cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prerequisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/
ipa: /pɹiˈɹɛkwəzət/
ipa: /pɹiˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/
Forms: form: prerequisites
Etymology: From pre- + requisite.
Senses: examples: text: A degree is a prerequisite for entry into this profession.
text: Only a full-scale analysis of the origin and development of our sensations and ideas can provide this knowledge; so Hartley's associationist psychology becomes the prerequisite for moral knowledge.
ref: 1995, Richard Olson, Science Deified & Science Defied:
text: If you examine the prerequisites list, you will notice it does not include bootstrapper packages for the Office 2003 PIAs.
ref: 2009, Rob Bovey, Stephen Bullen, Dennis Wallentin, John Green, Professional Excel Development:
glosses: Something that is required as necessary or indispensable, or as a prior condition of something else.
examples: text: Algebra is typically a prerequisite for physics.
glosses: In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq.
Hypernyms: requisite
Derived terms: non-prerequisite
Related terms: word: corequisite
word: requirement
english: avoid hastily confusing this word with prerequisite: one concerns job compensation; the other, job requirements
translation: avoid hastily confusing this word with prerequisite: one concerns job compensation; the other, job requirements
word: perquisite
poindexter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poindexters
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Poindexter.
paella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈ(j)ɛl(j)ə/
ipa: /pɑːˈɛ.(l)(j)ə/
ipa: /pɑːˈeɪ.(j)ə/
ipa: /paɪˈ(j)eɪ.(j)ə/
note: Indic
ipa: /paˈjɛlla/
note: Indic
ipa: /paˈjɛlja/
rhymes: -ɛlə
rhymes: -eɪə
Forms: form: paellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan paella (“pot; pan”), from Old French paelle, from Latin patella (“plate, small pan”). Doublet of patella and possibly pail.
Senses: glosses: A savory Valencian dish made of rice, cooked in a frying pan with vegetables and meat or shellfish.
Hyponyms: paella valenciana
paella Valenciana
paella Valencia
Valencian paella
paella marinera
paella marinara
arroz a la marinera
paella de marisco
seafood paella
Derived terms: word: paellalike
word: paella pan
english: paella pan
translation: paella pan
word: paellera
overgrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: more overgrown
form: most overgrown
Etymology: From over- + grown.
Senses: glosses: Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
examples: text: He spends so much money on new technology: he's like an overgrown schoolboy buying toys.
glosses: Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.
Derived terms: nonovergrown
overgrownness
overgrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology: From over- + grown.
Senses: glosses: past participle of overgrow
overcrowded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcrowd
overcrowded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcrowded
form: most overcrowded
Etymology: From over- + crowded.
Senses: examples: text: I've spent hours on overcrowded trains, and time on ones which were almost empty, because the recovery [from COVID] has been uneven.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:
glosses: Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.
Derived terms: overcrowdedly
overcrowdedness
notepad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notepads
Etymology: From note + pad.
Senses: synonyms: notebook
writing pad
pad paper
glosses: A pad of paper, often bound, in which one jots down notes; a notebook.
Hypernyms: pad
nightlife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtˌlaɪf/
Forms: form: nightlives
form: nightlifes
Etymology: From night + life.
Senses: examples: text: Rio de Janeiro boasts the best nightlife in South America.
glosses: Nocturnal activities, especially visiting nightclubs.
Derived terms: night-lifer
nightlifer
mucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːkəs/
rhymes: -uːkəs
homophone: mucus
Forms: form: more mucous
form: most mucous
Etymology: Naturalized from Late Latin mūcōsus, from Latin mūcus. By surface analysis, muc(us) + -ous = muco- + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: mucal
coordinate_terms: mucoid
myxoid
glosses: Pertaining to mucus.
synonyms: mucal
mucoid
myxoid
glosses: Having the qualities of mucus; resembling mucus.
