cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
deranged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹeɪnd͡ʒd/
Forms: form: more deranged
form: most deranged
Etymology: From French dérangé.
Senses: examples: July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Though Bane's sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn't have any of the Joker's deranged wit, and Nolan isn't interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
glosses: Disturbed or upset, especially mentally.
examples: text: When he was finally arrested, Sutcliffe hoped that by claiming to be deranged he would be convicted of manslaughter rather than murder, and therefore sent to hospital and perhaps released after 10 years.
ref: 2020 November 13, Duncan Campbell, “Peter Sutcliffe obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Insane.
examples: text: 4-14. Reference (b) reports that "there was hardly any part of the boat that had not in some way been damaged." Only one of the four main Diesel engines was not damaged beyond immediate repair. However, the two auxiliary engines (Winton 6-241) were still operable. The port reduction gear casing was cracked and lost lubricating oil constantly. As mentioned above, the submerged propulsion plant was put out of commission due to deranged control equipment and motor damage. Numerous holding down bolts on the main motors, main generators and main engines were reported to have broken.
ref: 1949 January 1, Bureau of Ships, “U.S.S. PERCH (SS176), Loss in Action, Java Sea, 3 March 1942”, in Submarine Report: Depth Charge, Bomb, Mine, Torpedo and Gunfire Damage, Including Losses in Action, 7 December 1941 to 15 August 1945, volume 1, United States Hydrographic Office, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022, page 21:
glosses: Malfunctioning or inoperative.
Derived terms: derangedly
derangedness
underanged
deranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹeɪnd͡ʒd/
Etymology: From French dérangé.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derange
shop time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The time for which a vehicle or machine is out of service for repair.
glosses: The time spent by a foundry or machine shop to make a custom item.
foundry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: foun'drē
ipa: /ˈfaʊn.dɹi/
rhymes: -aʊndɹi
Forms: form: foundries
form: foundery
Etymology: From French fonderie. By surface analysis, found (“to melt (metals)”) + -ry (“place; process”).
Senses: examples: text: So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry. […] So after a short spell in the brass foundry the wisest course was to follow with a similar period in the steel foundry, where much important work was done, including the manufacture of centres for wheels.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
glosses: A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
glosses: The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
examples: text: Chang gained trust by allaying fears that TSMC would steal designs, as pure-play foundries have no use of them; TSMC stealing from chip designers would be like a printing press stealing plots from novelists.
ref: 2023 March 21, Virginia Heffernan, “I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory”, in WIRED:
glosses: A plant that produces chips out of semiconductors in the microelectronics industry.
Synonyms: sense: semiconductor fabrication plant
word: fab
Derived terms: foundryman
foundrywoman
type foundry
cake-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake-eaters
Senses: examples: text: And you fellows, if you find some cake-eaters trying to take advantage of your sister, what are you going to do?
ref: 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 21, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
text: "Nowadays, these cake-eaters all died young. They had no teeth. They all went to doctors who fixed teeth. But still they died young and without their teeth."
ref: 1956, Joseph Caruso, The Priest, →ISBN, page 158:
text: "'... We got us a cake eater, right here at the sink!' He turned to me. 'Have you ever had your hands dirty, new kid?'"
ref: 2004, Zac Unger, Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman, page 8:
glosses: A well-off person who indulges himself or herself; a playboy or playgirl.
examples: text: If ever there was a birthday in the home she would bake a special cake for the occasion, with the result that very few of our inmates lasted for more than a year. I myself am no great cake-eater, and I made a special point of keeping my birthday secret.
ref: 1965, Chaim Bermant, Berl Make Tea, Chapman and Hall, page 12:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, eater.
machine shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mə-shēnʹ shŏp'
Forms: form: machine shops
Senses: examples: text: There is a very large and comprehensive machine shop, beautifully clean and with a wealth of modern machinery - wheel drops, hoists and all the usual running shed maintenance equipment, as well as supersonic axle testers.
ref: 1961 March, ""Dalmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:
glosses: A facility that has machine tools for working with metals or other relatively hard materials, such as some polymers. Various kinds of machine shops make and repair all types of metal objects, from machine tools, dies, and molds to mass-produced parts such as screws, pistons, or gears.
