cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Bloomie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bloomberg + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was getting an earful. “He created this crisis so that he can take credit for fixing it and get our votes in exchange,” one commenter wrote on a Brooklyn blog, Vos Iz Neias, Yiddish for “What is News.” Someone else remarked, “I got to my store I got 2 tickets from the Sanitation police. I sure deserved it Bloomie. I will NOT vote for you.”
ref: 2009 November 15, Fernanda Santos, “Fewer Hasidim Backed Mayor, Study Finds”, in The New York Times:
text: Bloomie recently wrote that unlike Trump he did not inherit a fortune. That he did not. But nor, really, did The Donald. […] Transforming a Wild West town into a peaceful Swiss village takes a long time — eight years to be exact — and Bloomie was smart and opportunistic enough to keep Rudy’s people and structure in place.
ref: 2020 March 2, Taki Theodoracopulos, “What makes Bloomie run?”, in The Spectator (US edition):
glosses: A nickname for Michael Bloomberg (born 1942), American businessman, politician, CEO of Bloomberg L.P., and mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013.
examples: text: The workplace was everything in season one of Industry, a chaotic open office of “Bloomie” (Bloomberg) terminals and territorial snarling. The characters barely existed outside the office.
ref: 2022 September 26, Craig Mathieson, “Ambition and moral bankruptcy is the currency in which this ferocious show trades”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: It’s a shock final (?) twist by Kuroda, who is stepping down in the spring and was expected by many to go quietly. Victims include Bloomberg, whose headline “BOJ to Sit Tight as Markets Weigh Post-Kuroda Path” survived a matter of hours (to be fair, the 47 economists Bloomie polled all reckoned today would be a non-event).
ref: 2022 December 20, Louis Ashworth, “Turning Japanese?: One last rug pull before retirement”, in Financial Times:
glosses: The American financial and mass media company Bloomberg L.P., or any of its products (such as the Bloomberg Terminal) or divisions (such as Bloomberg News).
Related terms: Bloomie's
phalloplastician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phalloplasticians
Senses: examples: text: Transsexual people (and others) need to realize that treatment is constrained by the frontiers of medical knowledge. State-of-the-art phalloplasty techniques, performed by the best phalloplastician (did I just invent a word?) will have all the problems inherent in this difficult and demanding procedure.
ref: 1992, Dallas Denny, “Commentary: The Importance of Informed Consent”, in Chrysalis Quarterly, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN, page 55, column 3:
text: Phalloplasticians hold out the promise of penile perfection.
ref: 2002 January 9, Lynne Luciano, Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: A surgeon who performs phalloplasty.
jacker-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackers-off
Senses: glosses: A worker in lacemaking who removes leftover threads from the bobbin for reuse.
Neamdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Naumudalr.
Senses: examples: text: North of Throwend-ham or Thrond-heim lies Neam-dale with its coast station, Hrafnista, and, north of that, Haloga-land’s barren five degrees of latitude stretch along by the sea, north-east, ending in West-firth and the great islands that head the Skerry, islands only visited by Finnish fowlers, fishers or huntsmen in those far-off days.
ref: 1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Namdalen (a valley and district of Trøndelag, Norway).
Throwends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹəʊ(ə)ndz/
Forms: form: Throwens
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English Þrōwendas pl, from Proto-Germanic *þrōwōną (“to grow, prosper”) + *-ndz. Compare Proto-Norse *þrōwendīʀ pl, whence Old Norse þrǿndir, þrǿndr. Cognate with Norwegian trønder, Icelandic Þrændir and German Drönter.
Senses: examples: text: Through North Mere pierces the great inland sea of the Throwends, with its numerous creeks and headlands, such as Agda-ness, Nith’s oyce or Nidaros, Frosta the mootstead of the Throwends, each notable from some event in Norwegian history.
ref: 1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18:
text: Frey and Tew were the chief gods of the Swedes and Franks, Thunder (Thórr) of the Reams and Throwends in West Norway.
ref: 1892, Frederick York Powell, “Teutonic Heathendom”, in Religious Systems of the World: A Contribution to the Study of Comparative Religion, page 281:
text: With the Thyrings I was, and with the Throwends,
And with the Burgends—there I a beigh got,
ref: 1882, Edwin Guest, “The Traveller’s Song”, in A History of English Rhythms, page 381:
synonyms: Thronds
glosses: The people of Trøndelag
Derived terms: Throwendham
Throwendish
Related terms: english: male given name
translation: male given name
word: Throwend
Reamsdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Old Norse Raumsdalr.
