cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Doughnutgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From doughnut + -gate.
Senses: examples: text: “As an advocate for healthy eating, food is very important to me and I sometimes get upset my^([sic]) how freely we as Americans eat and consume things without giving any thought to the consequence that it has on our health and society as a whole,” she wrote in what appears to be an attempt to reframe the Doughnutgate conversation.
ref: 2015 July 10, “Ariana Grande backpedals”, in The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa., →OCLC, People Watch, page B2, column 1:
text: Doughnutgate: Police investigating Grande incident / By now, Ariana Grande has probably learned there are two things you really shouldn’t with: America and doughnuts.
ref: 2015 July 10, “People in the news”, in The Daily Journal, volume 141, number 191, Vineland, N.J., →OCLC, page 4B, column 2:
text: On Friday's episode of The Soup, Joel took on Grande following the Doughnutgate headlines that she was caught licking donuts in a donut shop before saying "I hate America." Cue Joel's epic rant!
ref: 2015 July 13, Brett Malec, “Joel McHale Takes on Ariana Grande's Doughnutgate in Epic Rant: ''I Hate Your Ponytail!''—Watch Now”, in E! News, Los Angeles, Calif.: E! Entertainment Television, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2015:
text: Ariana Grande / Watch this if: You were captivated by #Doughnutgate. I know, I know, we’re over the whole “Ariana Grande licked a doughnut she hadn’t bought” fiasco. Hopefully Grande has put the public backlash toward her “anti-obesity protest” behind her and will continue to be the mini-Mariah her screaming fans know and love.
ref: 2015 August 9, Carly Maga, “The Top Ticket: Three shows to take in”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E3, column 4:
text: Doughnutgate haunts pop star / Pop star Ariana Grande knows her history with pastries is a troubled one. Months after she caused a stir for licking a doughnut and saying that she hates America, she’s still talking about the incident, telling Good Morning America that she’s definitely learned her lesson.
ref: 2015 September 17, USA Today, “Spotlight”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E3, column 4:
text: But she was also the kind of pop star it was fun to poke fun at, talented but artistically lightweight, adorable but not exactly lovable. Doughnutgate was the icing on the eclair.
ref: 2019 May 23, Jay Cridlin, “She wants it, she’s got it”, in Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12W:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Donutgate.
wisterine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic glycoside from the plant Wisteria sinensis.
ERTC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ERTCs
Senses: examples: text: The provision makes clear that the pre-enactment standard for applying the aiding and abetting penalty remains unchanged despite the targeted increase in the amount of the penalty that applies solely to ERTC promoters.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 44:
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Initialism of employee retention tax credit.
AOTC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AOTCs
Senses: examples: text: This provision adds requirements for the student and taxpayer (if filing on behalf of the student) to include their SSN on their tax return in order to receive either the AOTC or LLC under IRC section 25A.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 43:
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Initialism of American Opportunity Tax Credit.
ITIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ITINs
Senses: examples: text: A TIN is a Social Security number (SSN), an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), or an adoption taxpayer identification number (ATIN).
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 43:
glosses: Initialism of individual taxpayer identification number.
ATIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATINs
Senses: examples: text: A TIN is a Social Security number (SSN), an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), or an adoption taxpayer identification number (ATIN).
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 43:
glosses: Initialism of adoption taxpayer identification number.
MAGI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MAGIs
Senses: examples: text: In the case of a taxpayer with modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) over $400,000 ($200,000 for a married taxpayer filing a separate return), the cap would phase down by 20 percent of the excess of MAGI over the threshold until it reaches $10,000 ($5,000 for a married taxpayer filing a separate return).
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 37:
glosses: Initialism of modified adjusted gross income.
DDA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DDAs
Senses: examples: text: Generally, DDAs are areas with poverty rates of 25 percent or more or where 50 percent of households have incomes below 60 percent of the area median income.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 28:
glosses: Initialism of difficult development area.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of digital differential analyzer.
DDAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DDA
LIHTC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LIHTCs
Senses: examples: text: This provision makes three changes to the LIHTC program. First, for calendar years 2026 through 2029, the “9% LIHTC” is restored to its 2021 level with a 12.5 percent allocation increase. Second, for the “4% LIHTC”, this provision lowers the bond-financing threshold to 25 percent for projects financed by bonds with an issue date before 2030. Last, this provision designates Indian and rural areas as DDAs.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 28:
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Initialism of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.
QOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QOFs
Senses: examples: text: Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF): An investment vehicle with the specific purpose of investing in OZs. All qualifying investments must be made through QOFs in order to be eligible for the tax benefits. […] A temporary deferral on taxes for capital gains rolled over from a non-OZ investment into a QOF to be invested into an OZ.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 24:
glosses: Initialism of qualified opportunity fund.
Derived terms: RQOF
QOFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QOF
OZs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OZ
RQOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RQOFs
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, this provision simplifies the investment incentives and creates “rural qualified opportunity funds” (RQOFs). Investments made in a QOF receive a single step-up in basis of 10 percent when held for at least five years. In rural areas, investments must be made into a RQOF and will receive a 30 percent step-up in basis when held for at least five years.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 25:
glosses: Initialism of rural qualified opportunity fund.
Hypernyms: QOF
RQOFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RQOF
DOTC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: DOTr
glosses: Initialism of Department of Transportation and Communications.
grub screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grub screws
Etymology: From a fancied resemblance to a grub (insect larva), both in appearance and in the way that it can go down a hole as if down into a burrow.
Senses: synonyms: set screw
glosses: A headless set screw.
grub screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grub screw
QME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QMEs
Senses: examples: text: Under current law, HSA funds can only be used for the purchase of a qualified medical expense (QME) after the HSA is established. […] This provision would allow medical services incurred within 60 days before the establishment of an account to be eligible QMEs.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 20:
glosses: Initialism of qualified medical expense.
QMEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QME
vibrotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vibro-, from Latin vibrāre (“vibrate”) + Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”)
Senses: examples: text: It has been said by some writers on behaviour that true telotaxis is shown only in the movements of animals towards, or away from, the light. But there can be no doubt that the scope of the category should be broadened to include vibrotaxis.
ref: 1959, Savory, Theodore Horace, 1896-, Instinctive living : a study of invertebrate behaviour, page 36:
text: Aganaspis pelleranoi females detected host larvae mainly by sensing host movements (vibrotaxis).
ref: 1994, Argentina, Rsea Sociedad Entomológica, Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 53 (1-4), page 121:
text: Species also differ by host searching behavior and host detection such as antennal or ovipositor searching, host location by vibrotaxis, or the use of infochemicals, which may lead to exploit different microniches or host species, thus contributing to coexistence (van Dijken and van Alphen, 1998; Vet and Bakker, 1985).
ref: 2009, Parasitoids of Drosophila, London [etc.] : Elsevier Academic Press, page 15:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The way an organism responds to mechanical (physical) vibrations.
CJR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “Ahead of Trump’s Second Term, Calls for a Sex Strike Grow Online,” the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) wrote.
ref: 2024 November 16, Arwa Mahdawi, “Are US women protesting against Trump by ‘swearing off sex with men’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Columbia Journalism Review.
Whitetopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of whitetopia.
rhabdiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhabd-, from Ancient Greek ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod”) + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: As Huxley had concluded, the choanocytes derived from the original sponge tissue, as did the collencytes. The glandular and rhabdiferous cells, on the other hand, derived from the archeocytes.
ref: 1971, C. Vago, Invertebrate Tissue Culture, page 391:
text: So far no indisputable function has been ascribed to any of the following cell types except rhabdiferous cells.
ref: 1978, Patricia R. Bergquist, Sponges, page 70:
text: There is now good evidence that many special cells in this broadly descriptive category are functionally homologous; these include rhabdiferous cells [...]
ref: 1984, Simpson, Tracy L., 1937-, The cell biology of sponges, page 91:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a sponge cell, having many rodlike inclusions and secreting mucopolysaccharide.
political crime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political crimes
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An offence against the interests of a state or government.
maxplane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Describing a type of rotation in factor analysis.
promax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Describing a type of rotation in factor analysis.
Related terms: equimax
oblimax
quartimax
varimax
oblimax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
coordinate_terms: oblimin
glosses: oblique with maximization
neo-luddites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-luddite
hippity hoppity
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hippity hoppity
form: most hippity hoppity
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hippity-hoppity.
hippity hoppity
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Underlined ellipsis of hippity hoppity get off my property.
glosses: Underlined ellipsis of hippity hoppity X is property.
techno-pessimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of technopessimism.
