cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
complete package
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He has elegance and power, and can create and score goals. Bellingham is, quite simply, the complete package. England manager Gareth Southgate has a truly special talent on his hands, a player who will be the envy of any other country in world football.
ref: 2023 September 12, Phil McNulty, “Scotland 1-3 England: 'Complete package' Jude Bellingham puts concluding flourish on world-class performance”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Synonym of total package.
synonyms: word: total package
smell like a tart's boudoir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smells like a tart's boudoir
form: smelling like a tart's boudoir
form: smelt like a tart's boudoir
form: smelt like a tart's boudoir
form: smelled like a tart's boudoir
form: smelled like a tart's boudoir
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smell like a tart's handbag.
smell like a tart's bedroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smells like a tart's bedroom
form: smelling like a tart's bedroom
form: smelt like a tart's bedroom
form: smelt like a tart's bedroom
form: smelled like a tart's bedroom
form: smelled like a tart's bedroom
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smell like a tart's handbag.
smell like a tart's handkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smells like a tart's handkerchief
form: smelling like a tart's handkerchief
form: smelt like a tart's handkerchief
form: smelt like a tart's handkerchief
form: smelled like a tart's handkerchief
form: smelled like a tart's handkerchief
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smell like a tart's handbag.
smells like a tart's handbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smell like a tart's handbag
smelling like a tart's handbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smell like a tart's handbag
bleeding-heart monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleeding-heart monkeys
Etymology: From bleeding-heart + monkey, so named for the bright red patches of skin on the breast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of gelada (Theropithecus gelada, Theropithecus pavian)
synonyms: word: gelada
extra: Theropithecus gelada, Theropithecus pavian
smelt like a tart's handbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell like a tart's handbag
smelled like a tart's handbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell like a tart's handbag
bleeding-heart monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bleeding-heart monkey
smelled like a tart's boudoir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell like a tart's boudoir
smelt like a tart's boudoir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell like a tart's boudoir
smelling like a tart's boudoir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smell like a tart's boudoir
smells like a tart's boudoir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smell like a tart's boudoir
smells like a tart's bedroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smell like a tart's bedroom
smelling like a tart's bedroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smell like a tart's bedroom
smelt like a tart's bedroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell like a tart's bedroom
smelled like a tart's bedroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell like a tart's bedroom
smelled like a tart's handkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell like a tart's handkerchief
smelt like a tart's handkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smell like a tart's handkerchief
smelling like a tart's handkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smell like a tart's handkerchief
smells like a tart's handkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smell like a tart's handkerchief
H.A.M.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of HAM.
H.A.M.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of HAM.
H.A.M.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of HAM.
Derived terms: go H.A.M.
Huisentruit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
high cube
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: high-cube
Senses: examples: text: high-cube container
text: Warning: High cube
qualifier: freight
glosses: Being 1 foot taller than the usual height.
raw_tags: of a shipping container
bar hops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bar hop
bar hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bar hop
bar hopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bar hop
argumenta ad Lazarum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argumentum ad Lazarum
argumenta ad feminam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argumentum ad feminam
beggars the question
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beggar the question
beggaring the question
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beggar the question
beggared the question
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beggar the question
bramble shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bramble sharks
Senses: glosses: The shark, Echinorhinus brucus, family Echinorhinidae, found in tropical and temperate seas.
bramble sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bramble shark
prickly shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickly sharks
Senses: glosses: The bottom-dwelling shark, Echinorhinus cookei, family Echinorhinidae, found in the Pacific Ocean.
prickly sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prickly shark
bottom-dwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: Of an aquatic organism
glosses: living on or near the bed of the sea, a lake, or other body of water.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (Of a team or competitor) spending a long time in the lowest ranks of the competition ladder.
Synonyms: benthic
Prosecco Stormfront
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Prosecco, a wine varietal, and Stormfront, a white supremacist website, the implication being that Mumsnet has become a radicalisation pipeline for upper-middle-class mothers (sometimes referred to pejoratively as wine mums).
