cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shit bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit bowls
form: shit-bowl
form: shitbowl
Senses: examples: text: P.S. Tear this up and flush it down the shit bowl.
ref: 1967, Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, page 266:
text: Subject to that principle, I found my head in a shit bowl.
ref: 1992, Norman Mailer, Harlot's Ghost, page 1305:
text: "Want to eat out of your shit-bowl, do you?"
She pulled her hand back.
"You're disgusting."
ref: 2009, Carolina de Robertis, The Invisible Mountain, page 305:
glosses: A bowl used for defecation: a chamber pot or toilet.
Synonyms: shitcan
shitpot
shitter
bowl
chamber pot and toilet
shit bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit bowl
shit-bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit-bowls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shit bowl.
shit-bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit-bowl
shitbowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitbowls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shit bowl.
shitbowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitbowl
pee pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pee pots
form: peepot
form: pee-pot
Etymology: Childish variant of pisspot.
Senses: examples: text: "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."
ref: 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:
text: ...it is fitting to copy his attitude by calling the big fuss about one of his works a good-sized tempest in a pee pot. Well, not a storm regarding an old-fashioned pee pot, but about a modern one, a urinal he offered to the world as art.
ref: 2005, William H. Libaw, Painting in a World Transformed, page 107:
text: I have to help him pee or to be more precise I hold his pee pot while he pees while sitting in his chair.
ref: 2014, Tim Zeigdel, Weekdays with Roy, page 191:
glosses: A pot used for peeing: a chamber pot.
Synonyms: shitpot
pisspot
chamber pot
pee pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pee pot
peepot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peepots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pee pot.
peepots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peepot
pee-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pee-pots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pee pot.
pee-pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pee-pot
rentcharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rentcharges
Etymology: From rent + charge.
Senses: topics: law
property
glosses: An annual sum or periodic payment charged on certain freehold properties or payable out of the income of those properties and expressly giving to the rentcharger, who has no reversionary interest in the property, the right of distress for arrears.
Synonyms: chief rent
chief rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chief rents
Etymology: From chief + rent.
Senses: glosses: An annual charge on certain freehold properties in England.
Synonyms: rentcharge
chief rents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chief rent
rentcharges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rentcharge
ground rents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground rent
Web Ontology Language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Web Ontology Languages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: OWL
glosses: A formal language (or family of languages) used to draw inferences from a large data set, especially from the Semantic Web
damneder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Moore replied "You are a damneder liar!" Both men reached for their pistols and in the quick exchange of shots that followed, Moore was killed.
ref: 2004, Thomas G. Evans, Elaine K. Evans, Charles L. Stafford, About our Evans roots: the ancestry and descendants of John Evans, 1798-1855, Cumberland County, North Carolina:
glosses: Comparative form of damned: more damned.
refineds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refined
back-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backhouse.
back-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-house
Juhuri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Juwuri
Etymology: Borrowed from Judeo-Tat çuhuri.
Senses: glosses: The Judeo-Tat language.
fuckeder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: One of the fuckeder things is how I decided I'd protect him from the book by having you "screen" it for him.
ref: 1997, James Chapman, In Candyland it's cool to feed on your friends:
text: If America is fucked then Black America is fuckeder.
ref: 1999, Randall Kenan, Walking on Water, page 148:
glosses: comparative form of fucked: more fucked
fuckedest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'That's the fuckedest logic I've ever heard,' said Darryl […]
ref: 1999, Sophie Hannah, Gripless:
glosses: superlative form of fucked: most fucked
usual office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I went to the usual office at the end of the passage.
ref: 1951, N. Marsh, chapter IX, in Opening Night, page 220:
glosses: Alternative form of usual offices: an outhouse or lavatory.
psychotheory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychotheories
Etymology: From psycho- + theory.
Senses: glosses: psychoanalytic theory
psychotheories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychotheory
psychopractice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychopractices
Etymology: From psycho- + practice.
Senses: glosses: psychoanalytic practice
psychopractices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychopractice
psychotheoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + theoretical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to psychoanalytic theory.
neuropsych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropsychs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: neuropsychology
examples: text: Our team consisted of neuropsychs, families and legal advisers all working closely together.
ref: 2011, Deborah Wearing, Forever Today: A Memoir Of Love And Amnesia, page 254:
glosses: neuropsychologist
strepavidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of streptavidin.
medicosocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medico- + social.
