cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
toxic shock syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxic shock syndromes
Etymology: From toxic + shock + syndrome. First appears in medical literature c. 1978.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: TSS
glosses: An acute infection caused by Staphylococcus bacteria, characterized by sudden high fever, muscle aches, joint pain, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, and fainting.
two hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈtuː ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
Forms: form: 200
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after one hundred ninety-nine and before two hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 200.
Related terms: word: two-hundredth
Rubenesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rubenesque
form: most Rubenesque
Etymology: From Rubens + -esque, from the women depicted in the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).
Senses: examples: text: Full figured? Full body! Massage sessions for Rubenesque WFs, 40-50s, by rugged/ gentle SWM.
ref: 1993 December 3, “Variations”, in The Boston Phoenix, volume 22, number 49, Boston, Mass.: The Phoenix Media Communications Group, Adult Services, page 2:
synonyms: word: voluptuous
word: zaftig
word: ample
word: beer-bellied
word: big
word: bulky
word: chubby
word: chunky
word: embonpoint
word: fat
word: flabby
word: fleshy
word: full-figured
word: fulsome
word: gorbellied
word: gorrel-bellied
word: heavyset
word: love-handled
word: meaty
word: overnourished
word: paunchy
word: pleasantly plump
word: plump
word: plus-size
word: portly
word: potbellied
word: podgy
word: pudgy
word: roly-poly
word: rotund
word: Rubenesque
word: sonsy
word: swagbellied
word: thick
word: tubby
word: well-covered
word: well-padded
word: well-rounded
word: well-upholstered
word: wide
word: built
word: buxom
word: chubby
word: curvaceous
word: curvesome
word: curvy
word: embonpoint
word: full-figured
word: juicy
word: luscious
word: pneumatic
word: red-hot
word: Rubenesque
word: sonsy
word: thicc
word: thick
word: toothsome
word: voluptuous
word: well-endowed
word: well-proportioned
word: zaftig
glosses: Of the figure of a woman, plump and sensuous.
wikipedia: Peter Paul Rubens
walt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walts
form: walting
form: walted
form: walted
form: vault
Etymology: From Middle English walten, from Old English wæltan, weltan, wieltan, wyltan, wiltan, from Proto-West Germanic *waltijan, from Proto-Germanic *waltijaną (“to roll; roll about”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”). Cognate with German wälzen (“to wallow; roll”), Danish vælte (“to tumble; overthrow”), Swedish välta (“to roll; tumble over; overthrow”). Related to waltz.
Senses: glosses: To roll; tumble
glosses: To turn; cast; hurl; fling; overturn
Derived terms: rewalt
walt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more walt
form: most walt
Etymology: From Middle English *walt, from Old English *wealt (attested in unwealt (“not given to roll; steady”), sinwealt (“circular, eternally rolling”)), from Proto-Germanic *waltaz (“changing; unstable”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: unsteady; crank
Derived terms: walty
scouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scousers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Scouser.
nubia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːbiə
Forms: form: nubias
form: nuby
Senses: glosses: A light, knitted headscarf worn by women.
dizziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dizzinesses
form: dizzyness
Etymology: From Middle English disynes, duysenes, from Old English dysiġnes (“dizziness, folly, foolishness, blasphemy”), equivalent to dizzy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being dizzy; the sensation of instability.
Synonyms: giddiness
light-headedness
vertigo
swim
Hyponyms: scotomy
Related terms: lightheadedness
faintness
post-partum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: postpartum
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the period immediately after childbirth.
Synonyms: sense: period after childbirth
word: post-natal
Related terms: parent
parturition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑː(ɹ)tjʊˈɹɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃəˈɹɪʃən/
Forms: form: parturitions
Etymology: From Latin parturitiō (“parturition”), from parturiō, from pariō (“to give birth”).
Senses: examples: text: So strange is the scripture of the sky! Innumerable legends and customs connect the rebirth of the Sun with a Virgin parturition.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 33:
text: femoules emaciated by parturition
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 14:
glosses: The act of giving birth; childbirth.
Derived terms: nonparturition
parturial
parturitional
periparturition
postparturition
Related terms: parturient
ectoparasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛktə(ʊ)ˈpæɹəˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɛktəˈpɛɹəˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: ectoparasites
Etymology: From ecto- (from Ancient Greek ἐκτός (ektós, “outside”)) + parasite.