Senses: examples: text: Prosecco Stormfront have worked themselves up into a transphobic frenzy of utter vileness now.
ref: 2019 November 27, Banquo's Ghost (@_banquos_ghost_), Twitter:
text: Prosecco Stormfront aka Mumsnet had to shut down the Graham Linehan thread to moderate it because of the sheer influx of new accounts trolling everyone.
ref: 2020 June 27, Gemma Stone (@notCursedE), Twitter:
text: Prosecco Stormfront slagging off another cis woman, all because she doesn’t agree with their obsessive transphobic hate-cult! 🙄😖
ref: 2022 May 20, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:
synonyms: Mumsnut
glosses: The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.
wikipedia: Mumsnet
Stormfront (website)
serves someone right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serve someone right
serving someone right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serve someone right
served someone right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serve someone right
gulper shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulper sharks
Senses: glosses: Any shark of the family Centrophoridae.
glosses: Any shark of the family Centrophoridae.
especially of species Centrophorus granulosus, found in the Atlantic, Indian, and western Pacific Oceans.
Derived terms: mosaic gulper shark
gulper sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gulper shark
Mumsnut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Mumsnet + nut (“a crazy person”).
Senses: examples: text: Here’s some folks who actually know what they’re talking about, you don’t get that on Mumsnut.
ref: 2018 July 25, Hetty Spoon (@Henriettaspoon), Twitter:
text: Oh, and in the light of the current mumsnut discussion... I block all transphobes. Just sayin'.
ref: 2019 October 12, Annie Wallace (@anniewallace), Twitter:
text: Mumsnut is melting down, tee hee. "EVEN WPUK", lol
ref: 2021 March 24, Stephanie Anne Calvert (@StephAcalvert), Twitter:
glosses: The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.
Derived terms: word: Mumsnutter
Knoroz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Кнороз (Knoroz), perhaps from Proto-Slavic *kъnorzъ.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kalachinsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
Lulubum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the lands that Sargon the Great subjugated within the Akkadian Empire.
Related terms: Lullubi
Akkadian Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The first ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived civilization of Sumer.
Assyro-Babylonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsɪɹəʊˌbæbɪˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /əˌsɪɹoʊˌbæbɪˈloʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Assyro- + Babylonian or Assyro-Babylonia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Assyro-Babylonian religion […]
ref: 1881, Ancient Egypt in Its Comparative Relations, page 818:
glosses: Of or relating to Assyro-Babylonia; Mesopotamian.
Assyro-Babylonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsɪɹəʊˌbæbɪˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /əˌsɪɹoʊˌbæbɪˈloʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Assyro-Babylonians
Etymology: From Assyro- + Babylonian or Assyro-Babylonia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: […] Assyro-Babylonians […]
ref: 1898, The Epistolary Literature of the Assyrians and Babylonians, page 157:
glosses: A person from Assyro-Babylonia; a Mesopotamian.
Assyro-Babylonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsɪɹəʊˌbæbɪˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /əˌsɪɹoʊˌbæbɪˈloʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Assyro- + Babylonian or Assyro-Babylonia + -an.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Akkadian
synonyms: word: Akkadian
Related terms: Assyro-Babylonia
take up the gantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes up the gantlet
form: taking up the gantlet
form: took up the gantlet
form: taken up the gantlet
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take up the gauntlet.
Mumsnutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mumsnutters
Etymology: Blend of Mumsnet + nutter (“a crazy or eccentric person”).
Senses: examples: text: Mumsnutters use all kinds of euphemisms to denigrate trans women (no acknowledgement of trans people) but somehow 'cis' is a hate crime?
ref: 2018 November 17, Aimee Evelyn (@AimeeEvelyn202), Twitter:
text: *waves at all the obsessive Mumsnutters trawling my twitter to ‘report back’ to the terven “mother ship” for back-slaps and gossip* 🙄
ref: 2019 November 1, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:
text: Hey trans guys, did you know that you're likely to be a "trojan horse" according to Mumsnutters?
ref: 2021 September 8, Rachel the wolf (@TheWolfSpirit1), Twitter:
glosses: A gender-critical poster on the Mumsnet feminism boards.
