cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Headless Horseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Headless Horsemen
form: headless horseman
Senses: examples: text: The zone is normally the site of the battle with the headless horsemen, where you would have had to kill at least 100 to move on. The horsemen arestill here butarein the orchard picking apple points. We shall be OK providedwe stick to ...
ref: 2006, Lindsey R. Hall, The Net Warriors, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
text: The three headless horsemen fired back at the Smith and Wesson brothers killing them. Then the three headless horsemen threw the Smith and Wesson brother's dead bodies on the back of their horses and rode back to the mountain and cut ...
ref: 2012, Drac Von Stoller, The Headless Horsemen, Drac Von Stoller, →ISBN:
text: Though the Legend of Sleepy Hollow has remained the most enduring and famous tale of headless horsemen, Irving's research revealed to him that decollated spirits have roamed the earth since ancient times. In each case they appear to be ...
ref: 2016, Mark Latham, Hunting the Headless Horseman, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A mythical man (perhaps of several) upon horseback who is missing his head, inspired by the Headless Horseman mythical figure.
examples: text: They had dozens of names for different types of corpses—“crispy critters,” “stinkers,” “floaters,” “dunkers,” and “Headless Horsemen,” just to name a few. Butch Farabee, national emergency services coordinator for the National Park ..
ref: 2003, Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, who Dies, and why : True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 39:
text: ... of women who'd been murdered in 1980 and unclaimed bodies that had turned up for years after that. He'd become acquainted with a virtual dictionary of shrug-off terms for corpses - floaters, crispy critters, headless horsemen.
ref: 2012, Gregg Hurwitz, You're Next, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Right around this time another headless body was found, I used to call these bodies they were finding at that time, 'The Headless Horsemen'. Cutting off the heads of suspected informants does send a clear message.
ref: 2021, Peter James Ford, Mysticism in Newburyport: Mystic Rider, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A corpse of a man that is missing the head due to decapitation.
Derived terms: Headless Horsewoman
headless horseman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the headless horseman
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Headless Horseman.
headless horseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headless horsemen
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Headless Horseman.
end lockdown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ends lockdown
form: ending lockdown
form: ended lockdown
form: ended lockdown
voops
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Vot I don't understand is vy so many faucet? Maybe vun for hot, vun for cold, vun for shocolate, and vun ... ( Tries again and squirts milk all over himself ( in mime ) ] Voops!
ref: 1962, Ann Pugh, Heidi, page 51:
text: I yust pushed it in, like dis, and—voops! der goes anudder vun!
ref: 1994, Jan Harold Brunvand, The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends, page 179:
text: Ronnie cuts in: "And just as he was saying 'I'm God!' the boss walks in and voops! He falls off the table!"
ref: 2003, Chris Van Wyk, Now Listen Here: The Life and Times of Bill Jardine, page 80:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of whoops.
voops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voop
voops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of voop
vooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of voop
vooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of voop
Banglas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bangla
profit à prendre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profits à prendre
form: profit a prendre
form: profit-à-prendre
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Law French profit à prendre (“profit to be taken”).
Senses: topics: law
property
glosses: A nonpossessory interest in land which grants the legal right to enter onto another person's real property (real estate) for the purpose of taking from its soil, mines and minerals, natural produce or flora and fauna.
Derived terms: profit
Related terms: easement
mines and minerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mines & minerals
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: mineral rights
topics: law
property
glosses: The legal title to geological resources in the subsurface of a piece of land, usually by reference to being in the same or separate ownership to the surface of that land.
mines & minerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mines and minerals.
pseudoearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + early.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not actually, early
Kindall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kindalls
Etymology: Variant of Kendall.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kinnan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kinnans
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhionnáin (“son of Fionnán”), a diminutive of fionn (“fair, blond”) or of Ó Cianáin (“descendant of Cianán”), from which Keenan, or of Ó Cuinneáin (“descendant of Cuinneán”), from which Cunneen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Kinnans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kinnan
Kindalls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kindall
Krog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krogs
Etymology: * As a Danish and Norwegian surname, from krog (“corner, nook”).
* As a Danish, north German and Norwegian surname, from German Krug (“pub, inn”), which is also found in Swedish krog.
* Also as a north German surname, from Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of pasture”), from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”). Likely related to crop.
* As a Serbo-Croatian surname, from krug (“ring, circle”, also "wooded area, forest").
