cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vanillafied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vanillafied
form: most vanillafied
Etymology: From vanilla + -fy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Well, look no further. "The First Wives Club," which opens Friday, is the latest and arguably the slickest chick flick to reduce its adult male characters to inconsequential quivery-lipped milksops. It's not so much male-bashing as all-out male-demolition, a happy-faced Hollywood excuse to trot out one vanillafied stereotype after another. Men are stupid! Men are venal! Men are libidinous reptiles!
ref: 1996 September 19, Amy Biancolli, “Hollywood Humour Runs The Gamut In 'First Wives'”, in Albany Times Union:
text: Just when you're ready to dismiss the main character, Theodorous Melville, as simply another hopelessly vanillafied brother, debut writer and director Kwyn Bader ups the comedic ante.
ref: 2007, Esther Iverem, We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006, Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 243:
text: Costa may just be the fresh blast of honest-to-goodness, not-playing-games, old-school-meets-new-school, funky, fuzzy-haired soul that this vanillafied, predigested, pop-tart-obsessed media culture has been looking for.
ref: 2008 October 8, Darren Ewing, “Review: Nikka Costa funkifies sparse crowd in SLC”, in The Salt Lake City Tribune:
glosses: Generic, safe, or anodyne.
vanillafied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From vanilla + -fy + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vanillafy
anticlinal vertebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticlinal vertebrae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The vertebra in a vertebral column which has a spinous process (spine) towards which the spines of all the other vertebrae are inclined; the vertebra at which the spine orientation changes.
Sadakhlo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian სადახლო (sadaxlo), from დახლი (daxli, “counter”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Georgia, near the border of Armenia.
Kadesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪˌdɛʃ/
Etymology: From Semitic q-d-š (“holy”), thus being "the holy city" in reference to the followers of Qetesh.
Senses: glosses: An ancient city of the Levant, located on or near the headwaters or ford of the Orontes river.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Qetesh.
Related terms: Kadesh-barnea
Kadesh Barnea
Cardinal Virtues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cardinal virtues.
unfat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfat
form: most unfat
Etymology: From un- + fat.
Senses: examples: text: Mainly, unfat people believe that there is no real problem here — only a lack of basic self-control and personal pride. The great myth about overeaters is, "They could lose weight if they really wanted to."
ref: 1990, Doug Peterson, H. Winfield Tutte, Fearfully and Wonderfully Weird:
text: Unfat people tend to blame us for our burden—even though it's our burden, not theirs. Not only do many people disapprove of us for being fat; they feel perfectly free to show it.
ref: 2006, Michael S. Berman, Laurence Shames, Living Large: A Big Man's Ideas on Weight, Success, and Acceptance:
glosses: Not fat.
ignorantia juris non excusat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: ignorantia juris neminem excusat
form: ignorantia legis non excusat
form: ignorantia legis neminem excusat
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ignōrantia factī excūsat, ignōrantia jūris nōn excūsat (“ignorance of fact excuses, ignorance of law does not excuse”).
Senses: examples: text: […] it is an offence against the duty of his place, and a forfeiture of his office; though I do believe Dr. Bury did not intend upon this to affront the bishop, but ignorantia juris non excusat; if the law be so, we cannot alter it.
ref: 1908, “Term. Trin. 6 Will. & Mar. R. B.”, in The English Reports, volume XC: King’s Bench Division (XIX), Edinburgh: William Green & Sons, page 219:
text: Dr Killen noted that while ignorantia juris non excusat (ignorance of the low is no excuse) may apply the advice showed that his father, the late Mr G. L. Killen, who was chairman and managing director of Marra at the time, was entitled to believe he was acting lawfully and properly.
ref: 1979 December 29, Greg Bright, “Pressure off the Stock Exchange”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 44,318, page 28:
text: I pleaded no contest to a $15 parking ticket and Judge Pro Tem Noel Grefenson, probably eager to get lunch after a long morning, took mercy and discharged my fine with an admonishment of ignorantia juris non excusat. ¶ Actually, he didn’t scold me in Latin, but I got his drift nonetheless: “Ignorance of the law does not excuse” abiding by it.
ref: 2004 October 29, Carol McAlice Currie, “Unposted laws make downtown seem unwelcoming”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 1C:
glosses: Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse.
Rusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Rus'ian
form: Rus’ian
form: Rusʼian
form: Rusʹian
Etymology: From Rus + -ian, by analogy with Russian.
