cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
creens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creen
creening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creen
creened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creen
undoxxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + doxxed.
Senses: examples: text: Having a known founder is just another advantage for the buyer in terms of their research and due diligence process in buying the NFT they want, unlike undoxxed teams where you can only check some information like their web 3.0 Twitter account, which they just created.
ref: 2022 August 12, “Doxxed Vs Un-Doxxed”, in The Pulse, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2023:
glosses: Not doxxed.
inables
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inable
inabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of inable
inabled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inable
self-acknowledgedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From self- + acknowledgedly.
Senses: examples: text: Kim Fowley (a self-acknowledgedly bizarre and cultish personality who frequently pops up in accounts of '60s rock and roll) was then Chattahoochee's in-house producer.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: Acknowledged to be such by oneself.
mistweet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistweets
Etymology: From mis- + tweet.
Senses: examples: text: The job offer was withdrawn and 'Cisco Fatty' became a legendary mistweet and a cautionary tale for all those who blurt out such thoughts without setting their account to private.
ref: 2012, Tim Collins, The Little Book of Twitter: Get Tweetwise!:
text: In a fit of pique, woman at the National Theatre responded with a stunningly inappropriate mistweet, calling Norris a four-letter word.
ref: 2012, Beth Kanter, Katie Delahaye Paine, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, page 177:
text: The dangers of a mistweet or a mea culpa “about Face” on Facebook are not limited to business owners or senior executives with impaired public relations skills.
ref: 2014, Harvey Thompson, Who Stole My Customer??, page 157:
glosses: A tweet (message sent on X or (formerly) Twitter) that should not have been sent, such as one that is inappropriate, embarrassing, sent in error, etc.
mistweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistweets
form: mistweeting
form: mistweeted
form: mistweeted
Etymology: From mis- + tweet.
Senses: examples: text: Even if you press Delete seconds after you've mistweeted, someone somewhere may have taken a screen shot.
ref: 2013, Aliza Sherman, Danielle Elliott Smith, Social Media Engagement For Dummies:
text: Having mistweeted some months earlier, Westpac sympathetically responded, 'Hey @nab know the feeling'.
ref: 2014, Sandra Moriarty, Nancy D. Mitchell, William D. Wells, Advertising: Principles and Practice, page 43:
text: If you mistweet, misfire or misrepresent then take the time to think of an appropriate response.
ref: 2014, Deborah Gonzalez, Managing Online Risk: Apps, Mobile, and Social Media Security, page 66:
glosses: To send a mistweet.
mistweets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistweet
mistweets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistweet
mistweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistweet
mistweeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistweet
Demelza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cornish Dinmelsa ("fort of Melsa").
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in St Wenn parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9763).
examples: text: Demelza McCloud
text: Demelza Reveley
glosses: A female given name.
doxxee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doxxees
Etymology: From doxx + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The answer depends on whether the doxxee, like Hovater, willingly revealed his or her identity. It also depends on whether the doxxing is done competently and with a positive moral purpose.
ref: 2017 August 12, Joseph Holt, “‘Doxxing’ someone, even if he’s a Nazi sympathizer, poses a serious ethical dilemma”, in CNBC:
glosses: One who is doxxed, a victim of doxxing.
doxxees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doxxee
folk-rockish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folk-rockish
form: most folk-rockish
Senses: examples: text: His only other Hot 100 item came in 1965 with the folk-rockish "It's Gonna Be Fine" (#54).
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: Similar to or reminiscent of folk rock.
speedgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speedgames
Etymology: Compound of speed + game.
Senses: examples: text: The best speedgames are relatively short, not too luck-based, and have a very high skill ceiling.
text: No one had really speedrun that game [Rage] yet ... It's what got me into speedrunning, not what my first speedgame was.
ref: 2016 January 6, Chris Daniel Grant, quoting Halfcoordinated, “How a gamer with a disability speedruns some of the world's fastest games”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
text: Generations is the speedgame among speedgames, eschewing even the technical aspects of Adventure 2 in favor of levels meant to be blazed through and conquered in as short a time as possible.
ref: 2021 July 13, Caleb Pisoni, “In Defense of 3D Sonic”, in Paste (magazine), Decatur, G.A.: Paste Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2023:
text: With Minecraft rising up the ranks and becoming the most popular speedgame of all time, there is no doubt this record will be heavily contested in the months to come.