Derived terms: mucous acid
mucously
mucous membrane
mucousness
mucous tunic
mucousy
nonmucous
semimucous
seromucous
submucous
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: mucosal
moneybags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moneybag
Synonyms: word: affluent
word: capitalist
word: fat cat
word: HNWI
word: moneybags
word: rich person
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: rich man
word: rich guy
word: rich dude
word: champagne socialist
word: chardonnay socialist
word: debutard
word: gauche caviar
word: jet-setter
word: job creator
word: latte liberal
word: limousine liberal
word: oligarch
word: patron
word: playboy
word: playgirl
word: rich kid
word: silvertail
word: hundredaire
word: thousandaire
word: millionaire
word: megamillionaire
word: multimillionaire
word: billionaire
word: centibillionaire
word: multibillionaire
word: mega-billionaire
word: trillionaire
word: quadrillionaire
word: centillionaire
word: bajillionaire
word: bazillionaire
word: gazillionaire
word: katrillionaire
word: kazillionaire
word: squillionaire
word: zillionaire
word: new money
word: old money
word: nouveau riche
Related terms: word: tycoon
word: captain of industry
word: magnate
word: mogul
word: nabob
word: financier
word: plutocrat
word: parvenu
word: upstart
word: important person
word: wealth
word: wealthy
moneybags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moneybags
Senses: glosses: A wealthy person.
Synonyms: word: affluent
word: capitalist
word: fat cat
word: HNWI
word: moneybags
word: rich person
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: rich man
word: rich guy
word: rich dude
word: champagne socialist
word: chardonnay socialist
word: debutard
word: gauche caviar
word: jet-setter
word: job creator
word: latte liberal
word: limousine liberal
word: oligarch
word: patron
word: playboy
word: playgirl
word: rich kid
word: silvertail
word: hundredaire
word: thousandaire
word: millionaire
word: megamillionaire
word: multimillionaire
word: billionaire
word: centibillionaire
word: multibillionaire
word: mega-billionaire
word: trillionaire
word: quadrillionaire
word: centillionaire
word: bajillionaire
word: bazillionaire
word: gazillionaire
word: katrillionaire
word: kazillionaire
word: squillionaire
word: zillionaire
word: new money
word: old money
word: nouveau riche
Related terms: word: tycoon
word: captain of industry
word: magnate
word: mogul
word: nabob
word: financier
word: plutocrat
word: parvenu
word: upstart
word: important person
word: wealth
word: wealthy
strontium-90
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The radioactive isotope of strontium, ⁹⁰₃₈Sr, that is present in the fallout from nuclear explosions and, being chemically similar to calcium, accumulates in the bones
mignon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnjɒn/
ipa: /ˈmɪnjɑ̃/
ipa: /mɪnˈjɑn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
Forms: form: mignons
Etymology: From French mignon, from Middle French mignon (“lover, darling, favourite”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnjo (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German minnja (“love, care, affection, desire, memory”), Old Saxon minnea (“love”). More at mind. Compare Dutch minnen (“to love”). Doublet of minion.
Senses: examples: text: “I wish the blow he dealt to that fine essenced mignon had beat his brains out.”
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 264:
synonyms: word: exquisite
word: fopling
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A cute or pretty person; a dandy; a pretty child.
examples: text: When the mignons, barefoot and clad in sacks with holes for their heads and feet, marched with Henry in a penitential procession, lashing their backs, one wit opined that they should have aimed their blows lower.
ref: 2003, Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization, Harvard, published 2003, page 330:
text: Many commentators claimed hyperbolically that, because of their outrageous fashions, it was difficult to tell whether the mignons were male or female.
ref: 2005, Rebecca Zorach, Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold, University of Chicago, published 2005, page 220:
glosses: One of the court favourites of Henry III of France.
lin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪn/
homophone: linn
homophone: Lynn
homophone: lyn
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: lins
form: linning
form: linned
form: lan
form: linned
form: lan
form: lun
Etymology: From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).
Senses: examples: text: Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.
ref: 1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD)
text: He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.
ref: 1822, The Three Perils of Man, James Hogg, I. 238:
glosses: To desist, to stop, to cease.
Derived terms: blin
lin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪn/
homophone: linn
homophone: Lynn
homophone: lyn
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: lins
Etymology: See English linn.
