cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Doong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doongs
form: Dong
Senses: examples: text: “It is difficult to make an elephant dance. Chunghwa Telecom is the nation’s biggest telecom company with diverse businesses from landlines and mobiles to Internet TV. It will take a major effort to grow from the integration of those businesses,” Doong I-chun (董奕君), who tracks the telecom industry with Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute (MIC, 產業情報研究所), said in a telephone interview.
“With Cheng’s extensive experience in the media sector, he will be able to come up with innovative ideas for Chunghwa Telecom to offer digital content,” Doong said.
ref: 2016 December 16, Lisa Wang, “New Chunghwa Telecom chairman elected”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2016, Business, page 12:
text: Regarding national identification, 59.8 percent of respondents said they are Taiwanese, while only 2.9 percent identified as Chinese, Taiwan Thinktank deputy executive-general Doong Sy-chi (董思齊) told a news conference in Taipei, adding that 34 percent of respondents said they identify as Taiwanese and Chinese.[…]
When given only one choice, 84.9 percent identified as Taiwanese, and only 8.7 percent said they were Chinese, Doong said, adding that the findings were consistent with earlier surveys.
ref: 2020 December 11, Jason Pan, “Survey finds 85 percent define as Taiwanese”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2023, Taiwan News, page 3:
text: The hot spots include Baishawan (白沙灣) beach in New Taipei City’s Shihmen District (石門), Yuguang Island (魚光島) in Tainan, Sizihwan Bay (西子灣) in Kaohsiung and Pingtung County’s Kenting (墾丁), all of which should consider installing alarm systems, center director Doong Dong-jiing (董東璟) said.[…]
They are one of the major causes of swimming injuries and drowning, Doong said.
ref: 2022 August 3, “Study finds more than 30 rip current hot spots in Taiwan”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2022, Taiwan News, page 2:
glosses: A surname.
teletube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teletubes
Etymology: From tele- + tube.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of television tube.
synonyms: word: television tube
television tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of television tube
teletubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletube
tell someone where to get off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tells someone where to get off
form: telling someone where to get off
form: told someone where to get off
form: told someone where to get off
Senses: glosses: To dismiss someone with harsh words.
telescope word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telescope words
Etymology: By analogy with a collapsible telescope.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of portmanteau word.
synonyms: word: portmanteau word
telescope words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telescope word
Turco-Mongol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Turco- + Mongol.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to both Turkics and Mongols.
sensory bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensory bins
Senses: glosses: A tub or other wide container filled with items appropriate for children's recreational activities.
Horam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5717).
telpherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telphermen
Etymology: From telpher + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who operates a telpher.
telphermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telpherman
teponaxtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teponaxtles
Senses: glosses: A traditional Aztec drum.
teponaxtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teponaxtle
treemoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treemosses
Etymology: From tree + moss.
Senses: examples: text: There are but few plants, also , (such as perhaps, the Yew, Savine, and most treemosses, ) which do not serve for the abode and support of known Insects.
ref: 1825, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Richard Thomas Gore, A Manual of the Elements of Natural History, page 175:
text: The principal constituents of treemoss are lichen acids, some of which are atranorin, furfuracinic acid and chloroatranorin (Guenther, 1952).
ref: 2013, D. L. J. Opdyke, Monographs on Fragrance Raw Materials, page 711:
text: Treemoss products are generally used to “cut” true oakmoss in order to reduce the cost.
ref: 2017, Steffen Arctander, Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 451:
text: Of chemicals relevant for sensitization, a typical industrial treemoss absolute oil (which is also an extract) may contain approximately 0.36% atranol, 0.22% chloratranol and 5-6% dehydroabietic acid and other resin acids (including the allergenic 7-oxodehydroabietic acid), but undetectable levels of atranorin and chloroatranorin, as these are easily degraded into atranol and chloroatranol (20).
ref: 2021, Anton C. de Groot, Monographs in Contact Allergy, page 268:
glosses: Unprocessed mosses and lichens found growing on trees, often used commercially in fragrances.
heath-wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heath-wrens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heathwren.
treemosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treemoss
treemageddons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treemageddon
hemitropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemi- + -tropism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: hemitropy
glosses: The quality of being hemitropal.
hibernating gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hibernating glands
Etymology: Alluding to its use for food storage in hibernation. It is not, however, a true gland.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The interscapular brown adipose tissue found in certain mammals.
hibernating glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hibernating gland
hip bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip baths
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sitz bath.
synonyms: word: sitz bath
hip baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip bath
electocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electocracy
hit-and-runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hit-and-runners
Senses: glosses: One who commits a hit and run (a type of motor accident).
hit-and-runners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hit-and-runner
hndbk.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hndbks.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of handbook.
hndbks.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hndbk.
hog flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of swine flu.
synonyms: word: swine flu
misstring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstrings
form: misstringing
form: misstrung
form: misstrung
Etymology: From mis- + string.