ref: 2022 April 7, Sam Reaves, “Minecraft: Fastest Speedruns”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
glosses: A video game that one speedruns.
speedgames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speedgame
badvocacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of bad + advocacy
Senses: examples: text: Badvocacy can be small and sneak up on you or can be big and take you by storm.
ref: 2014, Deborah Gonzalez, Managing Online Risk: Apps, Mobile, and Social Media Security, page 65:
text: Today, this advocacy or ‘badvocacy’ is often the loudest voice out there – 83% of global respondents say they completely or somewhat trust the recommendations of friends and family.
ref: 2017 June 6, Mark Davies, “Guiding principles to navigate the Customer 4.0 revolution”, in Consultancy.uk:
text: It has also occasionally arisen in the broader human rights context, with the ‘badvocacy’ controversy surrounding Invisible Children’s ‘Kony 2012’ campaign as one good example .
ref: 2019 July, Dustin N. Sharp, “Through a Glass, Darkly: Three Important Conversations for Human Rights Professionals”, in Journal of Human Rights Practice, volume 11, number 2:
text: This "badvocacy” relationship, a term coined by Amanda Taub (2012), relies on stereotypes and limited points of view and exploits the do-gooding imperative to push for simple solutions to simplified problems.
ref: 2021, Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Lisa Ann Richey, Batman Saves the Congo:
glosses: Negative comments and disparagement of a person or organization that is spread online or by word of mouth.
26/11
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the date 26 November written in numbers according the format used in the India, which puts the day before the month.
Senses: glosses: The 2008 Mumbai attacks.
badvocate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badvocates
Etymology: Blend of bad + advocate
Senses: examples: text: Taking such a transparent, honest approach can even provide "an opportunity to change a badvocate, into a potential advocate,” says Bough, as long as communications are authentic and sincere.
ref: 2010, Antony Young, Brand Media Strategy:
text: In this case, a company ought to determine whether an individual who discusses company products is a valuable marketing resource (advocate) or a threat to the brand (badvocate).
ref: 2011, Clarke L. Caywood, The Handbook of Strategic Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications, page 151:
text: One type of badvocate, sometimes identified as a troll, is a hacktivist.
ref: 2014, Deborah Gonzalez, Managing Online Risk: Apps, Mobile, and Social Media Security, page 66:
glosses: One who engages in badvocacy
badvocates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badvocate
toothward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toothward
form: most toothward
Etymology: From tooth + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Sir James Goodhart, I presume, does not doubt the ulceration ' of the toothward surface of the gum-flaps forming the pockets, but there are other areas of ulceration.
ref: 1914, The Lancet, page 768:
glosses: Orientated in the direction of the teeth.
toothward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toothward
form: most toothward
Etymology: From tooth + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: We have observed the ancients’ misapplication and abuse of a panoply of caustic and corrosive materials turned toothward. Thankfully, arsenic, strong acids, and the like have long ago been removed from the dentist’s formulary.
ref: 1998, The excruciating history of dentistry / toothsome tales & oral oddities from Babylon to braces, page 173:
glosses: Towards the teeth.
Wwoofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wwoofers
Senses: examples: text: There are at least three regular Wwoofers at Burscombe Cliff: a teacher, a writer and a journalist.
ref: 2019 October 1, Jay Sivell, “A weekend break on an organic farm in Kent”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of wwoofer.
Wwoofers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wwoofer
throatward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more throatward
form: most throatward
Etymology: From throat + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Orientated in the direction of the throat.
throatward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more throatward
form: most throatward
Etymology: From throat + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards the throat.
flipperdinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flipperdingers
Senses: glosses: A toy consisting of a reed tube with a hole of a certain shape coming out one side. When the user blows into it, the air exiting the hole serves to levitate a small, light ball.
snapper-uppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snapper-upper
idiot stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiot sticks
Senses: glosses: A trick toy in which the mark is challenged to catch a hooked stick on a rubber band inside a tube. In reality, there is no rubber band in the tube; the trickster creates the illusion of one by propelling the handle of the stick by squeezing it between their fingers, which looks as if it is being pulled back in by the rubber band.
mistwist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistwists
form: mistwisting
form: mistwisted
form: mistwisted
Etymology: From mis- + twist.