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Husic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Husics
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Husić.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Husics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Husic
Krogs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Krog
Guifarro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guifarros
Etymology: Salvadorian variant of Guijarro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Guifarros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Guifarro
Huddys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Huddy
tantrumy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tantrumy
form: most tantrumy
Etymology: From tantrum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She was always particularly “tantrumy,” as Max called it, after them, appearing low-spirited and unhappy.
ref: 1880, Madeline Bonavia Hunt, “Joan’s Visitor”, in Little Empress Joan, London; Paris; New York, N.Y.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., page 27:
text: The heroine is always rude and “tantrumy,” and the misunderstandings between the principal characters are nearly always the result of bad temper, if not actual brutality, on the part of the girl[…].
ref: 1892 November 27, Mary P. Abbott, “Difficult to Handle. Few Novelists Write Sequels That Are Successful.”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LI, number 332, Chicago, Ill., section “Rhoda Broughton’s Last Novel”, page 39, column 2:
text: “I don’t like tantrumy children,” said the Comtesse, and looked at Alex as if given half a chance, she would smack her too. “He’s only tantrumy because he’s unhappy.[…]”
ref: 1971, Charity Blackstock [pseudonym; Ursula Torday], The Encounter, New York, N.Y.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., →LCCN, page 107:
text: Did she hold eye contact because she deals with tantrumy children and agitated parents that way every day?
ref: 2015, Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance:
glosses: Of, or relating to a tantrum; displaying childish behavior or experiencing an episode of bad temper.
Related terms: temper-tantrumy
Fitzner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fitzners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fitzner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Fouty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Foutys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Foutys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fouty
Fitzners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fitzner
Frescas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frescases
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Frescas.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Fetherolf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fetherolfs
Etymology: Variant of Fetterolf.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fetherolfs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fetherolf
Frescases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frescas
Dehler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dehlers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dehler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gilhoolys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gilhooly
Gonzalos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gonzalo
Dehlers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dehler
McPheeters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McPheeterses
form: McFeaters
form: McFeeters
form: McPeeters
form: McPeters
form: McPhatter
form: McPheters
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Pheadair (“son of the servant of (Saint) Peter”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Hannerses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanners
McPheeterses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McPheeters
Chhabras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chhabra
Beeby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beebys
form: Beebe
form: Beebee
Etymology: From Old English bēo (“bee”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK662640).
glosses: A habitational surname.
Beebys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beeby
Hentland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Ballingham, Bolstone and Hentland Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5426).
perdricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perdricides
Etymology: From French perdrix (“partridge”) + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: What the poor shall drink—how they shall drink it[…]all these great questions depend upon little clumps of squires and parsons gathered together in alehouses in the month of September—so portentous to publicans and partridges, to sots and sportsmen, to guzzling and game.
"I am by no means a friend to the multiplication of public-houses," says a plump perdricide gentleman in loose mud-coloured gaiters, bottle-green jacket and brass buttons. Perhaps not; but you are a friend to the multiplication of inns.
ref: 1826 September, Thomas Edwards, “A Letter to the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey, on the Misconduct of Licensing Magistrates, and the consequent Degradation of the Magistracy”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume 44, page 442:
glosses: Someone who kills partridges.
examples: text: Ashes form the most valuable description of dust[…]for the right to remove them, dust-contractors pay considerable sums to the parishes[…]The abstracting of ashes is viewed by a dust-contractor as perdricide by a rural squire, and, to say the least of it, with quite as much reason.
ref: 1849, “Sanitary Reform”, in The British Quarterly Review, volume 9, page 50:
glosses: The killing of partridges.
perdricides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perdricide
ultrascaffold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrascaffolds
Etymology: From ultra- + scaffold.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A very large genetic scaffold
ultrascaffolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrascaffold
Ballingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Ballingham, Bolstone and Hentland Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5731).
Tubbergen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Tubbergen.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of Overijssel, Netherlands.
Bolstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Ballingham, Bolstone and Hentland Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5532).
Thottam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thottams
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam തോറ്റം (tōṟṟaṁ).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Malayalam.
gut-busting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gut-busting
form: most gut-busting
Senses: glosses: Very funny.
glosses: Fattening.
Vistica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Visticas
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Vištica.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Dinkelland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Dinkelland.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Overijssel, Netherlands.