Senses: glosses: related to the Rus (people)
examples: text: And finally, in keeping with the argument e silentio, one would be forced to conclude that the entire branch P of the Paterik Skitskij is of Rusian origin, i.e. that its chapters A–1 and B–G were added in Rusian translation to the body of chapters 2–22 and H–J transmitted in South Slavic manuscripts, so that the syntax, lexicon and morphology of the Story of the Merciful Nestor should be evaluated as Rusian.
ref: 1992, William Veder, The Merciful Nestor and Sozomen: Early Rusian Text Transmission in a Stratigraphic Perspective:
glosses: from or related to the medieval state of Kievan Rus
Rusian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rus'ian
form: Rus’ian
form: Rusʼian
form: Rusʹian
Etymology: From Rus + -ian, by analogy with Russian.
Senses: glosses: Old East Slavic.
Related terms: Russian
Old East Slavic
Mahnmal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahnmals
Senses: examples: text: A Mahnmal seeks to transmit the more forceful urgency of a warning, an admonition or an exhortation. […] Though Mahnmals are most often associated with the sites of former concentration camps and other Holocaust memorials, they also may bear an antiwar message, […]
ref: 2009, K. Michael Prince, War and German Memory, →ISBN:
glosses: a Mahnmal
Mahnmals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahnmal
abastardise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abastardises
form: abastardising
form: abastardised
form: abastardised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of abastardize.
abastardised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abastardise
academise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: academises
form: academising
form: academised
form: academised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of academize.
academises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of academise
academising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of academise
academised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of academise
accustomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accustomises
form: accustomising
form: accustomised
form: accustomised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of accustomize.
accustomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accustomize
accustomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accustomize
accustomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accustomize
accustomising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accustomise
accustomises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accustomise
accustomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accustomise
acetalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acetalises
form: acetalising
form: acetalised
form: acetalised
Etymology: From acetal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acetalize.
acetise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acetises
form: acetising
form: acetised
form: acetised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acetize.
acetalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acetalize
acetised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acetise
acetalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acetalise
adnominalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adnominalises
form: adnominalising
form: adnominalised
form: adnominalised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adnominalize.
adnominalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adnominalise
FIRE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Acronym of financial independence and retire early.
examples: text: As Figure 2.1 demonstrates, total income acquired by the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sector has been increasing since the early 1980s. While in the 1952–1980 period, the share of national income that went to the FIRE sector hovered between 12 and 14 percent, by the 2000s it had approached 20 percent.
ref: 2008, Özgür Orhangazi, Financialization and the US Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: Acronym of finance, insurance and real estate, a class of businesses.
FIRE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “President Trump may believe he has the power to revise the First Amendment with the stroke of a pen, but he doesn’t,” the free speech advocacy group FIRE said in a statement.
ref: 2025 August 25, “Trump bans burning of US flag in defiance of constitutional protections”, in Al Jazeera:
glosses: Acronym of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (formerly Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): a non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the aim of protecting free speech rights on college campuses in the United States.
pilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪli
Forms: form: pillier
form: pilliest
Etymology: From pill + -y. In some cases, pill is a clipping of a longer word.
Senses: examples: text: After many washings, my favorite sweater is faded and pilly.
text: I gave the superintendent a deposit and I got a room on the third floor with a bed that had sheets and a pilly blanket and a pillow so flat you had to fold it over to rest your head on it.
ref: 2009, Allegra Goodman, Paradise Park, page 21:
text: One was a young woman with stringy brown hair, a pilly black sweater and fabulous boots of parti-coloured suede.
ref: 2015, Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao:
text: So many stuffed animals. Most were pristine—their fur shiny and smooth, barely a nap on them—except for two worn creatures: a round turtle with a pilly knit shell and a brown bear with a round head and a flat body that looked like someone had literally squeezed the stuffing out of it..
ref: 2017, R. J. Noonan, Where the Lost Girls Go:
text: Resuming her walk, she takes out her phone. Pulls up pictures of his sketches: a battered shoebox beneath a car, a cat beside the shoebox, one eye open. A pilly sweater, one arm still crossed over a pile of cash.
ref: 2020, Brian Selfon, The Nightworkers:
glosses: Covered in pills (particles created by mechanical wear).
examples: text: Paiuline Eichstadt spent a week at home womewhat indisposed with Eddie as doctor and nursemaid. A pilly and puny vacation he spent.
ref: 1954, The Louisville & Nashville Employes' Magazine - Volume 30, page 62:
glosses: Charcterized by or involving many pills.