Related terms: Machine shops use a wide variety of metal-working tools
including:
drills
lathes
milling machines
presses
cutting and welding equipment
grinding and polish machines
primula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primulas
Etymology: The genus Primula was named by botanist Carl von Linnaeus (1707-1778) after Latin primus (“first”) because it flowers early.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Primula; the primroses.
ragwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæɡwəːt/
Forms: form: ragworts
Etymology: From rag (referring to the ragged leaves) + wort.
Senses: examples: text: Ragwort is under the command of dame Venus, and cleanses, digests and discusses.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 237:
text: Sea-poppies and ragwort were plants of ill-fame, too.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:
text: As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267:
glosses: Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Senecio sarracenicus
word: broad-leaved ragwort
taxonomic: Sinacalia tangutica
word: Chinese ragwort
taxonomic: Jacobaea vulgaris
word: common ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio actinella
word: Flagstaff ragwort
taxonomic: Packera aurea
word: golden ragwort
taxonomic: Jacobaea aquatica
word: marsh ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio mohavensis
word: Mojave ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio pattersonensis
word: Mono ragwort
taxonomic: Brachyglottis monroi
word: Monro's ragwort
taxonomic: Packera musiniensis
word: Musinea ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio inaequidens
word: narrow-leaved ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio bigelovii
word: nodding ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio squalidus
word: Oxford ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio glastifolius
word: pink ragwort
taxonomic: Packera malmstenii
word: Podunk ragwort
word: purple ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio elegans
word: redpurple ragwort
taxonomic: Jacobaea maritima
word: sea ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio inaequidens
word: South African ragwort
taxonomic: Jacobaea vulgaris
word: tansy ragwort
taxonomic: Jacobaea aquatica
word: water ragwort
word: willow ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio glastifolius
word: woad-leaved ragwort
taxonomic: Senecio garlandii
alt: S. littoralis
word: woolly ragwort
scarlet pimpernel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarlet pimpernels
Senses: examples: text: [T]ogether they went north and were at Silloth in August, where James picked a scarlet pimpernel to press for her album[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 65:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A flowering plant, of species Lysimachia arvensis (syn. Anagallis arvensis), of the Primulaceae family, having small orange flowers.
snowdrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊ.dɹɒp/
enpr: snōʹdräp
ipa: /ˈsnoʊ.dɹɑp/
Forms: form: snowdrops
Etymology: From snow + drop.
Senses: examples: text: A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled.
ref: 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Garden, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, in the Strand, OCLC 270894685; republished in The Poems of Garth, and Tickell (The British Poets. Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes; XXVII), Chiswick, Middlesex: From the press of C[harles] Whittingham, College House, 1822, OCLC 16074759, page 166
text: Tufts of primroses grew under the still leafless trees; the hepatica had succeeded the snowdrop.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 281:
text: White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan.
ref: 1865, Ouida [pseudonym; Marie Louise de la Ramée], “White Ladies”, in Strathmore: A Romance. … In Three Volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, OCLC 4557613; republished as Strathmore: A Romance. … In Two Volumes (Collection of British Authors; 1169), volume I, Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871, OCLC 798495291, page 9
text: [I]t was considered unlucky to decorate a room with cut snowdrops. The name death's flower relates to an old belief that a solitary snowdrop indicates impending death, with suggestions that it was inauspicious to bring snowdrops indoors.
ref: 2016, Gail Harland, Snowdrop (Botanical), London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Snowdrop (“a Royal Air Force police officer”).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Galanthus alpinus var. alpinus
word: Caucasian snowdrop
taxonomic: Galanthus plicatus
word: Crimean snowdrop
taxonomic: Galanthus elwesii
word: giant snowdrop
taxonomic: Anemone sylvestris
word: snowdrop anemone
taxonomic: Halesia spp.
word: snowdrop tree
taxonomic: Anemone sylvestris
word: snowdrop windflower
word: yellow snowdrop Erythronium spp.)
Related terms: galanthophile
snowdrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊ.dɹɒp/
enpr: snōʹdräp
ipa: /ˈsnoʊ.dɹɑp/
Forms: form: snowdrops
form: snowdropping
form: snowdropped
form: snowdropped
Etymology: From snow + drop.