Senses: examples: text: a roaring lin
text: And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 9 p. 134:
text: Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.
ref: c. 1735-1801, John Millar, poem, published in 1979, William Christian Lehmann, John Millar of Glasgow, 1735-1801, page 414
text: Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.
ref: 1776, David Herd, George Paton, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, page 20, "Binnorie"
text: What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
ref: 1814, J. H. Craig [pseudonym; James Hogg], The Hunting of Badlewe: A Dramatic Tale, London: H[enry] Colburn; Edinburgh: G. Goldie, →OCLC, page 1; quoted in “The Hunting of Badlewe, a Dramatic Tale. 8vo. Edin. 1814. [From the Scottish Review.]”, in The Analectic Magazine, Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, together with Original Miscellaneous Compositions, volume V (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and sold by Moses Thomas, […], May 1815, →OCLC, pages 353–354:
text: A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.
ref: 1827, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, page 51
text: O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret,
But kept my heart aboon,
Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,
ref: 1861, Alexander McLachlan, The Emigrant: And Other Poems, page 201
roman: By Locher ' s roaring lin.
glosses: Alternative spelling of linn.
lin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪn/
homophone: linn
homophone: Lynn
homophone: lyn
rhymes: -ɪn
ipa: /laɪn/
ipa: /lɪn/
homophone: linn
homophone: Lynn
homophone: lyn
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: lins
Etymology: From Middle English lin, from Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen, lint.
Senses: examples: text: a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel
text: […] to Sowerby-bridge, about twenty-four measured miles, wheel carriages would go in one day; and on that account they concluded that the manufacture of that place, Warrington, &c. would be much readier and cheaper supplied with lin-yarn, flax, &c. from the east, […]
1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]
ref: 1775, John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, page 16:
text: A yerd a gooid lin check.
ref: 1864, Poems, Preston, section 8:
text: Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.
ref: 1866, Gilpin, Songs, 233
text: Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.
ref: 1874 (ed. of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 27
glosses: Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”).
indie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndi/
rhymes: -ɪndi
Etymology: From independent, by shortening, + -ie. Used of popular music since the 1980s, and of cinema for some decades before that.
Senses: examples: text: an indie pop group
text: an indie video game
text: You would hide away and find your peace of mind / With some indie record that’s much cooler than mine
ref: 2012, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, in Red, performed by Taylor Swift:
glosses: Independent; from outside the mainstream.
Related terms: indy
indie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndi/
rhymes: -ɪndi
Forms: form: indies
Etymology: From independent, by shortening, + -ie. Used of popular music since the 1980s, and of cinema for some decades before that.
Senses: examples: text: He says Ninja Tune retains the master and publishing rights on most of its catalog, making it easy to license quickly. Yet as majors jump on the videogame bandwagon, he fears indies may lose that outlet.
ref: 2005 January 15, Billboard, volume 117, number 3, page 36:
glosses: An independent publisher.
glosses: A work released by an independent publisher.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic.
glosses: A person who listens to indie music and follows indie fashion.
Derived terms: grindie
indiedom
indie folk
indie-like
indieness
indie pop
indie press
indie rock
indietronica
Indiewood
landfill indie
stindie
imperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɪəɹiəlɪst/
Forms: form: more imperialist
form: most imperialist
Etymology: From imperial + -ist, after French impérialiste.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
ref: 1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13:
glosses: Of, or relating to imperialism.
imperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɪəɹiəlɪst/
Forms: form: imperialists
Etymology: From imperial + -ist, after French impérialiste.
Senses: examples: text: "The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
ref: 2010 August 22, “North Korea demands apology, reparations from Japan over colonization”, in CNN:
glosses: An advocate of imperialism.
Derived terms: antiimperialist
anti-imperialist
archimperialist
counterimperialist
counter-imperialist
ecoimperialist
eco-imperialist
imperialistic
interimperialist
neoimperialist
neo-imperialist
nonimperialist
ultraimperialist
Jubilee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See jubilee. The proper noun sense (“London Underground line”) was named after the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1926–2022) in 1977.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A London Underground line which runs between Stratford in East London and Stanmore in northwest London, via the London Docklands, South Bank, and West End.