Senses: examples: text: North of the Sogn firth come the Feles (Fialar) and Firths, but past Cape Start, where the land turns and runs north-east, we come to the northern land of the Reams, North and South Mere and Reamsdale, stretching up over two degrees of latitude.
ref: 1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: the Romsdal (a valley in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).
Related terms: english: people of the Romsdal
translation: people of the Romsdal
word: Reams
tridemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: tridemics
Etymology: From tri- + pandemic.
Senses: examples: text: "We are potentially going into what people are calling a 'tripledemic,' or a 'tridemic,'" warned Orange County health officer Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, who on Monday declared a health emergency amid a surge in RSV cases.
ref: 2022 November 4, Luke Money, Rong-Gong Lin II, “A 'tripledemic' of flu, RSV and COVID is feared in California”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2023:
text: With some news outlets breathlessly warning of a potential "tridemic" – a possible simultaneous surge of Covid, influenza and RSV – the Biden administration has announced a new six-week campaign to encourage Americans to get boosters in anticipation of the holidays.
ref: 2022 November 22, “Fauci urges Americans to get Covid shot, as study finds new booster is best yet”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2022:
text: The current rise in Covid-19 cases is one leg of a triple threat – a "tridemic," a "tripledemic" or a "trifecta," as some news organizations are calling it – along with a bad flu season and an RSV outbreak hitting mainly children.
ref: 2022 December 8, Zachary B. Wolf, “Yes to masks, no to mandates”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022:
text: A triple threat of viruses has some health officials warning about a "tridemic" this winter season as influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surge at once.
ref: 2022 December 8, “How to protect yourself from a triple-threat of viruses this holiday season”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2022:
glosses: Synonym of tripledemic (“a combination of three pandemics”).
synonyms: word: tripledemic
extra: a combination of three pandemics
tridemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tridemic
tripledemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripledemic
cishon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cishons
Etymology: Compound of cis (“cisgender”) + hon (“a trans woman who does not pass”).
Senses: examples: text: GenderCritical redfem cishons can suck my gt
ref: 2016 October 16, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:
text: making a cishon folder
ref: 2017 April 27, Zoekas, 4chan, /lgbt/:
text: if you'll allow me to be problematic, i'm glad the facebook whistleblower seems to be a cishon, it's made me realise that i'm somewhat passable
ref: 2021 October 5, @GriffinSice, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2023:
text: Skylar is such a cishon it's insane, truly the greatest trans ally
ref: 2022 June 8, @pussyhitler, Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2022:
text: tttt has fried my brain. im sitting at dinner w family and thinking about how grandma is a cishon
ref: 2022 December 24, @WOMANFAGGOT, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:
text: this tweet is remarkably funny coming from the brickiest cishon to walk earth. i pass better than u sweetheart
ref: 2022 December 30, @puppybref, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:
qualifier: 4chan /lgbt/ slang
glosses: A cis woman who looks like a non-passing trans woman due to having masculine features.
boysmell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪˌsmɛl/
rhymes: -ɔɪsmɛl
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
Proto-Indo-European *smel-
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
English boysmell
Compound of boy + smell. Popularized as an Internet meme by a post on 4chan, published 19 December 2020 and widely shared on social media.
Senses: examples: text: The smell of sweat and riverwater and the warm boysmell of Alec's hair and shoulders made her dizzy.
ref: 1930, John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A.), New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, published 1937, →OCLC, page 143:
text: You rub your eyes, yawning, then open the backseat door and gently shake your boy awake. You pick him up, enjoying as always the clean boysmell of his hair. Still half asleep, he wraps his arms around your neck.
ref: 1979, Chuck Kinder, The Silver Ghost, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 38:
text: We remained there almost an hour until I was filled with looking at the concern on his face, filled with the texture of his long dark hair—every strand tinted an identical black walnut—feeling its soft texture across my face when he leaned close, filled with his boysmell and boybreath and the strength and security of his arms, […]
ref: 1985, Felice Picano, Ambidextrous, 1st Plume Printing edition, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, published 1989, →ISBN, page 84:
text: boysmell is good when it's coming from someone who's not cis
ref: 2022 May 30, @bonkey_bong, Twitter, archived from the original on 30 May 2022:
coordinate_terms: manscent
;
girlsmell
glosses: A boy or man's body odour, often regarded as attractive.
wikipedia: 4chan
MEL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MELs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of minimum/minimal equipment list. The list of the minimum of operational equipment allowed for continued operation of the device equipping the equipment; by extension, the set of such equipment.
glosses: Abbreviation of miscellaneous equipment load.
