cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Napoléonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Napoléonists
Etymology: From Napoléon + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Issue. Napoléon, called from his cradle King of Rome, but better known as duke of Reichstadt; recognized by the Napoléonists, as Napoléon II.; died in Austria in 1832.
ref: 1863, [Ebenezer] Cobham Brewer, “Napoleon I.”, in The Political, Social, and Literary History of France: Brought Down to the Year 1863, London: Jarrold and Sons, […], page 351:
text: Nancy was the birthplace of General Hugo (1773-1828), an ardent Napoléonist and father of Victor Hugo;
ref: 1989, Mary Elsy, Jill Norman, Travels in Alsace & Lorraine, London: Merehurst Press, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Even in this household, the Master wants it to be known that he is a loyal Napoléonist.
ref: 2014, Richard Wink, “Near Calais – 1810-11”, in Marianne: A Woman Ahead Of Her Time, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Alternative form of Napoleonist.
Napoléonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Napoléonist
Napoléonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Napoléonian
form: most Napoléonian
Etymology: From Napoléon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Napoléonian nobility, the diplomatic body, the dignitaries actually in office, seem to have a predilection for this quarter.
ref: 1835, Jules Lefebvre, editor, Proverbes Dramatiques of Mr. Théodore Leclercq, Illustrative of Modern French Manners and Conversation; with Incidental Explanatory Notes in English, London: Longman, Rees, Orme and Co., and J. Harris and Son; Liverpool: Evans, Chegwin and Hall, page iii:
text: To some extent the Napoléonian reorganisation can be regarded as the outcome of the long term evolution of the schooling provision, even if it represented a radically new start.
ref: 1985, Arbeitskreis für Moderne Sozialgeschichte, Bildungsbürgertum im 19. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, →ISBN, page 458:
text: The French travellers can be differentiated socially and historically, first of all, into two groups: university travellers, i.e., in the Napoléonian meaning of the word, people working in faculties as well as in lycées, on the left side and in the bottom left-hand corner of Diagram 3, and non-university travellers, i.e. librarians, amateurs, archivists, and grands établissements personnel, on the right side and in the bottom right-hand corner of the diagram.
ref: 2004, Jean-Christophe Bourquin, “National Influences on International Scientific Activity: The Case of the French Missions Littéraires in Europe, 1842–1914”, in Christophe Charle, Jürgen Schriewer, Peter Wagner, editors, Transnational Intellectual Networks: Forms of Academic Knowledge and the Search for Cultural Identities, Frankfurt; New York, N.Y.: Campus Verlag, →ISBN, part III (Network Formation and Mobility Patterns in an Emerging World Society), page 463:
glosses: Alternative form of Napoleonian.
statwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stat (“statistic”) + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Bench may be the greatest catcher subjectively, but he's not statistically. Statwise, Yogi Berra is the all-time backstop, regardless of which measure you prefer. Berra's Total-Z is one-third of a standard deviation higher than Bench's, and his Core-Z average is a point better.
ref: 2002, James F. Vail, Outrageous Fortune: What's Wrong with Hall of Fame Voting and How to Make It Statistically Sound, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: In terms of statistics; statistically.
hotwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The portable insulated hotwater container in use in Newgate Street.
ref: 1957, City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne: Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Year 1957, pages between 148 and 149:
text: Typical applications are steam irons, coffeemakers, hotwater containers, medical equipment that requires sterilization, power-tool and appliance housings, aircraft cabin interiors, and electrical insulators.
ref: 1989, Serope Kalpakjian, Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, published 1990, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: Attributive form of hot water (in the literal sense)
Derived terms: hotwater bag
hotwater bottle
hotwater can
hotwater heater
hotwater physa
land-mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land-masses
Senses: examples: text: Scotland's geographical location (Map 1), projecting northwest from the main land-mass of Europe, and its wide variety of habitats are the principal factors responsible for the diversity of the 449 species (excluding those square-bracketed – see Chapter 11) currently on the Scottish list.
ref: 1986, Valerie M. Thom, “Scotland – its avifauna and geography”, in Birds in Scotland, London: T & AD Poyser, published 2011, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of landmass.
land-masses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land-mass
square-bracket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: square-brackets
form: square-bracketing
form: square-bracketed
form: square-bracketed
Senses: examples: text: Scotland's geographical location (Map 1), projecting northwest from the main land-mass of Europe, and its wide variety of habitats are the principal factors responsible for the diversity of the 449 species (excluding those square-bracketed – see Chapter 11) currently on the Scottish list.