Jubilee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jubilees
Etymology: See jubilee. The proper noun sense (“London Underground line”) was named after the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1926–2022) in 1977.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hough it be in the povver of the vveakeſt arme to take avvay life, it is not in the ſtrongeſt to deprive us of death: […] the firſt day of our Jubilee is death; the Devill hath therefore failed of his deſires; vvee are happier vvith death than vve ſhould have been vvithout it: there is no miſery but in himſelfe vvhere there is no end of miſery: […]
ref: 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, section 44, page 94:
text: "Hurrah! hurrah! we bring the Jubilee! / Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!" / So we sung the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, / While we were marching through Georgia.
ref: 1865 (date written), [Henry Clay Work], “Marching through Georgia”, in Beadle’s Dime Song Book […], number 17, New York, N.Y.: Beadle and Company, […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 57:
text: [I]n the old Israel, there had supposedly been a system of ‘Jubilee’, a year in which all land should go back to the family to which it had originally belonged and during which all slaves should be released.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, “Boundaries Defined (50 CE–300)”, in Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, New York, N.Y.: Viking, published 2010, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jubilee (“(Jewish history) special year of emancipation supposed to be observed every fifty years; (Roman Catholicism) special year in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted”)
gunmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunman
guff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌf/
ipa: /ɡɐf/
ipa: /ɡʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: guffs
Senses: examples: text: “… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: Nonsensical talk or thinking.
glosses: Superfluous information.
examples: text: “Oh, my God. Did-did you guys kill him?” “No! No one murdered him” “No! What... He was just...” “We found him in there.” “(laughs) I'm just giving you guff. And, uh, just so you know, I am feeding on you guys right now.”
ref: 2019 May 8, Jemaine Clement, “The Trial” (2:53 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
glosses: A fart; act of breaking wind.
Synonyms: sense: nonsensical talk or thinking
word: balls
sense: nonsensical talk or thinking
word: bull
sense: nonsensical talk or thinking
word: bulldust
sense: nonsensical talk or thinking
word: bullshit
sense: nonsensical talk or thinking
word: crap
sense: nonsensical talk or thinking
word: nonsense
sense: nonsensical talk or thinking
word: rubbish
sense: nonsensical talk or thinking
word: tripe
sense: insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks
word: brass neck
sense: insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks
word: cheek
sense: insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks
word: impudence
sense: insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks
word: insolence
sense: insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks
word: lip
guff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌf/
ipa: /ɡɐf/
ipa: /ɡʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: guffs
form: guffing
form: guffed
form: guffed
Senses: glosses: To fart.
examples: text: "Let me see if I get you. You can't bear to help convict Ashe of murder because you doubt if he's guilty, so you're scooting. Right?"
[…]"That's close enough," Wolfe said.
"Not close enough for me. If you expect me to[…] invite a stiff fine for running out on a subpoena[…], don't try to guff me. Say we doubt if Ashe is guilty, but we think he may get tagged because we know Mandelbaum wouldn't go to trial without a good case. Say also our bank account needs a shot in the arm, which is true. So we decide to see if we can[…]"
ref: 1955 October, Rex Stout, “The Next Witness”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: To mislead.
Synonyms: sense: mislead
word: To bullshit
Derived terms: guffer
guff off
erogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɒd͡ʒɪnəs/
rhymes: -ɒd͡ʒɪnəs
Forms: form: more erogenous
form: most erogenous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs, “love”) + -genous (“producing”).
Senses: examples: text: His neck, shoulders, upper back, and spine were erogenous zones.
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (paperback), Fourth Estate, page 254:
glosses: Sensitive to sexual arousal.
examples: text: give him an erogenous massage
glosses: Causing sexual arousal; erotogenic.
Derived terms: erogenousness
erogenous zone
dumbasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumbass
dotty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒti/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.ti/
ipa: [ˈdɑ.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: dottier
form: dottiest
Etymology: See dote, or compare totty (“unsteady, dizzy”).
Senses: examples: text: My nan has got dottier and dottier since passing the age of eighty.
text: Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used. The old lady upstairs must be either deaf or dotty.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: "Good God! I don't want another accident here. I should go dotty if I had to face all that again."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 152:
text: Mr. Fox stopped digging and stared at Badger as though he had gone completely dotty. "My dear old furry frump," he said, "do you know anyone in the whole world who wouldn't swipe a few chickens if their children were starving to death?"
ref: 1970, Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 45:
glosses: Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
glosses: Having an unsteady gait.