Derived terms: MMEL
aspicillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An 18-membered cyclic molecular substance with IUPAC name (3Z,5R,6S,7R,18S)-5,6,7-trihydroxy-18-methyl-1-oxacyclooctadec-3-en-2-one
umburana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umburanas
Etymology: From Portuguese umburana.
Senses: examples: text: "For safety I maintained my distance from that ill-famed house and settled under an umburana tree at the curve of a road."
ref: 1970, Josué de Castro, translated by Susan Hertelendy, Of Men and Crabs, page 102:
text: Two calves frisked outside beneath the umburana tree.
ref: 1972, Peggie Benton, One Man Against the Drylands:
text: Once again he sees the landscape […] become a phantasmagoria, with strange human fruit hanging from the umburanas and the thornbushes, and boots, scabbards, tunics, kepis dangling from the branches.
ref: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 343:
glosses: A species of leguminous tree, Amburana cearensis, native to South America and often used for timber.
umburanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umburana
advertizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advertizable
form: most advertizable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of advertisable.
D'Orbigny's slider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D'Orbigny's sliders
Senses: glosses: A species of water turtle (Trachemys dorbigni) in the family Emydidiae.
go toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes toilet
form: going toilet
form: went toilet
form: gone toilet
Senses: synonyms: go potty
glosses: (Southern England) to use the toilet
screw driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw drivers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of screwdriver.
slash pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slash pockets
Senses: examples: text: Roomy slash pockets. Your choice of Zip or Button style.
ref: 1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 94:
glosses: A pocket in a garment that opens with a diagonal slit.
slash pockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slash pocket
for this once
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more for this once
form: most for this once
Senses: glosses: On this particular occasion, to make an exception
gall oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gall oaks
Senses: synonyms: Lusitanian oak
dyer's oak
glosses: A species of oak (Quercus lusitanica)
get one's own way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's own way
form: getting one's own way
form: got one's own way
form: gotten one's own way
form: got one's own way
Senses: glosses: Synonym of get one's way.
synonyms: word: get one's way
truffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truff
give the sack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the sack
form: giving the sack
form: gave the sack
form: given the sack
Senses: synonyms: sack
fire
glosses: To dismiss from employment
Related terms: get the sack
truff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truffs
Etymology: Borrowed from French truffe (“truffle”).
Senses: examples: text: The town is famous for its earth-nuts or truffs, and for the beauty of its women, who are ſaid to excel thoſe of any other part of Italy.
ref: 1749, Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, Or, a Journey Through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France, third edition, London: […] J. Rivington and Sons, […], published 1778, page 202:
glosses: A truffle.
truff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truffs
form: truff
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: One of these pools is designated par excellence the otter pool, for as surely as the truff appear, so surely do the strong hovers hold an otter, nay, sometimes a brace or more, in attendance on the prey so bountifully supplied to them.
ref: 1885, The Duke of Beaufort [i.e., Henry Somerset], Mowbray Morris, Hunting, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 307:
glosses: The sea trout (a fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon).
truff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truffs
Senses: glosses: A long stone that goes through the full thickness of a stone wall.
right side up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: right-side-up
Senses: examples: text: Stood right-side-up and free of the undergarment from Hell, she was a rather attractive brunette in her early or middle thirties.
ref: 1991 January 24, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, page 67:
glosses: In correct position with the top at the top; not upside down or inverted.
gold field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold fields
Senses: examples: text: Then, down this stream, some thirty miles southwest of the Huma District, is another gold field which caused a tremendous stir at one time. No less than 15,000 miners were reported to have rushed into this field of Yuchingkou, but of late, like so many other gold fields in North Manchuria, it has lost much of its drawing power.
ref: 1925, Adachi Kinnosuke, “Mining and Mineral Wealth”, in Manchuria: A Survey, New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, →OCLC, page 203:
glosses: A place where gold is mined.
eucosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A spirocyclic nortriterpene purified from the bulbs of Eucomis.