ref: 1986, Valerie M. Thom, “Scotland – its avifauna and geography”, in Birds in Scotland, London: T & AD Poyser, published 2011, →ISBN, page 15:
text: I have square-bracketed the ‘t’ of ‘this’ because, as Loxley and his co-authors note, the additional letter is sanctioned by the Sibbald transcript of Drummond's notes, ‘Modern editors,’ they write, ‘amend “this” to “his”’, following a later printed text of the ‘Conversations’.⁷¹
ref: 2018, Michael Bath, “Alexander Seton's Suburban Villa: Neostoical Emblems and United Nations”, in Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature; 28), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: To enclose in square brackets.
Jinja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: If cities ailed, Jinja had sleeping sickness. Idi Amin’s sudden expulsion of whites and Asians back in 1972 had hit the city harder than anywhere else. In just over a decade, Jinja’s status as the country’s largest industrial city had become questionable.
ref: 2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 372:
glosses: A city and district at the north end of Lake Victoria, Uganda.
rock cavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock cavies
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey buried him in Borracha, where they had set up a shelter, in which the Sardelinha sisters offered soup made from Spanish plums, rock cavy, and yellow lupine.
ref: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 93:
glosses: A large cavy, Kerodon rupestris, native to Brazil.
Monflanquin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Monflanquin, itself Occitan Montflanquin.
Senses: glosses: A village in Lot-et-Garonne department, France.
kriah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keriah.
Baranavichy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baranavičy
Etymology: From Belarusian Бара́навічы (Baránavičy).
Senses: glosses: A city in Brest Oblast, Belarus.
Biaroza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Бяро́за (Bjaróza).
Senses: glosses: A city in Brest Oblast, Belarus.
denture powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denture powders
Senses: examples: text: The use of denture powder and brush for cleaning artificial teeth has proved completely satisfactory in practice, and should become a regular habit, especially after meals, in the interests of hygiene and to prolong the life of the denture. KOLYNOS DENTURE POWDER is as harmless to the new 'acrylic' and other 'plastic' bases as it is to metal and vulcanite, yet it effectively removes all food debris and stains. From all chemists—1/3.
ref: 1945 March and April, advertisement, inside back page, Railway Magazine:
glosses: A powder used for cleaning dentures.
glosses: An adhesive powder for fixing dentures in place, a fixative.
Related terms: denture cream
Hantsavichy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Га́нцавічы (Háncavičy).
Senses: glosses: A city in Brest Oblast, Belarus.
Lyakhavichy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Ля́хавічы (Ljáxavičy).
Senses: glosses: A city in Brest Oblast, Belarus.
Drahichyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Драгі́чын (Drahíčyn).
Senses: glosses: A city in Brest Oblast, Belarus.
Zhabinka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Жа́бінка (Žábinka).
Senses: glosses: A city in Brest Oblast, Belarus.
Kobryn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Ко́брын (Kóbryn).
Senses: glosses: A city in Brest Oblast, Belarus.
Nolanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nolanites
Etymology: From Nolan + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Inception (2010) and The Prestige (2006) are two of his best known films but for core Nolanites, few of his works live up to Memento.
ref: 2016 March, Essential, number 199, page 62:
text: NOLANITES (Christopher Nolan fans) get ready for the Interstellar director’s World War II epic, where Nolan uses all the tools in his cinematic briefcase for an emotional ride at the cinema.
ref: 2017 July 28, “Nolan delivers another masterpiece with ‘Dunkirk’”, in Pretoria News:
text: [Stephen] Kearse neatly arrests the bogusness of such seemingly defiant writing: “[Armond] White nearly bursts a lung blowing on his anti-comic book nerd dog whistle, and for what? To irk a few Nolanites? To rile up some Tarantino nerds? He’s gone from writing about movies to writing against viewers.”
ref: 2018, John Semley, Hater: On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: A fan of British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan (born 1970).
Nolanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nolanite
Pruzhany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Пружа́ны (Pružány).
Senses: glosses: A city in Brest Oblast, Belarus.
Stolin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Сто́лін (Stólin).