Hypernyms: Mumsnetter
Related terms: Mumsnut
takes up the gauntlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take up the gauntlet
taking up the gauntlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take up the gauntlet
took up the gauntlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take up the gauntlet
taken up the gauntlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take up the gauntlet
takes up the gantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take up the gantlet
taking up the gantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take up the gantlet
took up the gantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take up the gantlet
taken up the gantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take up the gantlet
bullhead shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullhead sharks
Senses: glosses: Any shark of most species in the genus Heterodontus.
Related terms: taxonomic: Heterodontus francisci
word: horn shark
bullhead sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullhead shark
collared carpet shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collared carpet sharks
form: collared carpetshark
Senses: glosses: Any shark of the family Parascylliidae, of the western Pacific Ocean.
collared carpet sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collared carpet shark
radblr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From radfem + -blr.
Senses: examples: text: Radblr is saturated with women calling themselves radical feminists who have the barest grasp on what that phrase means.
ref: 2019 August 17, Radfem Black (@RadfemBlack), Twitter:
text: My only contribution to radblr is occasional snide commentary, and they're not even particularly funny. Sorry y'all UwU
ref: 2020 October 27, normieenvy (@normieenvy), Twitter:
text: tho I did discover radblr in my late teens/early 20s and that was really eye opening for me 👀
ref: 2021 March 11, mandy (@siyeonbora), Twitter:
glosses: The community of radical feminists on Tumblr.
Coordinate terms: english: Twitter
translation: Twitter
word: radtwt
radtwt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From radfem + -twt.
Senses: examples: text: do u know by any means if any of these groups accepts women that are new to radtwt and trying to get familiarized with the discourse?
ref: 2020 December 5, V (@dyke_me_down), Twitter:
text: i bet jkr has a secret account on radtwt—which one of you is it, come forward
ref: 2021 July 20, ♀ (@hotgyne), Twitter:
text: i've been crypto on radblr for a while but i figured i'd make an account on radtwt since twt makes more sense to me.
ref: 2021 October 8, katarina (@wyvernfem), Twitter:
glosses: The community of radical feminists on Twitter.
Coordinate terms: alt: Tumblr
word: radblr
white-knight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-knights
form: white knight
form: whiteknight
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white knight.
white-knight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: white-knights
form: white-knighting
form: white-knighted
form: white-knighted
form: white knight
form: whiteknight
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white knight.
fangyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 方言 (fāngyán).
Senses: examples: text: During this time the language has diversified into a number of so-called fangyan which share the same written form but are radically different in phonology, to such an extent that the spoken fangyan are not mutually intelligible.
ref: 1991 January 1, Michael Clyne, Pluricentric Languages: Differing Norms in Different Nations, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 305:
text: If analyzed by the standards applied to languages in Europe or South Asia, these fangyan would be classified as branches of the Sinitic group. Speakers from any one of the major fangyan are incapable of conversing with speakers from those of any of the other major fangyan.
ref: 2005 January 31, Victor H. Mair, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Paul R. Goldin, Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 2:
text: One consequence of such misinformation is the tendency to view Mandarin as a single Chinese language, and fangyan as subdivisions of it.[…] Actually, Chao Yuen Ren (2002b, 82) himself, in a 1959 lecture at National Taiwan University, accepted that 'fangyan in the broad sense if the term refers to fundamentally different languages'.
ref: 2019 November 20, Wai-Siam Hee, Remapping the Sinophone: The Cultural Production of Chinese-Language Cinema in Singapore and Malaya before and during the Cold War, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Synonym of topolect (a regional variety of Chinese)
synonyms: word: topolect
extra: a regional variety of Chinese
TERF Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And something that I wanted to just circle back to, this idea of being the transgender princess of TERF island thing.
ref: 2021, Abigail Thorn, quoted in Chris Kaye, "Meet Abigail Thorn, the trans philosopher who wants to kill James Bond", Insider, 21 August 2021
text: 'TERF Island' had a heads-up only because of a strong feminist tradition, which, being international in its approach, saw what was happening to women in other countries.
ref: 2024, Jenny Lindsay, Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars, unnumbered page:
text: I explained that a national culture of "no-nonsense" anti-utopianism prevails on TERF Island.
ref: 2025, Sophie Lewis, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, unnumbered page:
glosses: Great Britain or the United Kingdom, viewed as a centre of gender-critical feminism, or more broadly of transphobic policies and attitudes.