Senses: examples: text: Ordinarily, allergy to animals is due to either their fine dander which becomes aerosolized or to the exoskeleta, pupae, or feces of their ectoparasites.
ref: 1982, R. V. Lynch, Jr.; R. Burrell, “Primate Dander Allergy of Lesser Bushbaby (Galago): A Case Report”, in D[uane] E. Haines, editor, The Lesser Bushbaby (Galago) as an Animal Model: Selected Topics, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 304:
text: Many of the chewing lice are highly host specific, but a few may occur on a variety of not more than a half dozen related host species. They feed on skin (epidermal cells), hair, feathers, body oils and secretions, dried blood (wounds), and even other ectoparasites, such as mites. Chewing lice are unable to survive for more than a day or two off the host and their dispersal is through direct contact of host animals.
ref: 1996, Gary A. Dunn, Insects of the Great Lakes Region, page 105:
text: I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood. […] Bedbugs win neither praise for their sophisticated technique, nor very much respect for the fact that they don’t carry diseases, as most bloodsucking human ectoparasites do.
ref: 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: endoparasite
coordinate_terms: zooparasite
glosses: A parasite that lives on the surface of a host organism; such as the Demodex mite, which lives in human hair and eyelashes.
Derived terms: ectoparasiticide
endectocide
asylum seeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asylum seekers
form: asylum-seeker
Senses: examples: text: He stayed with friends and even spent a few nights in a hotel when had nowhere else to go. In September 2019, he moved into a flat with three other gay asylum seekers through Le Refuge, an organisation supporting isolated LGBTQI+ youth.
ref: 2020 August 5, Francesca Spinelli, “Meet David: born in France, raised in Belgium, facing removal to the DRC”, in The Guardian:
text: In Manchester and in Aldershot in Hampshire, asylum seeker accommodation was targeted by demonstrators carrying placards that read “deport them, don’t support them” and “no apartments for illegals”.
ref: 2024 August 1, Josh Halliday, Neha Gohil, “Police in England urged to protect mosques as far right plans more rallies”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A person who has applied for asylum in a foreign country but has not yet been granted refugee status by that country.
Related terms: asylum hotel
asylee
emigrant
émigré
illegal immigrant
immigrant
migrant
refugee
chucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: plural of chuck
glosses: The game of jacks or jackstones.
chucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chuck
chucks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: synonyms: lobs
glosses: A warning cry used by schoolboys when a teacher is approaching.
taxi yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxi yellows
Senses: examples: text: “No,” Emma said, “this could be important. Not taxi yellow, so what kind of yellow did it seem?”
ref: 1999, Gillian Roberts, Time and Trouble:
text: The car was painted an authentic “taxi-yellow” and featured an off-white or red interior, complete with driver.
ref: 2002, Mac Ragan, Matchbox Car:
text: “I remember. The walls were taxi yellow,” she added, hoping he might smile.
ref: 2002, Nancy Geary, Misfortune: A Novel http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0446610941&id=oWildiooBRAC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=%22taxi+yellow%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3D%2522taxi%2Byellow%2522%26lr%3D%26start%3D10&sig=1yFbEe0QYmB2PTT9WAmPP0TNdL8
synonyms: taxicab yellow
glosses: A bright yellow color used for New York taxicabs.
aluminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪnɪk
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to or containing aluminium.
Derived terms: aluminate
aluminic acid
aluminic chloride
aluminic phosphate
aluminic sulfate
aluminic sulphate
ferroso-aluminic sulfate
ferroso-aluminic sulphate
magnesio-aluminic sulfate
magnesio-aluminic sulphate
sodioaluminic
zinco-aluminic
uranium nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uranium nitrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An insoluble binary compound of uranium and nitrogen, (UN)ₙ, used as fuel rods in nuclear reactors
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ring compound U₈N₁₆, containing alternate azide and nitride groups, soluble in hydrocarbon solvents
alumino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: aluminio-
Etymology: From aluminum.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: aluminium
Derived terms: aluminography
aluminohalide
aluminohydride
aluminomagnesian silicate
aluminosilicate
methylaluminoxane
Related terms: aluminothermy
aluminio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: alumino-
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: aluminium
Derived terms: aluminio-silicate
elutriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈluːtɹɪeɪt/
Forms: form: elutriates
form: elutriating
form: elutriated
form: elutriated
Etymology: From Latin elutriare (“wash out”), from e- + lutriare (“wash”).
Senses: glosses: To decant; to purify something by straining it.
glosses: To separate large and small particles through an upwardly flowing liquid or vapid stream.
elytron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlɪtɹɒn/
Forms: form: elytra
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔλυτρον (élutron, “sheath”).