Senses: glosses: A city in Brest Oblast, Belarus.
anti-Remonstrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-Remonstrant
voltaelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Electricity.—[…]—voltaelectric induction and magnetoelectric machines.
ref: 1852, Appendix to the Eleventh Volume of the Journals of […] the 1st Session of the 4th Provincial Parliament of Canada. Session, 1852–3, Appendix L, page 20:
text: A flat disc, forming the negative pole of an ordinary voltaelectric apparatus, is applied over the pyloric end of the stomach.
ref: 1869, “New Method of Cure in Sea-Sickness”, in S. W. Butler, D. G. Brinton, editors, Half-Yearly Compendium of Medical Science […], volume 3, page 245:
text: Faraday reported that he could find no other signs of electricity such as shock, spark, heating, or chemical effect, but attributed this to the brief duration and feebleness of the current. The effect in general he characterized as voltaelectric induction.
ref: 1998, Iwan Rhys Morus, “The Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution”, in Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Uncommon spelling of volta-electric.
amorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɒɹəʊ/
ipa: /əˈmɒɹə/
Etymology: From Middle English amorwe, from Old English on morgne (“on/in the morning”), equivalent to a- + morrow. Compare tomorrow with a different preposition.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tomorrow.
bending over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bend over
bent over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bend over
dress-down days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dress-down day
dress suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dress suit
dressing-gowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dressing gown + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: They were fed, washed, night-gowned and even dressing-gowned; […]
ref: 1913, Arnold Bennett, The Regent: A Five Towns Story of Adventure in London, Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 244:
text: The dressing-gowned one had reappeared at the end of the bed, tugging at the bed-rail with both hands and yelling.
ref: 2014, Bill Douglas, Mad Worlds: A Tale of Despair and Hope in 1950s England, Matador, →ISBN, page 66:
text: I looked down on the baked yellow brick of the hospital entrance in the morning sun, the wrapped-up dressing-gowned patients pushing crystalline drips and smoking cigarettes outside the old wing.
ref: 2019, Molly Case, How to Treat People: A Nurse at Work, Penguin Books, published 2020, →ISBN:
glosses: Wearing a dressing gown.
at this point
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: at this juncture
glosses: At the current time or the time that was just described.
Related terms: at this point in time
atp
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The uncertainty surrounding the terms under which BTS would and would not be allowed to reunite as a group to perform while members are enlisted has fans and nonfans alike feeling uneasy. "Can they just leave them [to] serve in peace ffs💀 atp i feel bad for them," one user wrote on Twitter.
ref: 2022 October 19, Joely Chilcott, “BTS May Be Allowed to Perform as a Group While Serving in the Korean Military, but There's a Catch”, in PopSugar:
glosses: Initialism of at this point; also ATP.
Feast of Stephen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Good King Wenceslas look'd out, On the Feast of Stephen; / When the snow lay round about, Deep, and crisp, and e-ven: / Brightly shone the moon that night, Though the frost was cru-el, / When a poor man came in sight, Gath'ring win-ter fu-el.
ref: 1854, John Mason Neale, “Good King Wenceslas”, in J. M. Neale, T. Helmore, Carols for Christmas-tide: The Condensed Vocal Parts, London: Novello, →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: Synonym of St. Stephen's Day.
synonyms: word: St. Stephen's Day
Christmas-tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas-tides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Christmastide.
Madonna blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: No doubt it had a beauty all its own, but beneath its fantastic, isolated blooms and leaves of Madonna blue, the gnarled roots sheltered a hundred varieties of poisonous reptiles and insects.
ref: 1917 August, Cynthia Stockley, “Blue Aloes: The Strange Story of a Karoo Farm”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXIII, number 3, page 30, column 1:
text: A little Dutch bonnet for the tiny girl is made of Madonna blue broadcloth.
ref: 1922, The Illustrated Milliner, page 57:
text: She was wearing a gown of Madonna blue and looked very fragile and ethereal.
ref: 1932, Agatha Christie, Peril at End House, page 85:
text: But now, in a few months’ time, the lease would be terminated, the owners were unwilling to renew it, and nowhere upon the Island could Reverend Mother find another vacant house large enough to house twenty female orphans; devout, happy little orphans who went to Mass on Sundays walking two by two, clothed in dresses of Madonna blue with white tuckers at the necks, blue cloaks, and black bonnets tied beneath their orphaned chins with neat blue bows.
ref: 1944, Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc., page 280:
text: Tanks would be filled and the sprayers would move through the frilly groves of vine, covering each leaf, wrapping each bunch of green grapes in a delicate web of Madonna blue.
ref: 1969, Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, London: Collins, page 236:
text: Twilight had fallen, of a pure Madonna blue.
ref: 1971, Nicolas Freeling, The Lovely Ladies, Harper & Row, page 87:
text: She was painted on the plaster, her halo and the cross in her hand picked out in gold leaf, her mermaid’s tail a grand sweep of Madonna blue, lilac, and deep sea-green.
ref: 2014, Shelley Adina, A Lady of Spirit (Magnificent Devices; book six), Moonshell Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A shade of deep blue.