Artenkreis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Artenkreises
form: Artenkreise
form: artenkreis
Etymology: Borrowed from German, from Arten, plural of Art (“species”) + Kreis (“cycle”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of superspecies.
synonyms: word: superspecies
mecistocephalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mecistocephalids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Mecistocephalidae of soil centipedes, mostly occuring in tropical or subtropical regions.
mecistocephalids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mecistocephalid
HLLE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of head and lateral line erosion.
copintank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copintanks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of capotain.
capatain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capatains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of capotain.
copotain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copotains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of capotain.
copotains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copotain
capatains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capatain
copintanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copintank
coprodeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the coprodeum.
coprodaeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coprodeal.
coprodaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coprodaea
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coprodeum.
coprodaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coprodaeum
techno-pessimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno-pessimists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of technopessimist.
techno-pessimists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of techno-pessimist
coquetoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coquetoons
Senses: glosses: Any of certain duikers, specifically the red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus).
coquetoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coquetoon
Cegiha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Omaha-Ponca (“a Siouan language”).
synonyms: word: Omaha-Ponca
extra: a Siouan language
Omaha-Ponca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Cegiha
glosses: A Siouan language spoken (in differing dialects) by the Omaha people of Nebraska and the Ponca people of Oklahoma and Nebraska.
court-noué
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French court-noué
Senses: glosses: A viral disease of grapevines.
GFLV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Grapevine fanleaf virus.
crackskull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackskulls
Etymology: From crack + skull.
Senses: glosses: An eccentric or crazy person.
crackskulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackskull
vetrovnjak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A creature similar to a zduhać.
cravenhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cravenhearted
form: most cravenhearted
Etymology: From craven + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: I, cravenhearted, shun the fight
ref: 1854, George Thomas May, Rhymes (page 52)
glosses: Cowardly.
Snyderbros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Snyderbro
say that again
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Short for "could you say that again?" or similar question.
Senses: synonyms: come again
glosses: Repeat what you just said.
crowquill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowquills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crow quill.
croquill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of crow quill.
crowquills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowquill
crow quill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crow quills
form: croquill
form: crowquill
Senses: glosses: A kind of pen nib for calligraphy, having a small tip and circular shank.
crow quills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow quill
cross-fertile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cross-fertilizable.
synonyms: word: cross-fertilizable
pegRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pegRNA
cross-interrogate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-interrogates
form: cross-interrogating
form: cross-interrogated
form: cross-interrogated
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cross-examine.
synonyms: word: cross-examine
cross-interrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-interrogations
Senses: glosses: The act of cross-examining.
cross-interrogatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-interrogatories
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cross-interrogation.
synonyms: word: cross-interrogation
cross-interrogatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-interrogatory
cross-interrogations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-interrogation
cross-national
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of international.
synonyms: word: international
ctenius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctenii
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small spine or spinule.
Related terms: cteniform
ctenii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctenius
daghesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dagheshes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dagesh.
dagheshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daghesh
Lagrange-d'Alembert principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lagrange-d'Alembert principle
Senses: glosses: Synonym of d'Alembert's principle.
synonyms: word: d'Alembert's principle
d'Alembert's principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after its discoverer, the French physicist and mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
Senses: synonyms: Lagrange-d'Alembert principle
glosses: A statement of the fundamental classical laws of motion, generalizing the principle of virtual work from static to dynamical systems by introducing forces of inertia which, when added to the applied forces in a system, result in dynamic equilibrium.
KANU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Kenya African National Union.
dasyu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dasyus
Senses: glosses: A kind of demon or dark force mentioned in ancient Sanskrit texts.
dasyus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dasyu
Chiani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Chiani.
Senses: glosses: A river in Tuscany, Italy, formerly called Clanis.
debutton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debuttons
form: debuttoning
form: debuttoned
form: debuttoned
Etymology: From de- + button.
Senses: glosses: To remove the button (calyx) from (an orange) to inspect it for disease.
debuttons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debutton
debuttoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debutton
debuttoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debutton
decommitments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decommitment
deedbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deedboxes
Etymology: From deed + box.
Senses: glosses: A box for the storage of deeds (type of legal document).
deedboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deedbox
delphinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of delphinine.
degreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degreens
form: degreening
form: degreened
form: degreened
Etymology: From de- + green.