Senses: examples: text: And as for the amelioration of the revenue in consonance with the changed and up to date conditions of the trade the Bureau has never been known to be guilty of any ideas in that direction with the possible exception of mistwisting the statutes to oppress the trade and hinder its development.
ref: 1907, United States Tobacco Journal - Volume 68, page 4:
text: "The boys is all het up over the way they've been did in the game," he muttered, "an' if I was to butt in they'd likely mistwist my meanin'. […]"
ref: 1911, David A. Curtis, Old Man Greenhut and His Friends, page 287:
text: It is somehow reassuring to know that the machines can make mistakes—they mistwist, or drop, or otherwise foul up about five pretzels in every hundred.
ref: 1958, Atkinson's Evening Post and Philadelphia Saturday News, page 96:
glosses: To twist incorrectly or by mistake.
mistwist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistwists
Etymology: From mis- + twist.
Senses: examples: text: There is a great square box in which glass that has been spoiled is cast aside, worthless through the single mistwist of a wrist perhaps, or perhaps a flaw is started in the early stages of transformation, that is not discovered until many dollars worth of work has been done upon the little square piece of glass that first came into the factory.
ref: 1906 March, Alexander Hume Ford, “How the All-Seeing-Eye (Mechanical) is Made”, in New Age Magazine, volume 4, number 3, page 245:
text: To Pelagius, a personally irreproachable man according to what little view of him emerges from the shadows of personal obscurity, "sin" was not a basic mistwist in the human character. It represented momentary, isolated, individual acts of willful evil.
ref: 1987, Martin E. Marty, A Short History of Christianity, page 127:
text: Walking and driving seem to be examples of muscular movement toward a goal in which a misstep or mistwist occurs once in millions or billions of instances.
ref: 2003, Philip Julian Runkel, People as Living Things: The Psychology of Perceptual Control, page 169:
text: The angle of a small-angle grain boundary is generally limited to within ~10-15° mistilt or mistwist, which is close to the overlapping limit of dislocation.
ref: 2014, Nobuo Tanaka, Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Of Nanomaterials, page 121:
text: Once or twice he narrowly missed: the full flavor of sleep was right there on his palate, only to vaporize in a mistwist of the neck or a voice adrift on the ward.
ref: 2015, Larry Duberstein, Postcards from Pinsk:
glosses: An instance of mistwisting.
mistwists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistwist
mistwists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistwist
mistwisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistwist
mistwisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistwist
coffee ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee rings
Senses: glosses: A brown ring-shaped stain left on a porous surface, especially paper, after a cup of coffee has been placed on it.
beach ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach ridges
Senses: glosses: A wave-swept or wave deposited ridge running parallel to a shoreline.
smell a fox
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: smell a fox .
Senses: examples: text: Lang.: A ghost ? Where, my lord ?—I smell a fox.
ref: 1611, The Atheist's Tragedy, page 316:
text: Aſter the Porcupine had liſtened a while to his deceitful Arguments, he made this Reply to the enſnaring Beguiler, Methinks I ſmell a Fox, keep at a Diſtance; your eloquent Flouriſhes have made no Impreſſions upon me.
ref: 1754, Aesop's Fables: with his life, and morals and remarks. Fitted for the meanest capacities., page 24:
text: […]when, hearing a little titter in the neighbouring ſchool room, he began to ſmell a fox, and dreſſing him-ſelf again, with a malignant determination of better note for the future […]
ref: 1766, The fool of quality; or, the history of Henry Earl of Moreland. By Mr. Brooke. A new edition, greatly altered and improved., page 183:
synonyms: smell a rat
glosses: To be suspicious of deception.
digital thermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital thermometers
Senses: glosses: An electronic thermometer.
3rd Reich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the 3rd Reich
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Third Reich.
manpowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: man-powered
form: human-powered
Etymology: From man + powered.
Senses: examples: text: manpowered transport
glosses: The human muscle power exerted by a single person or many people (analogous to horsepower).
Derived terms: manpower
man-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manpowered.
human-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manpowered.
Derived terms: humanpower
MrBeast-ification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of MrBeastification.
wikipedia: MrBeast
rizzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rizzer
MTBers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MTBer
Clitar Hero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of clitar + Guitar Hero.