Madonna braid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madonna braids
Etymology: After the manner of Italian representations of the Madonna.
Senses: examples: text: Madonna braids are next the face, and the curls beyond.
ref: 1828, “Records of the Beau Monde. Fashions for September, 1828. Explanation of the Prints of the Fashions.”, in La Belle Assemblée, or Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting and Original Literature, and Records of the Beau-Monde, volume VIII, London: […] Geo. B. Whittaker, […], page 120, column 2:
text: The hair is beautifully arranged in a Madonna braid in front.
ref: 1829, Souvenir, page 317, column 2; quoted in “Madonna”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:
text: The luxuriant brown hair was coiled simply at the back, and confined by a tortoiseshell comb; the front was parted in Madonna braids from the clear, intelligent brow, and being exceedingly long, and simply crossed over the coil at the back of the head, hung down behind each ear in two or three beautiful drooping curls.
ref: 1887, Margaret Jameson, Training: A Tale of North-Country Life, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 102:
text: Besides, at the piano sat Ágnes Kallós, István’s fiancée, in a white dress, her luxuriant hair in a Madonna-braid.
ref: 1999, Margit Kaffka, translated by George F. Cushing, Colours and Years, Corvina Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 61:
text: He remembered her with her hair parted in the centre and arranged smoothly on either side of her face in a Madonna braid.
ref: 2003, John Baker, The Meanest Flood, Orion Books, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: A smooth braid arranged on a side of the face.
Madonna braids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madonna braid
Madonnaish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Madonnaish
form: most Madonnaish
Etymology: From Madonna + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: She is too Madonnaish in one way, too languishing and sentimental in another: […]
ref: 1891 October 24, The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 3339, London: […] John C. Francis, […] , page 547, column 1:
text: “Raise the hands, Miss Cherrell. No! Too Madonnaish. We must think of the devil in the hair. The eyes to me, full.”
ref: 1931, John Galsworthy, Maid in Waiting, London: William Heinemann Ltd., page 348:
text: The more Madonnaish the women, the more daddish and less caddish the men, and thus the more Madonnaish the women, and so on.
ref: 1994, Robert Wright, The Moral Animal, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Like a Madonna.
checklisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checklister
ATPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ATP
Black Twitter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Funeral arrangements for Black Twitter began in earnest on November 10 when Mikki Boom, a graphic designer who has been a member of the social media platform since 2009, posted a “Celebration of life” flyer to her Twitter page.
ref: 2022 November 18, Jason Parham, “There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter”, in WIRED, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2022:
glosses: The African-American community on the social media service Twitter.
escarpiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escarpiids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of escarpid.
escarpiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escarpiid
Thronds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Old Norse þrǿndir, þrǿndr m pl. Compare Old English Þrowendas pl, German Drönter m pl, and Norwegian trønder m or m pl. Doublet of Throwends.
Senses: synonyms: Throwends
glosses: people from Trøndelag
Derived terms: english: people from inner Trøndelag
translation: people from inner Trøndelag
word: Inner Thronds
english: people from outer Trøndelag
translation: people from outer Trøndelag
word: Outer Thronds
english: of or pertaining to Trøndelag or Thronds
translation: of or pertaining to Trøndelag or Thronds
word: Throndish
Related terms: Throndham
Minskians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Minskian
Minskyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Minskyan
SLQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLQs
Senses: examples: text: SLQs were common, but the only ones with dates that you'd see were the 1925-1930 dates (the date was more well-protected from 1925-on). I don't think I ever found an SLQ pre-1925 with a readable date, but there were a lot of dateless ones circulating.
ref: 2006 June 26, LRC-Tom, “1961 Twilight Zone - Standing Liberty Quarter”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 26 Dec 2022:
qualifier: numismatic slang
glosses: Initialism of Standing Liberty quarter.
SLQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SLQ
whalesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whalesmen
Etymology: From whales + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The old whalesman was not long aboard before getting confirmed in his conjecture that the ship was the same whose boats had harpooned and “drogued” the cachalot', the carcass of which had been encountered by the Catamaran.
ref: 1865, Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea, page 363:
text: Take heed young whalesmen and listen to my word.
ref: 2011, Frank Rogers, The God of Shattered Glass, page 224:
text: That's the distinction your heroic whalesman made about us fishermen, just because he thought the whale's brain enlightened the world while we brayed like asses about the hard life we led. So I say a whalesman is to a fisherman as a gold-digger is to a quarryman.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Bayliss, Gloucestertide:
glosses: One who hunts whales; a whaler.
whalesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whalesman
punishement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punishements
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of punishment.
sandguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandgun
cheap Charlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheap Charlies
Etymology: See cheap and Charlie (“Vietcong”, US military slang); likely originated among US soldiers in Vietnam as a Vietnam War-era military slang to refer to American GIs who were unwilling to spend extravagantly at bars or restaurants, or for prostitutes.
Senses: synonyms: word: miser
word: carl
word: cheapass
word: cheapie
word: cheapskate
word: cheapo
word: churl
word: clutchfist
word: el cheapo
word: last of the big spenders
word: magpie
word: miser
word: moneygrubber
word: muckworm
word: nickel nurser
word: nig
word: niggard
word: nigon
word: nipcheese
word: nipfarthing
word: penny-father
word: penny pincher
word: pickpenny
word: piker
word: pinch-commons
word: pinch-gut
word: pincher
word: pinchfist
word: pinchpenny
word: scrimp
word: scrooge
word: snudge
word: squirrel
word: skinflint
word: tight-arse
word: tightwad
antonyms: word: two week millionaire
word: spendthrift
qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: A cheapskate, a miser.
wikipedia: Vietnam War
two week millionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two week millionaires
Senses: examples: text: Now once more this is not always the case and you will have heard speak of the two week millionaire? This can be a term given to a person that goes on holiday after saving every cent for the other 50 weeks and reveals off by spending a small fortune whereas he is away.
ref: 2020 May 10, Bill Church, “The Thai Woman Diaries”, in Herald-Tribune, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2022:
synonyms: high roller
antonyms: word: miser
english: Southeast Asia
translation: Southeast Asia
word: cheap Charlie
glosses: A tourist who spends extravagantly during a vacation.
cheap Charlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheap Charlie
two week millionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two week millionaire
shrillcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrillcocks
Senses: glosses: The mistle thrush
Terp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Terps
Senses: glosses: A member of a Maryland Terrapins sports team.
comes into play
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come into play
coming into play
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come into play
came into play
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come into play
awokening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awokenings
Etymology: Blend of woke (“holding left-wing views toward social justice”) + awakening, influenced by Great Awakening, any of several periods of religious revival in the United States. Attested from the 2010s.
Senses: examples: text: It could be argued that the rise of the socially conscious model reflects a very 2017 archetype: the “woke” young woman, who looks set to define femininity this decade in the same way that the lager-swilling ladette did in the 90s. It is also symptomatic of a broader cultural “awokening” that has reached the stuffiest institutions; even the royal family has recently relaxed its upper lip.
ref: 2017 May 15, Hannah Marriott, “Woke models: how activism became fashion's latest must-have”, in The Guardian, London, page 9:
text: It's an epidemic of racist babies. People are so awoke. It’s the awokening to 2017. That’s good to say, this is all part of the awokening. And now, we’re completely flipping out over babies.
ref: 2017 August 24, “Fate of Statues and Monuments Across America; Outrage Over ESPN Decision To Pull Robert Lee From Game”, in Tucker Carlson Tonight, spoken by Dana Loesch, via Fox News:
text: Activism derided as ‘cancel culture’ or ‘the great awokening’ is the only reason mainstream culture is less vicious and dehumanising than it was.
ref: 2021 August 8, Amulya Gopalakrishnan, “Matt Damon, and the journey to wokeness”, in Times of India, New Delhi:
glosses: A progressive or leftist political or social movement or attitude, especially toward social justice issues, or the effects of such a movement.
examples: text: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2014 article making the case for reparations was obviously enormously influential on the specifics of that question, but also more broadly in the larger Awokening — such that references to redlining and other discriminatory aspects of the post-World War II real estate market are now commonplace throughout progressive circles.
ref: 2019 April 1, Matthew Yglesias, “The Great Awokening”, in Vox:
text: The abrupt and dramatic changes in the frequency of prejudice-denoting terms in news media within the span of just 10 years suggests the existence of powerful underlying social dynamics at play. […] It is still early in the Biden presidency to know for sure whether the “Great Awokening” in news media will continue, level off, or reverse course.
ref: 2021 September 7, David Rozado, Musa al-Gharbi, Jamin Halberstadt, “Our Research Shows the ‘Great Awokening’ Preceded Trump—and Outlasted Him”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Media or political discourse displaying or commenting on woke stances toward social justice.
