cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sophomore slumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sophomore slump
carpophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carpo- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being carpophagous
Osborne effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Osborne effect
Etymology: In reference to the Osborne Computer Corporation, a company that took more than a year to make its next product available, and eventually went bankrupt in 1983.
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon whereby the premature announcement of a new product leads customers to cancel or defer orders for the existing product, since it will soon become obsolete.
wikipedia: Osborne Computer Corporation
catenulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catenulate
catenulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catenulate.
unavariciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unavariciously
form: most unavariciously
Etymology: From unavaricious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without avarice.
inner-platform effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner-platform effects
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: An antipattern in which a system is made so customizable as to become a (poor) replica of the development platform used to create it.
inner-platform effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inner-platform effect
ceratophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keratophagy.
keratophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kerato- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being keratophagous
keratophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kerato- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on hair, nails and similar hard tissue
chaetosema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaetosemata
Senses: glosses: A cluster of sensory bristles on the head of some insects
chaetosemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaetosema
clavola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clavolae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clavula.
glosses: Alternative form of clavus.
coccidophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coccido- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being coccidophagous.
unaristocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unaristocratically
form: most unaristocratically
Etymology: From unaristocratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an unaristocratic manner.
traffic generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic generators
Etymology: From traffic + generator.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, before a sign for a traffic generator is installed, sufficient space should exist to accommodate the placement of the sign without interfering or conflicting with required signing.
ref: 2001, Guidelines for the Selection of Supplemental Guide Signs for Traffic Generators Adjacent to Freeways, Washington, D.C.: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, page 5:
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A destination that generates traffic, other than a populated place, such as a park, museum, or university.
NDF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NDFs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of non-deliverable forward, a cash-settled FX forward.
NDF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Namibian Defence Force.
glosses: Initialism of Nordic Development Fund.
NDFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NDF
connexivum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connexiva
Senses: glosses: The banded or spotted border of the abdomen of various insects
connexiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connexivum
copromycetophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From copro- + mycetophagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being copromycetophagous
copromycetophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From copro- + mycetophagous.
Senses: glosses: That inhabits feces, and cultivates and feeds on fungi growing within
raw_tags: of an insect
decticous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has articulated mandibles, typically used to escape from the pupal cocoon
raw_tags: of an insect
dendrophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dendro- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being dendrophagous.
dendrophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dendro- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on the wood of trees.
detritophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From detrito- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being detritophagous.
Related terms: detritophage
detritophagous
detritophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From detrito- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on detritus (dead or decaying organisms).
Related terms: detritophage
detritophagy
ectognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecto- + -gnathous.
Senses: glosses: That project outwards from the head
raw_tags: of the mouthparts of an insect
Related terms: entognathan
perai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perais
form: perai
Senses: examples: text: A perai itself, if wounded by any chance, is at once attacked and devoured by its fellows. If a monkey or bird, when shot, falls in the water, perai rush together from all quarters and carry off the prey before the sportsman can reach it, […]
ref: Charles C. Abbott, Young Folks' Cyclopedia of Natural History (page 599)
glosses: Alternative form of pirai (“piranha fish”).
entomonecrophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entomo- + necrophagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being entomonecrophagous
entomonecrophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entomo- + necrophagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on dead insects (typically arthropods)
helminthophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helmintho- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being helminthophagous.
helminthophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From helmintho- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on flukes and similar helminths
hemophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemo- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hemophagous
herbiphagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From herbi- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being herbiphagous
herbiphagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From herbi- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on herbaceous plants
lichenophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From licheno- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being lichenophagous
lichenophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From licheno- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on lichen
malacophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From malaco- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being malacophagous
malacophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From malaco- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on molluscs
membranule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: membranules
Senses: glosses: A small membrane
glosses: Any of the small sections of the wing of an insect such as a dragonfly
membranules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of membranule
mixomycetophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being mixomycetophagous
mixomycetophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That feeds on myxomycetes
mycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycetes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom, fungus, mushroom-shaped objects”).