Senses: glosses: To remove the green pigment (chlorophyll) from the skins of mature fruit, typically by treatment with ethylene.
glosses: Of fruit: to have the green pigment removed.
degreens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degreen
degreened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degreen
delimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delimers
Etymology: From delime + -er.
Senses: glosses: A substance used to remove lime from hides.
delimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delimer
demiworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demiworlds
Etymology: Calque of French demi-monde.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of demimonde (“class or group”).
synonyms: word: demimonde
extra: class or group
demiworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demiworld
Stirling-Rawdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formed in 1998 from the village of Stirling and township of Rawdon.
Senses: glosses: A township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
d'Alembert's formula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the French physicist and mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who derived it in 1747.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The general solution to the one-dimensional wave equation u_tt-c^(2u_)xx=0,,u(x,0)=g(x),,u_t(x,0)=h(x), for -∞0.
d'Alembert's equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the French physicist and mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Lagrange's equation
glosses: A first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation: y=xf((dy)/(dx))+g((dy)/(dx)).
Lagrange's equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of d'Alembert's equation.
synonyms: word: d'Alembert's equation
Related terms: Lagrange's equations
furbait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: fur + bait
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Non-furry fandom content, media or an aspect thereof, such as a fictional character, that appeals to furries, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
wikipedia: Lucario
demimondain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demimondain
form: most demimondain
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the demimonde.
demimondain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demimondains
Senses: coordinate_terms: demimondaine
glosses: A male member of the demimonde.
demimondains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demimondain
boopable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boopable
form: most boopable
Etymology: From boop + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being booped.
Related terms: boopableness
boopableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boopable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being boopable.
Dendrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dendrobes
Senses: examples: text: "There are Vandas," he said, "and a Dendrobe and some Palæonophis." He surveyed his purchases lovingly as he consumed his soup.
ref: 1894, H. G. Wells, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid:
glosses: Synonym of dendrobium.
synonyms: word: dendrobium
Dendrobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dendrobe
demiurgism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demiurge + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief in a demiurge, or inferior supreme being.
demulsifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demulsifiable
form: most demulsifiable
Senses: glosses: Able to be demulsified.
furotica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of fur + erotica
Senses: topics: lifestyle
synonyms: yiff
glosses: Erotic furry art, literature, media or other such work.
depasturage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Owing to the constant depasturage the grasses on this site do not seem to have been afforded a fair chance of attaining maturity.
ref: 1896, Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties, page 185:
glosses: Grazing; depasturing.
dermatotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermatotomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dermatome.
dermatotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermatotome
desiatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desiatins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dessiatina.
desiatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desiatin
destinezite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A well-crystallized form of diadochite.
descrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of descrying.
Gulf of Antalya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gulf of Antalya
Etymology: gulf + of + Antalya.
Senses: glosses: A gulf in the Mediterranean/Levantine Sea, south of the Turkish province of Antalya in Asia Minor.
deweylites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deweylite
dharmakaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dharmakayas
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One of the three bodies of a Buddha in Mahāyāna Buddhism, constituting the unmanifested, "inconceivable" aspect of a Buddha out of which Buddhas arise and to which they return after their dissolution.
dharmakayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dharmakaya
folfsky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folfskies
Etymology: Either a blend of folf (“a hybrid between a fox and a wolf”) + husky or fox + wolf + husky.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fursona or furry character that is a hybrid between a fox, wolf and a husky.
folfskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folfsky
diactinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being diactinic.
frailocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɾai̯.loˈkɾa.si/
Etymology: Partial calque of Philippine Spanish frailocracia using -cracy.
Senses: glosses: excessive and disproportionate socio-political-economic dominance of the Spanish Catholic friars over Spanish colonial Philippines, that was a constant target of criticism by the Filipino intelligentsia known as the ilustrados during the late 1800s
diddle-dee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪdəlˌdiː/
Senses: examples: text: You have plenty of diddle-dee berries out there, and if ground up and mixed with a suitable liquid it would make a very good cologne for men. They are in great demand, and the market is wide open.
ref: 1982 January 18, W. Barnes, “You've Gotta Be Kidding Department”, in The Penguin News, Stanley, Falkland Islands: Graham Bound, page 8; republished by the Jane Cameron National Archives, 2020 August 23:
synonyms: red crowberry
glosses: A plant in the heath family, of species Empetrum rubrum.
red crowberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of diddle-dee (“plant in heath family”).
synonyms: word: diddle-dee
extra: plant in heath family
didactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more didactive
form: most didactive
Senses: examples: text: Didactive parent education aims to transfer knowledge and information.
ref: 2001, Jack C. Westman, Parenthood in America: Undervalued, Underpaid, Under Siege, page 257:
text: We define didactive utterances to mean teacher utterances on the nature of (mathematical) knowledge.
ref: 2010, Despina A. Stylianou, Maria L. Blanton, Eric J. Knuth, Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades (page 297)
glosses: Synonym of didactic.
synonyms: word: didactic
diocesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a diocese.
Synonyms: diocesan
disaffinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: dis- + affinity
Senses: glosses: Lack of affinity.
dock walloping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The activity of a dock walloper, loitering around a dock in search of casual employment.
doctor birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctor bird
doctorbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctorbird
doctorbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctorbirds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doctor bird.
doctrinarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being doctrinaire.
doctorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doctorizes
form: doctorizing
form: doctorized
form: doctorized
Etymology: doctor + -ize
Senses: examples: text: I still continued to doctorize with great eclat, till very lately I have been disabled by ill health.
ref: 1803, John Bristed, The Adviser, page 173:
glosses: To work as a doctor.
examples: text: "Enough, my friend," said I, "you have enough to doctorize the whole town of St. Louis. […]"
ref: 1868, Henry Marie Brackenridge, Recollections of Persons and Places in the West, page 235:
glosses: To treat medically, as a doctor.
doctorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doctorize
doctorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doctorize
doctorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doctorize
Pigouvian tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pigouvian taxes
form: Pigovian tax
Senses: examples: text: Named after economist A.C. Pigou, a Pigouvian tax is a tax levied per unit of pollution emitted. Pigouvian taxes are meant to internalize ‘externalities’, generally understood to be positive or negative side-effects from economic production that are not reflected in the price of production.
ref: 2016, Cinnamon P. Carlarne, Kevin R. Gray, Richard Tarasofsky, editors, The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A tax on any market activity that generates negative externalities.
Pigovian tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pigovian taxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pigouvian tax.
Pigovian taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pigovian tax
Pigouvian taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pigouvian tax
douglasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A certain complex halide mineral.
Douglasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Douglasites
Etymology: Douglas + -ite
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A support of the Democrat Stephen A. Douglas in the context of the American Civil War.
Douglasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Douglasite
Pigou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpiːɡuː/
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Pigou effect
Pigouvian
drizzle-drozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drizzle-drozzles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of drizzle (“light rain”).
synonyms: word: drizzle
extra: light rain
drizzle-drozzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drizzle-drozzle
end-blown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of endblown.
endlichite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Vanadinite with significant arsenic impurity.
Point Lobos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state park in California, United States, known for its rich marine habitat.
Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of German Kaiser-Wilhelmsland. The area was discovered on 22 February 1902, during the Gauss expedition of 1901–1903 led by Arctic veteran and geologist Erich von Drygalski. Drygalski named it after the sitting Kaiser Wilhelm II who had funded the expedition with 1.2 million goldmarks.
Senses: glosses: Part of Antarctica, lying between Cape Penck at 87° 43'E and Cape Filchner at 91° 54'E.
wikipedia: Erich von Drygalski
Gauss expedition
Related terms: Kaiser-Wilhelmsland
Shortland Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Shortland Islands
Senses: glosses: An archipelago of Western Province, Solomon Islands, the largest island being Shortland Island (formerly called Alu).
Shortland Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Alu
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: The largest of the Shortland Islands.
scopuliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin scōpa (“broom”) + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: In his original description (‘‘Ichneumonologia Europaea, i., p. 342) Gravenhorst does not state whether the coxae of the female are scopuliferous or not.
ref: 1892, Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, The Irish naturalist, page 19:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: scopuliform
glosses: Brush-like.
Cape Penck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after German geographer Albrecht Penck.
Senses: glosses: An ice-covered point on the West Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
Cape Filchner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after German explorer Wilhelm Filchner.
Senses: glosses: An ice-covered cape near Adams Island, Antarctica.