Derived terms: Great Awokening
Asipovichy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Асіпо́вічы (Asipóvičy).
Senses: glosses: A city in Mahilyow Oblast, Belarus.
Ashmiany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ashmyany
Etymology: From Belarusian Ашмя́ны (Ašmjány).
Senses: glosses: A city in Hrodna Oblast, Belarus.
Astravyets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Астраве́ц (Astravjéc).
Senses: glosses: A city in Hrodna Oblast, Belarus.
Babruysk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Бабру́йск (Babrújsk).
Senses: glosses: A city in Mahilyow Oblast, Belarus.
ni🅱🅱as
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ni🅱️🅱️a
zōris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zōri
narry
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I looked up, but I didn' see narry a cloud
ref: 1906, Hannah Daviess Pittman, The Belle of the Bluegrass Country: Studies in Black and White, page 122:
glosses: Alternative form of nary.
jazz cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They were looking at the helicopter and the house, no doubt wondering if Snoop Dogg had come to the beach to smoke a little jazz cabbage and snack on Pop-Tarts.
ref: 2020 August 4, Robert Pobi, Under Pressure: A Lucas Page Novel, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:
text: […] poker tournaments and, best of all, sexy tattooed budtenders to serve you the finest jazz cabbage Barça has to offer. This is all thanks to a loophole in Spanish law. In the mid-1990s, the smoky backroom of a Barcelona comic bookstore called Makoki was the site of such radical debates as whether Batman could beat Wolverine and how you could legally smoke pot.
ref: 2020 August 18, Niko Vorobyov, Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: Smoking Hitler’s jazz cabbage. Toking on the only green plant a true Scotsman should ever allow to enter his body (salad is for the Tories).
ref: 2021 October 12, Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life, Knopf, →ISBN, page 123:
text: That other well-known vice—how about the wacky tobacky, the sticky icky, the jazz cabbage, the Sweet Mary Jane? (Yes, I’ve hung out with my relatives in the US. And no, I don't smoke that stuff, but I think the American slang names for it are hilarious.)
ref: 2022 October 10, Elly Thuy Nguyen, Dating Vietnamese Women, Elly Thuy Nguyen:
text: Jazz cabbage in any form is extremely illegal in Taiwan, even if you have a prescription or a doctor’s note, so don't bring that stuff in. Cigarettes are really, really bad for you, but you can bring in up to two hundred cigarettes[…]
ref: 2023 May 3, Cindy Liu, Loving Taipei: The Local Travel Guide to Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan Guide Publishing:
glosses: Marijuana.
Byelaazyorsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Бе́лаазё́рск (Bjélaazjórsk).
Senses: glosses: A city in Biaroza Raion, Brest Oblast, Belarus.
copy and pastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copy and paste
copy-and-pastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copy-and-paste
copy-and-pastes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copy-and-paste
Byerazino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Беразіно́ (Bjerazinó).
Senses: glosses: A city in Minsk Oblast, Belarus.
Braslaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Бра́слаў (Bráslaw).
Senses: glosses: A city in Vitsebsk Oblast, Belarus.
Buda-Kashalyova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Бу́да-Кашалёва (Búda-Kašaljova).
Senses: glosses: A city in Homel Oblast, Belarus.
Morinoia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morinoia
Senses: examples: text: Lowry and Myers (2019) established Morinoia to receive non-sexually dimorphic, terrestrial members of Platorchestia, which includes M. paludosus.
ref: 2020 Hiroshi Morino, Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. A, 46(1), pp. 1–23, February 21, 2020
glosses: A genus of Amphipoda
Bykhaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Бы́хаў (Býxaw).
Senses: glosses: A city in Mahilyow Oblast, Belarus.
Byalynichy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Бялы́нічы (Bjalýničy).
Senses: glosses: A city in Mahilyow Oblast, Belarus.
shōguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shōgun
Sorraia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sorraias
Senses: glosses: A rare breed of horse indigenous to the portion of the Iberian peninsula, in the Sorraia River basin, in Portugal.
blaxploitationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blaxploitationers
Etymology: From blaxploitation + -er.