Derived terms: pilliness
pilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪli
Forms: form: pillies
Etymology: From pill + -y. In some cases, pill is a clipping of a longer word.
Senses: examples: text: Billy Willy is a dilly, He took a pilly And turned silly
ref: 1981, Vardine Moore, The Pleasure of Poetry with and by Children, page 118:
text: Let's tak a little pilly here...I, I need it.
ref: 2022, Andy Warhol, a: A Novel:
glosses: Pill.
glosses: A pillhead.
examples: text: Withdrawing the smaller blade from his belt, Speezer rolled a pilly pod from the tray and sliced it open With his sharp knife.
ref: 2001, Mark Harris, The Amazing Adventure in Tovia, page 59:
glosses: The lilly-pilly.
examples: text: When buying pillies look for IQF fish.
ref: 2007, Paul Worsteling, Jack Crowley, Fishing Western Port, page 18:
text: I prefer to have a range of thee different sizes and colours in squid jigs, but you could also try using squid fish spikes and put a pilly on it.
ref: 2011, Gary Brown, How to Catch Australia's Favourite Saltwater Fish, page 62:
glosses: Pilchard.
examples: text: I attended quite a few other social-group events, made new friends, registered with other motorcycle groups as a pillion, and got out on a few rides. I was really enjoying the riding but sometimes felt frustrated if nobody was available to take a 'pilly' out.
ref: 2021, Tracy-lee Adams, The Dunce:
glosses: One who rides pillion.
pilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪli
Forms: form: pillies
Senses: examples: text: Kattie! There's another coming. Another mattress and a pilly. Where can we put him?
ref: 1873 November 29, “A London Pilgrimage among the Boarding-Houses. V. A Merchant Captain's Roost.”, in Charles Dickens, Jr., editor, All the Year Round, A Weekly Journal (New Series), volume XIpage=110, column 2, London: […] Chapman & Hall, […], published 1874:
text: She will have to dig a mattress and a pilly from the stair-well.
ref: 1876, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Slippery ground - Volume 2, page 147:
text: Her head it rests upon a pilly And she is not so very silly
ref: 1914, Lachlan Macbean, Pet Marjorie, page 31:
glosses: pillow
Related terms: english: almost certainly etymologically unrelated
translation: almost certainly etymologically unrelated
word: lilly-pilly
english: almost certainly etymologically unrelated
translation: almost certainly etymologically unrelated
word: pilly willy
acronymise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acronymises
form: acronymising
form: acronymised
form: acronymised
Etymology: From acronym + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acronymize.
acronymised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acronymise
acronymises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acronymise
acronymising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acronymise
adjectivise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adjectivises
form: adjectivising
form: adjectivised
form: adjectivised
Etymology: From adjective + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adjectivize.
adjectivised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adjectivise
adjectivising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adjectivise
adjectivises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adjectivise
Slavia Orthodoxa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slavia orthodoxa
Senses: glosses: Slavic countries that are predominantly under Eastern Orthodox Church and use Cyrillic script
Related terms: Slavia Romana
Slavia Latina
Slavia orthodoxa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Slavia Orthodoxa.
Slavia Romana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slavia romana
Senses: glosses: Slavic countries that are predominantly under Catholic Church and use Roman script
Synonyms: Slavia Latina
Related terms: Slavia Orthodoxa
Slavia Latina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slavia latina
Senses: glosses: Slavic countries that are predominantly under Catholic Church and use Roman script
Synonyms: Slavia Romana
Related terms: Slavia Orthodoxa
Slavia romana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Slavia Romana.
Slavia latina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Slavia Latina.
Machi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Machis
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Machi or Machì, a surname of unexplained origin.
* Borrowed from Japanese 真地 (Machi), an uncommon surname in Japan.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
real axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real axis
imaginary axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imaginary axis
coordinate axis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coordinate axes
form: co-ordinate axis
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: One of the lines in the coordinate system that represents one of the dimensions.
Hypernyms: axis
Hyponyms: real axis
imaginary axis
coordinate axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coordinate axis
co-ordinate axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-ordinate axis
co-ordinate axis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-ordinate axes
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of coordinate axis.
Cappadocian Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Cappadocian
glosses: a language formerly spoken in Cappadocia by Cappadocian Greeks
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Cappadocian Greek terms
chronolect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒnəʊlɛkt/
Forms: form: chronolects
Etymology: From chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”).