Senses: glosses: Relating to medicine and social work.
WAI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Web Accessibility Initiative, an effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web for people with disabilities.
Derived terms: WAI-ARIA
WAI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Acronym of works as intended: current situation is what was intended and thus not subject to change.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Acronym of working as intended.
alphasyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an alphasyllabary, or abugida.
Derived terms: alphasyllabically
Related terms: alphasyllabary
e-submission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-submissions
Etymology: From e- + submission.
Senses: examples: text: E-submissions, and computer-assisted product licensing applications submitted for vaccines and other biological products, shorten review time by reducing the need to sift through reams of paper to get the answers to reviewers' questions.
ref: 2003, Phillip I. Good, A Manager's Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials:
text: A successful conclusion of the pilot test will pave the way for nationwide e-submission of tax reports. The benefits of computerizing reporting processes are obvious, but are Uzbek MSEs ready for this change?
ref: 2009, United Nations, Asia-Pacific Development Journal, December 2009, page 54:
text: Our own experience with the e-submission of assignments indicates that only a short training on the mechanics of e-submission are^([sic]) required for students to use e-submission for their courses.
ref: 2012, Lya Visser, Ray J. Amirault, Yusur Laila Visser, Trends and Issues in Distance Education, page 216:
glosses: electronic submission (of documents, etc.)
e-submissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-submission
graphomotricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: graphomotor abilities
donkey drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkey drops
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch of the ball that aims to land it on the stumps from as great a height as possible, preferably with the ball descending behind the batsman standing at the crease.
donkey drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donkey drop
Friscan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Friscan
form: most Friscan
Etymology: From Frisco + -an.
Senses: glosses: San Franciscan
Friscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Friscans
Etymology: From Frisco + -an.
Senses: glosses: San Franciscan
Friscans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Friscan
popcorn poppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popcorn popper
emasculatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emasculate + -trix (compare castratrix, dominatrix).
Senses: glosses: A woman who emasculates (men).
pseudohomophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohomophones
Etymology: From pseudo- + homophone.
Senses: glosses: A non-word that is mistaken for a homophone, such as werk for work
Related terms: pseudohomophony
pseudohomophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudohomophone
coreq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coreqs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: corequisite
coreqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coreq
sistrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sistren
pinchbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinchbars
form: pinch bar
Etymology: From pinch + bar.
Senses: examples: text: All of us had something, although you would have called it an odd assortment of weapons. Ollie had Amanda's gun, Buddy Eagleton had a steel pinchbar from out back somewhere. I had a broom handle.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: A crowbar (the tool).
pinchbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinchbar
ptrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptr
Quincies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quincy
boghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boghouses
form: bog-house
Etymology: From bog + house.
Senses: glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Synonyms: word: boggard
word: craphouse
word: shithouse
word: shouse
word: outhouse
Hypernyms: house
boghouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boghouse
bog-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bog-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boghouse: an outhouse.
bog-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bog-house
severums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of severum
dark flight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark flights
Senses: topics: astronomy
climatology
geography
geology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The portion of the flight of a meteor, after its incandescent fireball phase, when the space rock has cooled down and slowed down, so that it is no longer glowing, but still in flight, and yet to crash onto the ground.
sonsuvbitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonuvabitch
sonovabitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonovabitch
sonsovbitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonovabitch
spaghetti sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaghetti sauce
Italian poutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian + poutine, a calque of Canadian French poutine italienne; from being a variant of poutine that uses an Italian-style tomato-based pasta sauce instead of gravy.
Senses: glosses: A form of poutine made with spaghetti sauce instead of gravy.
mataeotechny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A 16th-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ματαιοτεχνία (mataiotekhnía, “a useless art or skill”).
Senses: glosses: An unprofitable or pointless science, skill, or activity.
Coxeter group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coxeter groups
Etymology: Named for British-born Canadian mathematician H. S. M. Coxeter (1907–2003).
