobile
kiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kiff
form: most kiff
Senses: examples: text: There were 2 000 rounds of ammo to fire between us four loadies. We sat there for hours and took our potshots. It was kiff; the R5 was a lekker thing.
ref: 2010, Cameron Blake, From Soldier to Civvy: Reflections on National Service:
glosses: Great; excellent.
goldensprogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldensprog
spaceband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacebands
Etymology: From space + band.
Senses: glosses: In a linotype machine, a kind of extensible wedge used to produce spaces of variable width in the text.
spacebands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaceband
Communistphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Communist + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Another morbid factor is also prevailing in the non-Communist countries. That is Communistphobia. Since they are afraid of Communist aggression, they are inclined to forfeit their anti-Communist stand, in the hope that they may get temporary peace by currying the favor of the aggressors.
ref: 1957, Communist Menace to Asia, page 32:
text: Tunku's attempt to create Communistphobia has in fact boomeranged. The local Communist Party is said to have gained in strength rather than being isolated from the indigenous population.
ref: 1965, Link: Indian Newsmagazine, Volume 8, Part 1, page 32:
text: Got to dine with the Home Secretary tonight—fussy old hen, he's suddenly developed Communistphobia; thinks they're going to put a bomb under his bed.
ref: 2012, Nicholas Blake, Thou Shell of Death, Random House, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: The fear, dislike, or hatred of communism and/or communists.
laboratory mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laboratory mice
Senses: glosses: A small mammal of the order Rodentia, usually Mus musculus, which is bred and kept for scientific research.
Synonyms: lab mouse
laboratory mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laboratory mouse
lab mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lab mice
Senses: glosses: A laboratory mouse.
lab mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lab mouse
bitchzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: bitchzillas
form: Bitchzilla
Etymology: From bitch + -zilla.
Senses: examples: text: I liked Gary Martin, and I hated Loretta Flack. Loretta Flack was bitchzilla. I couldn't in good conscience fix things so that Martin was stuck with Flack.
ref: 2009, Janet Evanovich, Between the Plums, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 175:
text: So you will forgive me if I have no sympathy for bitchzilla here.
ref: 2012, Adam Ballarino, The Customer Is Always Wrong: Funny Stories and Tales of Horror From My Life in the Food Service Industry, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 32:
text: “Allison is a bitchzilla these days, no lie, but it sucks that Nicole ditched her over something that wasn't her fault. It's not like we can control when we get boobs.”
ref: 2014, Ann Aguirre, Mortal Danger, Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN, page 233:
glosses: A severely disagreeable or aggressive woman.
Related terms: cuntzilla
somatosensorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From somatosensory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In somatosensory terms.
Bitchzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bitchzillas
Senses: examples: text: “'Cause if you did you'd be home with your man wearin' nothing but a cute little apron instead of tromping around here like Bitchzilla, tryin' to pin something on Stephen Duncan. Nice kid, by the way.”
ref: 2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 218:
text: She got into a mood and turned into Bitchzilla for a while, but sooner or later the evil spell wore off and she returned to her sarcastic, bossy, lovable self.
ref: 2011, Janice Hamrick, Death on Tour, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 100:
text: My boss, a hard-hearted Bitchzilla, blew her nose into a hanky and shouted, 'Say yes, Diya, godammit!'
ref: 2013, Rupa Gulab, I Kissed a Frog, Pan, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bitchzilla.
Giddensian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Giddensian
form: most Giddensian
Etymology: From Giddens + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Anthony Giddens (born 1938), British sociologist known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies.
hermeneuticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hermeneuticists
Etymology: From hermeneutic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: hermeneut; one who studies hermeneutics.
Related terms: hermeneutic
hermeneutical
hermeneutically
hermeneutician
hermeneutics
hermeneuticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hermeneuticist
beflounced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beflounced
form: most beflounced
form: be-flounced
Etymology: From be- + flounced.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he horse was the vainer brute of the two; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, chapter 58, in The Cloister and the Hearth:
text: They found Mr. Nash and his friends in the small beflounced drawing-room of the old actress, who, as they learned, had sent in a request for ten minutes' grace, having been detained at a lesson.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
glosses: decorated with flounces
rag-tag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rag-tag
form: most rag-tag
Senses: examples: text: First let me say: when I joined the Initiative and left for Andromeda, I never intended to lead a military life. However, the life I’ve created here in Heleus—this life as director of the militia—is more challenging and rewarding than anything I had imagined. And it’s because of all of you and your commitment and expertise. I’m lucky to lead such skilled soldiers. Sure, you’re a rag-tag militia called into duty when you’d rather be settling Andromeda—but no commander of a dedicated army could ask for better.
ref: 2017 June 23, “Don’t Go Looking for Trouble”, in Mass Effect: Andromeda APEX HQ (Science Fiction), archived from the original on 31 Mar 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of ragtag.
eurysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʊəɹɪ.səm/
ipa: /ˈjʊɹə.səm/
Forms: form: more eurysome
form: most eurysome
Etymology: From eury- (“thick”) + -some (“body”).