Senses: glosses: fungus
Derived terms: mycetome
mycetophage
mycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycete
onisciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: flattened and broad in form
raw_tags: of an insect larva
palynophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palyno- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being palynophagous
point Percy at the porcelain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: points Percy at the porcelain
form: pointing Percy at the porcelain
form: pointed Percy at the porcelain
form: pointed Percy at the porcelain
Senses: glosses: Of men, to urinate; specifically, to urinate against a ceramic urinal by aiming the penis carefully enough not to get any urine outside the urinal.
palynophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palyno- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on pollen
parasitoidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being parasitoid
phyllophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyllo- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being phyllophagous
platyform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From platy- (“flat but wide”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of onisciform.
synonyms: word: onisciform
pollinophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palynophagy.
pulmonarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʌl.məˈnɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌpʊl.-/
ipa: /ˌpʌl.məˈnɛɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌpʊl.-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to a pulmonarium
pulmonarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonaria
Senses: glosses: a membranous pleurite between the abdominal tergites and sternites of some insects
sapromycetophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sapro- + mycetophagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being sapromycetophagous
sapromycetophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sapro- + mycetophagous.
Senses: glosses: That lives in decaying matter and feeds on fungi within
sarconecrophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sarco- + necrophagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being sarconecrophagous
sarconecrophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarco- + necrophagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on dead flesh, typically that of vertebrates
sporophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sporo- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being sporophagous.
sporophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sporo- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on fungal spores.
xylomycetophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xylo- + mycetophagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being xylomycetophagous.
zoomycetophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + mycetophagy.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being zoomycetophagous
zoomycetophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + mycetophagous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on fungi on other animals
multi-resistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multi-resistant
form: most multi-resistant
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multiresistant.
brab tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brab trees
Senses: glosses: The palmyra.
brab trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brab tree
river pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river pears
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anchovy pear.
synonyms: word: anchovy pear
river pears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of river pear
taquaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taquara
secretolytics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretolytic
Savannahstan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From savannah + -stan.
Senses: glosses: Pliocene grasslands that extended from Africa to China.
Halligs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hallig
Guyenne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡiːˈɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: Guienne
Etymology: From French Guyenne, from Old French Guyenne, Guienne, Aguyenne, from Latin Aquītānia. Doublet of Aquitaine.
Senses: glosses: A former duchy in the kingdom of France, covering northern Aquitaine.
glosses: A former province of the kingdom of France.
glosses: A region of France.
glosses: Synonym of Aquitaine.
synonyms: word: Aquitaine
sandars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandar
sandrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandr
mudman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudmen
Etymology: From mud + -man.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Asaro tribe of Papua New Guinea who wears a traditional costume with a mask made of mud.
mudmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudman
corn plaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn plasters
Senses: glosses: A felt ring with a core of salicylic acid that relieves pressure on a corn and erodes the hard skin.
corn plasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn plaster
tally sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tally stick
Woburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəʊbə(ɹ)n/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9433).
glosses: A neighbourhood in eastern Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A parish municipality, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, in Estrie, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bond County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington region, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Woburn Sands
Sapa Incas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sapa Inca
virgin of the sun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgins of the sun
Senses: glosses: In ancient Inca culture, a virgin woman chosen in childhood to serve the empire under a vow of chastity.
virgins of the sun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virgin of the sun
paper orphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper orphans
Senses: glosses: A child falsely presented as an orphan by means of fraudulent documentation, facilitating human trafficking etc.
paper orphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper orphan
mechanical splice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanical splices
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A junction of two or more optical fibres aligned and held in place by a small self-contained assembly.
mechanical splices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanical splice
Anakite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anakites
Etymology: From Anak + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Anakim.
Anakites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anakite
Santo Daime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A syncretic religion founded in Brazil in the 1930s.
prayopavesa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayopavesas
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रायोपवेशनम् (prāyopaveśanam).