Senses: examples: text: Considering the game of Clitar Hero we played in the closet, I'd say hell yeah.
ref: 2017 June 5, Kristin Miller, “Chapter Three”, in Snow's Seduction, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved 13 Nov 2023:
text: Can't wait to get home to a big glass of wine & play clitar hero.
ref: 2021 November 3, TheHorrorHottie, Twitter, retrieved 13 Nov 2023:
text: I’m trying to play clitar hero with the girlies tn 😤
ref: 2023 February 19, CiraBryant, Twitter, retrieved 13 Nov 2023:
glosses: Digital stimulation of the clitoris.
coffee rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee ring
hinge-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hinge-back
hinged-back tortoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hinged-back tortoise
Castle bobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Castle bob
horn books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horn book
case presentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of case presentation
casino hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casino hotel
cast-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cast-on
cast-iron plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cast-iron plant
casts of thousands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cast of thousands
Casal's collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Casal's collar
Casal collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Casal collar
idiot sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiot stick
burn through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns through
form: burning through
form: burned through
form: burned through
form: burnt through
form: burnt through
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: run through, get through, eat up
text: With a taste for jewels and other extravagances, he also managed to burn through his £535,000 (about £60m by today's standards) inherited estate in just five years, bankrupting himself and dying from tuberculosis at the age of 29.
ref: 2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC:
coordinate_terms: burn away
burn off
burn up
glosses: To use up in a hasty or destructive manner.
Zarel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Afrikaans Sarel.
Senses: examples: text: It has been also reported to me by the Field Corporal Zarel Marais that the Bushmen were very active in his district, they had away all Marais' cattle, though fortunately retaken, with exception of 2 which they had stabbed to death, and the robbers fled.
ref: 1838, A. S. Robertson, “Report of Commandant Godlieb Roedolf Opperman.”, in Donald Moodie, editor, The Record Or, A Series of Official Papers Relative to the Condition and Treatment of the Native Tribes of South Africa, page 42:
text: Notice is hereby applying for a ... [title deed] Zarel Francois Haasbroek, in respect of certain portion marked " B " named Inhoek, of the quitrent farm Blinkklip No. 113, District Wolmaransstad, measuring 1,294 morgen 150 square roods
ref: 1937, Government of South Africa, Government Gazette Extraordinary, volume 109, page 16:
text: Zarel C. Spears, an author and director and [manager] of the Ruth Wyeth Spears Newspaper Syndicate, died Wednesday at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco.
ref: 1967 May 5, “Zarel C. Spears, Author, 80, Dies; Managed Wife's Syndicated Newspaper Articles”, in The New York Times, page 38:
glosses: A male given name from Afrikaans.
Tallini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tallini.
Senses: examples: text: [Bob] Tallini suggested the job would go faster if I got a carpenter's bevel square to cut the boards.
ref: 1989, Alfred Lees, Popular Science Do-it-yourself Yearbook, 1990, Popular Science Books, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: A surname from Italian.
has one's own zip code
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have one's own zip code
having one's own zip code
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have one's own zip code
had one's own zip code
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have one's own zip code
postdeglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: After deglaciation.
syndeglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Occurring at the same time as deglaciation.
syndromatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of syndromes.
syndromology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of syndromatology.
NGRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NGR
ponify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ponifies
form: ponifying
form: ponified
form: ponified
Etymology: From pony + -fy.
Senses: glosses: to turn an existing character into a My Little Pony-style cartoon equine.
Derived terms: ponification
piracatinga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piracatinga
Senses: examples: text: 2012, Annual Report of the International Whaling Commission, International Whaling Commission, page 53,
This year, it reiterated serious concerns that the population implications of the intentional killing of botos and tucuxis for use as bait in the piracatinga fishery in Brazil.
text: 2017, Vera M. F. da Silva, Anthony R. Martin, Amazon River Dolphin: Inia geoffrensis, article in Bernd Würsig, J. G. M. Thewissen, Kit M. Kovacs (editors), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd Edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 23,
Since the mid-1990s, a directed hunt to provide bait to catch a scavenging catfish called locally piracatinga or mota (Calophysus macropterus) has become the most severe threat to the species.
text: Fishing for piracatinga often involves enclosing an entire decomposing carcass within a submerged corral into which the catfish are lured; the bigger the bait, the larger the catch.
ref: 2020, David Dudgeon, Freshwater Biodiversity, Cambridge University Press, page 105:
text: 2022, Randall R. Reeves, Chapter 1: Cetacean Conservation and Management Strategies, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Bernd Würsig (editors), Marine Mammals, Springer, page 16,
[…] an exploding regional market for piracatinga (Calophysus macropterus), a scavenging catfish caught in anchored traps baited with, among other things, the flesh and blubber of botos […] .
synonyms: vulture catfish
zamurito
glosses: A species of catfish, Calophysus macropterus, endemic to the Amazon and Orinoco river basins.
puddled bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puddled bar
Barossa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name originally came from the Battle of Barrosa.