Senses: examples: text: We may ask in general which Coxeter groups arise as subgroups of a given Coxeter group. This question is of course far too general. However, there are Coxeter groups which arise canonically as subgroups of a given Coxeter group.
ref: 1993, B. Mühlherr, “Coxeter groups in Coxeter groups”, in Albrecht Beutelspacher, F. de Clerck, editors, Finite Geometries and Combinatorics, page 277:
text: The above definitions, of Cayley graph, reflection, wall, half-space, folding, Bruhat order, etc., work for any Coxeter group.
ref: 2007, Michael B. Smythe, Julian Webster, “12: Discrete Spatial Models”, in Marco Aiello, Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Johan van Benthem, editors, Handbook of Spatial Logics, page 795:
text: The problem of classifying all reflective lattices of given rank is also of interest in its own right from the perspectives of Coxeter groups and arithmetic subgroups of O(n,1).
ref: 2012, Daniel Allcock, “The Reflective Lorentzian Lattices of Rank 3”, in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, number 1033, page vii:
topics: geometry
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of groups whose finite cases are precisely the finite reflection groups (including the symmetry groups of polytopes), but which are more varied in their infinite cases, and whose range of application encompasses various areas of mathematics.
wikipedia: Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Related terms: Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Coxeter element
Coxeter matrix
Coxeter number
Coxeter system
Coxeter groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coxeter group
Dinklage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪŋklɪd͡ʒ/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
white knighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of white knight
white knighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of white knight
unaxiomatizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + axiomatizable.
Senses: glosses: Not axiomatizable.
nonaxiomatizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + axiomatizable.
Senses: glosses: Not axiomatizable.
Chaitin's constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Gregory Chaitin.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A real number that informally represents the probability that a randomly-constructed program will halt.
wikipedia: Gregory Chaitin
Related terms: halting problem
vertex figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertex figures
Senses: examples: text: 1970, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, Twisted Honeycombs, Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, Regional Conference Series in Mathematics: Number 4, American Mathematical Society, page 14,
Thus the vertex figure of a polygon is the line-segment whose end-points are the vertex figures of the two edges at one vertex, the vertex figure of a polyhedron or tessellation {p, q} is the polygon {q} whose edges are the vertex figures of the q faces at one vertex, and the analogous "vertex figure" of the honeycomb of cubes (§1) is the polyhedron whose faces are the vertex figures of the eight cubic cells that come together at one vertex.
text: Now try to see which of these vertex figures cannot be continued to give a semiregular tiling of the whole plane.
ref: 1987, A. Gardiner, Mathematical Puzzling, Dover, published 1999, page 137:
text: At each vertex of a tessellation, the vertex figure is the polygon formed by joining in order the mid-points of all edges incident with the vertex. A tessellation of a surface for which all the participating polygons and vertex figures are regular and equal is termed a regular tessellation.
ref: 2004, Michael F. Worboys, Matt Duckham, GIS: A Computing Perspective, 2nd edition, page 188:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.
Derived terms: verf
vertex figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertex figure
postcare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + care.
Senses: glosses: After medical or psychiatric care.
posttrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + trade.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: After a trade.
pretrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + trade.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Before a trade.
jetlaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jetlaggy
form: most jetlaggy
Etymology: From jet lag + -y.
Senses: glosses: jet-lagged
unjellied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + jellied.
Senses: glosses: Not jellied.
antimotivational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimotivational
form: most antimotivational
Etymology: From anti- + motivational.
Senses: glosses: Reducing or countering motivation.
Related terms: amotivational
planet gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planet gears
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An epicyclic gear; the middle gears in a planetary gear system, spun by the central sun gear
Coordinate terms: planetary gear
sun gear
planet gears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planet gear
geartrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geartrains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gear train.
geartrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geartrain
sun gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun gears
Etymology: By analogy to a sun with planets rotating around it.
Senses: glosses: The central gear wheel of an epicyclic gear train; the central gear in planetary gear box, which spins the planet gears
Coordinate terms: planetary gear
planet gear
sun gears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun gear
Davutoğlu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Davutoglu
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Davutoğlu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Turkish.
deadleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadlegs
form: dead-leg
form: dead leg
Etymology: From dead + leg.