Adderley Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9144).
Apedale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8149).
glosses: A valley in Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0194).
Space City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A reference to NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center which opened 1963 in Houston.
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for the city of Houston, Texas.
wikipedia: Johnson Space Center
Related terms: Space Coast
liquid water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Water as a substance in its liquid state. Contrast water ice, water vapor.
Asmodeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌæz.məˈdiː.əs/
/-ˈdeɪ.əs/
/ˌæs-/
/ˌæzˈmoʊ.di.əs/
Forms: form: Asmodaeus
form: Asmodevs
form: Osmodeus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀσμοδαῖος (Asmodaîos). Believed to ultimately come from an unattested Avestan *𐬀𐬉𐬴𐬨𐬀𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (*aēṣ̌madaēuua, from a compound of 𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬆𐬨𐬀 (aēšəma, “wrath”) + 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (daēuua, “demon”)). Doublet of Ashmedai: a borrowing from Hebrew.
Senses: synonyms: Ashmedai
glosses: The king of demons in Jewish tradition, and thought to represent lust in Christian demonology.
Trent Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village on the western edge of the City of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, near the River Trent (OS grid ref SJ8643).
physical state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physical states
Senses: glosses: State of matter; a distinct form in which substances can exist, including solid, liquid, gas, or plasma.
native advertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Another recent innovation in the online advertising space is native advertising, which bridges the worlds of advertising and content.
ref: 2014, Shiv Singh, Stephanie Diamond, Social Media Marketing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 289:
topics: business
marketing
synonyms: sponsored content
glosses: A type of surreptitious advertising that matches the form and function of the platform upon which it appears, often in the form of advertorials.
Related terms: native advertisement
alchohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Last week, Radico Khaitan that makes 8 pm whisky and Magic Moments Vodka said it will expand the use of Extra Neutral Alchohol (ENA) at its mother distillery in Rampur into the production of hand sanitizer.
ref: 2020 March 31, Suneera Tandon, “Covid-19 impact: Sanitiser market sees more entrants”, in livemint.com, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2021:
text: The Mahatma Phule auditorium also has been misused during the lockdown. While cleaning the auditorium, 500 empty alchohol bottles were found.
ref: 2021 November 22, “PMC auditoriums in a state of total neglect”, in Hindustan Times, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2021:
glosses: Misspelling of alcohol.
non-functional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As for ticket machines, in the past week I have found two that are non-functional.
ref: 2025 March 5, “Open Access: The value of ticket offices”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 63:
glosses: Alternative form of nonfunctional.
Melverley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in west Shropshire, England, on the border with Powys, Wales (Rivers Severn and Vyrnwy) (OS grid ref SJ3316).
deep copying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deep copy
deep copied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deep copy
shallow-copied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shallow-copy
shallow-copies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shallow-copy
shallow-copying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shallow-copy
GBT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual; less common variation of LGBT.
unhaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + haunting.
Senses: examples: text: Sleep unhaunting in thy grave, cold Adela!
ref: 1842, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Zanoni, volume 2, page 76:
glosses: Not haunting.
unhaunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unhaunt + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhaunt
wibble-wobbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wibble-wobble
wibble-wobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wibble-wobble
wibble-wobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wibble-wobble
Montlhéry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Montlhéry.
Senses: glosses: A commune in Essonne department, Île-de-France, France.
spongiolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spongiolithic
form: most spongiolithic
Etymology: From spongio- + -lith + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Sponge-rich deposits in which buildups are rare and small.
Related terms: Spongolite
aftersmile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftersmiles
Etymology: From after- + smile.
Senses: examples: text: […] there were funerals as the result of a holy effort (for holy effort still we avow it to have been, and the aftersmile of God hath proved it so).
ref: 1861, Charles Spurgeon, “Accidents, Not Punishments”, in The New Park Street and Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, volume 7, London: Passmore and Alabaster, published 1862, page 636:
text: No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile, earth’s teardrops gain, / And mother finds her home and far-off rest.
ref: 1893 August, Mary Baker Eddy, “The Mother’s Evening Prayer”, in Christian Science Journal, volume 11, number 5, page 193:
text: Smiling with imperturbable tenderness, Mrs. Selborne thrust out her heavy legs slowly to swell with warm ripe smack his gift of flowered green-silk garters. Wetting his thumb with sly thin aftersmile, he told.