Senses: examples: text: MS: There was a lot of snowdropping in those days? / SL: Oh, I've never actually stooped to snowdropping; I used to go into shops. Boosting, man, boosting. But you learn how to survive.
ref: 1989, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, volume 49, Sydney: Australian English Association, →OCLC, page 561:
text: ‘Snowdropping’ is the business of some poor sods who, often from laundry drying on a clothes line, pinch items of ladies’ underwear, take them away and sniff them.
ref: 1992, Peter O'Toole, Loitering with Intent: The Early Years, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 50:
text: It'll be like snowdropping clothes from a clothesline. We'll snowdrop a baby.
ref: 2011, Tony Hardy, “A Love Story”, in Fifteen Percent Pregnant: A Story of Life, and Love, and IVF, Docklands, Melbourne, Vic.: The Slattery Media Group, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
spiderwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiderworts
Etymology: From spider + wort.
Senses: examples: text: One morning she had me traipsing out at the crack of dawn for prickly poppy, toadflax, spiderwort, and skeleton weed. If that doesn't sound like the makings of a witch's brew, then I'm the queen of England.
ref: 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest:
glosses: A perennial plant of the Tradescantia genus, found in clumps in woodland and meadow.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Gagea serotina
alt: syn. Lloydia serotina
word: mountain spiderwort
Related terms: Wandering Jew
sweet pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet peas
form: sweetpea
Senses: examples: text: No one had such pinks as he had; his sweet-william was unrivaled,—he had only half a dozen geraniums, but then they were such geraniums,—the cottage, once an unsightly little mass of lath and plaster, was now besprinkled with roses; and then, his sweet peas were in blossom, and, fortunately for him who had not much to do, they required a great deal of sticking and tying.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: A flowering plant, Lathyrus odoratus, grown for its bright colours and sweet fragrance.
glosses: A term of endearment for something sweet or lovely; a child or an intimate partner, for example.
tiger lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger lilies
form: tiger-lily
Senses: glosses: A bulbous flowering plant, Lilium lancifolium, with a large spectacular flower and an edible bulb.
wallflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːlˌflaʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈwɔlˌflaʊ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɑlˌflaʊ.ɚ/
Forms: form: wallflowers
form: wall-flower
form: wall flower
Etymology: From wall + flower.
Senses: examples: text: A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting.
ref: 1809, William Nicholson, “BOTANY”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume I (A … B), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 1:
glosses: Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
glosses: Gastrolobium grandiflorum, a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia.
examples: text: Mrs. Galbraith shook all over with laughter as she replied, "Hear that boy, asking me to dance ! I'm content to be a wallflower, now-a-days."
ref: 1878, Fannie Bean, Dr. Mortimer's Patient: A Novel, page 23:
text: And now, by virtue of his office, he is entitled to a seat in the Grand Lodge. Is it any wonder he is a wall-flower there […]
ref: 1885, The Freemason's Repository, page 133:
text: It is a triumph, of course, to have plenty of partners, and not to be a wallflower for a single dance.
ref: 1897, Mrs. C. E. Humphry, Manners for Women, page 53:
text: Jack Breen was a wallflower; still at the same time I noticed he was cultivating an ornamental smile — a Jack of Trumps, you bet.
ref: 1913, Plasterer, page 8:
text: She was a wallflower in a sleepy little town itself a wallflower. She was a joke to the village wits and a byword to the village belles.
ref: 1921, Collier's, page 3:
text: "Where--oh. Hidden in the corner. You two aren't already going all wallflower, are you?" "We are not wallflowers." "To be fair, I can be. But then I get mad at myself for it and get all loud and snarky."
ref: 2013 May 22, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, May 22, 2013:
text: Second City was a wallflower at the show business ball. It needed to be. Improvisers needed to fail, and fail safely; and in the Midwest, far from Broadway and Hollywood, they really could. Second-class stature was the secret ingredient, ...
ref: 2017, Sam Wasson, Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: A person who does not dance at a party, due to shyness or unpopularity; by extension, anyone who is left on the sidelines while an activity takes place.
examples: text: I've always been a wallflower, even in my own home. But, I'm willing to learn to be a part of your world. I would like to. I have already told my parents that I want to go to soirées.
ref: 2019, Liz Tyner, To Win a Wallflower, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: Any person who is socially awkward, shy, or reserved.