Senses: examples: text: I was a bit of a deadleg in them days. You know, footloose and inclined to be rather flirtatious with the ladies.
ref: 1961, Shelagh Delaney, The Lion in Love: A Play, page 83:
text: "I can tell you now, he's a no-good," said the Liverpool D.C.I. "His form is nothing to speak of, but he's the errand lad and head butterer-up for a deadleg called Pete Garside.
ref: 1966, Maurice Procter, His weight in gold, page 56:
text: For the next year Liz lived alone with Lindy, occasionally consorting with 'more deadlegs', one of whom bruised Lindy when he had been drinking.
ref: 1987, R. Calam, C. Franchi, Child Abuse and Its Consequences, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: A lazy or weak person.
examples: text: There should be minimum deadleg between the valve and main process unit and, if possible, means for cleaning the deadleg.
ref: 1996, K. Carr-Brion, J. R. P. Clarke, Sampling Systems for Process Analysers, →ISBN, page 182:
text: The pig trap was just under forty feet long, but the final six-foot section was a deadleg.
ref: 2015, Jonathan Waldman, Rust: The Longest War, →ISBN, page 246:
text: Since air is denser than steam at sterilization temperatures, air will be displaced downward in the deadleg.
ref: 2018, Wayne P. Olson, Sterilization of Drugs and Devices: Technologies for the 21st Century, →ISBN:
glosses: An isolated section of pipeline that does not usually carry a flow.
examples: text: Gordon Biggs, on his way to biology, his favorite class, turns a corner and is immediately seized and stunned by a deadleg to the thigh, (judicious application of the knee to the fleshy part of the upper leg, resulting in prolonged numbness, hence the term 'deadleg').
ref: 1992, Bomb, page 66:
glosses: Alternative form of dead leg (injury to the upper thigh)
examples: text: Deadleg drills can also be performed by having one leg serve as the dealeg (hips and knees stiff, ankles dorsiflexed, active ground contact with the foot and the heel adhering o the credit card rule) and having the opposite leg perform other drills, such as A-skips, B-skips or straight-leg skips.
ref: 2017, Clive Brewer, Athletic Movement Skills: Training for Sports Performance, →ISBN, page 202:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A movement in which the hips and knees are kept straight and stiff and the ankle is flexed.
examples: text: Companies can transport on a nationwide basis but usually only carry their products out and have a deadleg on the return trip, e.g., the sugar distributors.
ref: 1984, Gavin Grant Maasdorp, Transport Policies and Economic Development in Southern Africa:
text: Our convoy appeared as a huge centipede, winding its way uphill that had acquired various deadlegs at random.
ref: 2001, Andrew Gurr, A Little Piece of England, page 79:
topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: A vehicle that is traveling on a leg of its route in which it does not carry any cargo.
deadleg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deadlegs
form: deadlegging
form: deadlegged
form: deadlegged
form: dead-leg
form: dead leg
Etymology: From dead + leg.
Senses: glosses: To knee someone in the thigh.
thought-terminating clichés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thought-terminating cliché
Davutoglu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Davutoğlu.
Zarif
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian ظریف (zarif).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Persian.
bombsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombies
Etymology: From bomb + -sies.
Senses: glosses: In children's games of marbles, the mode of play where one player attempts to drop a marble from above in order to hit a marble on the ground.
deadlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadleg
deadlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deadleg
dead legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead leg
zama-zama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zama-zamas
Etymology: From Zulu -zama, stem of ukuzama (“to try, strive, make an attempt to obtain something”).
Senses: glosses: A person who works illegally in abandoned mineshafts in order to retrieve metals or minerals.
Related terms: fossicker
noodler
deexciting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deexcite
deexcites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deexcite
nondifferentiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + differentiability.
Senses: examples: text: In this paper we propose a framework that combines the two ideas, and includes two improvements over previously published work on convex-concave programming, specifically the handling of domains of the functions, and the issue of nondifferentiability on the boundary of the domains.
ref: 2016, Xinyue Shen, Steven Diamond, Yuantao Gu, Stephen Boyd, “Disciplined Convex-Concave Programming”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of not being differentiable.
laoya
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊ(˩).ja(˨˦)/
Forms: form: more laoya
form: most laoya
form: lau yah
form: lauyah
Etymology: From Hokkien 老爺／老爷 (lāu-iâ, “old-fashioned”).