ref: 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, published 1957, Part 2, Chapter 21, p. 236:
text: New truths were coming to her, and she at first laughed at them, laughed at what her own head was telling her […]. Her aftersmile spread into the doubt in her eyes when her head told her that she would soon be able to carry the daylight on her back.
ref: 1986, Kojo Laing, chapter 3, in Search Sweet Country, San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, pages 33–34:
glosses: A smile that follows something.
examples: text: It made her smile, just a little one, and that was good, but the smile got switched off pretty soon and somehow that made it worse, because there was such a contrast in her face between smile and aftersmile.
ref: 1992, Judith Saxton, chapter 4, in This Royal Breed,, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 71:
glosses: A facial expression that follows a smile.
aftersmile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From after- + smile.
Senses: examples: text: The smile was gone, but the face still had an aftersmile glow on it;
ref: 1988, Herbert Gold, chapter 7, in Dreaming, New York: Donald I. Fine, page 102:
glosses: Following a smile.
Loraxian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Loraxian
form: most Loraxian
Senses: examples: text: Now that the state and local governments finally are catching up with FoLAR's restorative vision, Macadams's Loraxian voice sounds just like the politician's: "Once people come down to the river and it becomes part of their life, then it becomes part of the city.... It's a way of making the river the front yard."
ref: 2008, Roger L. Kemp, Cities and Water: A Handbook for Planning, page 101:
text: Whether Howard has a Loraxian streak or just developed a taste for restoration in a long career of mining, his ethic is a rare one among raiders then or now.
ref: 2019, Josh Garrett-Davis, What Is a Western?: Region, Genre, Imagination, page 128:
glosses: Relating to or reminiscent of The Lorax (1971), a children's book by Dr. Seuss about the harm caused by destroying the natural environment.
Basset
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bassets
Etymology: Borrowed from French Basset or a variant of Bassett.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
cystic mastitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: the presence of one or more cysts in a breast
SAHA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of seborrhea, acne, hirsutism, and alopecia (used only in the medical term SAHA syndrome).
Paling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Palings
Etymology: Variant of Palin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bassets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Basset
Diekman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Diekmans
Etymology: Variant spelling of German Dieckmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Thottams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thottam
headless horsemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headless horseman
Visticas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vistica
Palings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paling
Headless Horsemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Headless Horseman
Gillows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gillow
Baymes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bayme
Zweifach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zweifachs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zweifach, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Zweifachs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zweifach
Romanuccis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanucci
Harmatz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Harmatzes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Harmatzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Harmatz
Coggers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cogger
worst-case scenarios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worst-case scenario
best-case scenarios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of best-case scenario
I. C.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: I. C.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of IC.
I.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: I.C.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of IC.
I. C.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of I. C.
Detheridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Detheridges
form: Dethridge
Etymology: Habitational surname from the village of Ditteridge, in Wiltshire, from Old English dīċ (“ditch; dike”) + hryċġ (“ridge”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Detheridges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Detheridge
Ditteridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English dīċ (“ditch; dike”) + hryċġ (“ridge”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Box parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST818694).
Related terms: Detheridge
HAIR-AN syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HAIR-AN syndromes
Senses: topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare disease in women which is a subset of polycystic ovary syndrome.
HAIR-AN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hyperandrogenism, insulin resistance, and acanthosis nigricans (used only in the medical term HAIR-AN syndrome).
HAIR-AN syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HAIR-AN syndrome
polycystic ovarian syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polycystic ovary syndrome.
Boffeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boffey
deed of appointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deeds of appointment
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A deed executed by the trustees or beneficiaries of a trust appointing one or more new trustees.
topics: law
glosses: A deed executed by the trustees of a trust appointing sums or property out of the trust to one or more beneficiaries.
Related terms: deed of assumption
insulin resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A pathological condition in which cells fail to respond normally to the hormone insulin.