Senses: examples: text: If you've misstrung a bead in the middle of a row, you can break it with the pliers, but grab it sideways at the holes above the weft, not from top to.
ref: 1989, Threads Magazine - Issues 20-25, page 67:
text: Percepts do not appear to be strung together, because brain damaged patients do not report them to be misstrung (say, a cat with paws protruding from its head and its ears on its tail).
ref: 1998 Spring, Marcel Kinsbourne, “Unity and diversity in the human brain: evidence from injury”, in Daedalus, volume 127, number 2:
text: These days, our two-part harmony feels more like a single instrument misstrung in the caught breath of a connoisseur.
ref: 2022, Corinne T. Field, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, The Global History of Black Girlhood:
glosses: To string incorrectly.
misstrings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misstring
misstringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misstring
misstrung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misstring
home-cooked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homecooked.
home-cooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of home-cook
hooded oriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooded orioles
Senses: glosses: Icterus cucullatus, a medium-sized New World oriole.
hooded orioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooded oriole
hornblendization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Conversion into hornblende.
horned violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horned violets
Senses: synonyms: horned pansy
glosses: The flowering plant Viola cornuta.
horned pansy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horned pansies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of horned violet.
synonyms: word: horned violet
horned violets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horned violet
horned pansies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horned pansy
horse about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: horses about
form: horsing about
form: horsed about
form: horsed about
Senses: glosses: Synonym of horse around.
synonyms: word: horse around
horse crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse crabs
Senses: synonyms: Asian blue crab
gazami crab
glosses: Any of species Portunus trituberculatus of crabs.
Asian blue crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian blue crabs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of horse crab (Portunus trituberculatus)
synonyms: word: horse crab
extra: Portunus trituberculatus
gazami crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazami crabs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of horse crab (Portunus trituberculatus)
synonyms: word: horse crab
extra: Portunus trituberculatus
Asian blue crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asian blue crab
horse crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse crab
drovers' way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drovers' ways
Senses: glosses: Synonym of droveway.
synonyms: word: droveway
misstrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstrips
form: misstripping
form: misstripped
form: misstripped
Etymology: From mis- + strip.
Senses: examples: text: Yet it is very desirable to provide improved, minimal, misstripping or jamming rates, especially for unattended or remote printers.
ref: 1994 January 25, Zoran D. Popovic, United States Patent number 5282010:
text: While the heated fuser roll structure 12 is constructed Such that it is Self-Stripping it will be appreciated that from time to time Substrate misstripping will occur.
ref: 1999 February 16, Rabin Moser, United States Patent Number: 5,872,350:
text: Meanwhile, it works as the short-range backup protection when this line primary protection misstrips, and as overload protection.
ref: 2017, Lijun Qin, Congge Li, Lei Hao, Huating Jiang, Zhuofan Tang, Xian Wang, “Research on the Influence of the Series Compensator on Relay Protection of Distribution Networks”, in Proceedings of the 2017 5th International Conference on Mechatronics, Materials, Chemistry and Computer Engineering (ICMMCCE 2017), page 1181:
glosses: To strip wrongly or in error.
misstrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misstrips
Etymology: From mis- + strip.