Senses: examples: text: I noticed standards here are super duper laoya.
ref: 2006, missqi, "http://sgforums.com/forums/12/topics/194857?page=2", sgforums, 12 June 2006
text: I tried their sample cleanser, my face was popping pimples like mad and their nail polish, so laoya! So I thought their products very lousy...
ref: 2010, lurvecakes, "http://singaporemotherhood.com/forum/threads/2007-03-march-2007-mtbs.521/page-3848", SingaporeMotherhood Forum, 9 June 2010
text: My Hokkien definitely cannot make it. Very laoya. Haha!
ref: 2010, mmqq, "http://singaporemotherhood.com/forum/threads/2007-03-march-2007-mtbs.521/page-3912", SingaporeMotherhood Forum, 11 July 2010
text: Her eyes flashed defiantly, then moisted over as she sobbed, “Men are really very suay. My laoya husband has sold away our precious child!”
ref: 2012, The Amah Story, "http://www.singaporememory.sg/contents/SMB-cd8d1482-0ff1-4e5d-984b-1617ef528eae", Singapore Memory, 4 July 2013
text: My school closed down already. My wife's school also sibei laoya one. Sigh.
ref: 2013, lala91, "http://www.mycarforum.com/topic/2649824-any-bro-from-hokkien-huay-kuan/page-4", MyCarForum, 4 July 2013
text: At first, I thought is my laoya computer got problem because I keep getting disconnected or server error messages since Friday.
ref: 2014, no987654321, "http://www.viwawa.com/forums/event-i-m-a-true-gunner.28736.html&page=10", Viwawa Forum, 11 July 2010
glosses: Lousy; useless; worthless.
layans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of layan
overrejection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overrejections
Etymology: From over- + rejection.
Senses: glosses: The rejection of too many data values, or too much data
Related terms: overreject
overrejections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overrejection
endiannesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endianness
nonimmersive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Etymology: From non- + immersive.
Senses: glosses: Not immersive.
accoied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of accoy
interlinearization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From interlinear + -ization.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The use of interlinear notation.
interlinearize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interlinearizes
form: interlinearizing
form: interlinearized
form: interlinearized
Etymology: From interlinear + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To mark up (text) with interlinear notation.
Related terms: interlinearization
interlinearizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interlinearize
interlinearized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interlinearize
interlinearizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interlinearize
nonimplicational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + implicational.
Senses: glosses: Not implicational.
immersiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immersive + -ness.
Senses: examples: the immersiveness of virtual reality
glosses: The quality or degree of being immersive.
rephraser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rephrasers
Etymology: From rephrase + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, rephrases.
rephrasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rephraser
multimethods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multimethod
hornball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornballs
Etymology: See horn (“sexual arousement”) + ball, and compare sleazeball, cornball, etc.
Senses: glosses: A person who is often, or easily, sexually aroused.
hornballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornball
zitoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪˈtoʊni/
enpr: zĭ-tōʹnē
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: zitonis
form: zitone
Etymology: From Italian zitone, zitoni, an augmentative of zite, ziti.
Senses: glosses: A wider form of ziti pasta.
vermicelloni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: A thicker form of vermicelli pasta.
conchiglioni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian conchiglioni, from conchiglie with the augmentative suffix -one applied.
Senses: glosses: A larger form of conchiglie pasta.
feel like oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels like oneself
form: feeling like oneself
form: felt like oneself
form: felt like oneself
Senses: glosses: Synonym of feel oneself.
synonyms: word: feel oneself
riflebutts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riflebutt
riflebutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riflebutts
Senses: examples: text: They struck the doors with their riflebutts, and crept past the window with their pocket torches.
ref: 1961, Theodor Schieder, Documents on the expulsion of the Germans from Eastern-Central-Europe, volume 1, page 262:
text: These he had given to the little girl, over the howled protests of the officers and despite repeated blows from a riflebutt in the small of his back.
ref: 1965, Leslie A. Fiedler, Back to China, page 47:
text: The surviving defenders were easily finished off with a few riflebutts and bayonets, and Georg's men found themselves in sole possession of the airfield.
ref: 2006, W. R. Hammons, Alternity, page 237:
glosses: Alternative form of rifle butt.
sand shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand shoe
Botteri's sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Botteri's sparrows
Etymology: Named after the ornithologist Matteo Botteri (1808–1877).