good old times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of good old days.
synonyms: word: good old days
good tidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of glad tidings; good news
synonyms: word: glad tidings
extra: good news
right-side-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of right side up.
grave digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grave diggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gravedigger.
inhowfar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Either assumed to exist in analogy to insofar or calqued from German inwiefern.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: to what extent; how far
gun boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun boats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gunboat.
hair net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair nets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hairnet.
harmonic motion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonic motions
Senses: glosses: The motion of a harmonic oscillator
Derived terms: complex harmonic motion
simple harmonic motion
health resort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: health resorts
Senses: glosses: A resort, such as a spa, providing services designed to improve people's health
heating pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heating pads
Senses: hypernyms: pad#Noun
;
warmer#Noun
coordinate_terms: electric blanket
glosses: A pad used for warming parts of the body in order to manage pain.
help a lame dog over a stile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: helps a lame dog over a stile
form: helping a lame dog over a stile
form: helped a lame dog over a stile
form: helped a lame dog over a stile
Senses: glosses: to show kindness to, or to help out, someone in distress or in need
high hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high hats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high-hat.
home brew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home brews
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homebrew.
horn book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horn books
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hornbook.
husking bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: husking bees
Senses: glosses: A social event involving the husking of corn.
Related terms: cornhusker
cornhusking
if you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: if you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time
Senses: glosses: If you have no ambition, you will have no success
in bad repair
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: After the storm, many houses are in bad repair.
glosses: in a poor condition or state
in debt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: deeply in debt
text: fall in debt
text: up to one's eyeballs in debt
text: up to one's ears in debt
synonyms: in the red
in hock
glosses: Owing a debt to someone.
in comparison
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: San Jose then had the best commercial art department in the state; Stanford's was mediocre in comparison.
ref: 2018 August 7, Francine Falk-Allen, Not a Poster Child: Living Well with a Disability—A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of by comparison.
synonyms: word: by comparison
in diapers
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: in pampers, in short trousers, in short pants
text: Look, honey, this ain't my first rodeo, OK? I was doing this job when you were in diapers.
glosses: In the very early stages of development.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: wearing a diaper, or needing to wear diapers.
in every way
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I dont[sic] think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came.
ref: 1941, Virginia Woolf, suicide note:
glosses: completely; fully; by all accounts
in labour
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: in the process of giving birth
in line with
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: His behaviour was not in line with official policy.
glosses: in agreement or accordance with
in nappies
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in diapers.
synonyms: word: in diapers
in ruins
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The line ends at Narvik. Eight years ago the whole town was in ruins, but the industry of the Norwegian people has rebuilt it entirely.
ref: 1953 June, C. E. N. Watts, “Railway Through Lapland”, in Railway Magazine, page 384:
glosses: Of a building or structure, mostly destroyed.
examples: text: After being found guilty of animal abuse, her reputation was in ruins.
text: His finances were in ruins after spending all his inheritance on cars and drugs.
glosses: Of a person, attribute, relationship, etc., totally damaged or spoiled.
addorse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: addorses
form: addorsing
form: addorsed
form: addorsed
Etymology: See addorsed. Compare French adosser (and thence, Spanish adosar).
Senses: examples: text: I replied (out of a former letter from your Lordship) with some marvel why this Signory did not by their own resident in England motion the matter to the resident there of the States rather than addorse it upon his Majesty.
ref: 1907, Logan Pearsall Smith, Sir Henry Wotton, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, page 455:
text: ... arranged pairs of imaginary beasts; each faces a mirror-image counterpart along a “hind” axis. The band can thus be read in either of two ways and at the same time: as pairs of affronting and / or addorsing griffins.
ref: 1989 November 1, Howell Chickering, Thomas H Seiler, The Study of Chivalry: Resources and Approaches, ISD LLC, →ISBN, page 380:
text: Then there at the step, briskly addorsing themselves, the master swings back to the center and drains the scourings like a thirsty housewife as he tidies up his formal mess, while the butler returns his less hallowed vessels to the[…]
ref: 2015 April 1, Jonathan Bayliss, Gloucesterbook, Drawbridge Press, →ISBN:
text: The addorsing of a French Gothic outer portal to a Byzantine-style inner portal illustrates Genoa's position between west and east at a crossroads in the Mediterranean. Along the north wall of the cathedral, Byzantine-style frescoes of[…]
ref: 2018 March 12, A Companion to Medieval Genoa, BRILL, →ISBN, page 228:
text: In the spatial language of Hindu temple architecture and sculpture, addorsing can signify that the two items joined back-to-back are aspects of the same beings or principle. Here that arrangement sets up a figural and spatial analog of[…]
ref: 2021 March 5, Padma Kaimal, Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: To place back-to-back, to place with the back to (something else's back).
addorsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of addorse
addorses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of addorse
junk shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk shops
Senses: glosses: A shop selling cheap, normally second-hand, goods.
glosses: A scrap dealership.
heart-searching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart-searchings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heartsearching.
heat barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat barriers
Senses: glosses: thermal insulation
heart smart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heart smart
form: most heart smart
Senses: qualifier: diet etc.
glosses: Healthy for the heart
raw_tags: of food
hearing loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearing losses
Senses: coordinate_terms: vision loss
glosses: A partial or total inability to hear.
headwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headwomen
Senses: glosses: A woman who is a leader of a certain jurisdiction
head wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head walls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headwall.
health spa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: health spas
Senses: glosses: A health resort
enté en point
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: enté in point
form: enty in point
form: enté en pointe
Etymology: From French [Term?], compare Spanish entado en punta.
Senses: examples: text: Brunswick and Lunenburgh impaled with Saxony, ente-en-point, that is, grafted in point.
ref: 1788, Hugh Clark, A Short and Easy Introduction to Heraldry, etc. (The fifth edition, with considerable improvements.), page 133:
text: Paling Sicily; the whole enté en point of Granada. He bore the full arms of Lalain, […]
ref: 1884, Notes and Queries, page 202:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Impaled by (something in) a pointed 'pile' at the bottom of a shield, especially as a means of marshalling.
Related terms: enty
he'e holua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holua
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A traditional form of hill sledding, from Hawaii
Paleo diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paleo diets
form: paleodiet
form: paleo-diet
form: paleo diet
form: Paeleo diet
Etymology: From paleo- + diet.
Senses: glosses: A nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various hominid species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic.
Synonyms: paleo
Stone Age diet
Related terms: paleodietary
carnivore diet
heelhook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelhooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heel hook.
heel flip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heel flips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heelflip.
toehook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toehooks
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An manoeuvre using the toes as a support or to hook onto a wall or rock.
belay device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belay devices
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a mechanical piece of climbing equipment used to control a rope during belaying
Hyponyms: sense: climbing device
word: grigri
covado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covados
Etymology: From Portuguese côvado, from Old Galician-Portuguese côbedo, from Latin cubitum (“cubit”). Doublet of cubit and codo.
Senses: qualifier: measure
glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 0.6 meters and approximating the length of a forearm and hand.
Synonyms: word: Portuguese cubit
english: in Portuguese contexts
translation: in Portuguese contexts
word: cubit
Coordinate terms: dedo (1⁄36 covado)
polegada (1⁄24 covado)
palmo (1⁄3 covado)
Portuguese foot (1⁄2 covado)
vara (1+2⁄3 covados)
passo (2+1⁄2 covados)
toesa (3 covados)
braça (3+1⁄3 côvados)
covados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covado
Zilbermints-Benoni Gambit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A very uncommon and unpracticed chess opening gambit characterized by the moves 1.d4 c5 2.b4.
Staunton Gambit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Staunton Gambits
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess opening gambit characterized by the moves 1.d4 f5 2.e4.
cry harder
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I’m told this cannot wait and it’s wholly incumbent upon us, the liberals, to spend time trying to better understand the millions of Americans who voted for Trump and who reacted to every tweet we ever posted with a photo of Trump and the words, “CRY HARDER LIB!!”
ref: 2020 November 9, Rex Huppke, “Column: Dear Trump supporters: I’m sorry Joe Biden won. It’s definitely my fault that you hate me.”, in Chicago Tribune:
text: "WE HAVE A BLACK GAY MAN ON A DRAGON!" rejoiced one fan on Twitter. / "Cry harder, bigoted dudebros using House of the Dragon to criticize other fantasy shows like The Rings of Power and Sandman for their diversity."
ref: 2022 September 7, Shannon Power, “'House of the Dragon' Fans Celebrate First Black Character Riding Dragon”, in Newsweek:
synonyms: cry louder
cry and seethe
glosses: Used sarcastically to indicate indifference or schadenfreude, often as a reply to a statement that the speaker considers exaggerated or baseless.