Senses: examples: text: Stripping is avoided and therefore any possibility of misstrips removed.
ref: 2013, E. Wolfendale, MOS Integrated Circuit Design, page 64:
text: The harmonic current and voltage generated in operation of converter transformer under normal or faulty condition of the system shall not result in maloperation or misstrip of the AC system.
ref: 2017, Hao Zhou, Wenqian Qiu, Ke Sun, Ultra-high Voltage AC/DC Power Transmission, page 1356:
text: The error rate is the sum of the misoperation rate and the misstrip rate. From the table, it can be seen that as the threshold of the voltage drop criterion goes up, the misoperation rate increases while the misstrip rate decreases correspondingly.
ref: 2019, Yuan Zeng, Yan LI, Yiming Yang, He Zhang, “A Commutation Failure Prediction Criterion Based on Feasible Region Theory”, in Proceedings of PURPLE MOUNTAIN FORUM 2019-International Forum on Smart Grid Protection and Control, page 284:
glosses: An instance of misstripping.
misstrips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misstrip
misstrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misstrip
misstripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misstrip
misstripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misstrip
hula skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hula skirts
Senses: glosses: A grass skirt to be worn when performing the hula dance.
hula skirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hula skirt
unhumified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + humified.
Senses: glosses: Not humified.
hurdy-gurdist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurdy-gurdists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hurdy-gurdyist.
hurdy-gurdists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurdy-gurdist
douchetuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douchetubers
form: DoucheTuber
Etymology: From douchebag + YouTuber, ostensibly popularised by American YouTuber and streamer MoistCr1TiKaL in the late 2010s.
Senses: examples: text: GUYS!! I'm so pumped for you to see me be a douchetuber in #internetfamousmovie!!
ref: 2016 May 24, Shane Dawson, Twitter:
text: That's why children are so retarded these days. They have no house training and try to repeat everything that a DoucheTuber does. They should ban everyone under the age of 20 from the internet unless it's for school.
ref: 2021 May 31, Thunderbolt, Short Stories By Thunderbolt, Writers Republic, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: Faze fell off when they pivoted everything to Paul brothers-esque douchetuber content in the content house rather than actually being a gaming org.
ref: 2023 September 8, JabbityJibbity, Twitter:
glosses: A YouTuber who is arrogant, rude or obnoxious; a douchebag, especially one who flaunts their wealth, carries out pranks in poor taste, or engages in fraudulent activities.
wikipedia: MoistCr1TiKaL
douchetubers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douchetuber.
somatic symptom disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somatic symptom disorder
channel black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: channel blacks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of impingement black.
synonyms: word: impingement black
channel blacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of channel black
insinuatingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insinuating + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being insinuating.
insinuational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From insinuation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to insinuation.
intertropics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The intertropical regions.
misstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstrokes
form: misstroking
form: misstroked
form: misstroked
Etymology: From mis- + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: One day the answer came, as I was coaching a pupil who kept up a running conversation as he persistently misstroked the ball.
ref: 1941 June, Tom Stow, “Tennis Tips Form a Champion Maker”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 75, number 6, page 178:
text: When it comes to typing, none of the strike-out artists among us has anything to write home about. But, for God's sake, if you're going to misstroke, do us the kindness of being as inventive as Mike.
ref: 1980, The Masthead - Volumes 32-34, page 45:
text: Tamara had tried to introduce him to a few of the basic bridges, but he just dropped the cue across his knuckle and misstroked.
ref: 1992, Bruce Craven, Fast Sofa, page 79:
text: You're taking out such small amounts of stone at any given time that it's not as if you're going to misstroke and blow out the center of an O.
ref: 2007, Judith Dupré, Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory, page 140:
glosses: To stroke badly. (any sense)
misstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misstrokes
Etymology: From mis- + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: To sit in your light shell of a boat, in mid-current, with rocks on either side, where the bed of the river declines at an angle of thirty degrees, knowing that a miscalculation of the eye, a misstroke of the oar or the least shaking of the muscles will send your boat rolling over and over, and you under it, has a very strong tendency to make a man look sharp and keep his wits about him.
ref: 1869, William Henry Harrison Murray, Adventures in the Wilderness: Or, Camp-life in the Adirondacks, page 79:
text: To prevent the spears descending too far in case of a misstroke of the engine, and also to prevent them falling down the shaft in case of breakage, side or "banging" pieces of timber are bolted or strapped on to the spears at intervals down the shaft.
ref: 1908, Robert Peele, An Elementary Text-book of Coal Mining, page 287:
text: While he was sketching Katya in pastel chalks, a sudden misstroke of the chalk and Mr Kidder cursed, tore the paper in two, flung the chalk down so that it shattered on the floor.
ref: 2010, Joyce Carol Oates, A Fair Maiden:
text: Keying an incorrect letter results in a misstroke. Misstrokes are easy to overlook in long words or in such words as quarantee (incorrectly spelled with a q) for guarantee (correctly spelled with a g).
ref: 2010, Larry G. Pagel, Proofreading and Editing Precision, page 13:
glosses: An instance of misstroking; a misstrike.
misstrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misstroke
misstrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misstroke
misstroking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misstroke
misstroked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misstroke
hamburgerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hamburger + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without hamburgers.
go for a Burton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes for a Burton
form: going for a Burton
form: went for a Burton
form: gone for a Burton
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of go for a burton.
misstuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstuffs
form: misstuffing
form: misstuffed
form: misstuffed
Etymology: From mis- + stuff.