Related terms: Normal Island
Tranada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹænədə/
Etymology: Blend of trans + Canada.
Senses: examples: text: Sadly the same is happening in Tranada, where I live.
ref: 2019 December 26, RadFemGem (@gem_fem), Twitter:
text: Oh Tranada. You are such a disappointment. I never knew you had so many legislators with no respect for women.
ref: 2020 June 5, The Honourable Yona (@yona1959), Twitter:
text: Scotland is still the fight we all need to fight, SNP are trying to emulate Tranada.
ref: 2020 September 20, Paintpot (@Paintpot17), Twitter:
glosses: Canada, viewed as excessively supportive of trans rights or hostile toward gender-critical beliefs and policies.
blind shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind sharks
Etymology: Erroneously so named because they close their eyes tightly when taken out of the water; not actually blind.
Senses: glosses: Either of two bottom-dwelling sharks constituting the family Brachaeluridae.
glosses: Brachaelurus waddi, of eastern Australia.
blind sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind shark
Bundahishn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Avestan 𐬠𐬎𐬥𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬥𐬍𐬵 (bundahišnīh, literally “primal creation”), being a word from the first sentence of the younger (and longer) of the two recensions of the work.
Senses: examples: text: The Bundahishn chapter is here given in outline, renderings from West's translation being sometimes adopted verbatim.
ref: 1896, A. V. Williams Jackson, “The Ancient Persian Doctrine of A Future Life”, in William Rainey Harper, Ernest DeWitt Burton, Shailer Mathews, editors, The Biblical World, New Series: Volume 8, University of Chicago Press, page 162:
text: 1997 [Routledge], Alan Williams, 2: Later Zoroastrianism, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam (editors), Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, 2005, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 23,
The Bundahishn is concerned with, among other things, the themes of the creation of the world, the order of things, and the eschatological destiny of both the individual soul and the world at large.
text: According to Bundahishn, the prophet had exclaimed that with the disintegration of the body and the destruction of matter, the reconstruction of the body would not be possible.
ref: 2003, Farhang Mehr, The Zoroastrian Tradition, Mazda Publishers, page 143:
topics: Zoroastrianism
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: An encyclopaedic collection of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology; especially, the longer of the two recessions of the work.
Derived terms: word: Greater Bundahishn
alt: = Lesser Bundahishn
word: Indian Bundahishn
alt: = Greater Bundahishn
word: Iranian Bundahishn
word: Lesser Bundahishn
Mount Pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊnt ˈpɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Etymology: The city is named after an estate named in turn after its owner, naval officer James Pearl (1790 - 1840).
Senses: glosses: A city in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Admirals Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.məɹ.əlz ˈbiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Etymology: The name of the town refers to the position of fishing admiral, i.e. the first fisherman to reach a certain harbor in Newfoundland. The fishing admiral had authority over all other visiting fishermen.
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
xigua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xiguas
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation of Mandarin 西瓜 (xīguā).
Senses: examples: text: Lois Ehlert takes readers on a colorful discovery of the alphabet through both common and exotic fruits and vegetables, such as onions, peas, and bananas, as well as xiguas, jicamas, and kohlrabies. In addition to learning the alphabet,[…]
ref: 2014 June 3, Alan R. Bailey, Building a Core Print Collection for Preschoolers, American Library Association, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Xigua & Water
Xigua fruit, also known as watermelon, is 92% water, making the xigua fruit an excellent source of water. One of the benefits of water is that it carries nutrients and oxygen to cells.[…]
ref: 2016 April 14, Tijan Brown, The Circle of Life: It Begins with Z and Ends with A, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
text: X is for Xigua
Xigua is a large melon with a hard green rind. Xigua have red or yellow pulp that is crunchy and sweet. The pulp usually contains small black seeds. We typically call this fruit watermelon because it's so juicy.