Elmstone Hardwicke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England; the village is partly in Uckington parish (OS grid ref SO9226).
head collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head collars
Senses: glosses: A collar that fits around the neck and head
glosses: A collar that fits around the neck and head
A halter for a horse
HDSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HDSLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of high-bit-rate digital subscriber line.
haworthia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /həˈwɜː(ɹ)θi.ə/
Forms: form: haworthias
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Haworthia of succulent plants resembling aloe, native to southern Africa.
Hawaiian guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawaiian guitars
Senses: glosses: lap steel guitar
glosses: ukulele
hell-bent-for-leather
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hell-bent for leather.
Highland cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Highland cows
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Highland cattle.
synonyms: word: Highland cattle
Highland cattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Highland cattle
Senses: synonyms: Highland cow
glosses: A breed of beef cattle originating in the Scotland, with long horns and a long shaggy coat.
highly-strung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highly-strung
form: most highly-strung
Senses: glosses: Synonym of high-strung.
synonyms: word: high-strung
high-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: high-sticks
form: high-sticking
form: high-sticked
form: high-sticked
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To perform high-sticking.
f*****g
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
f*****g
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
f*****g
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
South Mere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: South Moor
form: South More
Etymology: From south + Mere; an adapted borrowing of Old Norse Sunnmǿrr, Sunnmǿri, from sunn- (“south”) + Mǿrr.
Senses: examples: text: North of the Sogn firth come the Feles (Fialar) and Firths, but past Cape Start, where the land turns and runs north-east, we come to the northern land of the Reams, North and South Mere and Reamsdale, stretching up over two degrees of latitude.
ref: 1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Sunnmøre (a district in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).
emo skink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːməʊ ˈskɪŋk/
ipa: /ˌimoʊ ˈskɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: emo skinks
Senses: synonyms: emoia
glosses: Any skink of the genus Emoia
Derived terms: taxonomic: Emoia pseudopallidiceps
word: arboreal emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia nigromarginata
word: black-bordered emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia nigra
word: black emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia rennellensis
word: bright emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia aenea
word: bronze emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia aurulenta
word: Brown's emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia paniai
word: coastal emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia erronan
word: common emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia cyanura
word: copper-tailed emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia cyclops
word: cyclops emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia physicina
word: five-toed emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia tropidolepis
word: forest emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia tetrataenia
word: four-striped emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia maxima
word: great emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia isolata
word: isolated emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia campbelli
word: montane emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia montana
word: mountain emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia obscura
word: obscure emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia rufilabialis
word: red-lipped emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia ruficauda
word: redtail emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia physicae
word: slender emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia sorex
word: sorex emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia maculata
word: spotted emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia cyanogaster
word: teal emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia veracunda
word: tropical emo skink
taxonomic: Emoia flavigularis
word: yellow-throated emo skink
split squat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split squats
Senses: examples: text: James Stark, founder of Starks Fitness, says it involves “a basic push-pull pattern”; for the lower body, squats, lunges, split squats. There is a near limitless variation of squats you can do if you get bored, from box squats to those with more exotic names such as cossack or Bulgarian.
ref: 2020 September 19, Zoe Williams, “Fit in my 40s: my muscles are in terminal decline. Can I rebuild them on my own?”, in The Guardian:
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A unilateral leg exercise performed by bending one knee while the rear leg is rested on the ground behind the body.
Derived terms: Bulgarian split squat
Related terms: dragon squat
pistol squat
shrimp squat
deplanetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deplanetize
deplanetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deplanetize
Bulgarian split squat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bulgarian split squats
Etymology: The exercise was supposedly popularized in the United States by Bulgarian weightlifting coach Angel Spassov (1941–2017) in the late 1980s.
Senses: examples: text: People often think of Bulgarian split squats as a quad-crushing, glute and hamstrings-building challenge on leg day, instead of the complete core and lower-body compound exercise it can be used for.
ref: 2022 April 26, Jeff Tomko, “The Mixed-Load Bulgarian Split Squat Will Challenge Your Legs and Core”, in Men's Health:
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A variation of the split squat performed by bending one knee while the rear leg is rested on a platform behind the body.
Nurchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nurchens
form: Nurchen
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jurchen.
synonyms: word: Jurchen
Nurchen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jurchen.
synonyms: word: Jurchen
Nuzhen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nuzhens
form: Nuzhen
form: Nüzhen
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 女真 (Nǚzhēn).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jurchen.
synonyms: word: Jurchen
Nuzhen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nüzhen
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 女真 (Nǚzhēn).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jurchen.
synonyms: word: Jurchen
Bulgarian split squats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bulgarian split squat
JGB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JGBs
Senses: examples: text: Royal Bank of Canada’s economics team have tl;dr’d why JGBs and the yen have had a fun morning: “it will be hard for markets not to see this move as a precursor for tightening policy”.
ref: 2022 December 20, Louis Ashworth, “Turning Japanese?: One last rug pull before retirement”, in Financial Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Japanese government bond.
JGBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JGB
split squats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split squat
Cilgwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Llanllyfni community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH4954).
Llanllyfni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Welsh Llanllyfni.
Senses: glosses: A village in Llanllyfni community, Gwynedd, Wales, the United Kingdom (OS grid ref SH4751).
glosses: A village in Llanllyfni community, Gwynedd, Wales, the United Kingdom (OS grid ref SH4751).
A community of Gwynedd, Wales, the United Kingdom.
Meronyms: sense: constituent villages of the Welsh community
word: Drws-y-coed
sense: constituent villages of the Welsh community
word: Nantlle
sense: constituent villages of the Welsh community
word: Nasareth
sense: constituent villages of the Welsh community
word: Nebo
sense: constituent villages of the Welsh community
word: Pen-y-groes
sense: constituent villages of the Welsh community
word: Tal-y-sarn
numerophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numerophiles
Etymology: From numero- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: But a quick glance at their methodology is all that's needed to convince even the most avid numerophile that the results are worthless.
ref: 1987, Seymour Siwoff, The 1987 Elias Baseball Analyst, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 152:
text: By the time he [Edward Gibbon] began his great History, he was a confirmed numerophile. Some consideration of his education in numeracy, and of the writings of his first period of residence in Lausanne (1753–58), will therefore contribute to an understanding of why there are so many numbers in his History, and of the different ways in which he uses them.
ref: 2012, F. P. Lock, The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 4:
text: It is therefore profoundly ironic, and unsettling for both numerophiles and subjectivists alike, that public awareness of trends in subjective experience should come to us mainly in numerical form.
ref: 2012, Neil Thin, Social Happiness, Policy Press, →ISBN, page 92:
text: If you're a numerophile and a pedant, then you may fret over my somewhat contemptuous handling of significant digits below.
ref: 2020 March 23, Phil Plait, “Why do we have leap days?”, in SYFY WIRE, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022:
antonyms: numerophobe
glosses: Someone who loves numbers.
Related terms: numerophilia
numerophilic
numerophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numerophile
numerophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numerophobes
Etymology: From numero- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: If you are on the invisible other side of the mainstream, you are likely to be a humanist, maybe even an artist, maybe a numerophobe, or a person with a solid contempt for the cultural and intellectual style of right-wing youth.
ref: 1983, Duncan Kennedy, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Statistics and mathematics have been kept scarce and simple and even the most extreme 'numerophobe' should find nothing to produce anxiety or panic.
ref: 1994, Tony Waldron, Counting the Dead: The Epidemiology of Skeletal Populations, Wiley, →ISBN, page XIII:
text: By painting the critics as mindless numerophobes, he implants the notion that their doubts are not to be entertained.
ref: 1998, David P. Henige, Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Even the biggest numerophobe would have a hard time poo-pooing something that tries to measure the one stat that matters in soccer (namely: how many did you score?).
ref: 2015 April 9, Michael Bertin, “Why Soccer's Most Popular Advanced Stat Kind Of Sucks”, in Deadspin, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2022:
text: This post has math in it. Quite a bit. But it's really just arithmetic; decimals and multiplication. If you're a numerophobe, then skip to the end, but you'll have to trust me on the numbers.
ref: 2020 March 23, Phil Plait, “Why do we have leap days?”, in SYFY WIRE, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022:
antonyms: numerophile
glosses: Someone who hates or is afraid of numbers.