Senses: examples: text: Somebody fallible who was doing a mailing for the Program for Harvard College, Primus has learned, misstuffed the envelopes of 100 alumni of the Business School whose names begin with S with a trade magazine for embalmers.
ref: 1959, Harvard Alumni Bulletin - Volume 62, page 481:
text: I misstuffed one board by soldering in a MOSFET where a voltage regulator should be, which gave off an acrid puff of smoke when I tried to program it, and so far, an unusable board.
ref: 2011, Dean Rose, “Output Devices”, in Fab Academy:
text: He'd thought he'd found himself at taxidermy school, but after nearly completing his course of study, he apparently had been chastised for misstuffing a wildcat.
ref: 2013, Gillian Roberts, All's Well That Ends:
glosses: To stuff incorrectly.
misstuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misstuff
misstuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misstuff
misstuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misstuff
EUSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: immigration
glosses: Initialism of European Union Settlement Scheme.
EUPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
copyright
engineering
intellectual-property
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of European Union Public License.
grand theft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The criminal act of stealing an amount higher than a limit deemed by statute, therefore carrying more severe penalties than a simple theft.
Derived terms: grand theft auto
Related terms: petty theft
MrBeastification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MrBeast-ification
Etymology: From MrBeast (“an American YouTube personality”) + -ification. Coined on 30 July 2022 by YouTuber Orr "Pinely" Piamenta.
Senses: examples: text: YouTube is knee-deep in "MrBeastification."
ref: 2022 September 6, dannymcmahon, Twitter:
text: But I think specifically with MrBeastification, it was really the first time where a thumbnail style and a format became oversaturated on the platform.
ref: 2022 December 13, “Year in Review: Analyzing YouTube's Top 10 moments of 2022”, in The Colin and Samir Show:
text: dream dropping his 45 minute vlog during the peak mrbeastification of youtube
ref: 2023 January 6, dreamie_twt, Twitter:
text: I don’t support the mrbeastification of any YouTubers videos. Videos that are around 20-30 minutes will always be better than these short videos people are pumping out now
ref: 2023 June 8, _Belovedz_, Twitter:
text: the mrbeastification of karl jacobs has started
ref: 2023 July 2, glitchsap, Twitter:
text: Due to this MrBeastification of content, there’s this very heavy desire for people to really get caught up in the stats.
ref: 2023 December 20, Vaibhav Singh Tomar, quoting Anthony Padilla, ““Beastification of Content”: Smosh Creators Talk About the Impact of MrBeast on the Creator Community”, in MSN:
glosses: On the video-sharing website YouTube, the trend of videos having increasingly shorter runtimes, larger budgets, faster pacing, louder audio and attention-grabbing editing styles and oversaturated thumbnails for greater viewer retention, especially through replicating the ideas and format of American YouTuber MrBeast.
DoucheTuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DoucheTubers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of douchetuber.
DoucheTubers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DoucheTuber.
subbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [...] in my subbiest voice. “Feel free to have a seat on the couch.” He didn't say anything, but sat obediently, looking a little bit like he thought the couch might swallow him if he relaxed. I knelt on the ground a few feet in front of him[…]
ref: 2017 April 4, Jenny Nordbak, The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 43:
text: He rolled over with the kind of instinctive obedience that eluded me even in my subbiest moments, and then I hustled up behind him like I was the biggest spoon in the goddamn universe. I pretty much glued us together, shoving my everchilly feet between his knees, and pressing my face to the gorgeous silky planes of[…]
ref: 2019 September 3, Alexis Hall, How to Belong with a Billionaire, Forever Yours, →ISBN:
text: "[...] turned out to be the subbiest subs ever."