ref: 2018 October 16, America's Test Kitchen Kids, Maddie Frost, A Is for Artichoke: A Foodie Alphabet from Artichoke to Zest, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:
text: “Deviled bangers and xigua cake? That doesn't make any sense.” “All right, I'll bite. What is xigua cake? And don't tell me it's cake made from a xigua, whatever that is.” “Xigua is just another name for watermelon,” Jillian said.
ref: 2021 October 31, Jeffrey Poole, Case of the Missing Marine, Secret Staircase Books, an imprint of Columbine Publishing Group, →ISBN:
topics: Chinese-cuisine
glosses: Watermelon.
gendercritter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gendercritters
Etymology: Blend of gendercrit + critter.
Senses: examples: text: Gendercritters never begin by being critical of their own gender stereotypes. It’s almost as if they think it’s everyone else’s job to free them from their stereotype performances.
ref: 2017 December 15, Cristan Williams (@cristanwilliams), Twitter:
text: Also, from the way they talk about non-passing trans women I suspect most gendercritters are only OK with GNC men so long as they fit a highly specific mould of thin, white, youthful androgyny.
ref: 2019 January 23, Maria H (@ThisMariaHutch), Twitter:
text: Have gendercritters tried blaming coronavirus on trans people yet?
ref: 2020 February 28, Iza Pride (@IzabelaKaramia), Twitter:
synonyms: FART
GC
GCF
gendercrit
TERF
terven
glosses: A gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminist.
Sandercocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sandercock
Bauline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈliːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: Derived from French baleine (“whale”). The name may first have been applied to a rock which looks like a breaching whale.
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
give someone their cards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone their cards
form: giving someone their cards
form: gave someone their cards
form: given someone their cards
Senses: examples: text: HEAD WAITER: It’s filthy! Gaston, find out who washed this up and give them their cards immediately!
ref: 1969 October 19, J Graham Chapman, John Clees, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, 16:38 from the start, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus (How to Recognise Different Types of Tree from Quite a Long Way Away) (1), episode 3 (TV series), spoken by Head Waiter (Michael Palin):
text: Her noble husband, in urgent need of an heir, has dispatched her here with instructions to get herself into working order; should this not come to pass, Monica will be given her cards and told to vacate the premises so that Sir John can make alternative arrangements.
ref: 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 80:
text: I looked up at him as he turned his back and a few minutes later, the foreman brought me up and reluctantly gave me my cards as the boss, the horrid face of capital, had sacked me for not wearing protective boots.
ref: 2016, R. Pollard, Invisible Pleasures, page 90:
synonyms: hand someone his cards
glosses: To dismiss someone from employment; to fire or make redundant.
rectilinear orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectilinear orbits
Senses: glosses: A theoretical type of orbit which goes in a straight-line, up and down; with 100% orbital eccentricity (eccentricity=1.0); the orbital path passing through the center-of-mass of the primary mass being orbited; having an periapsis at 0, and two apoapsides, as both arms going out from the periastron are equidistant; where the orbital ellipse has zero width semi-minor axis/minor axis, and the path of the ellipse is the same as the major axis.
Synonyms: rectilineal orbit
Hypernyms: elliptical orbit
orbit
Coordinate terms: english: eccentricity=0.0
translation: eccentricity=0.0
word: circular orbit
word: highly-elliptical orbit
word: near-circular orbit
Related terms: alt: NRHO
word: near-rectilinear halo orbit
alt: NRO
word: near-rectilinear orbit
Ainleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ainley
Bay Bulls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ ˈbʊlz/
rhymes: -ʊlz
Etymology: The town is named after a nearby bay, named in turn for the presence of little auks (Alle alle).
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Ainley Top
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1119).
hand someone their cards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hands someone their cards
form: handing someone their cards
form: handed someone their cards
form: handed someone their cards
form: give someone his cards
Senses: examples: text: To begin with, you were not sacked; it was you who gave notice.[…]Upon which he handed me my cards and my wages.
ref: 1950, Miklos Laszlo, And the Snow Falls: A Play in Three Acts, page 29:
text: Now they say that times are hard and they’ve handed me my cards. They say there’s not the work to go around. And when the whistle blows, the gates will finally close. Tonight they’re going to shut this factory down. Then they’ll tear it d-o-w-n
ref: 1985, “Ordinary Man”, in Ordinary Man, performed by Christy Moore, produced by Dónal Lunny:
text: I was handed my cards yesterday and so today I’m looking for a new job.
ref: 2020 October 16, Salmi Khan Anmol, The Oldman’s English Lessons: An English Book, page 1667:
glosses: To dismiss someone from employment; to fire or make redundant.