Romeo and Juliet-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Romeo and Juliet-esque
form: more Romeo and Juliet-esque
form: most Romeo and Juliet-esque
form: Romeo-and-Juliet-esque
form: Romeo and Julietesque
form: Romeo-and-Julietesque
form: Romeo & Juliet-esque
Etymology: From Romeo and Juliet + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: SHALOM SALAAM (9.30 pm BBC2) Apart from running the EastEnders’ shop, the Asian community doesn’t seem to exist on British TV. This Romeo and Juliet-esque story of the love between a Muslim girl and a Jewish boy, and the conflicts it causes, is certainly a step in the right direction.
ref: 1989 April 22, Liz Anstee, “Timewatch: Look ahead with Liz; Our 7 day TV Guide: See how they run”, in South Wales Echo, number 39,668, Cardiff, →OCLC, page 32, column 3:
text: Movie: Love Story: Sappy, sentimental and romantic, this Romeo and Juliet'''-esque tragedy from director Arthur Hiller has become a classic.
ref: 2002 August 12, “TV highlights”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 94, number 129, West Palm Beach, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5E:
text: There are plenty of gritty, beautifully choreographed scenes, with surprises like enemy soldiers popping out of the sand and Romeo and Juliet'''-esque fake-out death potions.
ref: 2002 September 26, Eva Simonich, “The Four Feathers”, in Buzz (The Daily Illini), number 160, Champaign, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 3:
text: When Jim Leonard first created the concept for Fox’s Skin, a stylistically sensual, Romeo and Juliet-esque tale with pornography and politics as its core, he was urged to take it to cable.
ref: 2003 August 1, Ken Parish Perkins, “Not-so-great expectations: TV types too quick to celebrate mediocrity”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 98th year, number 98, Fort Worth, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7E, column 1:
text: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’s 1961 musical tells the story of the Romeo and Juliet'''-esque love affair between a reformed New York gang member and a Puerto Rican immigrant. When Tony (Richard Beymer) sets eyes on Maria (Natalie Wood) at a dance, it’s love at first sight – but from the beginning, their relationship is threatened by the animosity between their gangs.
ref: 2009 January 4, “Watch this: Your at-a-glance guide to this week’s unmissable films and TV shows”, in The Independent on Sunday, number 984, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 3:
text: Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Omar tells a Romeo and Juliet-esque West Bank tale where Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance when crossing the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia.
ref: 2014 March 5, “Hot Ticket: Hawaii’s celebrity movie reviews”, in MidWeek Oahu (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), volume 30, number 33, Honolulu, Haw., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 79, column 4:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare or its eponymous protagonists.
Ford Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Winmarleigh parish, Wyre district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4746).
glosses: A northern suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8850).
joe-job
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: joe-jobs
form: joe-jobbing
form: joe-jobbed
form: joe-jobbed
form: Joe-job
Etymology: Denominal verb of joe job.
Senses: examples: text: Hotmail and AOL get joe-jobbed every day: a lot of spam pretends to be from AOL but doesn’t really come through their servers.
ref: 2004 April, Meng Weng Wong, “SPF Overview”, in Don Marti, editor, Linux Journal, number 120, Seattle, Wash.: Specialized System Consultants, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 62, column 2:
text: Eric S. Raymond said that if SPF deployment does nothing other than stop the thousand bogus bounces he receives each day as a result of spammers ‘joe-jobbing’ his domain, it is a winner.
ref: 2004 October, Helen Martin, “ASRG Summary: September 2004”, in Helen Martin, editor, Virus Bulletin, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Virus Bulletin, →OCLC, page S4, column 2:
text: My Swedish mailbox was repeatedly joe-jobbed—used as the return address for spams sent to hundreds of millions of Internet accounts, so that all the bounces and angry messages came back to me.
ref: 2008, Cory Doctorow, chapter 17, in Little Brother, New York, N.Y.: Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: To send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
joe-jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of joe-job
joe-jobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of joe-job
joe-jobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of joe-job
JPMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java Platform Module System.
CHOICE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CHOICEs
Senses: examples: text: This provision permits employees enrolled in a CHOICE arrangement to use a salary reduction to pay for health plan premiums purchased through an Exchange.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 19:
glosses: Acronym of Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense
Adams Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The antarctic island is named after Edgar Lucas Adams (1883–1928), the boatswain of the expedition ship, Aurora.