Derived terms: dottily
dottiness
dotty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒti/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.ti/
ipa: [ˈdɑ.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: dottier
form: dottiest
Etymology: From dot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Look at the dotty pattern on that cheetah's fur.
glosses: Having many dots.
dotty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒti/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.ti/
ipa: [ˈdɑ.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: dotties
Etymology: From dot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Never bummy but I'm scummy fam, I used to burgle houses
Then some OGs was consignin me them ounces
Wet man round me had me feeling like I’m drownin
Fam we really went there with a brownin
Me and next man really went there with a dotty
05 murder squad nicked me for a [censored]
ref: 2013, “Mad Years”, in Potter Payper (lyrics), Training Day, performed by Potter Payper:
text: They dont know what I’ve been through
Red dot on his head like a hindu
Scrams, Face just stack for the Wesson
Ca’ be the gunplay that we’re into
It’s like them man chill with the singer
Two dot dots there in the dinger
Yard man’s got a dotty in the rave
But he’s still tryna do the La Linga
We’ve had guns and shanks without awareness
We’ve had guns and shanks we’re so fearless
ref: 2017, “Mad About Bars”, TMula (lyrics), performed by 86 (TMula x Scrams):
text: Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
ref: 2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):
text: I’m out here from the night till dawn
The dotty’s out but I like it sawn
ref: 2020, “Respawn”, Cillian (lyrics), chorus:
glosses: A shotgun.
hubble-bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hubble-bubbles
form: hubble bubble
Senses: glosses: A bubbling sound.
examples: text: In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.
ref: 1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction:
text: I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks.
ref: 1878, William M. Tileston, A Trip to the Tea Country:
text: […] and then all at once the muttering bubbling noise made by Yussuf's pipe seemed to be coming from the old lawyer's parted lips, and the pipe, instead of justifying its name of “hubble-bubble,” kept on saying snorruk—snorruk, after the fashion of Mr. Burne.
ref: 1887, G.M. Fenn, Yussuf the Guide:
glosses: A hookah.
slyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪnəs
Forms: form: slynesses
Etymology: From Middle English slynesse. By surface analysis, sly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: With his natural slyness, he was able to talk his way out of trouble.
glosses: The state or quality of being sly.
glosses: The result or product of being sly.
Synonyms: craftiness
langet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langets
Senses: glosses: A long thin strip of metal (usually either two or four) extending from the head of a staff weapon (such as a halberd) down a certain length of the wooden shaft, secured with nails or screws and designed to prevent splitting or breakage of the wood.
glosses: In some swords, an extension of the guard located on both flats of the blade, designed to fit tightly over the mouth of a scabbard and prevent accidental unsheathing.
langet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A strong lace used in Holland for women's clothing.
sexual tension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual tensions
Senses: glosses: Libidinal unrest arising between individuals when exposed to one another.
libidinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈbɪ.də.nəl/
Senses: glosses: Relating or pertaining to the libido.
Derived terms: antilibidinal
antilibidinous
libidinally
pheresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹisɪs/
Forms: form: phereses
Etymology: In medicine, perhaps a back-formation from compounds such as plasmapheresis. The linguistics term may be a self-referential pun as with haplogy for haplology.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of apheresis.
synonyms: word: apheresis
Derived terms: plateletpheresis
sexual fraternization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, in the industrial town of Lowell, where women also took on male jobs, Miller finds that fear of sexual fraternization led employers to enforce rigid, sometimes unpleasant rules about conduct between men and women.
ref: 1982, Patricia Rosof, The Military and Society: Reviews of Recent Research, page 73:
text: A sixth reason cited against allowing women in combat is that the presence of women will lead to sexual fraternization and disruption of discipline.
ref: 1995, Dana E. Bushnell, "Nagging" Questions: Feminist Ethics in Everyday Life, page 133:
text: [T]he Committee on Women's Concerns at the University of Virginia proposed a university-wide ban on all sexual fraternization between undergraduates and professors.