Bay de Verde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ də ˈvɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Etymology: Derived from Portuguese Bay de Verde, calqued in turn from the older English hydronym Green Bay.
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
apapsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apapsides
form: apapsises
form: apapses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apoapsis.
Winckworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Winckworth
tervert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terverts
Etymology: Blend of TERF + pervert.
Senses: examples: text: Found one of these stuck on the back of the toilet cubicle door at the Museum of and in Manchester today, if anyone needed to know which public toilets the grubby terverts have been knocking about in lately.
ref: 2021 August 6, :, ew (@llewcid), Twitter:
text: Do you beleive^([sic]) that children should be required to submit to invasive genital inspections in order to participate in sports, as gender critical terverts have mandated by law in Florida?
ref: 2021 December 27, Crash (@StarCrashr), Twitter:
text: Thank you for standing up to the terverts! They think every normal person in the world should enable their weird sexual obsession with bullying trans people.
ref: 2022 June 29, AJ (@DreamSerpentine), Twitter:
glosses: A gender-critical feminist or anti-transgender advocate, viewed as having an unhealthy fixation on trans people's genitals.
grey nurse shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey nurse sharks
Senses: glosses: Any shark of the family Odontaspididae.
synonyms: sand tiger shark
spotted ragged-tooth shark
blue-nurse sand tiger
glosses: A common and cosmopolitan species of shark, Carcharias taurus, family Odontaspididae.
Related terms: taxonomic: Odontaspididae spp.
word: sand shark
taxonomic: Galeocerdo cuvier
word: tiger shark
taxonomic: Ginglymostomatidae spp.
word: nurse shark
grey nurse sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grey nurse shark
Wingerworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Winegār + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3867).
Bishopsteignton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From bishop + -s- + Teign + -ton, first element from early possession by the Bishop of Exeter.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9073)
Related terms: Kingsteignton
first-chop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'First chop! tremendously pretty too,' said the elegant Grecian, who had been paying her assiduous attention.
ref: 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda:
glosses: First-rate, excellent.
Bay Roberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ ˈɹɒb.ɚts/
rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)ts
Etymology: The town is named after a nearby bay, named in turn for a visitor or settler from the Channel Islands.
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Swathwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Swathwayt in the early XIV century, the placename probably derives from Old English swæþ (“track, pathway”) + Old Norse þveit (“clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Wingerworth parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3767).
Bishop's Cove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪʃ.əps ˈkoʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
grey nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey nurses
Senses: glosses: A common and cosmopolitan species of shark, Carcharias taurus, family Odontaspididae.
Synonyms: grey nurse shark
grey nurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grey nurse
Markosyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Markosyans
form: Markosian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մարկոսյան (Markosyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Markosian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Markosians
Etymology: Variant of Markosyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Markosians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Markosian
Markosyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Markosyan
TERFery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From TERF + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: can't stop thinking about all these British ladies that apparently need the smelling salts because a judge ruled that TERFery isn't an equality act PROTECTED CHARACTERISTIC akin to disability, race, sex, religion or sexual orientation
ref: 2019 December 19, Christa Peterson (@christapeterso), Twitter:
text: But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground.
ref: 2020 June 10, J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues:
text: We're doing the usual road from "just asking questions" to "trans are being mean to me" to full-blown terfery and at this point can we just skip to the end?
ref: 2021 October 23, Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll), Twitter:
synonyms: TERFdom
glosses: The state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.