Senses: examples: text: In a corner, the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage, its Elytra the same unforgiving white as the great sand-waste call’d ‘Kalahari’ lying north of here […]
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 9, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 88:
text: […] the elytra covering the hind wings of the firefly lift like a light leather, suppler than any other beetle’s.
ref: 2020, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 9:
synonyms: wingcase
glosses: A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects.
Derived terms: elytriform
elytrous
hemelytron
elytra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlɪtɹə/
enpr: ĭ-līt′-rə
ipa: /ɪˈlaɪtɹə/
ipa: /ɪˈliːtɹə/
Senses: glosses: plural of elytron
chromo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
Senses: glosses: color
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chromium
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: quantum chromodynamics
glosses: color; property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chromatin
Derived terms: chromo-carbon
chromo-chloride
chromo-cyanotype
chromo-glucose
pitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pita
drowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹaʊnd/
ipa: /dɹuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Senses: examples: text: She (was) drowned while trying to swim across the English Channel.
glosses: simple past and past participle of drown
drowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹaʊnd/
ipa: /dɹuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Senses: examples: a drowned rat
glosses: That has died by drowning.
Derived terms: like a drowned rat
undrowned
zygodactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzeɪɡəʊˈdæktələs/
ipa: /ˌzeɪɡoʊˈdæktələs/
Etymology: From zygo- + Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having two toes pointing forward, and two toes pointing backward.
Synonyms: zygodactyl
vagal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪɡəl/
rhymes: -eɪɡəl
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
Ndonga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken by the residents of Ovamboland in Namibia and in some parts of Angola.
Synonyms: Oshindonga
hydrocephalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocephaluses
form: hydrocephali
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑδροκέφαλον (hudroképhalon).
Senses: examples: text: She was born with a condition known as hydrocephalus, which doctors said was caused by a listeriosis infection that her mother contracted while pregnant.
ref: 2025 January 25, Hanna Ziady, “‘Our innocent kids are struggling.’ Victims of massive listeriosis outbreak say those responsible must ‘do the right thing’”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue.
Synonyms: word: water on the brain
Derived terms: hydrocephaloid
hydrocephalous
recompete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recompetes
form: recompeting
form: recompeted
form: recompeted
Etymology: From re- + compete.
Senses: glosses: To compete again.
DEB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DEBs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of dynamic energy budget.
glosses: Initialism of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
mau-mau
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mau-maus
form: mau-mauing
form: mau-maued
form: mau-maued
Etymology: From Mau Mau, the name of a group of anti-British insurgents in Kenya, who were noted in Europe for their (alleged) extreme violence and brutality.
Senses: examples: text: It was my first experience with the phenomenon that would later be called "mau-mauing the flack catcher."
ref: 2005, Béla Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West:
glosses: To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize.
Derived terms: mau-mauer
Benghazi Handicap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for the great speed of the retreat; handicap is in the horse-racing sense.
Senses: glosses: The retreat of allied forces from Benghazi in North Africa in March 1941 during World War II ahead of German forces commanded by Erwin Rommel.
six bob a day tourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: six bob a day tourists
form: five bob a day tourist
form: six-bob-a-day tourist
Etymology: A reference to the soldiers′ pay of six shillings a day.
Senses: examples: text: On brief leaves, as a “six-bob-a-day tourist” during World War I, one had learned to love London,[…].
ref: 1956, F. Eric Hitchins, Tangled Skeins: A Historic Survey of Australian Wool Marketing, page 81:
ref: 1985, Janet Morice, editor, Six Bob a Day Tourist, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: He professed no sense of right, no statement of belief: he was a ‘six bob a day tourist’, and even in that age of conviction he was not alone.
ref: 1990, Bill Gammage, The Broken Years: Australian soldiers in the Great War, page 11:
glosses: An Australian soldier serving in World War I, especially a volunteer.
Derived terms: english: abbreviated form also used during WWII
translation: abbreviated form also used during WWII
word: tourist
chaperon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/
ipa: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/
Forms: form: chaperons
form: chaperone
Etymology: From French chaperon (“hood”), from Middle French, "head covering", from Old French chape.
Senses: examples: text: "I am, as it were," she concluded, "the chaperon of my young cousin, Lucy, and it would be a serious thing if I put her under an obligation to people of whom we know nothing. His manner was somewhat unfortunate. I hope I acted for the best."
ref: 1908, E. M. Forster, “I”, in A Room with a View:
glosses: An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
examples: text: His head and face cover'd with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through.
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To the Right Honourable the Lord Mohun”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
glosses: A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Derived terms: chaperonage
chaperon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/
ipa: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/
Forms: form: chaperons
form: chaperoning
form: chaperoned
form: chaperoned
form: chaperone
Etymology: From French chaperon (“hood”), from Middle French, "head covering", from Old French chape.