Senses: glosses: A former island in Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: An uninhabited island of the Auckland Islands, New Zealand.
glosses: An uninhabited island of the Qikiqtaaluk region, Nunavut territory, Canada.
glosses: A small rocky coastal antarctic island.
Qikiqtaaluk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ (qikiqtaalok).
Senses: synonyms: Sillem Island
glosses: An uninhabited island of Nunavut territyory, Canada.
glosses: A region of Nunavut territory, Canada.
Auckland Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An uninhabited archipelago of New Zealand.
Derived terms: Auckland Islands merganser
Auckland Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of the Auckland Islands, New Zealand.
Moksela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
ref: 2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe:
glosses: An extinct language spoken on Buru Island in North Maluku province, Indonesia.
bookbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of removing pages (especially those containing maps or illustrations) from books, especially from rare ones.
bookbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookbreakers
Senses: glosses: One who carries out bookbreaking.
James Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Baffin Island
Kayeli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kajeli
Senses: glosses: An extinct language spoken by the Kayeli people on Buru Island, Indonesia.
Kajeli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
ref: 2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe:
glosses: Alternative form of Kayeli.
Luhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct language spoken on Seram Island in Indonesia.
Palumata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
ref: 2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe:
glosses: An extinct, unattested language spoken on Buru Island, Indonesia.
Sutton-in-Craven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Sutton parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SE0044).
Hukumina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
ref: 2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe:
glosses: An extinct language spoken on Buru Island in Indonesia.
-taph
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “grave”).
Senses: glosses: grave; burial
Derived terms: bibliotaph
cellotaph
cenotaph
epitaph
direct red card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct red cards
Senses: glosses: A straight red card.
Norman Invasion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Norman Invasion
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Norman Conquest.
synonyms: word: Norman Conquest
corporate speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Business schools teach “corporate” models, theoretical exercises in mediocrity that, in the great majority of cases, have no real application in the business world. They teach “corporate speak” when most business owners succeed with street sense. Education does not equal leadership -- performance does.
ref: 2003 January 5, Dennis Schroeder, “U.S. Business Schools Must Share the Blame”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2025:
text: At her peak at Morgan, she reputedly earned twenty or thirty million dollars a year. That’s a lot of cash, but it’s nothing like the riches that a senior partner at KP can pull down. I can only guess that she enjoyed being at the center of the action, and she liked being a “thought leader” (like virtually everybody on Wall Street, she had a weakness for corporate speak).
ref: 2010 November 29, John Cassidy, “Mary Meeker Moves On”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2014:
text: “I’m thinking he’s going to be like, ‘Hey, Big Papa,’” Mr. McCaskill said with a laugh. Instead, “Marcus was like, ‘Hi Drew, I see you’ve recently made a career transition, and I have a current career scenario I’m navigating,’” he said. Though the corporate speak they settled into just after wasn’t exactly a love language, Mr. McCaskill, then an independent diversity, equity and inclusion consultant in Harlem, felt a tug to pay it forward.
ref: 2024 March 1, Tammy LaGorce, “How Their Corporate Speak Turned Into a Language of Love”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of corporatespeak.
corporate-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He has put real words ("consolidate," "profitable," "strategic") on the page. You can see them. But they have been perfectly arranged to flummox the brain. The paragraph is a perfect specimen of corporate-speak: impressive to gaze upon, totally impossible to read.
ref: 2006 February 6, Janet Maslin, “The Dark Corner of Dilbert's Cubicle”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
text: Lala advances to management by learning how to promote herself, to speak up in meetings, to be pushy and friendly at the same time—in other words, to act like an American. She masters the corporate-speak of management consultants—SWOT analysis, SMART objectives.
ref: 2012 February 6, Leslie T. Chang, “Working Titles”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2014:
text: It’s all great P.R. for the company whose core mission (see, you’ll even start spouting corporate-speak) is to get you to buy shoes and sundry other items online while making you feel like you’re getting personalized service from the kindly mom-and-pop cobbler on Main Street.
ref: 2014 December 29, Sam McManis, “In Las Vegas, take the Zappos corporate tour”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of corporatespeak.
L in the chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ls in the chat
form: L's in the chat
Senses: coordinate_terms: F in the chat
W in the chat
glosses: A loss, failure, or unfortunate event.
Ls in the chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of L in the chat
L's in the chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of L in the chat
direct red cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direct red card
manifest files
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manifest file