Bryant's Cove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪ.ənts ˈkoʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
strikes one's colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strike one's colors
striking one's colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strike one's colors
struck one's colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strike one's colors
strikes one's flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strike one's flag
striking one's flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strike one's flag
struck one's flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of strike one's flag
glosses: past participle of strike one's flag
Cape Broyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪp ˈbɹɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Etymology: Etymology uncertain. The toponym may derive from broil (“brawl, disturbance, confusion”) or from a corruption of Portuguese abrolho (“reef”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
stricken one's flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of strike one's flag
stricken the colours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of strike the colors
struck the colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of strike the colors
glosses: past participle of strike the colors
striking the colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strike the colors
strikes the colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strike the colors
stricken one's colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of strike one's colors
reef shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reef sharks
Senses: glosses: Any of various sharks that inhabit coral reefs, especially of the family Carcharhinidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Carcharhinus melanopterus
word: blacktip reef shark
word: grey reef shark
taxonomic: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
word: gray reef shark
taxonomic: Triaenodon obesus
word: whitetip reef shark
taxonomic: Carcharhinus perezi
word: Caribbean reef shark
reef sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reef shark
Manleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Manley
Harlings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Harling
Monsons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Monson
Warehams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wareham
Wareham Town
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Wareham.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Dorset, England, which includes the market town of Wareham.
cryptoTERF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptoTERFs
Etymology: From crypto- + TERF.
Senses: examples: text: Cryptoterfs are really good at using social justice language to weasel themselves into these spaces and make people accept Bad Ideas and i hate it.
ref: 2019 October 25, shut up and go in peace (@deidaravore), Twitter:
text: ok so i think my moot is a cryptoterf and a bunch of ppl follow them and i dmed them about it (cause they’re following someone posting violent transmisogynist & transphobic shit) […]
ref: 2021 March 15, alina (@sindibunny), Twitter:
text: i'm glad i've curated my following on this account well enough from my last account that i don't have to read any cryptoterf "b- but queew is a swuw used to siwence wesbians 🥺" takes anymore
ref: 2021 June 15, Roo (@roopicoroo), Twitter:
glosses: A person who conceals or masks their gender-critical views, especially from friends or within trans-inclusive spaces.
grindedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of grind
groundst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of grind
Glincel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glincels
Etymology: Blend of Glinner + incel, the first component being taken from Linehan's Twitter account (@glinner), itself a blend of his given name and surname.
Senses: examples: text: Glincels in force doing their master’s bidding in response to this tweet.
ref: 2019 February 27, meh (@ohnonotphil), Twitter:
text: Seen a lot of Glincels and even Linehan himself repeating the lie “people are forceably transing gay teenage kids”.
ref: 2019 September 17, Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack), Twitter:
text: at some point you'll incur the wrath of him or his Glincels.
ref: 2020 May 8, hashtag girlboss (@surfacingwater), Twitter:
glosses: A fervent defender of Graham Linehan and/or supporter of his anti-transgender views.
zero-rates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zero-rate
San Jose del Monte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish San José del Monte, after Saint Joseph.
Senses: glosses: A city in Bulacan, Philippines.
wikipedia: Saint Joseph
TWAW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The woke left is aware of how mainstream media rigs news in favour of the ruling class but doesn't wonder why mainstream media agree that TWAW.
ref: 2020 July 2, Adeline Virginia Stephen (@A_V_Stephen), Twitter:
text: i used to be a sex worker and a staunch liberal feminist that firmly believed twaw.
ref: 2022 June 26, jah (@planetofplanet), Twitter:
text: The use of pronoun badges is intended to enforce TWAW.
ref: 2022 June 29, Helen Saxby (@helensaxby11), Twitter:
glosses: Initialism of trans women are women.
Willinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willingers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Willinger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wilmeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wilmeths
Etymology: Variant of Wilmot.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wilmeths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilmeth
Willingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Willinger
Asfour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Asfours
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عُصْفُور (ʕuṣfūr, “small bird; sparrow”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Asfours
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Asfour
Tsaochuang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 棗莊／枣庄 (Zǎozhuāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsao³-chuang¹.