Senses: glosses: A blaxploitation film.
blaxploitationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blaxploitationer
kyōgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyōgen
form: kyōgens
Senses: examples: text: The twenty-two kyōgen in this volume give a broad sampling of the delightful comic interludes which were traditionally performed between the more austere nō plays. Like the nō, the kyōgen are highly stylized in performance, but they are much more human and poke fun at the foibles and foolishness of noble and commoner, man and woman alike.
ref: 1973, Leonard C[abell] Pronko, Guide to Japanese Drama, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 65:
text: The judgment that early kyōgen was considerably more satirical is given further support by the discovery of an old text of kyōgen synopses, the Tenshō kyōgen-bon.
ref: 1983, William R. LaFleur, The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Regular performances now are usually held on Saturday, Sunday or holiday afternoons and rarely include more than three noh plays plus one or two kyōgen, and sung or danced recital pieces.
ref: 1990, Richard Schechner, Willa Appel, editors, By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual, Cambridge University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 181:
text: The pine-music that followed featured Okina with three noh and two kyōgen.
ref: 2004, The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art (Harvard East Asian Monographs; 232), Harvard University Asia Center, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Where the adaptations of Twelfth Night by the Izumi family were just very short skits, in the length of traditional kyōgens, Sekine’s adaptation was fully developed as drama, using his knowledge of both Japanese and Western classical theater.
ref: 2009, Masae Suzuki, “Shakespeare, Noh, Kyōgen, and Okinawa Shibai”, in Alexander C. Y. Huang, Charles S. Ross, editors, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace (Comparative Cultural Studies), Purdue University Press, →ISBN, part two (Shakespeare in Asia), page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of kyogen.
kyōgens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyōgen
'Arryese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From 'Arry + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The distinctive form of language used by Cockneys.
stilbenolignan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stilbenolignans
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenolic compound formed from a stilbenoid and a lignan.
stilbenolignans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stilbenolignan
query plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: query plans
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The sequence of steps used to execute a given query in a SQL-based database.
query plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of query plan
peejay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Susie whipped the peejay top over her head and off.
ref: 1974, Ernest Lockridge, Prince Elmo’s Fire, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, →ISBN, page 329:
text: Jake wiped his fingers on his peejay bottoms, then wriggled into the sleeping bag on top of the foamy that was just half a metre from Shadow.
ref: 1999, David John Smith, The Red Bandanna, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Laura had been able to persuade Jim to stop by her motel room on the way to SuRF so she could change into something more appropriate for the day than the peejay top and panties she’d been wearing.
ref: 2000, Lee Dravis, Key Monster, American House Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 243:
text: His dark hair was standing on end and his peejay bottoms were half falling off. He’d obviously just got out of bed.
ref: 2001, Margaret Clark, chapter 2, in Mouse Pad (Aussie Angels; 12), Mark Macleod Books, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Attributive form of peejays.
isunakinra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -nakinra.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular interleukin-1 receptor inhibitor.
Related terms: anakinra
amanats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amanat
MAUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MAU
WAU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WAUs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of weekly active user: a measurement of customer engagement, typically with an online service.
WAUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WAU
saccharums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharum
sabling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The carriage continued to advance with the utmost rapidity, till the sabling gloom of night had enveloped the lingering tinge of radiance that flushed earth's western extremity.
ref: 1800, William Henry Ireland, Rimualdo:
glosses: That makes sable or black.
sandpeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandpeeps
form: sand-peep
Senses: glosses: A small sandpiper.
sandpeeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandpeep
happily ever afters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happily ever after
instepped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From instep + -ed.
Senses: examples: a high-instepped shoe
glosses: Having a specified kind of instep.
subcircinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + circinate.
Senses: glosses: Nearly circinate; approaching a circinate form.
circinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of circinate.
subpaniculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + paniculated.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subpaniculate.
subpanicled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + panicled.
Senses: glosses: Almost or imperfectly panicled.
scorpioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorpioid
Raigorodsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raigorodskys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gallicanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallicanism
schliere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃlɪɹ.ə/
ipa: /ˈʃlɪəɹə/
Forms: form: schlieren
Senses: glosses: singular of schlieren
schlieric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to schlieren.
schnorred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schnorr
schnorrs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of schnorr
schnorring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schnorr
ing-forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ing-form
schuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schul
schuln
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schul
First Mesa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: holonyms: Black Mesa
Hopi Reservation
meronyms: Hano
Qootsaptuvela
Sichomovi
Sikyátki
Walpi
glosses: A census-designated place in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
synonyms: Polacca
glosses: A dialect of the Hopi language.
Mishongnovi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mishongovi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A village in Second Mesa, Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
synonyms: Toreva
glosses: A dialect of the Hopi language.