Senses: examples: text: Koine and Byzantine are chronolects of Greek.
text: Taking lect in the sense of ‘variety’ (and not ‘social variety’), I have coined spatiolect ‘spatial variety’, chronolect ‘chronological variety’, communolect ‘variety of a community (however defined)’, ecolect ‘variety of an economic class’, ethnolect ‘variety of an ethnic group’, religiolect ‘variety of a religious group’, sexlect ‘variety of one of the sexes or of people with a certain sexual orientation’, urbolect ‘urban variety’, and rurolect ‘rural variety’.
ref: 1981, Leuvense Bĳdragen, volume LXX, Martinus Nĳhoff Publishers, page 52:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
glosses: A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development.
Derived terms: chronolectal
Related terms: topolect
geolect
regiolect
pillier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pilly: more pilly
pilliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of pilly: most pilly
boxing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of box in
boxes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of box in
becrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːl
Forms: form: becrawls
form: becrawling
form: becrawled
form: becrawled
Etymology: From be- (“about, all over”) + crawl.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, if I could have been there!" muttered Kirby. "But it wouldn't have done." "At the last, Howaji," finished Najib, "he was what box fighters call 'downward and outward.' I dragged him to the camp's edge and left him to becrawl himself away.
ref: 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib - Page 84:
text: Nor becrawl on me, bedam, Nor my nose besettle on, Howso in thy sight it shone.
ref: 1949, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 216 - Page 683:
glosses: To crawl about; crawl all over.
acidise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acidises
form: acidising
form: acidised
form: acidised
Etymology: From acid + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acidize.
acidised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acidise
adrenalectomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adrenalectomises
form: adrenalectomising
form: adrenalectomised
form: adrenalectomised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adrenalectomize.
adrenalectomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adrenalectomise
first-timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-timers
Etymology: From first time + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person engaging in any activity for the first time
gun line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun lines
Senses: examples: text: The guidon-bearer was placed by the battery commander to mark the right of the gun line, with the gun platoon aligned to his left.
ref: 1998, Curt Johnson, Richard Claire Anderson, chapter 1, in Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam, →ISBN, page 28:
text: As soon as Lee reaches the Command Post, Matthew directs him forward to the gun line where the crews are preparing the Light Guns.
ref: 2013 March, “The Firepower Behind the Army”, in Army Life: Your guide to the Royal Artillery, UK MoD, page 9:
text: The executive at the gun line is responsible for the drill and fire discipline of the battery.
ref: 1917 July 1, Army War College, “Third British Army, Artillery Instructions, No. 3 Notes on the Organization of a Battery for Active Operations”, in Field Artillery Notes, number 4, page 53:
text: A mountain battery is divided into a "Gun Line" and an "Ammunition Line." Six guns and twelve ammunition-mules form the "Gun Line."
ref: 1916 June 10, “The Mountain Gun and Mule Team”, in Scientific American: Supplement, volume 81, number 2110, page 372:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: the tactical firing position of artillery or naval guns
laptop hobos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laptop hobo
neosuchian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neosuchians
Etymology: Neosuchia + -an
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A member of the clade Neosuchia of crocodilian and related reptiles.
Waganda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Ganda people of Uganda.
kidfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidfics
Etymology: From kid + fic.
Senses: examples: text: It's just yet another idea for a kidfic I had. I hope you don't mind it.
ref: 1999 October 26, RhiaRamsay, “Repost-Home and Free (1/2)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: I’ve had this idea for a long time and Cathey said to write a kidfic so this is what happened.
ref: 2002 January 21, Rotem Shahar, “xfc: NEWFIC: Up In Flames”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Set your kidfic during a Christmas after I Want To Believe. It doesn't need to be 2008, but William should still be a child.
ref: 2008 December 6, neoxphile [username], “The Nursery Files Christmas 2008 Challenge (Post-IWTB Reunion)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic which focuses on a character, and possibly their partner(s), raising a child or children.
examples: text: Ok, so we'll never get this scenario on the show, but I thought it would be interesting to try something other than Requiem babyfic and more along the lines of "kidfic." I found myself wondering what Mulder and Scully's son might be like and how Scully would handle the awesome responsibility of raising him alone.
ref: 2000 September 1, Starbuck031992 [username], “NEW: Will (1/1) by little scully”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: I knew EXACTLY why you were asking such a stupid ass question. Only someone writing/reading kidfic would even care. Next time, try asking on the fic list.