Senses: examples: text: Powell returned to Tsaochuang May 27, 6 p.m., with two bandit secretaries, whose safe conduct he guaranteed. This forenoon secretaries were conferring with Assistant Military Governor.
ref: 1923 May 28, “The Minister in China (Schurman) to the Secretary of State”, in PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1923, volume I, Office of the Historian, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2020:
text: Chunghsing Comery.-This mine is at Tsaochuang (棗莊), Shantung Province. The local is good for making coke, but not so pure as that from Kaokeng, owing to the comparatively high ash percentage.
ref: 1934, Chinese Economic Journal and Bulletin, volume 15, →OCLC, page 215:
text: On 26 March T’ang En-po struck at Tsaochuang and Yihsien, and drove the Japanese from both towns.
ref: 1995, Edward L. Dreyer, China at War, 1901-1949, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226:
glosses: Alternative form of Zaozhuang.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Astorino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Astorinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Astorino.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Blyden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blydens
Etymology: Altered form of an English habitational surname such as Bladen or Blyton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Blydens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blyden
Astorinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Astorino
Befort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beforts
Etymology: Borrowed from French Befort, an assimilated form of Belfort.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Bears
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bearses
Etymology: Possibly a variant of Beers.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Beforts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Befort
Kyloe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in north Northumberland, England.
Zahniser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zahnisers
Etymology: Altered form of German Zahnhäuser or Zahneiser.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Abramovich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abramoviches
Etymology: Americanized form of Russian Абрамо́вич (Abramóvič) or Serbo-Croatian Abramović.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Abramoviches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abramovich
Zahnisers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zahniser
cow dung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cowdung.
cow-dung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cowdung.
cow-pat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow-pats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cow pat.
cow-pats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow-pat
Akamines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Akamine
Abayas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abaya
McPhaul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McPhauls
Etymology: Variant of McPhail.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McPhauls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McPhaul
Rowntrees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rowntree
Stockdalewath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Stokerwath in the Gaol delivery rolls, the placename derives from Old Norse stokkr (“log, trunk”) + vað (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A small village in Dalston parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3845).
wikipedia: Gaol delivery
Okello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Okellos
form: Okelo
Senses: glosses: a surname of the Luo and Ateker peoples of Uganda, Sudan, and Kenya.
Okellos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Okello
Okelo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Okelos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Okello.
Okelos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Okelo
amphitriploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + triploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a triploid set of chromosomes from each of its parents
amphitriploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphitriploids
Etymology: From amphi- + triploid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Such an organism
flupyradifurone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The butenolide insecticide 4-[(6-chloropyridine-3-yl)methyl](2,2-difluoroethyl)amino}furan-2(5H)-one
rediploidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rediploidizes
form: rediploidizing
form: rediploidized
form: rediploidized
Etymology: From re- + diploidize.
Senses: glosses: To return to diploid form
rediploidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rediploidize
knock on heaven's door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks on heaven's door
form: knocking on heaven's door
form: knocked on heaven's door
form: knocked on heaven's door
Senses: examples: text: I had knocked on heaven's door but they didn't let me in!
ref: 2011, Lesley Ann Eden, Beyond Belief in the Land of Rhythm, page 200:
text: During my stay in the high dependency ward I also knocked on heaven's door. At one point I had to be resuscitated and after being resuscitated I found one of the resuscitation discs still on my chest.
ref: 2022, Jack Woodside, P.O.S.H. Portside Out – Starboard Home My Life Story:
glosses: To die or be close to death.
IGH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IGHs
Senses: examples: text: Unlike on a derailleur bike, you must remove the shift cable from your IGH to remove the rear wheel.
ref: 2014, Christopher Wiggins, Bike Repair and Maintenance, Penguin, →ISBN, page 119:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of internally geared hub.
knocks on heaven's door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knock on heaven's door
knocked on heaven's door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knock on heaven's door
IGHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IGH
aminopentyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminopentyls
Etymology: From amino + pentyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amino derivative of a pentyl radical
gastroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastroid
Sámis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sámi
Sámis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sámi
cofeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cofeed
panacetylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + acetylated.
Senses: glosses: acetylated at all sites of a molecule
posteclosion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + eclosion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Following eclosion
rickettsemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to rickettsemia
xiguas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xigua
embryonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study or use of embryonic cells