Shipaulovi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shipolovi
form: Sipaulovi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi Supawlavi.
Senses: glosses: A village in Second Mesa, Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: A dialect of the Hopi language.
Third Mesa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hotevilla-Bacavi.
synonyms: word: Hotevilla-Bacavi
synonyms: Oraibi
glosses: A dialect of the Hopi language.
Polacca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Polaccas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of First Mesa (“Hopi dialect”).
synonyms: word: First Mesa
extra: Hopi dialect
glosses: A surname from Hopi.
Derived terms: Polacca Wash
Toreva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mishongnovi (“Hopi dialect”).
synonyms: word: Mishongnovi
extra: Hopi dialect
Sipaulovi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shipaulovi (“Hopi dialect”).
bhag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhags
Senses: glosses: A certain small division of land.
Related terms: bhagdar
bhags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bhag
bhagdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhagdars
Senses: glosses: A landholder in possession of a bhag.
bhagdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bhagdar
scoog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scoogs
form: scooging
form: scooged
form: scooged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scug (“shelter; protect; hide; take shelter”).
Rogue-like
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rogue-likes
Senses: examples: text: Roughly a dozen different flavors of Rogue-likes have evolved over the years, but one of the most popular is Nethack.
ref: 1997, John Withers, Developing Java™ Entertainment Applets, Wiley Computer Publishing, →ISBN, page 93:
text: As with the Rogue-likes before it, Tunnels of Doom featured random encounters with monsters, wildly varying treasure, and a final quest that required the lost king to be defeated (Barton 2008:81).
ref: 2011, Michael J. Tresca, The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 138:
text: The main tool Rogue-likes bring to creating interesting gameplay through randomness is algorithmic complexity far beyond that provided by a few 1D100 tables in the back of the D&D rulebook.
ref: 2013, Greg Costikyan, Uncertainty in Games, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 47:
text: DND just goes to show you that you don't need graphics to achieve greatness. I think the legions of people who still play Rogue-likes such as Nethack would agree.
ref: 2014, Rob Strangman, Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman, →ISBN, page 334:
glosses: Alternative form of roguelike.
Scukas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Scuka
Rogue-likes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rogue-like
Friar Preacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Friars Preachers
form: Friar-Preacher
Senses: synonyms: Dominican
black friar
preaching friar
glosses: A member of the religious order of the Dominicans.
Friars Preachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Friar Preacher
shmock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shmocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schmuck.
shmocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shmock
schmocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schmock
roomscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of room-scale.
seablite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seablites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea blite.
seablites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seablite
nonsacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonsacral
form: most nonsacral
Etymology: From non- + sacral.
Senses: glosses: Not sacred.
Friar-Preacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Friar-Preachers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Friar Preacher.
Friar-Preachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Friar-Preacher
sculs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scul
St Monans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: St Monance
Etymology: From Saint Monan.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in south-east Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO5201).
wikipedia: Saint Monan
semitropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semitropical.
semitropics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The semitropical regions.
St Monance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of St Monans.
shagroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shagroons
Senses: glosses: A settler of the New Zealand province of Canterbury who came from somewhere other than Britain, most commonly Australia.
shagroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shagroon
sewar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewars
Senses: glosses: A native trooper.
sewars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sewar
shammos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shamash (“sexton in a synagogue”).
glosses: Alternative form of shamash (“candle used to light other candles of a Hanukkah menorah”).
shadblow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadblows
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shadbush.
synonyms: word: shadbush
shadblows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadblow
shankbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shankbones
Etymology: From shank + bone.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of canon bone.
synonyms: word: canon bone
shankbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shankbone
shank-bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shank-bones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shankbone.
shank-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shank-bone
shackle-bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shackle-bones
Senses: glosses: The wrist.
shackle-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shackle-bone
shashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shash
shashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shash
single-driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single-drivers
Senses: examples: text: A few such examples have been preserved, as is well known, such as one of the Stirling 8-ft. singles of the late Great Northern Railway, the Great Western 4-4-0 City of Truro, ex-Caledonian single-driver No. 123, the Brighton 0-4-2 Gladstone, and others.
ref: 1945 March and April, “Preserving Historic Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: single
glosses: A steam locomotive with a single driving axle.
shinties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shinty
shieled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shiel
shimmey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shimmeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shimmy.
shimmey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shimmeys
form: shimmeying
form: shimmeyed
form: shimmeyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shimmy.
shimmeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shimmey
shimmeys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shimmey