Senses: glosses: To accompany; to escort.
glosses: To mother.
incredulity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkɹɪˈdjuːlɪti/
Forms: form: incredulities
Etymology: Attested since 1430. From Middle English incredulite, from Old French incredulité, from Late Latin incredulitas, from Latin incredulus (“unbelieving”) + -itas (“-ity”), equivalent to incredulous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity, as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead.
ref: 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 24, in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar:
text: It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
glosses: Religious disbelief; lack of faith.
Synonyms: incredulousness
incredulosity
Related terms: incredibility
incredulous
off like a bride's nightie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A reference to the supposed eagerness of just-married couples to have sexual intercourse on the night of their wedding. Australian from 1960.
Senses: examples: text: Just before it was to be his shout, he was off like a bride′s nightie.
text: Missing because I′d been happy and didn′t need him, though I went to him fast enough when the happiness was over. Off like a bride′s nightie.
ref: 1995, James Mitchell, So Far from Home, published 1997, page 216:
text: ‘[…]Tell me, are you still intending to join the armed forces?’
‘Soon as ever I can, judge,’ Joe told him firmly, ‘I′ll be off like a bride′s nightie.’
ref: 1998, Harry Bowling, As Time Goes By, unnumbered page:
text: ‘S′not that,’ she said, ‘It′s just if I give in so soon he′ll be off like a bride′s nightie. So I have to get it elsewhere, if you know what I mean.[…]’
ref: 2004, Mina Ford, My Fake Wedding, page 154:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Making a rapid departure; away.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
qualifier: simile
glosses: Making a rapid departure; away.
Moving quickly and resolutely.
Synonyms: off like a prom dress
Related terms: word: shoot through like a Bondi tram
wowser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaʊzə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wowsers
Etymology: From UK dialect. In the pro-temperance sense, Australian from early 1900s.
John Norton, an early enemy of wowsers (temperance sense), claimed it to be an acronym for "We Only Want Social Evils Remedied", but that is likely a folk etymology.
A story has it that gospellers in the streets of Clunes, Victoria in the 1870s were called rousers but one of the town councillors had a speech impediment and couldn't pronounce his "R"s, thus giving wowser. (Reference: Bill Wannan, Australian Folklore, Lansdowne Press, 1970, reprint 1979 →ISBN, under "Wowser", page 568.)
Senses: examples: text: “I’d like to come with you one day up to the top end,” she said. “I suppose it’ll have to be after we’re married.”
He grinned. “Plenty of wowsers back in Willstown to talk about it, if you came before.”
ref: 1950, Neville Shute, chapter 9, in A Town Like Alice, London: The Reprint Society, published 1952, page 259:
text: As for the rest, the pay is not bad, coming as it does from the pockets of the three local warlords who hired me: two graziers, one of whom is also a terrible wowser (everyone calls him 'Mr Prophet', though I call him - privately, of course - Mr Brimstone, or Old Blood-and-Thunderguts); the third is the owner of the pub.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 65:
text: When they have paid attention to temperance advocates they have tended to dismiss them as ‘wowsers’ or ‘puritans’ intent on suppressing pleasure.
ref: 1999, Anna E. Blainey, “The prohibition and total abstinence movement in Australia, 1880 - 1910”, in Robert Dare, editor, Food, Power and Community, page 142:
text: Quite simply, to a wowser, adults should not be allowed to see, hear and read as they wished, but should only be allowed to see hear and read that which fully conforms to Australia's Christian heritage[…].
ref: 2010, Robert Cettl, Offensive to a Reasonable Adult: Film Censorship and Classification in 'Secular' Australia, page 43:
text: He's a bit of a prig. A wowser. Very Methodist.
ref: 2012, Deborah Burrows, A Stranger in my Street:
glosses: One with strong moral views against excessive consumption of alcohol, gambling, pornography, etc., who seeks to promulgate those views.
examples: text: In size the wowser varies, for no matter where he's at, He takes up all the room there is— just like a cowboy's hat.
ref: 1968 -, Squire Omar Barker, Rawhide Rhymes: Singing Poems of the Old West, page 10:
glosses: A lout or similar disruptive person.
Synonyms: sense: one who promotes abstinence
word: killjoy
sense: one who promotes abstinence
word: moral crusader
sense: one who promotes abstinence
word: party pooper
sense: one who promotes abstinence
word: prude
sense: one who promotes abstinence
word: spoilsport
Derived terms: wowserdom
wowserian
wowserish
wowserism
wowsery
Related terms: straight edge
wowser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaʊzə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wowsers
Etymology: From wow, with the "-ser" added to provide emphasis.