ref: 2004 March 16, SamPiper, “Re: Did Scully...”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: In a month or so I plan to begin the update process again at The Nursery Files, which as you probably know is the X-Files babyfic/kidfic archive.
ref: , neoxphile [username], “Writers, please submit your baby/kidfics to The Nursery Files”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
examples: text: I also have three shelves of paperback children's fiction in the bedroom, some Madeliene L'Engle kidfic and an entire shelf of American Girls books (plus History Mysteries) in the spare room.
ref: 2002 November 6, Linda M. Young, “Re: Your shelves-How Many/Where are they?”, in rec.arts.books.childrens (Usenet):
text: What got and still gets me is the incessant message you still find in a lot of kidfic, namely "Don't tell your parents about anything wierd^([sic]) because they won't believe you and it'll only get you into trouble with them."
ref: 2007 April 4, Kay Shapero, “Re: The Great Werewolf Novel”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
text: This leaves a pretty wide gap in the children's fiction market, and opens the door to the good old British stalwarts. We've always been good at kidfic.
ref: 2012, Perry Iles, "Lashings of Ginger Beer", Words with JAM, October/November 2012, page 25
glosses: Children's literature.
Synonyms: sense: children's literature
word: kidlit
Hyponyms: sense: fan fiction genre
word: babyfic
sense: fan fiction genre
word: parentlock
kidfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kidfic
Slavisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slavism
aerobicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aerobicises
form: aerobicising
form: aerobicised
form: aerobicised
Etymology: From aerobic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aerobicize.
aerobicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aerobicise
aerobicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aerobicise
adulterise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adulterises
form: adulterising
form: adulterised
form: adulterised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adulterize.
babyfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babyfics
Etymology: From baby + fic.
Senses: examples: text: I wrote a true "babyfic", but I’m a sap at heart and this probably shows my true sappiness. :-)
ref: 1999 February 21, JenR13 [username], “EW: "Meant to Be?" Chapter 4/? by Jen”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Hoo boy... who ever thought I would write a babyfic either? CC made me do it!
ref: 2000 May 28, kbxf [username], “xfc: NEW: Shades of Blue (1/2) by KatyBlue”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: I'm sure there are at least a few 'babyfics' out there like that, complete with diapers.
ref: 2003 August 30, Rocky, “Re: NEW:VOY "Life Support" 1/1 [PG-13] J/C (challenge)”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic which focuses on one or more characters welcoming and/or caring for a baby.
examples: text: This is babyfic with a realistic drooly biting babbler in the starring role.
ref: 1998 September 6, JenRose, “Rec: Iolokus IV: Res Judicata- Actually ranting, raving praise.”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Yep, we're headed for an onslaught of sappy babyfic. Hang onto your hats, girls and boys! <g>
ref: 2001 May 20, Daska K., “Beware the onslaught....”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Whereas fan fiction has been understood to be primarily about sex and subversive readings — as Jenkins' work on female fans and "slash" suggests — babyfic on the other hand, demonstrates the need to contain and work through the extreme possibilities of the canon.
ref: 2003 April, Robin Silbergleid, “'The Truth We Both Know': Readerly Desire and Heteronarrative in The X-Files”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 25, number 3, page 61:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
Hypernyms: kidfic
babyfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babyfic
lubber line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lubber lines
Senses: qualifier: navigation
glosses: A fixed line on a compass corresponding to the direction of movement.
estruate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: estruates
form: estruating
form: estruated
form: estruated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oestruate.
representative fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: representative fractions
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The scale of a map expressed as a fraction. For example, 1/63,360 or 1:63,360 indicates a scale of one inch to the mile.
noromo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noromos
form: NoRomo
Etymology: From a shortening of no romance.
Senses: examples: text: Being a hard-core "noromo" (parlance for "no romancer," someone who believes the show's UST, or unresolved sexual tension, is the key to its vitality), I have also flamed "shippers" ("relationshippers," those who want Mulder and Scully to get it on in the film) with now embarrassing vituperations, such as, "Why don't you just go get the lame job you're destined for at the state budget office?"
ref: 1998 June 22, John Cloud, “Cinema: An X-Phile Confesses”, in Time:
text: There had always been a separation between the noromos and the shippers, but at the start of the eighth season, another significant division was born.
ref: 2002, Tom Kessenich, EXaminations: An Unauthorized Look at Seasons 6-9 of The X-Files, Featuring the Reviews of Unbound I, Trafford Publishing (2002), page 5
text: Once it became generally accepted that Mulder and Scully were romantically involved off screen, the noromos stopped watching in disgust, while the shippers lamented not being allowed to witness the transition in the relationship.