Derived terms: wallflower cabbage
wallflower poison
wallflower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːlˌflaʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈwɔlˌflaʊ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɑlˌflaʊ.ɚ/
Forms: form: wallflowers
form: wallflowering
form: wallflowered
form: wallflowered
form: wall-flower
form: wall flower
Etymology: From wall + flower.
Senses: examples: text: […] the idea that a full tango experience is impossible without the presence of wallflowers and without the threat of wallflowering as the potential dancers enter the tango club.
ref: 2010, Alexandra Carter, Janet O'Shea, The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, page 237:
glosses: To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.
Related terms: shrinking violet
water lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water lilies
form: water-lily
form: waterlily
Senses: examples: text: The seeds and roots of the water lily are likewise considered a preventative against lechery.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 16:
glosses: Any of various members of the Nymphaeaceae family that are tuberous plants, rooted in soil with leaves (lily pads) and flowers floating on the water surface.
glosses: Species of genus Nymphoides, fringed water lily and similar plants.
glosses: Species of genus Nelumbo.
interesting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɹəstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪntɹɛstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪntəɹəstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪntɹɛstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪntɹɪstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪn(t)əɹɛstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪnt͡ʃɹɛstɪŋ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳʈ(ɛ)ˈrɛsʈɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: more interesting
form: most interesting
Etymology: From interest + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He indeed had good reason to be offended; for though Dr. Swinfen's motive was good, he inconsiderately betrayed a matter deeply interesting and of great delicacy, which had been entrusted to him in conference […].
ref: 1791, James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, edited by Robert William Chapman, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 48:
glosses: Of concern; affecting, important.
examples: text: Cricket is not interesting to watch.
text: Comics were just another form of entertainment to me, but it got to be more and more interesting every day.
ref: 2015-11-22, Stan Lee, "Marvel's Stan Lee: 'I'd never really thought of doing comics for a living.'", The Guardian
glosses: Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.
examples: text: I found myself in a fair way of being a mother; and that I might be near my own relations, in such an interesting situation, I and my dear companion departed from H—n, not without great reluctance […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Mrs Lenville (who, as has been before hinted, was in an interesting state) rushed from the rear rank of ladies, and uttering a piercing scream threw herself upon the body.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: I’m afraid I seem to make heavy weather of my interesting condition.
ref: 1928, William Babington Maxwell, “Part II. Enid”, in We Forget Because We Must, A Story of Decades and Lustres, 1st edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: Pregnant. (used with situation and condition)
Synonyms: absorbing
gripping
Derived terms: interesting condition
interestingly
interestingness
interesting number paradox
interesting situation
make interesting
make it interesting
make things interesting
may you live in interesting times
noninteresting
superinteresting
interesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɹəstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪntɹɛstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪntəɹəstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪntɹɛstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪntɹɪstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪn(t)əɹɛstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɪnt͡ʃɹɛstɪŋ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳʈ(ɛ)ˈrɛsʈɪŋ(ɡ)/
Etymology: From interest + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interest
polyorchid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + orchid.
Senses: glosses: Possessing more than two testes.
Derived terms: polyorchidism
Related terms: cryptorchid
monorchid
polyorchism
lemming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛm.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛmɪŋ
Forms: form: lemmings
Etymology: From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek. Sense 2 derives from a longstanding myth that they exhibit so much herd mentality that populations jump off cliffs to their deaths together.
Senses: examples: text: The well-known lemmings, in severe winters, at long intervals, move down from the mountains of Scandinavia in immense numbers, crossing lakes and rivers, eating their way through haystacks, and surmounting every obstacle till they reach the sea, whence very few return.
ref: 1876, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, chapter 2, page 18:
glosses: A small arctic and subarctic rodent of the tribes Lemmini, Dicrostonychini and Lagurini.
examples: text: Lemmings are strongly cohesive, but could be, in organisational terms, highly destructive for the business.
ref: 2004, Ilse Hobbs, Jan Havenga, A Practical Guide to Strategy, →ISBN, page 127:
text: Like a lemming, I followed the crowd, got to the right line and was concentrating hard when queried by the customs officer.
ref: 2014, M.P. Fedunkiw, A Degree of Futility, page 61:
glosses: Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.