Senses: glosses: A local government area in the Barossa Valley, South Australia; in full, Barossa Council.
wikipedia: Battle of Barrosa
Barossa Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Barossa Range, which was named after the Battle of Barrosa.
Senses: glosses: A valley north-east of Adelaide, South Australia, internationally famous for its wines.
wikipedia: Barossa Range
Battle of Barrosa
collegiennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collegienne
Abyssinian wells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abyssinian well
well-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of well-house
well-quasi-orderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of well-quasi-ordering
wet wells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet well
vaginocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vagino- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: quoted in 2023, John Mercer, Mark McGlashan, Toxic Masculinity: Men, Meaning, and Digital Media
The psychoanalyst: he gives you the deep reasons for your situation. You have probably been abandoned by a boyfriend, maybe you are a lesbian and still do not know, you plan a vaginocracy as revenge from men, and you're very fat and nobody cares about you, are the most common reasons.
antonyms: penisocracy
phallocracy
glosses: A government or social order dominated by women.
sideroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siderooms
Senses: examples: text: I started down stairs. I nearly reached the top I heard voices below, and had hardly time to step within a doorway leading to a side-room when Rice and W----- entered and passed on a run towards my room.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 21:
glosses: A secondary room adjoining a main one.
self-stimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-stimulates
form: self-stimulating
form: self-stimulated
form: self-stimulated
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: stim
glosses: To engage in self-stimulation; to stim.
swan's bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swan and bath. Periphrase used in Norse saga.
Senses: examples: text: So hey for the merry greenwood, and the long ships, and the swan’s bath, and all the rest of it.
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 42:
text: Swift and sure across the Swan’s Bath / Sped Sea-stag on Raven’s track
ref: 1891, H. Rider Haggard, Eric Brighteyes, London: Longmans, Green & Company, page 42:
glosses: The sea, or any large body of open water.
financial slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: financial slaves
Senses: coordinate_terms: financial dominant//financial dominatrix
findom//findomme
moneydom//moneydomme
glosses: A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who satisfies their sexual desires through sending money or goods to one or more masters or mistresses.
good-evening
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Instead of passing the house towards the town, he turned up to the door and rode toward her. She was too familiar with the scenes of danger, and the incidents of those warlike times to feel alarm, and waited quietly his approach to the door-stone. / “Good-evening, maiden,” he said with a foreign accent; “I pray you give me your hospitality a brief space—I and my horse are both wounded, and he will carry me no farther, I fear.”
ref: 1843 February 23, “The Tory Lover”, in Madison City Express, number 50, Madison, Wis.: […] William W. Wyman, front page, column 3:
text: Well, the long and the short of it was that Donald let the hide go, and, that very evening, who but he should walk up to Hudden’s door? / “Good-evening, Hudden. Will you lend me your best pair of scales?”
ref: 1892, “Hudden and Dudden and Donald O’Neary”, in Joseph Jacobs, compiler, Celtic Fairy Tales, London: David Nutt, […], page 49:
text: Abe’s Gran was standing in the doorway. ‘Good-evening,’ she said. She was holding a tin mug in each hand. / ‘Good-evening, Mrs Tanner,’ Sam said.
ref: 1966, Nina Bawden, The White Horse Gang, London: Puffin Books, published 1972, page 52:
glosses: Dated form of good evening.
volcanoglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glaciovolcanic.
Stear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stears
Etymology: Variant spelling of Steer, Stair, or Stare.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
belite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named by Alfred Elis Törnebohm in 1897 after examining Portland cement through a microscope.
Senses: examples: text: After heating in the kiln, the melted material is cooled rapidly to form an assemblage of the silicates alite (also known by the cement chemistry notation C3S) and belite (C2S), tricalcium aluminate (C3A) and tetracalcium aluminoferrite (C4AF), known as clinker.
ref: 2020 September 22, G. Habert, S. A. Miller, V. M. John, J. L. Provis, A. Favier, A. Horvath & K. L. Scrivener, “Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries”, in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment:
glosses: An industrial mineral made up of primarily of dicalcium silicate.
wikipedia: Alfred Elis Törnebohm
Sovine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sovines
Etymology: Americanized form of French Sauvain or Sovain, a habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Sovines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sovine
Stears
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stear
burglariser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burglarisers
Etymology: From burglarise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burglarizer.
burglarisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burglariser
FAPP
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæp/
rhymes: -æp
homophone: FAP
homophone: fap
Etymology: Popularized by physicist John Stewart Bell.