ref: 1997, Barry Michael Dank, Roberto Refinetti, Sexual Harassment & Sexual Consent, page 107:
text: Like their American counterparts, German officials frowned on interracial sexual fraternization.
ref: 2005, Heide Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America, page 64:
glosses: Any kind of sexual relations between two or more individuals.
inserting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɝtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insert
inserting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɝtɪŋ/
Forms: form: insertings
Senses: examples: text: Flax handkerchiefs composed in chief value of edgings and insertings of cotton lace made on the Lever or Gothrough machine are properly dutiable at the rate of 70 per cent […]
ref: 1913, Congressional Serial Set, page 627:
glosses: Something inserted or set in, such as lace in garments.
booze bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booze buses
Senses: examples: 1982 December 2, Police 'booze buses' gear up for the start of random breath tests, Sydney Morning Herald, page 16, quoted in 1985, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, →ISBN.
glosses: A police vehicle used for administering blood-alcohol tests (to drivers), generally a mid-size bus converted or fitted out for the purpose.
Related terms: RBT
sexual relation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual relations
Senses: examples: text: It would be easy to prove by a long array of facts that the sexual relation is associated in the primitive mind with many serious perils; but the exact nature of the danger apprehended is still obscure.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 358:
glosses: Behaviour of a sexual nature between one or more individuals.
kuru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʉː.ɹʉː/
ipa: /ˈkʊ.ɹuː/
rhymes: (UK) -ʊɹu
Etymology: From Fore kúru (literally “trembling, shivering”). Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *kút(V) (“dangling, shaking”) if cognate with the reduplicated element of Yagaria gúli gúli hu- (“be loose, rattle”).
Senses: examples: text: By the late 1950s, kuru was the leading cause of death among Fore women, and it had killed so many that men outnumbered women by three to one.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 273:
synonyms: laughing death
laughing sickness
glosses: A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
rāmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ⓐ In Umsei Yatsura (TV tp. 2, ep. 5, st. 9) Ataru is eating rāmen in a restaurant while watching TV. • In Oh My Goddess! (OVA 1), Keiichi’s second takeout order attempt is for rāmen. • Rāmen and pot stickers are being eaten by Ken when Miyuki introduces herself at the station in You’re Under Arrest (OVA 1).
ref: 1999, Gilles Poitras, The Anime Companion: What’s Japanese in Japanese Animation?, Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, page 105:
text: According to the discussion in online communities, rāmen shops are not conceived as places for the average woman. However, connoisseurs strive to overcome these stereotypes. One female member writes, “I love rāmen and go to rāmen shops by myself. At first I was not comfortable eating alone, but now I am used to it, and there are only a few particular shops where I still feel uncomfortable.”
ref: 2010, Satomi Fukutomi, “Rāmen Connoisseurs: Class, Gender, and the Internet”, in Eric C. Rath, Stephanie Assmann, editors, Japanese Foodways, Past and Present, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 269:
text: “We had a few popular dishes on the menu such as sweet-sour pork and fried pork with green peppers, but few people had money to pay for such main dishes, and most of them just ate rāmen. This was the time of the Sapporo rāmen boom”, Miyuki-san said.
ref: 2018, James Farrer, “The Decline of the Neighborhood Chinese Restaurant in Urban Japan”, in The German Journal of Food Studies and Hospitality: Band 2 (2018), IUDICIUM Verlag, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: Alternative form of ramen.
myriameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myriameters
Etymology: From myria- + meter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of myriametre.
mainstays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainstay
flunk out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flunks out
form: flunking out
form: flunked out
form: flunked out
Senses: examples: text: He flunked out of high school as a youth, but finished school later in life.
glosses: To fail to finish school, or a given subject, program or course, due to academic shortcomings; i.e., to have too many flunking or failing grades (marks).
examples: text: They could simply have replied, "No, we're way too square. And until you do come up with an answer, stick to the syllabus so that we don't have to flunk out your mixed-up students when we get them next quarter."
ref: 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN:
glosses: (of an educator or institution) To impose failing grades on (a student), often requiring a retaking of the course or academic year.