Synonyms: sable mouse
Derived terms: taxonomic: Synaptomys spp.
word: bog lemming
taxonomic: Dicrostonyx spp.
word: collared lemming
word: Eurolemming
word: lemmingism
word: lemminglike
word: northern bog lemming
word: Norway lemming
taxonomic: Lagurus lagurus
word: steppe lemming
taxonomic: Lemmus spp.
word: true lemming
taxonomic: Myopus schisticolor
word: wood lemming
taxonomic: Eolagurus spp.
word: yellow steppe lemming
assholery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assholeries
form: arseholery
Etymology: From asshole + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: assclownery, asshattery, assholedom, assholism, douchebaggery, douchery
text: As the War's front moves away from them, and the Casino becomes more and more a rear area, as the water grows more polluted and the prices rise, so the personnel coming down on leave get noisier and more dedicated to pure assholery—none of Tantivy's style about them, his habit of soft-shoe dancing when drunk, his make-believe foppishness and shy, decent impulses to conspire, however marginally, whenever possible, against power and indifference.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 2: Une Perm au Casino Hermann Goering, page 209:
text: Garp felt dishonest with Cushie for not mentioning what he took to, be the utter assholery of her father, Fat Stew.
ref: 1976, John Irving, The World According to Garp:
text: It was a piece of utter assholery of course, like the stupid confidence of a man who believes it's safe to drive when totally shitfaced as long as he's wearing his St. Christopher's medallion.
ref: 1983, Stephen King, Pet Sematary:
text: And the incentives were perverse: In a culture war, assholery or hypocrisy against the other side can raise your status with allies.
ref: 2021 July 4, Conor Friedersdorf, “The Sexual Identity That Emerged on TikTok”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2021:
glosses: Patterns of behavior consistent with those of an asshole.
Related terms: assholocene
chunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: chunks
form: chunking
form: chunked
form: chunked
Etymology: Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.).
Senses: glosses: To break into large pieces or chunks.
examples: text: These results offer tentative evidence that suggests that certain components of computer-mediated instruction (in this case, access to and control over syntactically chunked, captioned video) are not necessarily beneficial for certain learners […]
ref: 2005, Yong Zhao, Research in Technology and Second Language Education:
glosses: To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
examples: text: Calpurnia said it was hard on Helen, because she had to walk nearly a mile out of her way to availed the Ewells, who, according to Helen, “chunked at her” the first time she tried to use the public road.
ref: 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird:
synonyms: word: chuck
word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw.
examples: text: He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.
topics: video-games
glosses: Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
examples: text: "Mind you keep very still," he said, "or I might chunk a bit out of you with the spade."
ref: 1899, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers:
glosses: To remove a chunk from.
Derived terms: chunkable
chunker
dechunk
microchunk
mischunk
prechunk
rechunk
chunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: chunks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chank (“type of spiral shell”).
comic book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comic books
Senses: topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A book or magazine that uses sequences of drawings to narrate a story or a series of stories, primarily in a serialized form, usually fiction.
Synonyms: sense: magazine with sequence of drawings
word: comics
sense: magazine with sequence of drawings
word: graphic novel
Derived terms: American comic book
comic-bookish
Related terms: cartoon
funnies
funny pages
funny papers
superhero
graphic novel
fanzine
malnutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæl.nuˈtɹɪʃ.ən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: malnutritions
Etymology: From mal- + nutrition.