Senses: examples: text: Its title was “The Time Raider," and this story, which has never been reprinted, was a wowser.
ref: 2003, Glen Cadigan, The Legion Companion:
text: Seriously, I mean it: From Russia, With Love is a real wowser, a lulu, a dilly and a smasheroo.
ref: 2013, Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, page 301:
glosses: Alternative form of wowzer.
wowser
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaʊzə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
Etymology: From wow, with the "-ser" added to provide emphasis.
Senses: examples: text: In Gadget's eyes she looked positively beautiful in her gorgeous satiny-red cocktail dress. "Wowser!" he exclaimed, much to the confusion of the guests, who conferred with each other.
ref: 1999, Inspector Gadget, page 48:
text: WOWSER - Absolutely beautiful rendering - a mastrpiece work
ref: 2010, David J. Vanderpool, Pencil Drawings: A look into drawing Portraits:
text: Wowser. I was glad I was only a kid and didn't need to worry about that kind of stuff.
ref: 2013, Gregory E. Burchett, Missing The Links, page 241:
glosses: Alternative form of wowsers.
bombora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bomboras
form: bomboora
Etymology: From Australian Aboriginal, most likely Dharug bumbora (“a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson”).
Senses: examples: text: The superior local knowledge of the Easter Island boatmen was a distracting influence, but on the way in I had decided to anchor on the sandy patch close under the bombora.
ref: 1963, Patrick Gordon Taylor, The Sky Beyond, page 269:
text: The remainder of my life was indoor stuff […] but even from school I could see the bomboras breaking way out to sea on a high swell, there at the corner of my eye.
ref: 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 10:
text: It took Sue Dockar a good half hour to swim out to her target bombora, a moderate swim in spearfishing terms.
ref: 2008, Yvette Allum, The Lonely Sea, unnumbered page:
text: He was also considered to be one of Australia's best big-wave riders, tackling the Queenscliff and Bare Island bomboras on the very biggest days.
ref: 2012, Phil Jarratt, Australia's Hottest 100 Surfing Legends, unnumbered page:
glosses: A shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore.
Synonyms: bomb
bommie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bommies
form: bommy
Etymology: Clipping of bombora + -ie
Senses: examples: text: 1992, Australian Museum, Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Reef biology: a survey of Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs, South Pacific, National Gallery of Australia
Some solitary corals, such as Cycloseris, were present at the base of the bommie.
text: A large bommie the shape of an onion extends from the main reef on the northern side, and here were two dark crevices favoured by coral trout.
ref: 2003, John Singe, My Island Home: A Torres Strait Memoir, Univ. of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 130:
text: The bommie was bustling: fish were coming and going, digging and biting, feeding and fighting on all points of the bommie.
ref: 2015, M. Allan Daly, Pacific Illusion, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: A bombora.
bommie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bommies
form: bommy
Etymology: From bonfire, with /n/ changed to /m/ by assimilation with /f/, and the second element then clipped and replaced with + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: We've got to find where they hid it — before Bommie Night.
ref: 2004, James Riordan, Football Stories, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 99:
text: 'We could go down London Road, collect a bit more for Bommie Night.' Jez suggested. Hallowe'en was still not past and they had used up all their firework stocks.
ref: 2012, Margaret Murphy, The Dispossessed, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: The blackout curtains make a super 'bommie', which is lit as soon as it's dark enough on this wonderful day.
ref: 2014, James Marsh, A 1940s Childhood: From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour, The History Press, →ISBN:
text: 'Not that daft if it stops their bommie getting nicked.' Jack winked at Terry. 'You can't have a bonfire without any wood. We're all looking forward to it, aren't we? Roasted spuds, black peas, treacle toffee, parkin...'
ref: 2014, Trevor Hoyle, Down the Figure 7, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A bonfire.
clancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clancies
Etymology: From Clancy of the Overflow, a character in a poem of that name (also in The Man from Snowy River) by Australian poet Banjo Patterson.
Senses: examples: text: They'd had a clancy […]. He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere.
ref: 1971, David Ireland, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner:
glosses: An overflow or spillage.
wikipedia: Banjo Patterson
Clancy of the Overflow
The Man from Snowy River
flying ace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying aces
Senses: glosses: A military aviator who had shot down many enemy aircraft
terminological inexactitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terminological inexactitudes
Etymology: Coined by Winston Churchill campaigning in the 1906 election, and repeated by him in the parliament,
: The conditions of the Transvaal ordinance ... cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. — in the parliament 22 February 1906 (quoted in Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century, 1984)
This first usage has only the literal sense of inaccurate terminology, but it was almost immediately taken up as a euphemism meaning an outright lie.