Related terms: insulin sensitivity
Ribisi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ribisis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Ribisi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Ribisis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ribisi
trybill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trybills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twibill.
twilbil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twilbils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twibill.
twybil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twybils
Senses: examples: text: A twybil is actually two chisels joined at the base with a long-handle socket at right angles to the point of junction. […] Used to cut large mortises in forming timbers, the twybil is sometimes swung and sometimes driven by striking with a heavy mallet on the long handle-socket.
ref: 1972, Alex W[inkler] Bealer, “Chiseling”, in Old Ways of Working Wood, Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishing Company, Inc., published March 1976 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: Alternative form of twibill.
twyvil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twyvils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twibill.
trybills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trybill
twilbils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twilbil
deeds of appointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deed of appointment
twybils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twybil
Oliveris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oliveri
twyvils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twyvil
FAMUan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FAMUans
Etymology: From FAMU + -an.
Senses: glosses: A student or alum of Florida A&M University.
FAMU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Florida A&M University.
Derived terms: FAMUan
elurophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elurophobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ailurophobe.
elurophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elurophobe
Margolyeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Margolyes
Rosensaft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rosensafts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rosensaft, a Jewish Ashkenazi ornamental surname, from Rosen (“rose”) + Saft (“juice, sap”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Rosensafts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rosensaft
Momadays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Momaday
deed of retirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deeds of retirement
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A deed executed by the trustees of a trust under which one or more voluntarily retire from being trustees.
Gwertzman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gwertzmans
Etymology: Ultimately a Jewish Ashkenazi surname of German origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
deeds of retirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deed of retirement
Gwertzmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gwertzman
Bentveld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Zandvoort municipality, North Holland, Netherlands.
EPEAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EPEATs
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool.
EPEATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EPEAT
I.C.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of I.C.
Aberlour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pictish *aber (“estuary”) + Lour, a river-name.
Senses: glosses: A town in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ2743).
Synonyms: Charlestown of Aberlour
Related terms: Scots Aiberlour
fox eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox eyes
Senses: examples: text: When NaiNai was in her prime, she had a slender figure, a swanlike neck, and a pair of fox eyes with both ends tilted up.
ref: 2010, Anchee Min, Pearl of China, 1st U.S. edition, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Nobu glimpsed a porcelain face, camellia lips and slanted fox eyes […]
ref: 2012, Lesley Downer, The Samurai's Daughter, Corgi edition, published 2013, →ISBN, page 132:
text: She stared past the hastily dyed hair, past the freckle-shielding makeup, and into the girl's sunken fox eyes.
ref: 2019 January, Deb Jannerson, “Worst-Case Scenario”, in Obra/Artifact, volume 6, page 26:
glosses: A type of eye associated with East Asian people, characterized as narrow, slanted, or upturned.
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: A makeup technique in which the outer corners of the eyes are darkened to a triangular point.
Synonyms: almond eye
fox eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox eye
St Athan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Saint Tathan, reflected in the Welsh spelling of Sain Tathan.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0168).
wikipedia: Tathan
fee simple absolute in possession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fee simple + absolute + in + possession.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The unqualified and unrestricted ownership of an estate in land; freehold tenure.
Synonyms: freehold
Gileston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in St Athan community, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0167).
Gilda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gildas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Radner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Radners
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Radnor
Ratner
kill your heroes
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Perhaps influenced by kill your darlings.
Senses: examples: text: Daevid believes the visa problem that removed him so abruptly from The Soft Machine in late August 1967 probably accelerated an inevitable split. He believes his role in the band was that of catalyst — and, as he notes, you've got to kill your heroes.
ref: 2014, Marcus O’Dair, Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt:
text: Kill your heroes, stop doing it harder.
ref: 2019, Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management:
text: My Castor: Remember what Uncle Hemlock says: "Kill your heroes."
ref: 2022, Linden A. Lewis, The Second Rebel, page 261:
synonyms: kill your idols
glosses: One should not idolize specific people (particularly celebrities), as this will distort one's perception of those one idolizes.
term of years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terms of years
Etymology: From term + of + years.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An estate in land held under a lease which is not perpetual or indefinite in length, though in some cases may be contingent on some guaranteed occurrence.
topics: law
glosses: The lease under which that estate in land is held.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see term, year.
Derived terms: term of years absolute
term of years determinable
eyerape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyerapes
form: eye-rape
Etymology: From eye + rape. The second noun sense metaphorically refers to an unwanted assault on a person’s eyes.