Related terms: drop out
diamond cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A lace knitting stitch pattern, multiple of 17 plus 2 stitches, 35 rows in pattern.
crinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪŋkəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Forms: form: crinkles
form: crinkling
form: crinkled
form: crinkled
Etymology: From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.
Senses: examples: text: He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
text: The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
glosses: To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
examples: text: The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
ref: 1908, John Townsend Trowbridge, Vagabonds and other poems:
text: All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Browning, Aurora Leigh:
glosses: To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
Derived terms: uncrinkle
crinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪŋkəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Forms: form: crinkles
Etymology: From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.
Senses: examples: text: He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.
glosses: A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
glosses: The act of crinkling.
Derived terms: crinklebutt
crinkle-crankle
crinkle-cut
crinkle-leaved poison
crinkle-patterned
crinkleroot
crinkly
unevenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unevennesses
Etymology: From Middle English unevennesse, equivalent to uneven + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The unevenness of his voice betrayed his nervousness.
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being uneven; irregularity; inconsistency; the lack of smoothness or continuity.
glosses: The result or product of being uneven.
examples: text: His chinne, a thorny hairy unevennesse, / Doth threaten, and some daily change possesse.
ref: 1633, John Donne, Sapho to Philænis:
glosses: A rough or uneven thing.
powerhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerhouses
Etymology: From power + house.
Senses: examples: text: The new powerhouse comprised two tube turbines with a total capacity of 4,500 kW under 18.3 feet head.
ref: 1986, Donald R. Froelich, S. K. Wagner, Fourth International Symposium on Hydro Power Fluid Machinery:
glosses: A power station; the building housing a power station
examples: text: The company has been a powerhouse in its industry for many years.
text: The mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell.
text: She's a powerhouse of ideas.
text: The Soviet Union often led the world in the Olympics during the Cold War, and East Germany was an Olympic powerhouse — though athletes from both are now believed to have been systematically and massively doped[…]
ref: 2016 August 25, Fareed Zakaria, “What the Olympics reveal about the world”, in The Washington Post:
text: While the California economy maintains its powerhouse status, outranking even those of most countries, the state’s most-powerful sectors — including tech companies and supply chain logistics — have struggled to keep their footing, pummeled by high interest rates, investor skittishness, labor strife and other turmoil.
ref: 2023 April 11, Kurtis Lee, “California Economy Is on Edge After Tech Layoffs and Studio Cutbacks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Long Europe’s powerhouse, Germany is struggling with a potent mix of short-term and deeper structural problems that – along with a divided and seemingly ineffectual government – have prompted economists to talk of the “sick man of Europe”.
ref: 2024 January 5, Jon Henley, “Why is Germany’s economy struggling – and can the government fix it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The vocal powerhouse has sold more than 250 million albums during her 40-year career and has won five Grammy awards.
ref: 2024 February 4, “Celine Dion makes surprise appearance at Grammy awards”, in bbc.com:
glosses: Any source of power, energy or strength; a source of influence or inspiration
examples: text: A hand like A-2-3-4 is a powerhouse in Omaha/8, because it can easily make the best low hand and capture half the pot.
ref: 2011, Richard D. Harroch, Lou Krieger, Poker For Dummies:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A very good hand of cards, likely to win.
Related terms: workhorse
far cry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: far cries
Etymology: In allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.
Senses: examples: text: Life in the big city was a far cry from his upbringing on a quiet, small farm.
text: The perineometer of Kagele was unheard of and the hormonology of today is a far cry from the rather crude and relatively weak hormones available in the early and mid-thirties.
ref: 1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 508:
text: Brienne intervenes in the story of Jaime Lannister, adding to his legend with the exploits she believes paint the picture of him that deserves to live on. Her words are a far cry from those Jaime used to describe himself at their last encounter, instead recounting his deeds and ending with the simple, “He died protecting his queen,” a sentence that belies the complicated mix of nobility and tragedy entwined in his actions.
ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
text: It's a far cry from a previous trip on a Class 150, where the set wheezed and vibrated so much as it staggered up Dainton Bank that I thought it was going to shake itself to bits!
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: A long distance, in terms of dissimilarity or difference.
far cry
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: In allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.