Senses: examples: text: It is predictable that some of these infections occur in individuals immunocompromised by malnutrition or underlying disease (notably cancer or AIDS) or by immunosuppressive therapy.
ref: 2013, Robert H. Rubin, Lowell S. Young, Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host, →ISBN, page 275:
glosses: A lack of adequate nourishment.
wikipedia: Fridtjof Nansen
Derived terms: malnutritional
muesli belt malnutrition
starvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/
ipa: /stɑːˈveɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: starvations
Etymology: From starve + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part I, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, February 1927, →OCLC, book I, page 997:
text: Meanwhile, Mr. Netanyahu’s orders to resume delivery of food aid, an abrupt about-face under intense U.S. and international pressure, came as warnings of mass starvation intensify, including from within Israel’s own security establishment.
ref: 2025 May 20, Dina Kraft, “Goals of Israel’s renewed Gaza offensive are unclear, even to Israelis”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: inanition
glosses: A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
examples: text: Fuel starvation has several causes.
ref: 1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 99:
text: However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.
ref: 2002, Allan N. Packer, Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform, page 362:
glosses: Severe shortage of resources.
examples: text: Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.
ref: 2004, Scott Oaks, Henry Wong, Java Threads, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 138:
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
Derived terms: mass starvation
rabbit starvation
starvation marrow
starvation wage
pregnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛɡnənsi/
Forms: form: pregnancies
Etymology: From pregnant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: News that the duchess is in the "very early stages" of pregnancy with the third-in-line to the throne was officially released after she was taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London, suffering from hyperemesis gravidarun, very acute morning sickness.
ref: 2012 December 3, Caroline Davies, The Guardian:
text: Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD).
ref: 2015 October 23, “Periconception Maternal Folate Status and Human Embryonic Cerebellum Growth Trajectories: The Rotterdam Predict Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this.
glosses: The period of time this condition prevails.
glosses: The progression of stages from conception to birth.
Synonyms: word: cyesis
word: gestation
word: gravidation
word: gravidity
word: pregnation
Hyponyms: abdominocyesis
eccyesis
ectopic pregnancy
monocyesis
oocyesis
ovariocyesis
polycyesis
Coordinate terms: false pregnancy
pseudocyesis
pseudopregnancy
Derived terms: anembryonic pregnancy
antipregnancy
biochemical pregnancy
chemical pregnancy
denial of pregnancy
ectopic pregnancy
eggnancy
false pregnancy
interpregnancy
mask of pregnancy
midpregnancy
nonpregnancy
peripregnancy
phantom pregnancy
postpregnancy
pregnancy brain
pregnancy loss
pregnancy mask
pregnancy pillow
pregnancy school
pregnancy sickness
pregnancy test
pregorexia
prepregnancy
pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy
puppy pregnancy syndrome
toxemia of pregnancy
Related terms: pregnant
with child
with young
landing strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landing strips
Senses: examples: text: As Discovery headed towards the landing strip in the Mojave desert, radio contact between Mission Control and the shuttle was kept to a minimum.
ref: 2005 August 9, Rosalind Ryan, The Guardian:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: airstrip
glosses: A runway for aircraft, especially one which is auxiliary or temporary.
glosses: A cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle.
synonyms: landing zone
glosses: A rectangular piece of slightly thicker plastic on the top rise (front part) of a diaper, especially a disposable one, to which the tapes or tabs can be fastened; usually has print designs on it.
impregnate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpɹɛɡneɪt/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛɡneɪt/
Forms: form: impregnates
form: impregnating
form: impregnated
form: impregnated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1540, the verb in 1605; borrowed from Medieval Latin impraegnātus, perfect passive participle of Latin impraegnō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of impregn; participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: examples: text: I was impregnated at a clinic but don't know who the sperm donor is.
text: The queen at their head, the representative of the future, has not yet been impregnated. Their entire destiny depends on the ensuing nuptial flight.
ref: 1903 [1901], Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Alfred Sutro, The Life of the Bee, New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, page 264:
synonyms: word: knock up
word: inseminate
word: cover
english: of animals
translation: of animals
glosses: To cause to become pregnant.
glosses: To fertilize.
examples: text: To Tartarize, ta²r'ta⁴r-i¹ze, v. a.
 To impregnate with tartar.
ref: 1791, John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 498:
text: We find those charæ which secrete the largest quantity of calcareous matter in their stems to abound near springs impregnated with carbonate of lime.
ref: 1835, Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book IV, page 322:
glosses: To saturate, or infuse.
examples: text: It takes a little time for the personal fatty acids to impregnate new shoes or boots, but from the scent point of view leather is a sponge, and the personal scent is left.
ref: 1937, Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard, The mystery of scent, page 121:
glosses: To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
examples: text: Were they, like Spanish Jennets, to impregnate by the Wind, they could not have thought on a more proper Invention.
ref: 2025 December 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, November 24, 2025”, in The Spectator, number (please specify the issue number); republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume (please either specify the issue number or |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To become pregnant.