Senses: examples: text: He wasn't just handsy, according to the stories. He also used his eyes to grope ('I believe it's called an eye-rape,' one older colleague of mine had noted to me, drily) […]
ref: 2021 April 1, Jacqueline Maley, The Truth About Her: A beautiful moving debut literary fiction novel about motherhood for readers of Meg Mason, Emily Maguire and Miranda Cowley Heller, HarperCollins Australia, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: ear rape
glosses: An intense and unremitting stare.
glosses: Something that is extraordinarily painful to the eyes, such as a psychedelic or rapidly flashing image.
eyerape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eyerapes
form: eyeraping
form: eyeraped
form: eyeraped
form: eye-rape
Etymology: From eye + rape. The second noun sense metaphorically refers to an unwanted assault on a person’s eyes.
Senses: glosses: To stare intensely and unremittingly at someone.
eyerapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyerape
eyerapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eyerape
eyeraping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eyerape
eyeraped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eyerape
Strensall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village in Strensall with Towthorpe parish, City of York, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6360).
Pellant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pellants
Etymology: Variant of Pelland.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Durys
Etymology: Borrowed from French Dury.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A commune in Aisne department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A village in Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland.
glosses: A small settlement in North Nesting parish, Mainland, Shetland Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HU4560).
Pevsner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pevsners
Etymology: Variant of Pevzner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Yiddish.
Pentland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pentlands
Etymology: Scottish habitational surname from a minor place near Edinburgh, perhaps from Middle English pent (“confined, enclosed”) + land (“land”). Another possibility is Cumbric *pant (“hollow”) or Cumbric *penn (“head, summit, top”) + Cumbric *lann (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
glosses: A town in Queensland, Australia.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
Derived terms: Pentland Firth
pentlandite
Simpkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Simpkinses
Etymology: Variant of Simkins.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia, United States.
Nabhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nabhans
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic نبهان. This surname is predominantly found in Egypt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Szenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Szenbergs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kresan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kresans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mencke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Menckes
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and North German Mencke.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Arbib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arbibs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Garstins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garstin
Goodlad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goodlads
Etymology: From good + lad, a nickname for a trusted servant.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
Derived terms: Goodlad's stinkfish
Hengeveld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hengevelds
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Hengeveld.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Yemm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yemms
Etymology: From Old English ēam (“uncle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
for choice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: White is for choice due to his development and space advantage, but the weakened white king position gives Black some counterplay.
ref: 2014, Larry Kaufmann, Sabotage the Grunfeld!
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: having a nondecisive advantage; slightly winning
Oster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Osters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Oster or Swedish Öster.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Carver County, Minnesota, United States.
Oster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Осте́р (Ostér)
Senses: glosses: A city in Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Kasky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaskys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Postrel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Postrels
Senses: glosses: A surname.
salt spray test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt spray tests
Senses: glosses: A corrosion test method to check on the corrosion resistance of a material or surface coating.
Synonyms: salt fog test
spongolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongolites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stone made almost entirely from fossilised sponges.
Adamatzky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adamatzkys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
monsterfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monsterfuckers
Etymology: Compound of monster + fucker.
Senses: synonyms: teratophile
glosses: A person who is sexually attracted to monsters, cryptids, etc; someone with teratophilia
Paretsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paretskys
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Парецкй (Pareckj).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
Soroses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Soros
quasi-moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasi-moons
form: quasimoon
Etymology: From quasi- + moon, modeled after quasi-satellite.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quasi-satellite.
synonyms: word: quasi-satellite
Coordinate terms: minimoon
mini-moon
moon
hooty tooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hooty tooty
form: most hooty tooty
Senses: examples: text: She wouldn't be an awful lady if she wasn't so hooty tooty.
ref: 1989, Paula Sharp, The Woman who was Not All There, page 304:
text: Because I do not want to just talk about it, we've got to figure out a way to change the public schools and then disengage from the public schools by putting my kid in some hooty tooty private school someplace.
ref: 2004, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, Faith Based Perspectives on the Provision of Community Service, page 49:
text: Your nation's just signed an alliance with them hooty tooty boys from Frontce.
ref: 2013, Thomas J. Thiel, Dreamland, page 255:
glosses: Alternative form of hoity-toity.
hooty-tooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hooty-tooty
form: most hooty-tooty
Senses: examples: text: You think I got a real doctor, like some of you hooty-tooty people have?
ref: 2004, Matthew Kailey, One Day Will Come:
text: How else do you think I got to be so hooty-tooty?
ref: 2017, Dusty Thompson, Almost Odis: My Preppy Life with My Redneck Dad:
glosses: Alternative form of hoity-toity.