ref: 2022 March 1, L.M. Somerton, Finding Him, Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD), →ISBN:
glosses: superlative form of subby: most subby
Google-ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Google
dodecaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dodeca- (“twelve”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Suppose that you wanted to make a random-number [generator] that returns [all] random numbers between 1 and 20 [but] 12 (because you have […] dodecaphobia which […] is the fear of the number 12).
ref: 2017, Doug Lowe, Java All-in-One, 5th edition:
text: There’s also dodecaphobia, which is the (again, unofficial) fear of the number 12[.]
ref: 2019 June 24, “Five phobias you didn’t know existed”, in BBC Bitesize:
text: Country like Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar, people who follows Hindu religion, they consider the numbers 0, 1, 8, 10, 12, 19 and 28 as unlucky numbers, bad luck or evil spirits etc. These numbers are called oudenophobia, henophobia, octophobia, decaphobia, dodecaphobia, enneadecaphobia and eikosioctophobia respectively.
ref: 2020 August 24, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, volume 8, number 8, →ISSN, page 820:
text: Dagmara read the next title. “‘Dodecaphobia’?”
 “There is something very troubling about the number 12,” Ema said gravely.
ref: 2022, Hana Tooke, The Midnighters:
glosses: Fear of the number 12.
portrayee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portrayees
Etymology: From portray + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: […] portrayees include everyone from Francesco Hayez to Carlo Carra.
ref: 1991, Richard Saul Wurman, Florence/Venice/Milan Access, HarperPerennial, →ISBN, page 104:
text: The technique of the self-portrait should dominate, and again, not in the Who-is-Who style, with an enumeration of degrees, awards, and publications, but rather as an intellectual history of the portrayee: e.g., How did you come to linguistics — To which method or ‘school’ of linguistics — Your development before and at the U. of I. — The reception of your field among students and disciplines… and whatever else seems relevant to you.
ref: 1992 fall, Braj B. Kachru, “Introduction”, in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, volume 22, number 2, page 4:
text: In our opinion Meisel quite rightly puts these circumstances down to Eliot’s disability to recognise the advantages and the possibilities which are inherent in his position as a latecomer, quite in contrast to Pater, who made this the virtue of several of his portrayees and most of all of himself, silently taking up the privileged position at the end of the line.
ref: 2001, Thomas Lütkemeier, Chez Soi – The Aesthetic Self in Arthur Schopenhauer, Walter Pater and T. S. Eliot: A Study in the Aesthetic Theories of Schopenhauer, Pater and Eliot, with Special Regard to Notions of Selfhood, Time and Influence, Königshausen & Neumann, →ISBN, page 282:
text: A sculptor who portrays a person, however, is faced with the same difficulties as the painter in picking out certain properties of the portrayee.
ref: 2006, Daniel Cohnitz, Marcus Rossberg, Nelson Goodman, Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN:
text: I thank the photographers whose work enlivens this book and their portrayees, as well as the authors and editors of the publications in which I encountered them, for permission to include the images in question.
ref: 2008, Maghiel van Crevel, “Acknowledgments”, in Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money, Brill, →ISBN, page xii:
text: A week to the day after the now infamous group therapy session, the entire cast was again ready to assemble and get back to work, although a few of the portrayees still wore the marks of that “polemicise”.
ref: 2015, Richard David Kennedy, The Encuentro (A Children’s Story For Adults), book two, [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 39:
text: Van Dyck’s paintings, then, were executed either on the basis of existing iconography; or, if made in the presence of the portrayee, necessarily in Flanders, in the last months of 1627, when the general’s and the artist’s life trajectories briefly intersected there.
ref: 2022, Laura Stagno, “Ambrogio Spinola in Genoese Art”, in Silvia Mostaccio, Bernardo J. García García, Luca Lo Basso, editors, Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, part III (Memory Construction and Appropriation of Ambrogio Spinola’s Images), pages 276–277:
glosses: One who is portrayed.
portrayees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portrayee
Luchiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Typical among the peasants is the case of Li Ta-kuei, a peasant girl in Hsiawan village of Luchiang county, Anhwei Province. She was betrothed to a maternal cousin against her wish.
ref: 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Freedom of Marriage”, in A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 34:
text: After 4 years of painstaking struggle, the afforested acreage in Luchiang County has increased from 80,000 mou in 1949 to 640,000 mou at present.
ref: 1974 November 19 [1974 November 14], “Anhwei Meeting Discusses Development of Forestry Production”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 224, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hofei Anhwei Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: East Region, page G 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Lujiang.