Senses: glosses: The act of suicide by fasting, performed by a person who no longer has any desire, ambition or responsibilities in life.
prayopavesas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prayopavesa
dark life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Those microorganisms that can live without sunlight.
dark lanthorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark lanthorn
joy juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: alcoholic drink
love dargs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love darg
B-more
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Fólkvangr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fólkvang
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja, the afterlife for half of those people dying in combat, the other half going to Valhalla.
GNM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Germanic New Medicine.
Germanic New Medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: GNP
glosses: A system of pseudo-medicine introduced by Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935–2017), based around an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory and promoted as a cure for cancer.
pseudo-medicines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-medicine
subarchive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subarchives
Etymology: From sub- + archive.
Senses: glosses: An archive forming part of a larger archive.
subarchives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subarchive
self-archiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + archiving.
Senses: glosses: The depositing of a free copy of an electronic document online by its author, so as to provide open access to it.
self-archiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From self- + archiving.
Senses: glosses: present participle of self-archive
secret handshake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secret handshakes
Senses: glosses: A distinct form of handshake, often with the fingers or thumbs specially positioned, that covertly indicates a person's membership of a club or clique.
examples: text: Stuart Auerbach, who covered legal affairs at the Washington Post, has speculated that lawyers' language serves “as a secret handshake in a fraternity, letting others know you are one of the tribe.”
ref: 2003, Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman, The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well, page 19:
text: A signal that is not used by the population at large can be used by mutant members as a kind of secret handshake to identify an in-group. Mutants can then cooperate with those who share the secret handshake and defect against the others.
ref: 2012, Jan van Eijck, Rineke Verbrugge, Games, Actions, and Social Software: Multidisciplinary Aspects, page 176:
glosses: Any shibboleth or distinguishing sign.
secret handshakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secret handshake
assholeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assholeish
form: most assholeish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assholish.
assholeishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of assholishness.
assholishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From assholish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being assholish.
Hengist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English hengest (“stallion”).
Senses: examples: text: Their captains were two brothers, called Hengist and Horsa.
ref: 1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 37:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of a pair of brothers (the other being Horsa) said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century, and to have been the first of the Jutish kings of Kent.
Querquetulanae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These Querquetulanae have an apparent, or barely possible, survival in the spirits called Querkeln in Bavaria.
ref: 2002, Charles Godfrey Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains and the Old Religion, page 106:
text: There weren't demons or vampires or fairies or shellycoats or Querquetulanae or any of that stuff.
ref: 2018, W. Stone Cotter, Saint Philomene's Infirmary for Magical Creatures:
text: They are partly associated with the Querquetulanae, the Roman nymphs of the oak grove.
ref: 2019, Maria Papachristos, Muses - Nymphs - Other Gods, page 55:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The nymphs of the oak grove.
furr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furrs
Senses: examples: text: I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a fryar.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar:
glosses: Obsolete form of fur.
furrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furr
Andvaranaut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A magical ring useful in locating sources of gold.
New French Extremity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by Artforum critic James Quandt.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A transgressive group of films by French directors at the turn of the 21st century, having themes of sex, violence, and mental derangement.
Terra Mariana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Medieval Livonia, established in 1207 in the aftermath of the Livonian Crusade, and corresponding to present-day Estonia and Latvia.
weoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weomen
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of woman.
peticote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peticotes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of petticoat.
wastcote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wastcotes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of waistcoat.
weomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weoman
peticotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peticote
wastcotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastcote
Mohenjo-daro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sindhi موئن جو دڙو / मोअन जो दड़ो (“Mound of Dead Men”).
Senses: glosses: An archaeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan, built around 2500 BCE by the Indus Valley Civilization.
birdseyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdseye
Mediterraneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mediterranean
Mediterranid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mediterranids
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Mediterranean
glosses: A member of a subrace of the Caucasian race, as categorised by anthropologists in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, said to be prevalent in the Mediterranean Basin and areas near the Mediterranean, especially in North Africa and Western Asia.