Senses: examples: text: The majority of such typings are bipolar, and they amount in the last analysis to saying that there are broader-bodied and narrower-bodied individuals in every group. To put this simple and in itself harmless finding learnedly, we substitute the terms “eurysome” and “leptosome.”
ref: 1948, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Anthropology: race, language, culture, psychology, pre-history,, pages 173–174:
glosses: Broad-bodied; wide-bodied or thick-limbed in proportion to height or length.
Coordinate terms: mesosome
leptosome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leptosome
form: most leptosome
Etymology: From lepto- (“thin”) + -some (“body”).
Senses: examples: text: The majority of such typings are bipolar, and they amount in the last analysis to saying that there are broader-bodied and narrower-bodied individuals in every group. To put this simple and in itself harmless finding learnedly, we substitute the terms “eurysome” and “leptosome.”
ref: 1948, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Anthropology: race, language, culture, psychology, pre-history,, pages 173–174:
glosses: Narrow-bodied (in proportional to height or length).
Synonyms: slender
Coordinate terms: mesosome
leptosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptosomes
Etymology: From lepto- (“thin”) + -some (“body”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: pyknic
glosses: A tall, narrow-bodied, angular person.
oh, snap
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: oh snap
Senses: glosses: An expression of surprise or dismay.
oh snap
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oh, snap.
Chung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌŋ/
Forms: form: Jeong
form: Jung
form: Jong
form: Jung
form: Zung
form: Zong
form: Tsung
form: Cheong
form: Choong
form: Tjung
form: Tjoeng
form: Zhong
form: Zung
form: Cheng
form: Chiong
form: Cheong
form: Choong
form: Tjung
form: Tjoeng
form: Cheung
form: Zoeng
form: Zhang
form: Chang
form: Cheung
form: Chiang
form: Jiang
form: Zhong
form: Zung
form: Tiong
form: Cheong
form: Choong
form: Tjung
form: Tjoeng
Etymology: Romanization
* From the McCune-Reischauer transliteration of Korean 정 (jeong), from Korean 鄭, 丁, 程. Doublet of Tee.
* From transliteration of Chinese 宗, 程, 种, 仲, 钟, 鍾, 張, 张, 章, 蔣, 蒋, frequently originating from Hong Kong or Taiwan
Senses: glosses: A common surname from Korean.
glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Heiliger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heiligers
form: Heyliger
Etymology: Borrowed from German Heiliger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
bound up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bound up
form: most bound up
Senses: examples: text: Social mobility is often closely bound up with socioeconomic status.
glosses: Connected or relevant.
examples: text: He was so bound up in his reading all weekend that he forgot to do the chores.
glosses: Focused intently on something to the exclusion of other matters.
bound up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bind up
neokoros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neokoroi
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek νεώκορος (neṓkoros).
Senses: glosses: The guardian of a temple in Ancient Greece
Derived terms: neokorate
neokorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neokorates
Senses: glosses: The office of a neokoros
Soviet of the Union
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the two legislative chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It legally represented the interests of all the citizens of the USSR.
Soviet of Nationalities
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Russian Сове́т Национа́льностей (Sovét Nacionálʹnostej).
Senses: glosses: One of the two legislative chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; it represented the interests of members of different ethnicities in the USSR.
technology transfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technology transfer
Thi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: This
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Thi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Vietnamese.
Trang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Trang. Doublet of Zhuang.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Vietnamese.
glosses: A female given name from Vietnamese.
Trang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Thai ตรัง (dtrang).
Senses: glosses: A province of Thailand.
glosses: A city in Thailand.
Afridi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afridis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani آفریدی (āfredī) / आफ़्रीदी (āfrīdī), from Pashto اپريدی (Apriday).
Senses: examples: text: A certain Afridi being desirous to learn to read, went into a village to a Mulla and said to him, that it would be a great favour if he would give him lessons.
ref: 1855, Henry George Raverty, A grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto, or language of the Afgháns, page v:
glosses: A member of a Pashtun tribe.
Related terms: Pashtun
Marlena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
neolalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnioʊˈleɪliə/
Etymology: From neo- + -lalia.