ref: 2002, Elizabeth Weinbloom, "'THE X-FILES'; A Botched Romance" (letter to the editor), The New York Times, 2 June 2002
qualifier: The X-Files fandom slang
glosses: A person who opposes the idea of a romantic relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
Synonyms: english: The X-Files fandom
translation: The X-Files fandom
word: friendshipper
Hypernyms: anti-shipper
Derived terms: noromodom
noromoish
noromoness
noromos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noromo
NoRomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NoRomos
Senses: examples: text: The former, called "Shippers" (i.e. those who seek a love relationship depicted), are opposed by "NoRomos," who do not want romance to take over the series.
ref: 2003, Douglas Kellner, Media Spectacle, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 144–145:
text: Viewers also spent years trying to decipher whether there was a romantic attraction between the duo. Among the growing number of internet fan bases devoted to the relationship, subgroups of "relationshippers" and "NoRomos" emerged.
ref: 2008 July 2, Rachel Olding, “REWIND The X-Files”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: But there's some unrest among the two major types of X-Philes: The 'Shippers, who care most about the romantic relationship between Mulder and Scully, and the NoRomos, who care more about the murky mythology of the show.
ref: 2008 July 23, Marla Puente, “The Mulder-Scully fans are out there”, in USA Today:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of noromo.
NoRomos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NoRomo
propenultimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + penultimate.
Senses: examples: text: “Halnaker is the family name?”
“Yes. Spelt H-a-l-n-a-k-e-r and pronounced Hannaker, with the accent on the Hann—the pro-penultimate, as we were taught to call it at school. The propenultimate, if you please. What unmitigated nonsense! Why not the last-but-two?”
ref: 1929, Martin Armstrong, The Sleeping Fury, book 1 Charlotte At Fifty, chapter 1
text: In Latin polysyllabic words are stressed on the penultimate syllable if this is long; otherwise on the propenultimate syllable, provided that there is one.
ref: 1997, Georg Capellanus, Rod McLeod, Latin Can be Fun (Facetiae Latinae): A Modern Conversational Guide (Sermo Hodiernus Antique Redditus):
glosses: Synonym of antepenultimate: two places before last.
synonyms: word: antepenultimate
extra: two places before last
Related terms: penultimate
preantepenultimate
ultimate
ecofact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecofacts
Etymology: Blend of eco- + artifact.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that two periods of occupation are in evidence, both having similar ecofact and material remains, suggests that the occupation and the behavior carried on there are part of an established cycle of seasonally based behavior.
ref: 1963, Missouri Archaeological Society, Research Series, Issues 1–13, page 57:
text: Ecofact is a term archaeologists invented to classify natural objects used by humans without modification. Animal bones left for dinner or pollen from gathered plants are ecofacts. … Even phosphates or other chemicals in the soil are ecofacts showing that people threw their organic waste on the ground.
ref: 2009, Nancy Marie White, Archaeology For Dummies, part 1 Archaeology: Seeing Past People Today, chapter 1 What Archaeology Is, page 12
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A biological artifact not altered by humans, but which may be indicative of human occupation.
Synonyms: sense: in archaeology
word: biofact
Related terms: ecofactual
macroecofact
microecofact
ecofacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecofact
MUSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of million United States dollars.
wringle-wrangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wringle-wrangles
Etymology: From wrangle by ablaut reduplication.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I can propose it,’ van Rijn said carefully. ‘After a month's wringle-wrangle, I get voted no. They won't believe either, SI would do something so bad like that, for some sternly commercial reason.’
ref: 1969, Poul Anderson, Satan's World:
text: A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination ITS troglodyte was flung around some during the Usenet and email wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride.
ref: 1996, compiled by Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary, page 453, definition of troglodyte
glosses: A verbal argument.
wringle-wrangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wringle-wrangles
form: wringle-wrangling
form: wringle-wrangled
form: wringle-wrangled
Etymology: From wrangle by ablaut reduplication.
Senses: examples: text: You know the foolishness of fighting; here is a haven of rest; and you must needs go back to wringle wrangle among the literary men of London.
ref: 1883, Sir Walter Besant, The Captains' Room etc., page 25:
glosses: To argue.