Senses: synonyms: word: alternative fact
word: anti-fact
word: invention
word: bluff
word: bollocks
word: bullshit
word: canard
word: cap
word: chin
word: clanker
word: contradiction
word: cram
word: disinformation
word: fabrication
word: falsehood
word: falsification
word: fib
word: flam
word: goof
word: hoax
word: hummer
word: inveracity
word: inverity
word: jive
word: lie
word: mendacity
word: misinformation
word: mistruth
word: nonsense
word: nontruth
word: pork pie
word: porker
word: porky
word: prevarication
word: red flag
word: rubbish
word: story
word: swack-up
word: tall tale
word: terminological inexactitude
word: untruism
word: untruth
word: whopper
word: wisker
word: yanker
word: yed
word: falsedom
word: falsehood
word: falsity
word: falseness
word: terminological inexactitude
word: untruth
word: disinformation
word: fabrication
word: fib
word: leasing
word: lie
word: misinformation
word: misstatement
word: yed
glosses: A lie; falsehood.
Related terms: alternative fact
no wucking furries
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Spoonerism of no + fucking (“used as an intensive”) + worries.
Senses: examples: text: A black doctor using his skills to save a dying 'KKK member on the operating table' somehow is the same as some cheap whore lawyer doing a deal with an internationally convicted criminal organisation, saying "Yeah, no wucking furries, I'll have your money, spends good to me ! "
ref: 2000 November 29, Nick S, “My Web Site Crunched”, in aus.censorship (Usenet):
text: “Thank you so much,” said Johnson. / “No worries,” said the barman. / “No wucking furries,” said Tim.
ref: 2007, Philip Bryer, None of Your Business, page 28:
text: The formal bureaucratic style jarred my ears and reminded me that I was indeed home, no wucking furries!
ref: 2008, Peter Carey, 30 Days in Sydney, page 7:
glosses: No worries, no problems; used to express acknowledgment or agreement.
Derived terms: no wuckas
admirative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈmaɪ.ɹə.tɪv/
other: /ədˈmaɪ.ɹə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæd.məˌɹeɪ.tɪv/
other: /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæd.mɪ.ɹə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more admirative
form: most admirative
Etymology: Via French admiratif or directly from its etymon, Medieval Latin admirativus.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by admiration.
Derived terms: admiratively
Related terms: admiring
admirable
list in admire
admirative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈmaɪ.ɹə.tɪv/
other: /ədˈmaɪ.ɹə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæd.məˌɹeɪ.tɪv/
other: /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈæd.mɪ.ɹə.tɪv/
Forms: form: admiratives
Senses: qualifier: An instance of
glosses: a verb form similar to mirative, found primarily in some languages of the Balkan sprachbund (i.e. namely Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian), which expresses surprise, irony, doubt, or reportedness on the part of the speaker (compare mirative).
chicken fillet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken fillets
form: chicken filet
Etymology: From the texture and shape of the silicone outplant.
Senses: examples: text: […] to wear a bikini this year, to enjoy the season without fearing that my chicken fillets are going to fall out every time I jump in a pool.
ref: 2009, Chrissie Manby, Crazy in Love:
glosses: A piece of rubber or silicone placed in a woman's bra under the breast to increase apparent size or create more cleavage.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A piece of chicken breast meat.
Synonyms: falsie
outplant
admiringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈmaɪɹɪŋli/
Forms: form: more admiringly
form: most admiringly
Etymology: From admiring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Fanny showed slow approval. 'Good on yer!' she said admiringly.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 163:
glosses: In an admiring manner.
Related terms: admirably
admire
Transvaal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈvɑːl/
Etymology: From trans- + Vaal.
Senses: glosses: A geographical region and former province (until 1994) of South Africa between the Vaal and Limpopo rivers.
synonyms: South African Republic
glosses: A former country in Southern Africa; the Transvaal "Boer republic" state from 1852 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's annexation of it in 1902.