Senses: glosses: The tendency, of some psychotics, to talk using new or meaningless words
in addition to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: as well as; besides
Synonyms: word: as well as
word: beside
word: besides
word: beyond
word: in addition to
word: forby
word: on
word: on top of
word: over and above
word: with
Related terms: word: additionally
word: for example
climate denialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The claim that climate change is either not taking place, not caused nor accelerated by human activity or was greatly exaggerated.
Related terms: climate denialist
climate denialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate denialists
Senses: glosses: A supporter of climate denialism.
Synonyms: climate change denialist
climate denier
climate denialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climate denialist
boundure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boundures
Senses: examples: text: The boundure of Alexander's march into India being in the tract obscure, I take leave also to offer my own apprehension in short concerning it. Historians some fix his Ne plus at the River Indus, others at the River Ganges: there is not any leads it further that I meet with.
ref: 1677 Sir Thomas Herbert (Scott, Bassett, Wright and Chiswell: London) Some Years Travels Into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great p.254
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bounder (“boundary, limit”).
transgenderize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transgenderizes
form: transgenderizing
form: transgenderized
form: transgenderized
Etymology: From transgender + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make transgender.
transgenderizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transgenderize
transgenderizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transgenderize
transgenderized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transgenderize
cepstra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cepstrum
cepstral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cepstrum + -al, modelled after spectral.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cepstra or their analysis.
Derived terms: cepstrally
kepstrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛpstɹəm/
Forms: form: kepstra
Etymology: From an acronym of "Kolmogorov equation power series time response", designed in imitation of the word cepstrum.
Senses: glosses: The theoretical quantity that a cepstrum measures.
wikipedia: Kolmogorov
kepstra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kepstrum
quefrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwiːfɹənsi/
ipa: /ˈkwifɹənsi/
Forms: form: quefrencies
Etymology: From frequency with the consonant sounds of the first and second syllables switched, perhaps modelled after cepstrum which is derived from spectrum.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: The inverse of the distance between successive lines in a Fourier transform, measured in seconds.
Related terms: cepstrum
quefrencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quefrency
has it coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have it coming
neomercantilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-mercantilism
Etymology: From neo- + mercantilism.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A modern economic policy that involves a return to the policies of mercantilism
Related terms: neomercantilist
neomercantilistic
neonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neonists
Etymology: From neon + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes neon signs.
topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who constructs artworks from neon fluorescent tubes.
Barakzai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barakzais
form: Barakzai
Etymology: From Pashto بارکزی (bārəkzay).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Pashtun tribe.
Related terms: Pashtun
wilderness therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wilderness therapies
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of forms of adventure therapy that take place in wilderness areas.
liftering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From filtering with the first part reversed, like cepstrum from spectrum.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: Filtering in the cepstral domain.
vinarterta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Icelandic vínarterta.
Senses: glosses: A dessert of cake with layers of prune filling.
back lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back lanes
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: bylane
synonyms: back alley
backway
hypernyms: lane
alley
;
byway
<
way
coordinate_terms: bystreet
byroad
;
back street
back road
glosses: An alleyway that runs behind a row of houses, or between rows of houses.
fall supper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall suppers
Senses: glosses: An autumn fundraising dinner held by a community or church; fowl supper.
Related terms: lobster supper
liquor commission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquor commissions
Senses: glosses: A provincial agency that regulates the distribution and sales of alcoholic beverages.
glosses: A government liquor store.
Synonyms: LC
LCBO
MLCC
MLL
Related terms: beer store
beer vendor
off-sale
vendor
neo-proletariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoproletariat
Etymology: From neo- + proletariat.
Senses: glosses: The modern, postindustrial proletariat, characterized by passive and uncritical acceptance of prevailing consumption patterns regardless of the level of their income
neo-purism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + purism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A modern linguistic movement, based on purism, that accepts neologisms if they conform to established patterns
beer bash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer bashes
Etymology: From beer + bash (“party”, noun).
Senses: coordinate_terms: keg party
kegger
glosses: An afternoon social organized by college students, typically with dancing and beer sold to raise funds.
undieless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From undie(s) + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing underwear.
undie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndi/
homophone: undy
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: undies
Etymology: From undies.
Senses: examples: text: Here are a few pointers from an undie-snatching master.
ref: 1999 November, Derek de Koff, "Portrait of a Fetishist", Out, page 70
text: Add an undie stop to the list.
ref: 2004 November, Lian Dolan, "Chaos Chronicles", Working Mother, page 98
text: Pick up the baby’s vest off the floor and put it on as an undie.
ref: 2006, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Weight Loss, page 348:
glosses: Underwear.
Derived terms: undie run
undie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndi/
homophone: undy
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: undies
Etymology: From undercover.