Synonyms: word: get with child
word: impregnate
word: inseminate
word: inwomb
word: knock up
word: settle
Hyponyms: word: fertilize
Derived terms: coimpregnated
impregnant
impregnatable
impregnator
nonimpregnated
pre-impregnate
preimpregnated
reimpregnate
unimpregnated
impregnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪmprɛɡnət/
/ɪmˈprɛɡnət/
Forms: form: more impregnate
form: most impregnate
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1540, the verb in 1605; borrowed from Medieval Latin impraegnātus, perfect passive participle of Latin impraegnō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of impregn; participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: Impregnated (all senses).
raw_tags: as a participle
glosses: Pregnant, with child.
glosses: Rendered fruitful, prolific.
examples: text: There Juno stopped, and, her fair steeds unloosed,
Of air condensed a vapour circumfused:
For these, impregnate with celestial dew,
On Simoïs' brink ambrosial herbage grew.
ref: 1715-20, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, book V. v.968:
glosses: Imbued, saturated, permeated or filled with.
qualifier: mistakenly
glosses: Impregnable.
Related terms: conceive
sire
father
wormwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwə(ɹ)m.wʊd/
ipa: /ˈwɚm.wʊd/
Forms: form: wormwoods
Etymology: From Middle English wormwode, a folk etymology (as if worm + wood) of wermode (“wormwood”), from Old English wermōd (“wormwood, absinthe”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjamōdā (“wormwood”). Cognate with Middle Low German wermode, wermede (“wormwood”), German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of vermouth.
Senses: examples: text: But as I said, / When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple / Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, / To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii (the nurse's monologue)]:
text: Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 9:15:
text: Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut
Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]
ref: c. 1864, John Clare, We passed by green closes:
text: Cliff took two glasses and filled one with wine
And one with wormwood.
ref: 1897, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Cliff Klingenhagen”, in Children of the Night:
text: Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock, elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 16:
text: Tradition credits John the Baptist with wearing a girdle fashioned of wormwood, while he was in the wilderness.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 1:
synonyms: common wormwood
grande wormwood
absinthe
mugwort
artemisia
glosses: An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
examples: text: The irony of this reply was wormwood to Zeluco; he fell into a gloomy fit of musing, and made no farther inquiry […].
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 57:
text: Yet I think the Archdeacon, a "new man," to whom the aristocratic Canon's popularity was wormwood, did dislike him.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, “The Deanery Ball”, in For the Cause:
glosses: Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation.
Derived terms: African wormwood
annual wormwood
common wormwood
gall and wormwood
Roman wormwood
Russian wormwood
salt of wormwood
sea wormwood
sweet wormwood
tree wormwood
wormwood hare
OPEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊpɛk/
ipa: /ˈoʊpɛk/
Senses: examples: text: Yes there are analogs in Dune of today’s events—corruption and bribery in the highest places, whole police forces lost to organized crime, regulatory agencies taken over by the people they are supposed to regulate. The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
ref: 1980 July, Frank Herbert, “Dune Genesis”, in Omni, volume 2, number 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:
text: It was obvious that, if Opec was going to survive much longer, it had to be taken seriously by the world’s major oil companies. So Yamani decided, if the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Opec had somehow to impose its presence on the oil companies.
ref: 1988, Jeffrey Robinson, “The Birth of Opec and the Rise of Yamani”, in Yamani: The Inside Story (Biography/History), New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, published 1989, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: Acronym of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
fellow traveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellow travellers
form: fellow-traveller
form: fellow traveler
form: fellow-traveler
Senses: examples: text: The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end.
ref: 1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
glosses: One who travels together with another.
examples: text: Near-synonym: camp follower
text: Earlier in the year, Ohio Senator Robert Taft charged that Democratic congressional proposals "bordered on communism," while Joe Martin called for Republican victories in order to oust the Communists and fellow travelers from the federal government.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:
text: The summary case files used by the Internal Security Council, now declassified and available at the British National Archives, reveal how flimsy many of the cases against the detainees were: classifications could be as vague as "suspected communist", "communist sympathiser", "suspected communist sympathiser" and even "fellow traveller".
ref: 2023 February 2, “Sixty years since Operation Coldstore”, in We the Citizens:
glosses: One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization without belonging to it; especially a Communist sympathizer.