Mediterranids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mediterranid
fictivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fictive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being fictive.
Synonyms: fictiveness
Oakman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Walker County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia, United States.
ibble dibble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drinking game based on correctly calling out the numbers of spots marked on one's own face and those of other players, further spots being added when a mistake is made.
Floros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Floro
Gaddam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gaddams
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu గడ్డము (gaḍḍamu, “beard”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Telugu.
picking quarrels and provoking trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picking quarrels and stirring up trouble
form: picking quarrels and making trouble
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 尋釁滋事 /寻衅滋事 (xúnxìn zīshì).
Senses: topics: law
hypernyms: disorderly conduct
glosses: A collection of vague criminal offences, mainly concerning undermining public order by creating a disturbance in a public place.
percuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of percute
percuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of percute
disorderly conduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Uganda Police Force described the planned protests as “potentially anarchic” in a statement on Monday, warning it “shall not tolerate disorderly conduct.”
ref: 2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN:
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
hypernyms: felony
misdemeanor
glosses: The criminal offence of misbehaving in a public place, for example, by being drunk or loitering.
Fryberger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frybergers
Etymology: Variant of Freiberger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Frybergers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fryberger
Gaddams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaddam
Thornton-le-Moors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4474).
windsway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wind + sway.
Senses: glosses: The swaying in the wind of an otherwise fixed object such as a tree or a man-made construction.
passage tomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passage tombs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of passage grave.
synonyms: word: passage grave
passage tombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passage tomb
passage grave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passage graves
Senses: synonyms: passage tomb
glosses: One or more burial chambers covered by earth or stone and having a narrow access passage made of large stones. These structures usually date from the Neolithic Age, and are found largely in Western Europe.
passage graves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passage grave
Fiebig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fiebigs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fiebig.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
objective piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objective pieces
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The initial piece of stone from which a tool is made.
objective pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objective piece
Everingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Everinghams
Etymology: From Old English eofor (“boar”) + -ing + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE804424).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Everinghams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Everingham
Fiebigs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fiebig
dichopatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of allopatric.
synonyms: word: allopatric
stasipatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parapatric.
synonyms: word: parapatric
pastelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pastelly
form: most pastelly
Etymology: From pastel + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The room was decorated in pastelly colours.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of art done in pastels.
Loujain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic لجين.
Senses: examples: Loujain al-Hathloul, b. 1989
glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Lippy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lippys
Etymology: Probably an Americanized spelling of Dutch or German Lippe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
vibration white finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: hand-arm vibration syndrome
HAVS
VWF
glosses: A form of Raynaud's phenomenon caused by continuous use of vibrating hand-held machinery.
ecohousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + housing.
Senses: glosses: environmentally friendly housing
Kolasinski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kolasinskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kolasiński.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kolasinskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kolasinski
Lippys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lippy
ecohistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecohistorians
Etymology: From eco- + historian.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ecohistory.
ecohistorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecohistorian
ecohistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + historical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ecohistory.
Derived terms: ecohistorically
ecohistorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ecohistorical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of ecohistory.
Orston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7741).
phonoaudiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to phonoaudiology.
phonoaudiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonoaudiologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies phonoaudiology.
phonoaudiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonoaudiologist
greenlash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenlashes
Etymology: Blend of green + backlash.