Synonyms: argle-bargle
snuff-and-butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snuff-and-butters
Senses: examples: text: Your sweetheart fell in love with you in the Port of London, and presently afterwards with another pretty woman in the Port of Calcutta, which is generally the way with poor Tom Bowling. She was a snuff-and-butter, because at Calcutta they are as plenty as blackberries; and when young, snuff-and-butter is not to be despised, having bright eyes; […]
ref: 1883, Sir Walter Besant, “The Captains' Room etc.”, in The Message of the Mute, chapter 1, page 18:
text: In the event of the beasts failing us, we took also ten of the best of those Strathmuir men who had accompanied us on the sea-cow trip, to serve as bearers when it became necessary. It cannot be said that these snuff-and-butter fellows—for most, if not all of them had some dash of white blood in their veins—were exactly willing volunteers. Indeed, if a choice had been left to them, they would, I think, have declined this adventure.
ref: 1921, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, She and Allan, chapter 8 Pursuit
text: They form a shouting, gesticulating, chaffering, laughing, quarrelling, noisy throng, their skins varying from lightest olive through snuff and butter and café-au-lait to coal-black, their bright-coloured clothes making a constantly changing kaleidoscope around the market square.
ref: 1924, Thomas Gann, chapter 1, in In An Unknown Land, page 14:
glosses: An individual of mixed racial heritage.
quagmirical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quagmirical
form: most quagmirical
Etymology: From quagmire + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a quagmire
indentedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indented + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state or property of being indented
yaller dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yaller dogs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yellow dog (“a worthless item”).
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yellow dog (“a Carolina dog”).
Related terms: yallar dog
yallar dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yallar dogs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yellow dog.
Related terms: yaller dog
yaller dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yaller dog
Carolina dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carolina dogs
Etymology: After the Carolinas, where the dogs were first discovered or rediscovered in the modern era.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: Dixie Dingo
American dingo
American Dingo
yellow dog
yaller dog
yallar dog
glosses: A type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before Europeans (and European dogs), which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the Carolinas, but may be domesticated.
Carolina dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carolina dog
yellow dog Democrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow dog Democrats
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Yellow Dog Democrat.
yellow dog Democrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow dog Democrat
cold sweat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold sweats
Senses: examples: text: . . .
And the dead were at my feet.
The cold sweat melted from their limbs,
Ne rot, ne reek did they;
The look with which they look'd on me,
Had never pass'd away.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 4
text: He clasped his hands together, and involuntarily uttered a subdued exclamation of horror. A mist came before his eyes; the cold sweat stood upon his ashy face.
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 22, in Oliver Twist:
text: [T]he great fear grew on me till the cold sweat ran from my brow and my soul was faint within me.
ref: 1889, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 2, in Cleopatra:
text: The leader of the hounds broke into cry again, a deep, full-toned, ringing bay, strange, ominous, terribly significant in its power. It caused a cold sweat to ooze out all over Duane's body.
ref: 1915, Zane Grey, chapter 12, in The Lone Star Ranger:
text: One could argue that the banking crisis is just the cold sweat, not the flu that follows it
ref: 2008 October 9, James Saft, “The current crisis is only the beginning”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jul 2013:
glosses: Perspiration which feels chilly to the person perspiring, and which indicates debilitating illness, shock, or the experiencing of an intense emotion such as despair, anxiety, or, especially, fear.
Yellow Dog Democrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yellow Dog Democrats
form: yellow dog Democrat
Etymology: From the claim that such Democrats would sooner vote for a yellow dog, if it ran on the Democratic ticket, than a Republican.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: brass-collar Democrat
glosses: A Democrat, especially a Southern one, who votes a straight party ticket; one who invariably votes for Democratic candidates.
Yellow Dog Democrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yellow Dog Democrat
walimu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mwalimu
beed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of was.
synonyms: word: was
glosses: Synonym of were.
synonyms: word: were
Palenque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Palenque, from palenque (“palisade”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several towns in Latin America; most famously, a Maya site in Chiapas, Mexico.
Yellow Dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yellow Dogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of yellow dog, chiefly used when the word has the sense "Carolina dog" or the sense "Yellow Dog Democrat".
Yellow Dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yellow Dog
jianzhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒiænˈd͡ʒiː/
enpr: jyěnʹjûʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 剪紙 /剪纸 (jiǎnzhǐ), from 剪 (jiǎn, “to cut with scissors”) + 紙 /纸 (zhǐ, “paper”).
Senses: glosses: Chinese traditional paper cutting.