Baska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baskas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mintabie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former mining community in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, Far North, South Australia, Australia; the mining community, whose land was leased from the state government, was returned to the Aboriginal people, and the opal mining concessions shut down.
bitchola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitcholas
Etymology: From bitch + -ola (“pejorative suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Cartman as Jennifer Lopez: Hola, bitchola!
ref: 2003, South Park, "Fat Butt and Pancake Head" (season 7, episode 5)
text: “Bitchola is in rare form this morning,” cried Lourdes, the continuity girl. “She got all up in my face crazy cuz I told her that hot coffee is only gonna make her hot flashes seem hotter.” “Did she throw her coffee in your face?
ref: 2010, Michael Salvatore, Between Boyfriends, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: A bitch (contemptible person, usually a woman).
bitcholas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitchola
bitch, please
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Please (an expression of annoyance or impatience).
permadie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: permadies
form: permadying
form: permadied
form: permadied
Etymology: Back-formation from permadeath; by surface analysis, perma- + die.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To permanently die.
Related terms: permadead
permadeath
permadies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of permadie
permadying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of permadie
permadied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of permadie
permadead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Back-formation from permadeath; by surface analysis, perma- + dead.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Permanently dead.
Related terms: permadeath
permadie
Herc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɝk/
ipa: /hɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: Hercs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Hercules; A diminutive of the male given name Hercules.
Herc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɝk/
ipa: /hɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: Hercs
Senses: examples: text: If a cargoid thinks she might need a big box-end wrench to open the cargo bay or disassemble a large piece of equipment that needs to be removed post-haste from the back of a "Herc" (Hercules transport plane, aka LC-130), she leaves it in the cab of the forklift that she races up to the back of the plane with.
ref: 2017, Mark Bowen, The Telescope in the Ice:
glosses: A Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft.
mental patients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mental patient
electrical treeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The electrical pre-breakdown damaging phenomenon in solid insulation due to partial discharge, progressing through stressed dielectric insulation in a path resembling the branches of a tree.
eye-rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-rapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eyerape.
eye-rape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eye-rapes
form: eye-raping
form: eye-raped
form: eye-raped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eyerape.
eye-rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye-rape
eye-rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eye-rape
Chantilly lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chantilly laces
Senses: examples: text: After dinner they gathered round the large, bright coal fire, whose one neatly-cut log emitted a shower of sparkles at every touch of the poker,—talked of former times,— sipped some fine old port, with a cobweb dress as fragile and more precious than any blonde veil Chantilly ever produced,— and felt more and more convinced, that though the world was a very bad one, yet there were some few things in it worth living for.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 138:
glosses: a delicate kind of bobbin lace, known for its fine ground, outlined pattern, and abundant detail
raw_tags: of fabric
Chantilly porcelain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chantilly porcelains
Senses: glosses: a French softpaste porcelain produced between 1730 and 1800
raw_tags: of ceramics
mating bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mating bites
Senses: examples: text: Differences in courtship behavior among higher taxa include use of the spurs by male pythons and boas, mating bites by some colubrids, […]
ref: 1997, Harry W. Greene, Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, page 127:
text: Most of the wounds inflicted by these mating bites heal fairly quickly, but sometimes they can be quite severe.
ref: 2004, Mark Carwardine, Shark, page 63:
text: Females bearing mating bites are seen from early May to early August, with the majority seen in May.
ref: 2017, Jose I. Castro, The Sharks of North America, page 436:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bite performed during copulation in certain species.
examples: text: “When the mating bites are exchanged, the two souls link. Then the werewolf can live as long as his vampire mate.”
ref: 2017, Cynthia Eden, Forbidden Bite, unnumbered page:
text: Once mated with another character, characters have the option of performing the “mating bite,” which irreversibly bonds the lovers to one another.
ref: 2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 10
text: He sucked a hickey along the side of Ash's throat, right where his mating bite would soon go.
ref: 2021, Marcy Jacks, Mating for Convenience, page 36:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: In speculative erotica, a bite given by one person to another to form a permanent bond, typically leaving a scar or mark.
Synonyms: topics: fiction
literature
publishing
media
word: claiming bite
topics: fiction
literature
publishing
media
word: claiming mark
topics: fiction
literature
publishing
media
word: mating mark