Senses: examples: text: a far cry taller
glosses: Very much; to a great extent or degree; by far.
lawbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːbɹeɪkə/
ipa: /ˈlɔ.bɹeɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɑ.bɹeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: lawbreakers
form: law-breaker
Etymology: From Middle English lawbreker, lawe brekare; equivalent to law + breaker.
Senses: examples: text: I'm just a poor old man. I have no time for law-breakers. My legs are grey. My ears are gnarled. My eyes are old and bent.
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Matthias (John Young):
text: People often assume that speedboarders are disrespectful lawbreakers.
ref: 2007 November 28, Nick Kolich, “Speedboarders fly down hills”, in The Beacon:
text: Mr. Grimm pleaded guilty to a single count of tax fraud and was convicted in July 2015; he went on to serve eight months in prison. Lawmaker, law enforcer and lawbreaker — that’s a heck of a résumé, and alliterative, too!
ref: 2017 February 18, John Schwartz, “Tax Advice From Lawmakers Turned Lawbreakers”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who breaks (violates) the law, a criminal.
lethally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːθəli/
Forms: form: more lethally
form: most lethally
Etymology: From lethal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was lethally poisoned by the cobra and died a day later of it.
glosses: In a lethal manner, in manner which is or will be fatal.
Derived terms: nonlethally
supralethally
lethargically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lethargically
form: most lethargically
Etymology: From lethargic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a lethargic manner, without energy, tiredly.
tiredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tiredly
form: most tiredly
Etymology: From tired + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tired manner.
leniency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːni.ən(t)si/
note: in rapid speech
ipa: /ˈliːnjən(t)si/
Forms: form: leniencies
Etymology: From lenient + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: The convicted felon asked for leniency, but because the crime was so heinous the judge refused and gave the maximum sentence.
glosses: The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.
glosses: An act of being lenient.
Derived terms: leniency applicant
leniency application
Leniency Notice
leniency policy
Leniency Program
overleniency
lenience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːni.ən(t)s/
note: in rapid speech
ipa: /ˈliːnjən(t)s/
Forms: form: leniences
Etymology: From lenient + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: There was lenience in the sentence given by the court, and he got the minimum prison time.
glosses: Leniency: mercy or forgiveness in the assignment of punishment.
leniently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leniently
form: most leniently
Etymology: From lenient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With Assyria in full control of the Levantine littoral, Philistia, which was vital to Assyrian political and commercial aspirations, was treated leniently and was awarded “favored nation” status.
ref: 2010, Seymour Gitin, “Philistines in the Books of Kings”, in André Lemaire, Baruch Halpern, Matthew Joel Adams, editors, The Books of Kings: Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception, page 317:
glosses: In a lenient manner.
Derived terms: unleniently
levelheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more levelheaded
form: most levelheaded
Senses: examples: text: Having spent the day in the company of this thoughtful, friendly, uncommonly levelheaded band – charmed, completely – a protective part of me sort of wishes they wouldn't hoedown
ref: 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph:
text: [Canadian Prime Minister] Mr. [Mark] Carney was the exacting governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis, and the levelheaded governor of the Bank of England during Brexit.
ref: 2025 April 2, Sara Miller Llana, “Who is Mark Carney? Maybe just who Canada wants to face off against Trump.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Alternative spelling of level-headed.
Derived terms: levelheadedly
levelheadedness
licentiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more licentiously
form: most licentiously
Etymology: From licentious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites).
rowdily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rowdily
form: most rowdily
Etymology: From rowdy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rowdy manner.
in the dock
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Referring to the dock in which an accused person stands in a courtroom.
Senses: synonyms: on trial
glosses: Under accusation, scrutiny; subject to critical inspection.
Related terms: under the spotlight
in the spotlight
under the microscope
amygdalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amygdaline
Etymology: From amygdal- + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoside of benzaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide found in bitter almonds, and in the kernels of some other fruit.
Hyponyms: laetrile
vitamin B17
Derived terms: neoamygdalin
Related terms: laetrile
viaticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin viaticum (“provisions for a long journey”).
Senses: glosses: Life insurance policies which are sold at a discount to the face amount, or death benefit, of people who have been medically determined to have life expectancies of less than two years.
Related terms: viatical