Related terms: fellow-travel
card-carrying
comsymp
fellow passenger
premature antifascist
sputnik
sputnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʊtnɪk/
ipa: /ˈspʌtnɪk/
Forms: form: sputniks
form: Sputnik
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Slavic *sъ(n)
Russian с- (s-)
Proto-Indo-European *pent-
Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s
Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis
Proto-Slavic *pǫtь
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ
Proto-Slavic *-ikъ
Proto-Slavic *-ьnikъ
Proto-Slavic *pǫtьnikъ
Russian пу́тник (pútnik)
Russian спу́тник (spútnik)bor.
English sputnik
From Russian спу́тник (spútnik, “satellite”, literally “fellow traveller”), from с- (s-, “with, together”) + пу́тник (pútnik, “traveller”), from путь (putʹ, “way, journey”) + agent suffix -ник (-nik).
Senses: examples: text: Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon. The science wasn't even there yet. NASA didn't exist. But after investing in better research and education, we didn't just surpass the Soviets; we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs. This is our generation's Sputnik moment. Two years ago, I said that we needed to reach a level of research and development we haven't seen since the height of the Space Race. And in a few weeks, I will be sending a budget to Congress that helps us meet that goal.
ref: 2011 January 5, Barack Obama; Jon Favreau, speechwriter, “Remarks by the President in State of Union Address”, in White House Office of the Press Secretary, WhiteHouse.gov, archived from the original on 06 May 2016:
glosses: Any of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
examples: text: With this program, we could bring water to the Middle East. We could rebuild some of our sagging esteem in that part of the world; we could insure that in this area at least we would have our sputniks abreast the Russians', and we could do our own economy a priceless good turn.
ref: 1958, Clinton P. Anderson, statement on the Senate floor, quoted in, Legislative history: Saline water conversion act, page 783
text: This is but one of the facts which should demonstrate to those who would build British sputniks that such extravagances will be a disservice to the whole country until the supply of scientists has been multiplied many times.
ref: 1958 October 23, Gemnius, "It seems to me", New Scientist, page 1120
text: Of course, long before this reliable systems of meteorological sputniks, world-wide television sputniks, navigation sputniks, etc., will be created.
ref: 1965, The Contemporary:
text: In Britain, before we had the news of the launching of the Russian and just now the American sputniks, we learned the news that American planes carrying H-bombs, which they could deliver on Russia at very short notice, are continuously in the air.
ref: 1971, Shenandoah, volumes 9-10, page 4:
glosses: Any artificial satellite.
Derived terms: Sputnik moment
attrib
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of attributive.
deep cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a fielding position on the off side, about 30° forward of square and near the boundary; a fielder in that position.
deep midwicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep midwickets
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position on the leg side, about 30° forward of square and near the boundary; a fielder in that position.
deep point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep points
Senses: examples: text: Buttler was the more fluent, scooping and driving, but when he was caught at deep point for 59, England still needed 46 from 31 balls.
ref: 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position on the off side, square of the batsman's wicket and near the boundary
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a fielder in that position.
deep square leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep square legs
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position on the leg side, square of the batsman's wicket; a fielder in that position.
square leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square legs
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position on the leg side, square of the batsman's wicket, between leg gully and midwicket; a fielder in that position.
Related terms: deep square leg
square leg umpire
square leg umpire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square leg umpires
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The umpire who stands at or near square leg to rule on decisions at the batsman's end of the wicket.
unhappy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: unhappies
Etymology: From Middle English unhappy; equivalent to un- + happy.
Senses: examples: text: Leduc, as is true of many other unhappies, is largely a confessional writer: her subject is herself, and her gift is a driving, vivacious power that turns her incurable, inveterate unhappiness into a series of dramas […]
ref: 1972, The New Yorker (volume 48, part 1, page 109)
synonyms: sadcase
sad panda
sad sack
glosses: A person who is not happy.