Wanning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wänʹnǐngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 萬寧／万宁 (Wànníng).
Senses: examples: text: Nearby places such as Haikou, the capital of Hainan Province, and Wanning, a popular surfing spot, also shut down to curb the spread of the virus.
ref: 2022 August 19, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Trouble in Paradise: Chinese Tourists Left Stranded During Lockdowns”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022, Business:
text: Formed in the South China Sea, Prapiroon's centre was about 275 km (170 miles) southeast of the Hainan city of Wanning as of 7 a.m. (2300 GMT).
ref: 2024 July 21, Sarah Wu, Qiaoyi Li, Ryan Woo, Ben Blanchard, “China braces for twin tropical cyclones after deadly flash floods”, in William Mallard, Tom Hogue, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024, Environment:
glosses: A sub-prefectural city of Hainan, China.
Synonyms: english: from Cantonese
translation: from Cantonese
word: Manning
Wuzhishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹjûʹshänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 五指山 (Wǔzhǐshān).
Senses: examples: text: On 30 April guerrillas led by LIN Hao-chun (林鵅群) raided and burned the bus terminal at T'ingan Hsien (110-46, 19-42). Large quantities of cement, gasoline, sugar, two trucks, and other supplies were also burned or destroyed, Anti-Communist guerrillas on Hainan are now based at Wuchihshan (109-27, 18-52).
ref: [1951 August 17, “Guerrilla Activities in South China”, in Information Report, Central Intelligence Agency, published 2001:
text: Some cities in other provinces are also vaccinating children between three and 11. The city of Wuzhishan in the southern province of Hainan said on Tuesday that it plans to finish giving two doses to about 12,000 individuals in that age group by the end of December.
ref: 2021 October 26, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “China's Zhejiang province seeks to vaccinate young kids by December”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2021, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals:
glosses: A sub-prefectural city of Hainan, China.
gambler's cops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gambler's cop
Ledong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 樂東 /乐东 (Lèdōng).
Senses: examples: text: The crash took place in Ledong county in the mountainous and heavily forested tropical province and the cause was under investigation, the navy said on its official Twitter-like Weibo microblog.
ref: 2019 March 12, “China says 2 pilots killed in crash of navy jet”, in AP News, sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on 14 Jan 2024:
glosses: A Li autonomous county in Hainan, China.
Dongfang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: do͝ongʹfängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 東方 /东方 (Dōngfāng).
Senses: examples: text: Comrade (Lin Wang-ching), former secretary of the control committee of the Hainan Regional CCP Committee, died in Tungfang County on 12 July 1967 as a result of persecution by the counterrevolutionary revisionist line of Lin Piao and the gang of four. A memorial service was held for him in Haikow on 12 December.
ref: [1978 December 19 [1978 December 15], “Hainan Holds Memorial Service for Persecuted Local Official”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 244, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Haikow Hainan Island Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 9:
text: The company said the project would be located in Dongfang in its home island province of Hainan, in southern China, and would produce 20,000 tonnes per year of lithium hydroxide, a chemical favoured in lithium-rich EV batteries.
ref: 2021 August 23, Tom Daly, “Chinese iron ore miner to invest $164 million in lithium production”, in David Holmes, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2021, COMMODITIES:
glosses: A sub-prefectural city of Hainan, China.
Changjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈd͡ʒ(j)æŋ/
ipa: /d͡ʒi.æŋ/
ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋˈd͡ʒiɑŋ/
enpr: chängʹjyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 昌江 (Chāngjiāng).
Senses: glosses: A district of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China.
examples: text: This inconspicuous project is located in Changjiang county, on Hainan province’s northwest coast, right next to China’s southernmost nuclear plant: the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant. Transport vehicles carrying materials come and go, raising clouds of dust along the road leading to the plant.
ref: 2023 December 9, Dannie Peng, “Small modular nuclear reactors: how China and the US are poles apart in energy ambitions”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2023, Science:
glosses: A Li autonomous county in Hainan, China.
UNDRIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Calma said Australia had announced support for the UNDRIP in 2009 and most of the unfulfilled recommendations of the royal commission were up to state and territory governments.
ref: 2022 October 11, Sarah Martin, “Lidia Thorpe says she ‘will not be campaigning no’ against Indigenous voice to parliament”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Qiongzhong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瓊中 /琼中 (Qióngzhōng).