Senses: glosses: Peucaea botterii, a medium-sized sparrow found mainly in Mexico.
wikipedia: Matteo Botteri
Botteri's sparrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Botteri's sparrow
Japanese ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Zingiber mioga, native to east Asia.
Synonyms: sense: Zingiber mioga
word: myoga
sense: Zingiber mioga
word: mioga ginger
sense: Zingiber mioga
word: myoga ginger
non possumus
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Latin, literally "we cannot".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A plea of inability.
longitudinal waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longitudinal wave
transverse waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transverse wave
swing through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swings through
form: swinging through
form: swung through
form: swung through
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To swing and miss at a pitch.
askee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: askees
Etymology: From ask + -ee.
Senses: antonyms: asker
glosses: Somebody who is asked something.
Synonyms: word: questionee
Hyponyms: word: adviser
word: advisor
word: answerer
word: consultant
word: consultee
word: interrogatee
word: interrogee
word: interviewee
word: replier
word: respondent
word: responder
Related terms: word: askable
word: queryable
word: interrogable
word: consultable
word: arrestee
word: detainee
word: suspect
word: oracle
askees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of askee
Rolfe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English surname, spelling variant of Rolf.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A minor city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States, named after John Rolfe.
glosses: An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States.
Matei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
antiblockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiblocker
petrosquamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petro- + squamous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the petrous and squamous parts of the temporal bone.
petrotympanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petro- + tympanic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the petrous part of the temporal bone and to the tympanic cavity
petrotympanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrotympanics
Etymology: From petro- + tympanic.
Senses: glosses: Such a structure
squamotympanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From squamo- + tympanic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the squamous part of the temporal bone and to the tympanic cavity.
intravisit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + visit.
Senses: glosses: During a single visit (e.g. to a medical clinic).
Related terms: intervisit
Hoare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoares
Etymology: Variant of Hoar.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Floyd-Hoare logic
Hoare logic
Hoare triple
Hoare triple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hoare triples
Etymology: Part of the Hoare logic proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A formal description of how the execution of a piece of code changes the state of the computation in Hoare logic, consisting of a command to be run, a precondition that holds true beforehand, and a postcondition that holds true afterwards.
wikipedia: Tony Hoare
Hyponyms: description
triple
Hoare triples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hoare triple
Hoare logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hoare logics
Etymology: Proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Floyd-Hoare logic
glosses: A formal system of rules for reasoning about the correctness of computer programs, based on Hoare triples, which describe the state of the system before and after various operations.
wikipedia: Tony Hoare
holding true
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold true
Plumian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Plume + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thomas Plume, Archdeacon of Rochester, or the academic professorship of astronomy and experimental philosophy that he founded at the University of Cambridge in 1704.
Sadleirian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sadleir + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lady Mary Sadleir, or the academic professorship of pure mathematics that she founded at the University of Cambridge in 1701.
Lowndean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lowndes + -an.
Senses: examples: text: He referred mainly to his tidology when he applied for the Lowndean professorship of astronomy, which had become vacant that fall.
ref: 2009, Michael S. Reidy, Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy, page 269:
glosses: Of or relating to the astronomer Thomas Lowndes, or the academic professorship of astronomy and geometry that he founded at the University of Cambridge in 1749.
Galsworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galsworthys
form: Goldsworthy
form: Golesworthy
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Devonshire, from Old English gagel (“sweet gale, bog myrtle”) + -worthy, a toponymic suffix deriving from Old English worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Galsworthian
solicitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solicit + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Serving to solicit.
immoveables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immoveable
Maussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maussian
form: most Maussian
Etymology: From Mauss + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French sociologist, whose work traversed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology.
tympanic cavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tympanic cavities
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small cavity surrounding the bones of the middle ear.
big man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big men
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A male individual in a tribe who has great status and influence, especially in Melanesia and Polynesia.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A corrupt, autocratic ruler.
examples: text: “There's a lot of big men on campus,” said one investor close to some of Meta's AI leaders.
ref: 2025 August 30, Hannah Murphy, George Hammond, Cristina Criddle, “Staff exits hit Zuckerberg's AI plans”, in FT Weekend, page 1:
glosses: An alpha male.
glosses: Synonym of big guy (“term of endearment”).
synonyms: word: big guy
extra: term of endearment
Derived terms: bigmanism
big men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big man
tympanic cavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tympanic cavity
neopatrimonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neopatrimonial
form: most neopatrimonial
Etymology: From neo- + patrimonial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to neopatrimonialism.
Eisenstadtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eisenstadtian
form: most Eisenstadtian
Etymology: From Eisenstadt + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923–2010), Israeli sociologist.
hero sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hero sandwich
melt sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melt sandwich
mother-in-law sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother-in-law sandwich
Italian sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian sandwich
Maxwell Street Polishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maxwell Street Polish
tavern sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tavern sandwich
dragon roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragon rolls
Senses: glosses: A kind of inverted sushi roll, with nori on the inside and rice on the outside.
dragon rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragon roll
spring mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring mixes
Senses: glosses: A salad made with young greens.
Related terms: mesclun
mistaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈteɪst/
ipa: /ˈmɪsteɪst/
Forms: form: mistastes
form: mistasting
form: mistasted
form: mistasted
Etymology: From Middle English mistasten, equivalent to mis- + taste.
Senses: glosses: To overindulge in food or drink
examples: text: I staid at Belgrade some weeks longer, but thought to go no more that way, and by this strange discovery I made hereby of womens temper, I resolv'd to bear in my memory two maxims of this country, which are, if I mistaste not, left as follows.
ref: 1790, George Sandys, A general history of the Ottoman Empire:
glosses: To take wrongly or in error; mistake; err
examples: text: The support provided by custom or by the oenological guide serves only to make it understood that one has not tasted the wine or, having mistasted it, that one perceived nothing or almost nothing.
ref: 2009, Jean-Luc Marion, The Visible and the Revealed - Page 131:
glosses: To taste wrongly or in error
mistaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈteɪst/
ipa: /ˈmɪsteɪst/
Forms: form: mistastes
Etymology: From Middle English mistasten, equivalent to mis- + taste.
Senses: examples: text: Still, my palate was alive, questing for the slightest mistaste. But there was none.
ref: 2014, Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle:
glosses: A wrong, bad, or illicit taste
examples: text: A mistake is really a mistaste. The most striking use of the sense of taste is in More's choice of persuasio to characterize the basic way mind is moved and guided. This is not surprising.
ref: 1973, Martin Fleisher, Radical Reform and Political Persuasion in the Life and Writings of Thomas More:
glosses: An error; mistake
Keszthely
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛsteɪ/
Senses: glosses: A town in Hungary.
salicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsalɪˌsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈsælɪˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: salicides
Etymology: From salicin + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of salicin e.g. salicide of potassium, hydrogen salicide
salicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsalɪˌsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈsælɪˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: salicides
Etymology: Blend of self + aligned + silicide
Senses: examples: text: Composite: Self-aligned silicide/poly Si gate (salicide) (label on Figure 7d)
ref: 1983 November 11, T. Paul Chow, Andrew J. Steckl, “Refractory Metal Silicides: Thin-Film Properties and Processing Technology”, in IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, volume ED-30, number 11, November 1983, pages 1480–1497:
text: Platinum salicide process for BiCMOS applications
ref: 1993, Khalid Sheergar, Platinum salicide process for BiCMOS applications, thesis, Carleton University:
text: Titanium SALICIDE Process for VLSI Device Application
ref: 1995, Wlodek Kaplan, Titanium SALICIDE Process for VLSI Device Application, Royal Institute of Technology:
text: A Novel Low Leakage-Current Ni SALICIDE Process in nMOSFETs on Si(110) Substrate
ref: 2007, T. Yamaguchi et al., A Novel Low Leakage-Current Ni SALICIDE Process in nMOSFETs on Si(110) Substrate, 2007 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting:
text: Advances on NiPt SALICIDE process optimization for 28nm CMOS manufacturing
ref: 2010, Yi-Wei Chen et al., Advances on NiPt SALICIDE process optimization for 28nm CMOS manufacturing, 2010 International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing (ISSM):
qualifier: silicon microelectronics
glosses: An electrical contact made from a silicide whose formation does not require lithographic patterning processes, i.e. it is "self-aligned"
salicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salicide
Hosororo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From its Warao [Term?] name, from ho (“water”) + sororo (“running, flowing”).