Coordinate terms: kirigami
papercutting
Broken Glass Republican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Broken Glass Republicans
Etymology: From the claim that such Republicans would crawl through broken glass in order to vote Republican.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A Republican who invariably votes for Republican candidates.
yellow dog contracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow dog contract
NMC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NCM
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of nickel-manganese-cobalt, a type of lithium cell chemistry.
Synonyms: sense: nickel manganese cobalt
word: NiMnCo
sense: nickel manganese cobalt
word: nimnco
Coordinate terms: sense: nickel cobalt manganese
english: lithium-iron-phosphate
translation: lithium-iron-phosphate
word: LFP
sense: nickel cobalt manganese
english: nickel-cobalt-aluminum
translation: nickel-cobalt-aluminum
word: NCA
terribad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terribad
form: most terribad
Etymology: Blend of terrible + bad.
Senses: examples: text: You simply should not only put in the re-raise with only a straight. That is terribad poker.
ref: 2009 April 3, FellKnight [username], “Re: Deepstack tourney hand for Doggy”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):
text: Are you tired of waiting hours just to get a terribad group, doing less deeps than a lvl 69 in greens?
ref: 2011 February 21, “Classifieds”, in The Daily Reveille, volume 115, number 93, Louisiana State University, page 14:
text: You will usually hear her before you see her, whether it is her classic British accent, or a "purposely terribad" rendition of a love song.
ref: 2011, Victoria Aguilar & Rachel Wan, "Ann Zeng", The San Mateo Hi (San Mateo High School), Volume 95, Number 9, 20 May 2011, page 4
glosses: Extremely bad.
cold cash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Promises, especially from Joe Larkin, will go a long way, though they don't rouse the white hot enthusiasm that cold cash in the pocket does."
ref: 1904, David Graham Phillips, chapter 19, in The Cost:
text: "I wouldn't cross that rock wall for a hundred thousand dollars in cold cash."
ref: 1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 5, in The Yukon Trail:
text: [H]ighways, dams and research laboratories have lost their primacy; cold cash—for pensions, doctors and hospitals—has taken over.
ref: 2000 October 15, Matthew Miller, “The Big Federal Freeze”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jul 2013:
text: Maine has only 1.3 million people but at least 25 trillion gallons of drinkable water in its lakes and aquifers. Wilfong, a former state legislator, wants to turn that resource into cold cash.
ref: 2005 December 12, Jyoti Thottham, “War on the Water Front”, in Time:
synonyms: cold hard cash
hard cash
glosses: Ready money.
synonyms: cold hard cash
hard cash
glosses: Money, regarded as an incentive that can override any doubts or ethical concerns.
synonyms: cold hard cash
hard cash
glosses: Specie (as contrasted with paper money).
Related terms: cash on the barrelhead
withstrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of withstrain
withstraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of withstrain
vertical interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical intervals
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The vertical distance on the ground which separates adjacent contour lines on a map.
KDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KD
wudn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /wʊdnt/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wouldn't, contraction of would not.
wudn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /wʊdnt/
/wədnt/
/wʌdnt/
/wʊdnt/
Senses: examples: text: He wudn't about to leave.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wasn't, contraction of was not.
Related terms: cudn't
dudn't
dead ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: an area of ground hidden from an observer due to undulations in the land
topics: business
mining
glosses: the portion of a vein in which there is no ore
climbing gouramis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climbing gourami
climbing gourami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climbing gouramis
form: climbing gouramies
Etymology: From climbing + gourami.
Senses: examples: text: Ananantidae. This family, known as the climbing gouramis, contains three genera, Anabas (1 species), Cteropoma (at least 25 species) and Sandelia (2).
ref: 1997, Jeffrey B. Graham, Air-Breathing Fishes: Evolution, Diversity, and Adaptation, page 54:
text: The anabantids, or climbing gouramis (Channa), are adapted to freshwater wetlands.
ref: 2000, Ramon Folch i Guillén, Josep María Camarasa, Encyclopedia of the Biosphere: Tropical rainforests, volume 2, page 157:
text: 2001, E. Yu. Krysanov, A. S. Golubtsov, Journal of Ichthyology, Volume 41, Issues 6-9, page 698,
Eight species of the African climbing gourami genera Ctenopoma and Microctenopoma were karyologically studied using the air-dried method.
glosses: Any fish of the taxonomic family Anabantidae.
Synonyms: sense: fish of family Anabantidae
word: anabantid
sense: fish of family Anabantidae
word: climbing perch
Related terms: gourami
labyrinth fish
labyrinth organs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labyrinth organ