Senses: examples: text: Twenty-six people from our village are delegates to peoples' congresses at various levels in Kwangtung province. My Mei-hua was elected vice-chairwoman of the Chiungchung county revolutionary committee.
ref: [1973 August, Teng Yuan-ying, “A Miao Woman's Story”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 8, Peking, →OCLC, page 45, column 1:
text: The head of the finance bureau in Qiongzhong county, Hainan, was sacked last week after an inspection team visited a restaurant and found an invoice for 15,000 yuan (HK$18,400) issued to the government that was actually for three private banquets held by the chief.
ref: 2013 January 30, Zhuang Pinghui, “Xi Jinping calls for curbs on lavish official banquets”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2014, China:
glosses: A Li and Miao autonomous county in Hainan, China.
Tunchang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͝onʹchängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 屯昌 (Túnchāng).
Senses: examples: text: On July 8 this year, under the pretext of "applying for an audience with the higher authorities to appeal for help," some individual evildoers in Hainan Island’s Tunchang County instigated and gathered together over 300 people in the county town who were unaware of the truth.
ref: 1979 August 22 [1979 August 17], “Guangdong Reports Unrest on Hainan Island”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 164, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Guangzhou Guangdong Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Central-South Region, page P 1; republished as “Guangdong Reports Unrest on Hainan Island”, in John P. Burns, Stanley Rosen, editors, Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey with Analysis, 1986, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
glosses: A county of Hainan, China.
siam dius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siam diu
Ding'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dǐngʹänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定安 (Dìng'ān).
Senses: examples: text: Assisted by the work groups of the Hainan regional and Tingan County public security bureaus, the party committee of (Hsienkou) commune in Tingan County recently launched education in the socialist rule of law in the commune on a grand scale.
ref: [1978 November 17 [1978 November 10], “Hainan Commune Conducts Education in Rule of Law”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 223, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Haikow Hainan Island Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Central-South Region, page H 7:
text: While details of his case are yet to emerge, his relative Chen Jinchang , Dingan county police chief in Hainan province, is also being investigated for graft.
ref: 2015 February 8, Mimi Lau, “Corruption casts shadow over Guangdong congress”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, Politics:
glosses: A county of Hainan, China.
moves sideways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of move sideways
moves sideways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of move sideways
DFPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of (Texas) Department of Family and Protective Services.
portraitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portraitor
Romaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romaboos
form: Romeaboo
Etymology: From Rome + -aboo.
Senses: examples: text: Riddle me this Romeaboos, if the Roman empire is so great, why...
ref: 2013 November 1, @MperiousRex, Twitter:
text: Romaboos when you tell them Rome was unsuccessful in Germania
ref: 2017 September 23, @Crispy_McDaddy, Twitter:
text: I’m admittedly a bit of a Romeaboo but only because it is so impossible to avoid their influence even today. The entire world now is steeped in it.
ref: 2019 May 23, @Goodtweet_man, Twitter:
glosses: A fan of Ancient Rome and its culture and lore.
Related terms: Romanophile
k!ll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: k!lls
form: k!lling
form: k!lled
form: k!lled
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of kill.
glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of kill.
spectaculums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectaculum
Hossenfelder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hossenfelders
Etymology: From German Hossenfelder.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
ecosabotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Together, the group roams the Utah-Arizona desert, committing acts of ecosabotage ranging from destroying the billboards that dot the landscape to damaging industrial equipment used for mining and logging.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 211:
glosses: ecotage
monopolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Monopolistic; supporting or characterized by monopolies.
16th notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 16th note
play-right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: play-rights
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of playright.
play-rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playrights
Senses: glosses: plural of play-right
public knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mr. BENNETT. It was public knowledge. I got this knowledge by reading a stock certificate that 1,700 stockholders had.
Mr. GLADSTONE. And that is what you based that on, the fact that it was public knowledge, and not any direct relationship that you had?
ref: 1936 June 19, “Testimony of Joseph A. Bennet”, in Investigation of Real Estate Bondholders' Reorganizations, United States House of Representatives, page 38:
text: By the time the existence and implications of MIRV became public knowledge, it had already been tested, the production of Minuteman III and Poseidon missiles had already commenced …
ref: 1974, James R. Kurth, “American Military Policy and Advanced Weapons”, in Lee Rainwater, editor, Social Policy and Public Policy, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 341:
text: As new development projects can change the character of neighbourhoods, the process of approving or rejecting a project should be public knowledge.
ref: 2014 October 17, Goh Ban Lee, “Local government in urban Malaysia”, in Meredith L. Weiss, editor, Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Knowledge that is available or accessible to the public.
how are you diddling
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Popularised by comedian Ken Dodd (1927–2018).