Derived terms: Transvaal daisy
Transvaalian
Related terms: Vaalie
backyard cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækjɑːd ˈkɹɪkɪt/
Senses: examples: text: My father and I evolved a game of backyard cricket which was a balance of intricate skills and high comedy.
ref: 1982, Ted Walker, The High Path, page 100:
text: The babies sorted out, it was a rapid climb for Sunil Gavaskar; he went from backyard cricket to school, inter-school and inter-university cricket to Ranji Trophy and to Test fame with the same solid footwork that made him one of the most prolific run-getters of the century.
ref: 2003, Kersi Meher-Homji, Heroes of 100 tests: from Cowdrey and the Waughs to Warne, Tendulkar and Hooper, page 32:
text: How could it be possible to play in such a high-pressure Test, yet feel as though it was just a game of backyard cricket?
ref: 2008, Michael Hussey, Mr Cricket: Driven to Succeed, page 190:
glosses: Informal cricket played in the back yard of a private residence, or similar limited space.
Related terms: beach cricket
corridor cricket
French cricket
gully cricket
street cricket
tippity runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tippity-runs
Etymology: From tip (“to hit lightly”).
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: Victoria
glosses: A form of backyard cricket; the defining rule of the form, which requires the batsman to run if they hit the ball; the rule increases the pace of the game by creating more runout chances than in ordinary cricket.
Synonyms: sense: form of backyard cricket
alt: Perth
word: tip and run
sense: form of backyard cricket
word: hit and run
sense: form of backyard cricket
english: Brisbane
translation: Brisbane
word: tipsy run
sense: form of backyard cricket
english: parts of South Australia; Northern Territory
translation: parts of South Australia; Northern Territory
word: tippy go tippy go run
called to the bar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of call to the bar
Johannes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʒəʊˈhænɪs/
Etymology: From Late Latin Iōhannēs, variant of Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān).
Senses: glosses: A former Portuguese gold coin.
Johannes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dʒəʊˈhænɪs/
Forms: form: Joh
Etymology: From Late Latin Iōhannēs, variant of Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Late Latin Iōhannēs [in turn from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), in turn from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, “God is gracious”)], variant of John or Jon.
pesos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peso
Martina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈtiːnə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɑ(ɾ)ʈɪna/
Etymology: Usually interpreted as the feminine form of the saints' name Martin, though there was an identical Roman name, likewise derived from Latin Martinus.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Tania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tanya
form: Taniya
Etymology: From Russian. See Tanya.
Senses: examples: text: "Does she? What a name that child has got. Tania."
"That's not so odd a name," Hazel said. "Not nowadays."
"I know. They all have outlandish international names, like Tania and Natasha and Erin and Solange and Carmen. No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers."
ref: 1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana or Tetyana.
scare someone out of their wits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scares someone out of their wits
form: scaring someone out of their wits
form: scared someone out of their wits
form: scared someone out of their wits
Senses: examples: text: He scared me out of my wits, sneaking up behind me in the dark like that.
synonyms: frighten someone out of their wits
glosses: To frighten someone to such an extent that they behave irrationally.
Related terms: scare the pants off of
have one's wits about one
occlusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkluː.ʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: occlusions
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up; I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).
Senses: glosses: The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An occluded front.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.
Derived terms: abocclusion
antocclusion
benocclusion
disocclusion
distocclusion
distoclusion
infraocclusion
interocclusion
malocclusion
mesiocclusion
neutrocclusion
neutroclusion
nonocclusion
occlusional
occlusion body
occlusive
orthocclusion
periocclusion
postocclusion
preocclusion
reocclusion
retrocclusion
subocclusion
supraocclusion
torsocclusion
vasoocclusion
venoocclusion
arachnophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arachnophobic
form: most arachnophobic
Etymology: From arachno- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from arachnophobia.
arachnophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arachnophobics
Etymology: From arachno- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arachnophobe.
synonyms: word: arachnophobe
lilo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪləʊ/
rhymes: -aɪləʊ
Forms: form: lilos
form: li-lo
Etymology: From the name of the company which made rubberised canvas air-mattresses from the 1940s to the 1970s under the trademark name "Li-Lo" (a sensational spelling of lie low).
Senses: glosses: An inflatable air mattress.
wikipedia: sensational spelling
invected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: invecked
Etymology: From Latin invectus.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
antonyms: engrailed
glosses: Having a border consisting of semicircles with the convex part outwards (and the points inwards).
invected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Latin invectus.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of invect
Related terms: inveckée
inveighed
scalloped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From scallop + -ed. In culinary sense, originally referred to a seafood dish baked and served in a scallop shell, but now used more generally.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scallop
scalloped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scalloped
form: most scalloped
Etymology: From scallop + -ed. In culinary sense, originally referred to a seafood dish baked and served in a scallop shell, but now used more generally.
Senses: glosses: Having an edge or border marked with semicircles.
glosses: Cooked gratin; baked in a typical type of sauce, usually with cheese, as a casserole, e.g. scalloped potatoes; scalloped corn
glosses: Baked in a scallop shell.