Senses: glosses: A creek in Guyana, and several nearby places (including a hill) named after it.
wunnered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wunner
wunnering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wunner
upcame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of upcome
gynophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyno- + -phagia.
Senses: examples: text: Dolcett or gynophagia role-play now extends not only to that set of illustrations but also to an entire subset of BDSM activity. The Dolcett scenario is often medieval, borrowing from the fairytale structure of a young peasant girl taken from her lowly position by the prince to become the "queen for a day." Her rule ends in her public execution […]
ref: 2011, Beth Colman, Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation, page 96:
glosses: A sexual paraphilia based on the idea of cooking and eating women.
Synonyms: Dolcett
robocaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robocallers
form: robo caller
form: robo-caller
Etymology: From robo- + caller or robocall + -er.
Senses: examples: text: At first I thought it was some kind of robocaller, but last night I heard a TV in the background before whoever it was hung up.
ref: 2015, Neil Plakcy, Love on the Pitch:
glosses: The party that initiates a robocall.
robocallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robocaller
multiorgasmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From multiorgasmic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: But they also are raped a lot, multiorgasmically, which has brought Rogers strong criticism. Romantic fiction such as this reportedly ranks among the top ten items sold at supermarkets across the United States […]
ref: 1977, New West, volume 2, page 33:
glosses: In a multiorgasmic manner.
lau yah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaʊ ja/
Forms: form: more lau yah
form: most lau yah
form: lauyah
Senses: examples: text: Well I made noise with ANZ corporate and two managers replied saying sorry, they don't have the information and will get back to me again. Gee, so lau yah man ANZ!
ref: 2011, dintigger, "http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/credit-cards-line-credit-facilities-243/unsuccessful-credit-card-application-wtf-3260943-2.html", HardwareZone Forum, 12 June 2011
glosses: Alternative spelling of laoya.
pseudologia phantastica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudologia fantastica.
Houses of Lords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of House of Lords
thinglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thinglets
Etymology: From thing + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Thinglets fit only to wrap candles in, or make winding-sheets in Lent for pilchards, or keep butter in the marketplace from melting.
ref: 2016, Mrs. Alick Macleod, An Australian Girl:
glosses: A little thing.
CP Time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CP time
Etymology: A partial abbreviation of Colored People's Time, based on a treatment of it as a time zone.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Clinton: Thanks for the endorsement, Bill. Took you long enough.
De Blasio: Sorry, Hillary. I was running on CP time...
Mrs. Clinton: Cautious politician time. I’ve been there.
...if your keyboard is still dry, CNN has the explanation: “ ‘CP Time’—also known as ‘colored people’s time’—is a stereotype about African-Americans running late.”
ref: 2016 April 12, James Taranto, “Best of the Web: Hillary Aims at Hilarity”, in Wall Street Journal:
qualifier: sometimes reclaimed
glosses: Synonym of Colored People's Time.
synonyms: word: Colored People's Time
gonghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonghouses
form: gong-house
Etymology: gong (“outhouse; excrement”) + house
Senses: glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
glosses: Hell.
Synonyms: sense: outhouse
word: gong
word: outhouse
sense: Hell
word: afterlife
gonghouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonghouse
gong-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gong-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gonghouse: an outhouse.
gong-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gong-house
petties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛtiz/
ipa: /ˈpɛtiz/
ipa: [-ɾiz]
homophone: pedis (GA)
rhymes: -ɛtiz
Etymology: From petty (adjective, noun) + -ies. The plural noun is a shortening of petty expenses.
Senses: glosses: plural of petty