Senses: examples: text: Is it not good to know what follows from what, even if it is not necessary FAPP? Suppose for example that quantum mechanics were found to resist precise formulation. Suppose that when formulation beyond FAPP is attempted, we find an unmovable finger obstinately pointing outside the subject, to the mind of the observer, to the Hindu scriptures, to God, or even only Gravitation? Would that not be very, very interesting?"
ref: 1988, John Stewart Bell, Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, Cambridge University Press:
text: Going beyond FAPP to interpret quantum theory is today a growth industry, and a contentious field, though a very small fraction of physicists are involved.
ref: 2011, Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner, Quantum Enigma, page 206:
text: Newtonian physics works fine, FAPP, at the macroscopic level, say Rosenblum & Kuttner[…]
ref: 2019, David Yeats, A Universe Full of Magical Things, page 45:
topics: human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of for all practical purposes.
wikipedia: John Stewart Bell
OER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of open educational resources.
Sokolow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sokolows
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Соколов (Sokolov) and Polish Sokołów.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Silbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Silberts
Etymology: Variant of German Silber.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Silberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Silbert
Sokolows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sokolow
hydrovolcanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The interaction between magma and water.
Siek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sieks
Etymology: * As a Polish surname, from a derivative of siekać (“to chop up, hack”).
* As a North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sīk (“swampy valley”), from Old Saxon *sīk, from Proto-West Germanic *sīk (“watercourse”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
glosses: A surname from Polish.
phreatomagmatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The explosive interaction between magma and water.
Sieks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Siek
Tijerino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tijerinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tijerino; this surname is predominantly found in Nicaragua.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
volcarenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcarenites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Volcanic arenite.
Reum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reums
Etymology: Borrowed from German Reum.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Reums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Reum
Tijerinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tijerino
Sazama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sazamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Sazama.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Sendejas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sendejases
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Sendejas; this surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Sendejases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sendejas
Sazamas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sazama
Shenefield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shenefields
Etymology: Americanized form of German Schönefeld.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wavra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wavras
Etymology: Americanized form of Czech or Slovak Vávra.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wavras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wavra
Shenefields
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shenefield
McLinden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McLindens
Etymology: Variant of McClinton.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McLindens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McLinden
Keyworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Keyworth
Branfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Branfoots
Etymology: Much altered variant of Branthwaite.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hygromagmatophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Incompatible with the crystal structure of rock-forming minerals.
magmagenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of magma.
Branthwaite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Branthwaites
form: Branfoot
form: Brumfitt
Etymology: From Old English brǣmel (“bramble”) + thwaite.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Dean civil parish, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY0524).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Branthwaites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Branthwaite
Branfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Branfoot
Clitheroes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clitheroe
hygromagmaphile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hygromagmatophile.
magmaphile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Partitioning during the partial melting of magma.
physical mediumship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: The ability to make the spirit world cause physical phenomena that can be observed by anyone present.
Related terms: apport
ectoplasm
materialization
materialisation
mental mediumship
physical medium
trance mediumship
Plethonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Plethon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The argument in this fragment becomes clear through a consideration of the Plethonic passage to which it is an answer […]
ref: 1926 October, John Wilson Taylor, “More Light on Theodore of Gaza”, in Classical Philology, volume 21, →DOI, page 337:
synonyms: Plethonian
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of the Byzantine philosopher Gemistos Plethon (1355–1453).
Plethonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Plethon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Plethonic (“pertaining to Gemistos Plethon”).
synonyms: word: Plethonic
extra: pertaining to Gemistos Plethon
South Huron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in southern Huron County, Ontario, Canada, formed in 2001.
Related terms: North Huron
Maistre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maistres
Etymology: Borrowed from French Maistre.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Merrillan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States, named after L. G. Merrill.
Fatmerican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fatmericans
Etymology: Blend of fat + American
Senses: glosses: An American.
Fatmerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of fat + American
Senses: glosses: American.