Synonyms: sense: baked dish
word: bake
sense: baked dish
word: gratin
Derived terms: scalloped oyster
scalloped sack-bearer
engrailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
antonyms: invected
glosses: Having an edge or border indented with semicircles with points outwards (and convex part inwards).
engrailed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engraileds
Senses: examples: text: […] a common total would be about thirty moths, equally divided between Early Greys and Engraileds.
ref: 1992, Richard Dickson, “A lepidopterist's handbook”, in Amateur Entomologists' Society, Great Britain, page 10:
glosses: A European moth, Ectropis crepuscularia.
fool's errand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fools' errands
Etymology: 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: If I were to travel only that I might be discontented with that which I can get at home, methinks I should go but on a fool's errand.
ref: 1821, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 1, in Kenilworth:
text: Shultz took little notice of the Soviet view or that of others who said his Middle East mission was a fool's errand. "You can't be too afraid of failing," said the 67-year-old diplomat.
ref: 1988 March 7, Michael S. Serrill, “Diplomacy To Dream the Impossible Dream”, in Time, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
synonyms: idiot's errand
lost errand
sleeveless errand
wild-goose chase
glosses: A foolish undertaking, especially one that is purposeless, fruitless, nonsensical, or certain to fail.
examples: Meronyms: blinker fluid, key to the midway, left-handed monkey wrench, muffler bearing, skyhook
Near-synonym: wild-goose chase
synonyms: snipe hunt
glosses: Such an undertaking, assigned as a prank.
foreign currency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign currencies
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
synonyms: foreign money
foreign exchange
devisen
glosses: Any currency that is in use in a foreign nation, and an authorized medium of circulation and the basis for record-keeping in that nation.
subaltern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌb.əltən/
ipa: /sʌbˈɔltəɹn/
ipa: /ˈsʌbəltəɹn/
rhymes: -ʌbəltə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -ɔltə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: more subaltern
form: most subaltern
Etymology: From Middle French subalterne, from Late Latin subalternus, from Latin sub- + alternus, from alter.
Senses: examples: text: a subaltern officer
text: Two weeks after giving birth[…] she [Rachida Dati] was removed and offered no consolation prize other than the subaltern position of No 2 on the UMP's list for the next European elections.
ref: 2009 January 27, Agnes Poirier, “The fall of Rachida Dati reflects badly on the French president”, in The Guardian:
text: Celebrating the subversive practices of subaltern groups
ref: 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 81:
synonyms: subordinate#Adjective
glosses: Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military) ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
Derived terms: subaltern studies
subaltern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌb.əltən/
ipa: /sʌbˈɔltəɹn/
ipa: /ˈsʌbəltəɹn/
rhymes: -ʌbəltə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -ɔltə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: subalterns
Etymology: From Middle French subalterne, from Late Latin subalternus, from Latin sub- + alternus, from alter.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate.
examples: text: She was an extraordinarily beautiful girl, Margaret Devereux ; and made all the men frantic by running away with a penniless young fellow ; a mere nobody sir a subaltern in a foot regiment, or something of that kind.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
text: As a subaltern of 24, Neave was captured in the defence of Calais in May 1940.
ref: 2003 February 20, Ciar Byrne, “Colditz: remade with love”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: superaltern#Noun
glosses: A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition.
examples: text: Young refers sardonically to the existence of reams of postcolonial "theory", and promises to give us "postcolonialism from below, which is what and where it should rightly be, given that it elaborates a politics of ‘the subaltern’, that is, subordinated classes and peoples".
ref: 2003 August 9, Steven Poole, “Postcolonialism and all that jazz”, in The Guardian:
text: In Ghosh's novel, a canonical western scientist is pitted against a counterscientific group of native folk-medicine practitioners led by Mangala, a subaltern in every conceivable meaning of the term.
ref: 2012, Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh, Ujjwal Jana, Subaltern Vision: A Study in Postcolonial Indian English Text, page 109:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
qualifier: literary theory
glosses: A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
Coordinate terms: lieutenant
Derived terms: subalternism
tingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪŋɡli/
Forms: form: tinglier
form: tingliest
Etymology: From tingle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Producing or feeling tingles.
Related terms: tinglies
planting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɑːntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈplæntɪŋ/
Forms: form: plantings
Senses: examples: text: Take one of the plantings over as a house-warming gift.
glosses: A plant (or clipping) that has been freshly planted.
glosses: The act of setting a plant in the ground for growth.
glosses: A plantation.
Derived terms: church planting
corn planting moon
planting moon
planting strip
planting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɑːntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈplæntɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plant