Senses: examples: text: As EU countries such as Spain, Slovakia and Poland prepare for elections later this year, and with European parliament elections in 2024, there is a real risk that rightwing, populist parties will latch on to the “greenlash” and surge back in the polls.
ref: 2023 July 12, Nathalie Tocci, “After two years of real progress on climate, a European ‘greenlash’ is brewing”, in The Guardian:
text: Unlike in many countries in Europe, where motorists, farmers and rightwing groups have been driving anti-climate action, the UK has long enjoyed a comfortable political consensus on the subject. But conditions for a greenlash are assembling.
ref: 2025 April 19, Martha Gill, “There’s only one way to fight the climate greenlash: appeal to the naysayers’ self-interest”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: Spain knows it has a problem. In a time of right-wing opposition to Europe’s environment-protecting Green Deal regulations — “greenlash,” it has been called — the progressive government of Spain has embraced an ecological transition.
ref: 2025 July 14, Jason Horowitz, “It’s Paradise Lost as Climate Change Remakes Europe’s Summers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
hypernyms: backlash#Noun
coordinate_terms: techlash
glosses: A backlash against environmental concerns.
Related terms: word: greenhushing
word: brown
chimp outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimp out
Laverdiere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laverdieres
Etymology: Borrowed from French Laverdière.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
hacklab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hacklabs
Etymology: From hack + lab.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hackerspace.
synonyms: word: hackerspace
hacklabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hacklab
Kines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kaɪnz/
Forms: form: Kineses
Etymology: Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Kainz, or a variant of Keynes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
greenwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of green water.
Kineses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪnzɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Kines
Laverdieres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laverdiere
backbonding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of backdonation.
synonyms: word: backdonation
lilacwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lilac + water.
Senses: glosses: recycled water that is not suitable as drinking water
Spanish prisoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish prisoners
Senses: glosses: Somebody posing as a wealthy person of high status who has been imprisoned under a false identity; part of a confidence trick in which the mark is encouraged to give money to secure the release of the prisoner, who will then be in a position to give a reward.
Spanish prisoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish prisoner
peplosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The lower layer of the atmosphere that is in direct contact with the ground
rond-anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rond-anchors
form: rond anchor
Senses: examples: text: A rond-anchor is a stockless anchor with only one fluke for mooring to the rond or bank.
ref: 1934, Arthur Ransome, Coot Club, footnote to Chapter 6:
glosses: A type of anchor with a single fluke used to fasten a boat to a river or canal bank.
roadbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadbanks
form: road bank
Senses: glosses: A roadside bank of earth, typically in a rural environment
roadbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadbank
rond anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rond anchors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rond-anchor.
Popek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Popeks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Popek.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Politi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Politis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Politi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
veloway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veloways
Etymology: From velo- + way.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cycle track.
synonyms: word: cycle track
veloways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veloway
Politis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Politi
Popeks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Popek
Elton on the Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Fom Middle English Eleton, but uncertain beyond that. Likely from either Old English personal name Ella + tūn (“farm”), or else from the personal name Æþel + tūn.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7638).
beigely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beigely
form: most beigely
Etymology: From beige + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a beige manner; with beige colour.
thrombocytokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thrombo- + cytokinetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to thrombocytokinetics.
whistleblowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistleblowing
grammar cops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammar cop
Toledo Strip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Toledo Strip
Senses: glosses: A 468-square-mile region along the border of Ohio and Michigan, whose dispute over its ownership led to the Toledo War of 1835–36.
pardon my Français
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pardon my français.
pardon my Francais
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pardon my français.
pardon my francais
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pardon my français.
pardonnez my French
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Blend of pardon my French + French pardonnez (second-person plural or polite singular imperative of pardonner (“to pardon”)).
Senses: examples: text: A certain real-estate-and-media mogul is taking very long lunch hours looking at posh pied-à-terres or, pardonnez my French, do I mean pieds-à-terre?
ref: 1991, Edward Stewart, “Fifty”, in Deadly Rich, Delacorte Press, page 367:
text: Getting fucked, pardonnez''' my French, she had the eyes of a fish.
ref: 1999, Chris Petit, Back from the Dead, Alfred A. Knopf, published 2001, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Pardonnez my french, but that doesn't sound too logical to me.
ref: 1999 August 6, hz37, “system array losing its values”, in bit.listserv.toolb-l (Usenet):
text: Pardonnez my french, but Behind the Wheel wasn't an invitation to sell cars in a DM-ng, let alone a conformist Volvo.
ref: 2003 July 4, Dentaku, “vends RIO 700 FISH peche promenade”, in alt.fan.depeche-mode (Usenet):
text: ‘All I ever caught was malaria and yellow fever digging that son-of-a-bitching Panama Canal and the syph, the drips and a bad case o’ crabs from the fucking prossies in fucking gay Paree during the big war, pardonnez''' my French, girlie.’
ref: 2004, Christopher Hyde, The House of Special Purpose, Onyx, →ISBN, page 255:
text: >>>Pope Benedict Condemns Abortion as Murder in New Interview / > / >> What's the news? / > / >And, who gives a damn what that noxious old Nazi has to say? / Oh. Entschuldigen Sie meine Deutsch ('pardonnez my French') but did it (=Panzerpope) say something?
ref: 2006 August 22, Jos Flachs, “Pope Benedict Condemns Abortion As Murder In New Interview”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of pardon my French.
synonyms: word: pardon my French
pardon mon Francais
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pardon mon français.
pardon mon francais
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pardon mon français.
Havenhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A location with a railway station in Croft parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England, Haven House Farm is close by (OS grid ref TF5259).
excuse my Francais
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of excuse my français.
excuse my francais
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of excuse my français.
Thorpe Culvert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Thorpe St Peter parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4760).
love conquers all
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌv ˈkɑŋkɚz ɔːl/
ipa: /lʌv ˈkɒŋkəz ɔːl/
Etymology: Calque of Latin Omnia vincit amor, from Eclogue X by Virgil.
Senses: examples: text: I used to believe love conquers all / 'Cause that's what's seen in movies
ref: 2013, “Someone Else”, performed by Miley Cyrus:
glosses: Love is a powerful force that overcomes all obstacles.
wikipedia: Virgil
Thorpe St Peter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TL4860).
oohrah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oorah.
McCord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCords
form: McCort
form: McCourt
form: McGirt
form: McGuirt
form: McWhirt
Etymology: Anglicized form of Northern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Cuairt or Mac Cuarta, meaning "son of a journey," from mac + cuairt. Compare McMurtry.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A census-designated place in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lincoln County and Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States.
coffee talks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee talk
meadow foxtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadow foxtails
Senses: examples: text: If I give my imagination free rein on this sultry afternoon, I could almost believe this shoulder-high grassland – a shimmering sea of false oat, cock’s-foot and meadow foxtail – is African savanna.
ref: 2021 July 21, Phil Gates, “Country diary: this forgotten grassland is a butterfly Serengeti”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A common perennial grass, of species Alopecurus pratensis, of temperate Eurasia; grown widely for fodder and hence introduced to North America, Australia and New Zealand.
meadow foxtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadow foxtail
tail event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail events
Etymology: From tail + event.
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
glosses: an event associated with a given infinite sequence Y=y_k|k>k_0 that is determined by any subsequence of the form Y_n=y_k|k>n,n>k_0 (a "tail" of that sequence)
examples: text: Exactly two years later, it was shattered by the force of a tsunami equivalent to the impact of 250 jumbo jets flying at 1,000 kilometers an hour—the very apotheosis of a real tail event.
ref: 2012, Masahiro Kawai, Eswar S. Prasad, New Paradigms for Financial Regulation: Emerging Market Perspectives, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 186:
text: ... When the MS index is high ex ante, subsequent large stock market losses and crashes are no longer tail events at all—rather they are perfectly expected events.
ref: 2013, Mark Spitznagel, The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 243:
text: Policy frameworks anticipating only “ordinary” shocks within the usual economic cycles may not be very effective in mitigating the impact of such tail events when they actually materialize.
ref: 2012, Masahiro Kawai, Eswar S. Prasad, New Paradigms for Financial Regulation: Emerging Market Perspectives, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: a low-probability event
glosses: an event that initiates an activity
Related terms: sense: tail of sequence
word: Kolmogorov's zero-one law
fairy story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy stories
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fairy tale (“folktale with fantasy characters”).
synonyms: word: fairy tale
extra: folktale with fantasy characters
glosses: Synonym of fairy tale (“story presented as true that is not believable”).
synonyms: word: fairy tale
extra: story presented as true that is not believable
Ashgill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village east of Larkhall, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7850).
rise through the ranks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rises through the ranks
form: rising through the ranks
form: rose through the ranks
form: risen through the ranks
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: rise from the ranks
glosses: To gradually advance in an organization to positions of more importance after having served in subordinate ones.