Fatmericans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fatmerican
commieblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commieblocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of commie block.
commieblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commieblock
creener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creeners
Etymology: From creen (“to complain”) + -er, from Cornish krena (“to tremble”).
Senses: glosses: An ailing or sickly person.
glosses: An old person.
creeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creener
autistic disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autism.
synonyms: word: autism
quiet rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quiet room
alder carr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alder carrs
Senses: examples: text: Alder is [...] usually found growing in marshes and along rivers, streams and other wet areas. Alder in fact gives its name to a term for wet woodland: alder carr.
ref: 2023, Ray Mears, chapter 1, in British Woodland, Ebury Spotlight, →ISBN:
glosses: A particular type of carr, i.e. waterlogged wooded terrain populated with alder trees.
sensory deprivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensory deprivations
Senses: topics: government
healthcare
human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A situation in which stimulation of human senses, particularly sight and sound, is at a minimum, often to ease a patient's relaxation, such as in a quiet room.
Hazelhurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Ramsbottom, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD7816)
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Swinton, Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD7601).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Ashton-under-Lyne, Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9500)
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carroll County and Ogle County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Oneida County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Hazlehurst
forbroken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of forbreak
forbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forbreak
forbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forbreak
forburns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forburn
forburning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forburn
forburned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of forburn
forbursting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forburst
forcarves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forcarve
forcarving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forcarve
forcarved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forcarve
forcurses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forcurse
forcursing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forcurse
fordreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fordread
fordreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fordread
fordreaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fordread
fordrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fordry
fordried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fordry
fordriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fordrive
fordrove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fordrive
fordriven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fordrive
fordrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fordrench
fordrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fordrench
fordrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fordrench
forechoosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forchoose
foresends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foresend
foresending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forsend
foresent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forsend
barachois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barachoises
Etymology: From French barachois, from Basque barratxoa (“little bar”).
Senses: qualifier: Saint Pierre and Miquelon
glosses: A coastal lagoon partially or totally separated from the ocean by a sand or shingle bar.
forewrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forewrite
forewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forewrite
forewrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forewrite
forgnaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forgnaw
forgnawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forgnaw
forgnawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forgnaw
forhards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forhard
forharding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forhard
forharded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forhard
forhews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forhew
forhewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forhew
formelts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of formelt
formelting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of formelt
formelted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of formelt
forsenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forsench
forsenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forsench
forsenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forsench
forsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forset
forshames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forshame
forspilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forspill
forspills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forspill
forspilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forspill
Davis Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ogle County, Illinois, United States, named by Jeremiah Davis after himself.
barrier ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrier ridges
Senses: glosses: A term of art in the earth sciences, especially geology and sometimes barrier range (more common as a geography term) describing the existence of gross landforms describing long ridgelines which are particularly difficult to pass, especially in the context of being on foot or dependent upon other forms of animal powered transportation systems, in mountainous and sometimes hilly terrains.
basin and range topography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Characterized by alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys.
Fairgrove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township and village therein, in Tuscola County, Michigan, United States.
plpf.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of pluperfect.
plpf.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pluperfect.
harrow up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: harrows up
form: harrowing up
form: harrowed up
form: harrowed up
Senses: examples: text: When I arrived within sight or hearing of the army, it again harrowed up my melancholy feelings that had subsided on my journey.
text: She met him, harrowed up his guilty soul with a narration of her wrongs, […]
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 27:
glosses: Bring to the surface.
cataract bog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cataract bogs
Senses: glosses: A rare ecological community formed where a permanent stream flows over a granite outcropping.
cyclopean stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The longitudinal profile of a glaciated valley that has several consecutive hanging valleys.
take one's rise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's rise
form: taking one's rise
form: took one's rise
form: taken one's rise
Senses: examples: text: Two miles from the summit is the spring from which the Colorado River takes its rise.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 34:
glosses: To originate.
De Geer Land Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A land bridge that connected Fennoscandia to northern Greenland.
Panock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panocks
Senses: examples: text: On the 29th we passed into the territory of the Panock Indians—a tribe of hunters, who find an abundant subsistence in the myriads of mountain sheep, antelopes, prairie dogs, and other animals, with which the country abounds.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of Bannock.
flark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /flɑɹk/
Forms: form: flarks
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish flark (“bog or swamp overgrown with tufts of grass; clearing in a bog with more water and less vegetation than its surroundings”).
Senses: glosses: A depression or hollow within a bog.
Related terms: string bog