Related terms: numerophobia
numerophobic
numerophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numerophobe
numerophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From numero- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Some critics detected more chronic signs of 'numerophilia' in the analyses: a predilection for neglecting relevant variables that are not cardinally measurable.
ref: 1988, Timothy A. Booth, Developing Policy Research, Avebury, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Many young Blacks suffer from numerophobia for cultural and historic reasons. The new world of the future is likely to require higher levels of mathematicality and a new numerophilia - a fascination with numbers.
ref: 2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page VI:
text: You would think, given my numerophilia, that I would have some warm and special place in my heart for π. Nope.
ref: 2012 June 29, Jonathan Chang, “The tyranny of π”, in Scienceline, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022:
text: In other words, it is wrong to conceive of GDP obsession giving too much priority to 'the economy'. Rather, it is part of a wider problem of pathological numerophilia.
ref: 2020, Neil Thin, A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:
antonyms: numerophobia
glosses: The love of numbers.
Related terms: numerophile
numerophilic
numerophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From numero- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: While some folks are afraid of heights or enclosed places, others are plagued by numerophobia, a fear of numbers. This often results from one's having had difficulty with them in school and his or her coming to the conclusion that "I'm just not good at math."
ref: 1991, Steven Gottlieb, Sheldon I. Arenberg, Crime Analysis: From Concept to Reality, Office of Criminal Justice Planning, page 176:
text: Many young Blacks suffer from numerophobia for cultural and historic reasons. The new world of the future is likely to require higher levels of mathematicality and a new numerophilia - a fascination with numbers.
ref: 2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page VI:
text: Well, Bishop Lazi, as a man given to spirituality and was known during his school days for an incurable numerophobia (fear of numbers) and arithmophobia (fear of arithmetic), doesn’t lose sleep over all this scientific gobbledygook.
ref: 2019 April 28, “How long shall we suffer fools, loons?”, in The Sunday Mail, archived from the original on 02 May 2019:
text: The specific mathematics phobia which is basically comes due to the arithmetic or fear of numbers. Such phobia is called arithmophobia or numerophobia. The words arithmophobia and numerophobia both have Greek origins where the root word stands for 'numbers', and 'phobos' meaning 'deep dislike or fear'.
ref: 2020 August 24, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, volume 8, number 8, →ISSN, page 820:
text: If you are comfortable with the basic concepts of Maths and don’t suffer from numerophobia, you are at an advantage.
ref: 2022 July 30, T. Rammohan, “Strategies to prepare for the CAT”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2022:
antonyms: numerophilia
glosses: The hatred or fear of numbers.
Related terms: numerophobe
numerophobic
mathematicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mathematical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: To conceive of a photographic image as a measuring device is to insist on the mathematicality, calculability, and finally the 'computability' of the image-world.
ref: 2004, Harun Farocki, Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-lines, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 197:
text: By way of analogy, it would in theory also be possible to postulate a concept of a science whose universality and mathematicality are relative only.
ref: 2007, Kevin Corrigan, John Douglas Turner, Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 138:
synonyms: mathematicalness
mathematicity
glosses: The state of being mathematical or involving mathematics.
examples: text: Many young Blacks suffer from numerophobia for cultural and historic reasons. The new world of the future is likely to require higher levels of mathematicality and a new numerophilia - a fascination with numbers.
ref: 2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page VI:
text: Given what is often thought to be the "mathematicality" of the Jews, their collective capacity for numeracy, I suppose this makes me an outlier.
ref: 2021 April 21, Jenna Weissman Joselit, “People of the Math Book”, in Tablet Magazine, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
glosses: Skill at mathematics; numeracy.
numerophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numerophilic
form: most numerophilic
Etymology: From numero- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: The computer programmers were very pleased at that entry, since the computer is numerophilic and alphabetphobic.
ref: 1967, Medical Library Association, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, volume 55, Medical Library Association., page 66:
text: In the numerophilic Western culture, it may seem strange that the cost-benefit of human milk has not been even dimly perceived until recently.
ref: 1977, Suraj Gupte, Newer Horizons in Tropical Pediatrics, Jaypee Brothers, page 4:
text: These could be dubbed the "numerophilic" students; those who find that mathematics and formulae are the best way for them to understand these troublesome concepts.
ref: 2010, Jan H.F. Meyer, Ray Land, Caroline Baillie, Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 157:
antonyms: numerophobic
glosses: Affected by numerophilia; having a love for numbers.
Related terms: numerophilia
numerophile