Related terms: through the hawsehole
work one's way up
sarongless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarong + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a sarong; not wearing a sarong.
pimpleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pimple + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pimples.
Kastelic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kastelics
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovene Kastelic.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Slovene.
Heversham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD4983).
fades away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fade away
fading away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fade away
faded away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fade away
have a safe trip home
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: safe journey
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, a, safe, trip, home.
royal fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal forks
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A move in which a piece or pawn attacks the opposing king and queen simultaneously.
royal forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal fork
jarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarms
Etymology: Variant of charm (“chirp”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of charm (“sound of birds”).
A-V
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AV.
Abbreviation of audio-video or audiovisual.
glosses: Alternative form of AV.
Abbreviation of anal-vaginal.
qualifier: mortuary technology
A/V
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of AV.
Abbreviation of audio/video or audiovisual.
glosses: Alternative form of AV.
Abbreviation of anal/vaginal.
qualifier: mortuary technology
hit a lick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits a lick
form: hitting a lick
form: hittin' a lick
form: hit a lick
form: hit a lick
form: hit licks
form: hit them licks
Etymology: In its basic meaning, a reference to a robbery of a liquor store.
Senses: examples: text: I figure frauds never hit a lick before
 So they don't know the feeling when them things get across
ref: 2007, “Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)…”, in American Gangster, performed by Jay-Z:
text: Fucked my first bitch, passed her to my nigga
 Hit my first lick, passed with my nigga
ref: 2014, “My Nigga”, in My Krazy Life, performed by YG:
text: Listen up I'm about to go and get rich
 Fuck with me my nigga
 We gon' circle round the Ville and hit a lick
ref: 2014, “A Tale of 2 Citiez”, in 2014 Forest Hills Drive, performed by J. Cole:
text: Oh shit, the Pharaoh finna trip again
If I ever go broke I'm hitting licks again
It ain't shit for me to strip a man
Back in high school I used to get it in
ref: 2016 January 15, “Get It In (Remix)”, performed by Nef the Pharaoh, 4:13–4:23:
text: Not banging them clicks and hitting them licks
I'm probably in uptown fucking your bitch
I love these bands, I can't go lidge, Imma scam, trap, or hit them licks
ref: 2021 August 17, “London Scammer (Remix)”performed by Tankz ft. Tarm, 2:17:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To earn a large sum of money in a short amount of time, usually illegally.
contrapsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrapsin
contrapositively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From contrapositive + -ly.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: By the inverse of the converse of a given proposition.
routeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of routable (“able to be routed”).
route runners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of route runner
Lee algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lee algorithm
Etymology: Introduced by C. Y. Lee in a 1961 paper.
Senses: glosses: A breadth-first search algorithm that finds optimal solutions for maze routing problems, used in the design of electronic components etc.
knee kicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee kickers
Senses: glosses: A device for stretching a carpet for installation, having tension applied by a kick of the knee to the back of the tool.
knee kickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knee kicker
son of the soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sons of the soil
Senses: glosses: A person regarded as the product of some place.
glosses: A man raised in an environment of agricultural labour.
Related terms: son
sons of the soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son of the soil
loop-window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loop-windows
Senses: glosses: A long, narrow, vertical opening, usually widening inward, cut in a medieval wall, parapet, or fortification, for use by archers.
two-partyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From two + party + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A political system in which voters are given the choice between two parties.
Related terms: partyism
two-party system
partisanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partisanism