Senses: examples: text: I've got mad hate for the undies
Moving like gyal, tryna cuff me
ref: 2016, “Let’s Lurk”, ASAP (lyrics), performed by 67 ft Giggs:
text: Got a mind for the undies
I'm tryna stay far from the pigs
ref: 2017, “All This”, performed by Mayhem (Uptop):
glosses: A spy, undercover agent.
undie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndi/
homophone: undy
rhymes: -ʌndi
ipa: /ʌnˈdaɪ̯/
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /ˈʌndi/
homophone: undy
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: undies
form: undying
form: undied
form: undied
Etymology: From un- + die.
Senses: glosses: To come back to life after having died.
glosses: To become undead.
undied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of undyed.
undied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undie
four-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Of these various four-handed animals, the most remarkable are decidedly the "gueribas," with curling tails and a face like Beelzebub.
ref: 2013, Jules Verne, The Collected Works Of Jules Verne, →ISBN:
text: The four-handed human form of gods and goddesses is the second stage of evolution in idolatry according to the need of devotees.
ref: 2003, Mahendra Narayan Behera, Brownstudy on Heathenland: A Book on Indology, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: Alternative form of fourhanded (Having four hands).
examples: text: I'd almost forgotten, but your first arrangements were creating four-handed pieces we could play together.
ref: 2014, Mary Jo Putney, Not Quite a Wife, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fourhanded (Requiring four hands.)
examples: text: She was about to ask him if he had ever played four-handed chess.
ref: 2011, Alec Waugh, Brief Encounter, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fourhanded (Requiring or involving four people).
fourhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-handedness
Etymology: From fourhanded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A primary and persistently ground-living form does not develop fourhandedness. The present forelimb of the hominids is incomprehensible without prior arboreal life.
ref: 1964, Jack Hale Prost, Readings on human evolution, page 15:
glosses: The state or quality of being fourhanded; having or using four hands.
four-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Zira ascribes this evolutionary blossoming to the ape's four-handedness: the opposability of four sets of thumbs and toes helped them to brachiate and to perceive spatial depth, in turn, giving them great dexterity
ref: 2002, Charles De Paolo, Human Prehistory in Fiction, →ISBN, page 22:
text: ...there was a cake to cut in ceremonial four-handedness and solemnly take round to each and every guest.
ref: 1984, Roger Milliss, Serpent's Tooth: An Autobiographical Novel, page 348:
glosses: Alternative form of fourhandedness.
fourhandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: four-handedly
Etymology: From fourhanded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They jump up and begin picking ice fourhandedly with a crowbar.
ref: 1973, Donald Newlove, Leo & Theodore, page 108:
glosses: With four hands; in a fourhanded manner.
four-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It must have been fun when the two played waltzes and Hungarian dances four-handedly at the piano.
ref: 2012, Frithjof Haas, Hermann Levi: From Brahms to Wagner, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fourhandedly.
pantlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pantless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being pantless
irreligionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + religion + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Abstinence from religion.
irreligiosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irreligiosities
Etymology: From Latin irreligiōsitās.
Senses: examples: text: 1584, William Allen, A True, Sincere and Modest Defence of English Catholics, London: The Manresa Press, 1914, Volume 2, Chapter 8, p. 126,
And it is a singular note of irreligiosity in our days, that these profane heretics and godless persons do prefer human things before divine; the regiment temporal before spiritual; the body before the soul; earth before heaven; regality before priesthood; and this life before the next and all eternity.
text: 1930, William Malisoff, A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths, New York: G. H. Watt, “The Significance of Science,” pp. 277-278,
The irreligiosity of much that passes for religion is paralleled, of course, to quite an extent by the unscientific nature of a great deal that passes for science.
text: The Tulsis celebrated Christmas in their store and, with equal irreligiosity, in their home.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4:
glosses: The quality of being irreligious.
examples: text: […] at first, the sudden insertion of scathing irreligiosities into the mouth of such a previously unflappable character seems a merely academic gesture.
ref: 2010 September 19, Andrew Schenker, “Guilt and Morality in Philip Roth’s Nemesis”, in Slant Magazine:
text: Majlesi preached and popularized his discourse with the open support of the Shah. In exchange, he turned a blind eye to the personal and private impieties and irreligiosities of the Shah, as long as the Shah continued to officially pay lip service to Shi‘ism and publicly act as its protector and upholder.
ref: 2011, Ali Rahnema, Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad, Cambridge University Press, Part I, Chapter 7, p. 234:
glosses: An impious action or utterance.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being irreligious
word: irreligion
sense: quality of being irreligious
word: irreligiousness
freehands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of freehand
freehanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freehand