Senses: examples: text: Repeats many sentences and hundreds of words, including the following: […] “Hello, are you working? How are you diddling?”
ref: 1905 October 21, “King of wild beast merchants, Cross, Liverpool. Wonderful talking grey parrot”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 127, number 347, page 588:
text: Hello old 'un, how you diddling?
ref: 1983 December 25, John Sullivan, “Thicker than Water” (2:52 from the start), in Only Fools and Horses (television production), spoken by Reg Trotter (Peter Woodthorpe), via BBC1:
text: Yo yo yo. How are you diddling then? And wasn't Zoe fantastic this morning?
ref: 2019 January 14, Sara Cox, Sara Cox (radio broadcast), via BBC Radio 2:
glosses: How are you doing?
wikipedia: Ken Dodd
Friedriches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Friedrich
Friedrichs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Friedrich
scros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of scro
turns the other cheek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn the other cheek
turning the other cheek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn the other cheek
turned the other cheek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn the other cheek
sika deers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sika deer
right atria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right atrium
right atriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right atrium
sociopoliticoeconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This effectively added sociopoliticoeconomic institutions to the growing list of (classes of) key explanatory variables.
ref: 2007, Carles Boix, Susan Carol Stokes, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, Oxford Handbooks of Political, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Authority stems from various psychological and sociopoliticoeconomic factors, which may or may not be institutionalized and legitimized. Therefore, political facets of assessment are not limited to power imbalances stemming from legislated authority.
ref: 1991, H. Lee Swanson, Steven R. Forness, Handbook on the Assessment of Learning Disabilities: Theory, Research, and Practice, page 40:
glosses: Synonym of socio-political-economic.
synonyms: word: socio-political-economic
flatuosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatuosity
Marle Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from marle, although this is uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Horam parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5816).
silent-but-violent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silent-but-violents
Senses: examples: text: I was lucky enough to get six free crates of beans every week. Before I could cut loose with one of my silent-but-violents, I heard the high-pitched ring of Mr. Windybottom's mobile phone.
ref: 2013, Simon Mitchell, The Great Stinkathlon:
glosses: A fart that is very quiet but has a very potent smell.
Nerchinsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛɹt͡ʃɪnsk/
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Не́рчинск (Nérčinsk).
Senses: glosses: A town in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, on the left bank of the Nercha River.
night crawling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yobai.
synonyms: word: yobai
yobai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 夜這い (literally “night crawling”).
Senses: synonyms: night crawling
glosses: An ancient Japanese custom in which a young unmarried man would go out at night and silently enter the house of a young unmarried woman for sexual intercourse, sometimes as a prelude to marriage.
Related terms: night hunting
airbrushings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airbrushing
Tomatis method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tomatis method
Etymology: Developed by Alfred A. Tomatis.
Senses: glosses: A form of auditory integration training.
wikipedia: Alfred A. Tomatis
auditory integration training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: AIT
hyponyms: Tomatis method
glosses: A procedure involving listening to specially filtered and modulated music with a wide frequency range, supposed to help the patient with clinical depression and suicidal tendencies related to hearing distortion and hyperacusis.
black spruce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black spruces
Senses: synonyms: gas on a stick
glosses: Picea mariana, a North American species of spruce.
programming socks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: programmer socks
glosses: Particularly feminine thigh-highs, facetiously touted as a way to improve one's programming by transfemmes and femboys in the computing community.
Morogoro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and region in eastern Tanzania.
retopicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retopicalizes
form: retopicalizing
form: retopicalized
form: retopicalized
Etymology: From re- + topicalize.
Senses: glosses: To topicalize again or anew.
retopicalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retopicalize
retopicalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retopicalize
retopicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retopicalize
retopicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act or process of retopicalizing.
institutionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of institutional
bitching off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bitch off
bitched off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bitch off
looks upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look upon
looking upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look upon
looked upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look upon
bath-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath-men
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bathman.
bath-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath-man
bath man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath men
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bathman.
bath men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath man