cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Knightian uncertainty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Knightian uncertainties
Etymology: Named after University of Chicago economist Frank Knight (1885–1972).
Senses: examples: text: In addition, it is hard currently to assign probabilities to these scenarios. This is something economists refer to as Knightian uncertainty.
ref: 2025 March 21, John C. Williams, “Certain Uncertainty (speech)”, in New York Fed (Remarks at the Macroeconometric Caribbean Conference, Nassau, Bahamas):
glosses: A lack of any quantifiable knowledge about some possible occurrence, as opposed to the presence of quantifiable risk.
Nulty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nultys
Etymology: Reduced form of McNulty.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Knightian uncertainties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Knightian uncertainty
cauldron battle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cauldron battles
Etymology: Calque of German Kesselschlacht. Compare kettle (“to contain demonstrators in a confined area; group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area”).
Senses: qualifier: see usage note
glosses: battle of encirclement
cauldron battles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauldron battle
single-manned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Mouchard-Frasne section, which includes three intermediate stations, is remotely signalled from a single-manned control centre presently located at Mouchard, but ultimately to be moved to Dijon.
ref: 1960 April, “Automatic single-line signalling on the S.N.C.F.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 213:
glosses: Manned or staffed by just one person.
Related terms: single-manning
lockup house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockup houses
Senses: examples: text: He kept a lock-up house in Great Earle Street, Soho, and, although by profession a tailor, he had fitted it up most elegantly as a tavern.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 143
glosses: A small house where people are kept in temporary custody after arrest, especially where debtors are held before transfer to a debtors' prison.
glosses: A lodging house where men are kept and forced to enlist in the army or navy.
Born-Haber cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Born-Haber cycles
Etymology: Named after the German scientists Max Born and Fritz Haber, who developed it in 1919.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: A cycle concerned with the formation of an ionic compound from the reaction of a metal (often a Group I or Group II element) with a halogen or other non-metallic element such as oxygen; used to analyze reaction energies.
Born-Haber cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Born-Haber cycle
childbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childbearers
Etymology: From child + bearer.
Senses: examples: text: Nazi ideology, based on a belief in German racial supremacy, discriminated against women as childbearers.
ref: 2004, Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women:
glosses: One who gives birth to a child.
childbearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of childbearer
Christianing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christianings
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of christening.
Christianings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christianing
Delft blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Delftware.
synonyms: word: Delftware
heterophenomenologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From heterophenomenological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of heterophenomenology.
anemotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to anemotropism.
ambulance-chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ambulance-chases
form: ambulance-chasing
form: ambulance-chased
form: ambulance-chased
Etymology: Back-formation from ambulance chasing.
Senses: glosses: To engage in ambulance chasing.
ambulance-chased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ambulance-chase
ambulance-chases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ambulance-chase
ambulance-chasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ambulance-chase
preneeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preneed
Hornblower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hornblowers
Etymology: From horn + blower. Capitalization of hornblower.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
glosses: Ellipsis of Horatio Hornblower, a fictional sea captain created by C.S. Forester, of the sail, iron men and wooden ships era.
anelastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anelastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anelastic manner.
anelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anelasticities
Senses: glosses: The property of being anelastic.
Christ on a raft
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Christ on a bike.
synonyms: word: Christ on a bike
Christmas log
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas logs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Yule log (“log burned at Christmas”).
synonyms: word: Yule log
extra: log burned at Christmas
glosses: Synonym of Yule log (“type of cake”).
synonyms: word: Yule log
extra: type of cake
Christmas logs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas log
Willans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
timber circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timber circles
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A circular arrangement of wooden posts, interpreted either as a complex of freestanding poles or as the support for a large circular building.
timber circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timber circle
travel-size
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Then I'll use a travel-size toothbrush and tiny toothpaste and brush my teeth.
ref: 2012, Jessica Burkhart, Popular:
synonyms: travel-sized
glosses: Sufficiently compact to be taken conveniently with one when travelling.
travel-sized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of travel-size.
synonyms: word: travel-size
it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: The journey or process is more important or more enjoyable than the destination or end result.
supercitizen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercitizens
Etymology: From super- + citizen.
Senses: examples: text: I wonder if Bill Boeing is considered to be a supercitizen because he owns property or Rockefeller or the Kennedys or somebody is a supercitizen because they are indeed rich.
ref: 1977, American Indian Issues in the State of Washington: Hearing, United States Commission on Civil Rights, page 245:
text: Tony is a supercitizen; he is animating citizenship for himself at a number of different levels with formal and informal support.
ref: 2011, Helen Atherton, Debbie Crickmore, Learning Disabilities - E-Book: Towards Inclusion, page 392:
glosses: A citizen who is remarkable by virtue of their status or community contributions etc.
supercitizens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercitizen
ISPCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
ispravniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ispravnik
ispravnics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ispravnic
screw head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw heads
Senses: examples: text: A notable feature is the absence of screw-heads, which have been carefully concealed to achieve a clean, uninterrupted finish to the walls and ceiling.
ref: 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222:
glosses: Alternative form of screwhead.
screw heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screw head
Syrian rue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syrian rues
Senses: glosses: Peganum harmala (harmal)
Syrian rues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Syrian rue
HSR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: transport
coordinate_terms: HFR
PDL
glosses: Initialism of high-speed rail.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of hidden-surface removal.
wild rue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild rues
Senses: examples: text: A Guardia Civil spokesperson said that ayahuasca, San Pedro, toad poison, wild rue and mimosa pudica were prohibited substances in Spain, adding that their consumption was not authorised because, while they were natural substances, they could be highly dangerous to human health.
ref: 2025 August 11, Sam Jones, “Ayahuasca and toad poison seized as police raid spiritual retreats in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: Syrian rue
African rue
esfand
glosses: Harmel, a plant of species Peganum harmala, endemic in dry regions of Eurasia.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, rue.
wild rues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild rue
wild Syrian rue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild Syrian rues
Senses: glosses: Syrian rue (Peganum harmala).
wild Syrian rues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild Syrian rue
unspouted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spouted.
Senses: examples: text: Small cups and unspouted jars are common.
ref: 1969, Henry T. Wright, The Administration of Rural Production in an Early Mesopotamian Town, page 39:
glosses: Not furnished with a spout.
Christomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Christ + -o- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Only minds completely crazed or fatally confused by the current Christomania would suppose that the details of the story, which is as old at least as the cult of Ptah in Memphis, were derived from the "historic" version […]
ref: 1907, Gerald Massey, Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World, page 535:
text: I have been accused of Christomania. But I am not mad, my noble friends; I speak only the words of truth and soberness.
ref: 1912, Augustus Hopkins Strong, Miscellanies, volume 1, page 311:
glosses: A fanatical devotion to Jesus Christ.
scholarchate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scholarchates
Etymology: From scholarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: glosses: The office or function of a scholarch.
NCTzen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NCTzens
Etymology: Blend of NCT + citizen.
Senses: examples: text: NCTzens have made it their mission to get these boys to the top no matter what the cost.
ref: 2017 November, Andrea Cervantes, “Kpop 4 Dummies”, in Slick Magazine, page 37:
text: Then, K-pop fans, majority^([sic]) of whom are NCTzens who wielded their neon green light sticks, went extra wild when NCT Dream was called upon and conquered a Manila stage for the first time.
ref: 2019 March 24, Carla Mortel Baricau, “K-Pop Acts, Local Band Conquer Free-Concert Stage”, in BusinessMirror, page 4:
text: Says member Haechan: “We'll keep on working hard to meet the expectations” of the group's devoted fan army, NCTzens.
ref: 2019 September 14, Billboard, page 36:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the K-pop boy band NCT.
ambidextrality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ambidextral.
NCTzens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NCTzen
hoobaes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoobae
blue check marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue check mark
blue checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue check
Ambrosians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ambrosian
draught screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draught screens
form: draft screen
Senses: examples: text: Draught screens, incorporating grab-poles, are fitted at each end.
ref: 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222:
glosses: A screen for the purpose of blocking draughts (currents of air).
adrenocortically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From adrenocortical + -ly.
Senses: examples: an adrenocortically-mediated response to stress
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, the adrenal cortex.
draught screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draught screen
dress off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dresses off
form: dressing off
form: dressed off
form: dressed off
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: For an actor to position themselves relative to another person or object in a scene.
microphilanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + philanthropy.
Senses: glosses: Philanthropy in the form of microdonations.
drop lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒk
Forms: form: drop locks
Senses: glosses: A kind of lock by which a short length of canal can be temporarily lowered while a boat passes under an obstruction such as a low bridge.
drop locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop lock
megaprosthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + prosthetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a megaprosthesis.
chequine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chequines
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of zecchino (“old gold coin of Italy”).
chequines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chequine
duckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ducket
duckets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ducket
Luxemburgian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Luxemburgian
form: most Luxemburgian
Etymology: From Luxemburg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), Polish Marxist philosopher and revolutionary.
dustbin check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustbin checks
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A form of audit in which members of a household are given a special bin in which to place the packaging of all the products they consume in a given period.
Coordinate terms: pantry check
dustbin checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustbin check
Weird Twitter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: You may not be paid, but you've got major cred with Weird Twitter, so enjoy it while it lasts, @pizzahut.
ref: 2012, Kevin O'Toole & Nathaniel Edwards, "Abandon All Hope...", North by Northwestern, Fall 2012, page 51
text: Since being discovered, Weird Twitter has been poked, prodded, analyzed and made merciless fun of.
ref: 2013 November 12, Samantha Bares, “We should appreciate 'Weird Twitter'”, in The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State University, page 9:
text: Oftentimes, the funniest tweets emerge from the peculiar depths of "Weird Twitter," a subculture so twistedly surreal that it could curl Salvador Dali's moustache.
ref: 2015, Daniel Konikoff, "140 characters of comic gold", Varsity (The University of Toronto), 22 March 2015, page 18
glosses: A community of Twitter accounts dedicated to satirical, absurdist, or subversive humor.
beardage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beard + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Manhood does not go by age, or bulk, or beardage.
ref: 1866, William Arnot, “Ourselves, and How to Make the Most of Them”, in Six Lectures Delivered In Exeter Hall, page 69:
text: Make sure you don't have to take a drug test the morning after East Van rock outfit Black Mountain brings its sludgy riffs and back-to-the-land beardage to the Commodore Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
ref: 2010 November 26, “Picks of the week”, in Vancouver Courier, page 37:
text: Petrovitch scratched at the stubble on his chin. "Could never grow a proper beard. Now, Archie's? That was serious beardage. […]
ref: 2013, Simon Morden, The Curve of the Earth, unnumbered page:
glosses: The mass or volume of a beard.
fetch way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fetches way
form: fetching way
form: fetched way
form: fetched way
Senses: examples: text: When running before the wind, she rolled so deep that almost everything fetched way, and a dismal night I passed.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 160
glosses: To move from the proper place; to come loose.
fetched way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fetch way
unegalitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unegalitarian
form: most unegalitarian
Etymology: From un- + egalitarian.
Senses: synonyms: inegalitarian
glosses: Not egalitarian.
carenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of careenage.
Dustoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From DUSTOFF, the callsign used by U.S. Army Air Ambulance units.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of CASEVAC (“emergency evacuation of casualties from a combat zone”).
synonyms: word: CASEVAC
extra: emergency evacuation of casualties from a combat zone
medivacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medivac
pricemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪkɪŋ
Etymology: From price + making.
Senses: glosses: The process of determining the odds to be offered to bettors.
Related terms: pricemaker
pricemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pricemakers
Etymology: From price + maker.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: A person who determines the odds to be offered to bettors.
Related terms: pricemaking
pricemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pricemaker
wooll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wool.
sweatish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweatish
form: most sweatish
Etymology: From sweat + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Similar to sweat, especially in smell; sweaty
West Didsbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8391).
Bluebeardesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌbluːbɪɹdˈɛsk/
Forms: form: more Bluebeardesque
form: most Bluebeardesque
Etymology: From Bluebeard + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the tale or character of Bluebeard.
trundly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trundly
form: most trundly
Etymology: From trundle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There's a trundly sound as Native Companion's car gets locked down at the platform. Jiggles of movement in the cage, and the door's latch slowly turns.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:
glosses: Having a trundling motion or sound.
impearce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impearces
form: impearcing
form: impearced
form: impearced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of impierce.
unsmuggled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + smuggled.
Senses: examples: text: The unsmuggled goods were eventually returned to the passengers.
glosses: Not smuggled.
plainliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of plainly: most plainly
impearced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impearce
Newbigin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
jiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jit (“Zimbabwean dance music”).
superfancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superfancy
form: most superfancy
Etymology: From super- + fancy.
Senses: glosses: Very fancy.
Goyt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Derbyshire and Greater Manchester, England, which becomes the River Mersey at Stockport.
Lichtensteinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lichtensteinian
form: most Lichtensteinian
Etymology: From Lichtenstein + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), American pop artist.
draadsitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draadsitters
Etymology: From Afrikaans draadsitter, from draad (“wire, fence”) + sitter (“sitter”), probably a calque of English fence sitter.
Senses: examples: text: Silas Nkanunu - vice President under Luyt, last week was the only time he stood up to Luyt and that was when he was sure of Luyt's demise, in my opinion a bit of a 'draadsitter'
ref: 1998 May 13, news.iop.co.za, “SARFU”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet):
text: It is now very un-PC to attribute this comment to Humpty-Dumpty, who, as we all know, was male, white and middle-aged. And the only proof that he wasn't an Afrikaans pale male is the fact that he was a wall-sitter instead of a draadsitter.
ref: 2000 December 28, Ron McGregor, “Re: Who said what?”, in soc.culture.zimbabwe (Usenet):
text: u better decide who you´re going to join, the peckies or the boers, the englishmen will never amount to anything. draadsitter.
ref: 2004 February 18, Max, “Re: They forgot a few things...”, in soc.culture.south-africa.afrikaans (Usenet):
topics: government
politics
glosses: A fence sitter.
draadsitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draadsitter
leuchtenbergite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leuchtenbergites
Etymology: From German Leuchtenbergit, equal to Leuchtenberg + -ite. Named after Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817–1852).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of clinochlore that contains little or no iron.
wikipedia: Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
leuchtenbergites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leuchtenbergite
PEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PEMs
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of polymer electrolyte membrane.
topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: proton
exchange
membrane
IEM
AEM
CEM
glosses: Initialism of proton exchange membrane.
qualifier: electrics
glosses: Acronym of power electronics module.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
coordinate_terms: ME
CFS
ME/CFS
PVFS
PVS
PVF
glosses: Initialism of post-exertional malaise.
PEMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PEM
Ofcom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: OFCOM
Senses: examples: text: Love Island viewers have made 1,509 complaints to the media regulator, Ofcom, over allegedly misogynistic behaviour by male contestants towards their female counterparts.
ref: 2022 July 27, Jim Waterson, “Love Island draws 1,500 complaints to Ofcom over alleged misogyny”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Acronym of Office of Communications.
sun poisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: photodermatitis
unsunburned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sunburned.
Senses: glosses: Not sunburned.
Poincaré map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poincaré maps
Etymology: Named after Henri Poincaré.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The intersection of a periodic orbit in the state space of a continuous dynamical system with a certain lower-dimensional subspace (the Poincaré section), transversal to the flow of the system.
Poincaré maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Poincaré map
down there
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊn ðɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /daʊn ðɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /daʊn ðɛəɹ/
ipa: /daʊn ˈðeɪə/
ipa: /daʊn ðeː(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch^([sic]) with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
text: Then she put her hand on my pants, you know, down there.
ref: 2005, Annie Fox, Elizabeth Verdick, The Teen Survival Guide to Dating & Relating, page 44:
text: It may seem a bit strange to squirt yourself with warm water from a squirt bottle every time you use the restroom for a few weeks, but I'm pretty sure we can all agree that getting an infection down there doesn't sound fun.
ref: 2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Baby's First Year, page 15:
glosses: In the genital area; often used of and/or by females
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, there.
E&G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electricity and gas.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Initialism of excision and grafting.
E&G
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: E&G funds
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of educational and general.
T&C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of T&Cs.
glosses: Initialism of Town and Country.
transprovincial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + provincial.
Senses: glosses: Across or through a province.
subprovincially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subprovincial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subprovincial manner.
GOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GOTs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase.
glosses: Abbreviation of geranyl-pyrophosphate-olivetolic acid geranyltransferase or geranyl-diphosphate:olivetolate geranyltransferase.
glosses: Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of global offset table.
Synonyms: english: aspartate transaminase
translation: aspartate transaminase
word: AST
english: aspartate aminotransferase
translation: aspartate aminotransferase
word: AspAT
english: aspartate aminotransferase
translation: aspartate aminotransferase
word: ASAT
english: aspartate aminotransferase
translation: aspartate aminotransferase
word: AAT
Hyponyms: english: serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase
translation: serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase
word: SGOT
Coordinate terms: sense: glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase
english: pyridoxal phosphate
translation: pyridoxal phosphate
word: PLP
GOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).
EEZs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EEZ (“exclusive economic zone; lit. "exclusive economy zones"”)
cane piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cane pieces
Senses: examples: text: After breakfast we were conducted over several cane pieces, viewing that luxuriant and useful plant in its different stages.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 172
text: He took Mr. Leslie through his mills and over his cane-pieces.
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, Tales of All Nations:
glosses: A field of sugarcane.
cane pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cane piece
apess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apesses
Etymology: From ape + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, though his limbs with pile were rough, / And though his tail was long enough / […] / Th’ apesses [he] treated with disdain[.]
ref: 1865, Richard Francis Burton, “Dirge.”, in Stone Talk (Λιθοφωνημα / Lithophonema): Being Some of the Marvellous Sayings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street, London, to One Doctor Polyglott, Ph.D., London: Hardwicke, Robert, pages 20–21:
text: I must run over & see you some day. Why not you & Mʳˢ Darwin run over here, when you have finished your Book—you can study my little Apes & Apesses—Kindest regards to Mʳˢ Darwin & thanks for her note—Always yours Affecˡʸ / W D Fox
ref: 1870 November 18, William Darwin Fox, letter to Charles Darwin:
text: Suddenly then he rose, and thinking scorn of his fellows / Longed to be quit of them all, his Apess specially.
ref: 1884, The Spectator, volume 57, Poetry. In the Beginning., page 1173:
text: The second movement, the allegro ironico, is a variation on the well-known theme “Je m’en fous.” An ape-like mockery whinnies through it. Cocoanuts are shied at all the four corners of the world. Some of them display a mysterious tendency to fall near the spot where the apess sits weeping over the children.
ref: 1923, Paul Rosenfeld, Musical Chronicle (1917–1923), page 81:
text: In negroes and in anthropoid apes, the index finger is much shorter than the ring finger. In negresses and in anthropoid apesses, the index finger is often longer.
ref: 1939, James Bridie, One Way of Living, page 196:
text: The apess doesn’t look her age.
ref: 1986, Rikki Ducornet, Entering Fire, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 142:
text: I dunno; do apesses screech more than male orangutans 'n' gorillae?
ref: 1998 April 20, Geoff Miller, “Re: The Tuneless Whistler -- a trial of patience!”, in alt.peeves (Usenet), message-ID <geoffmEroyF8.79L@netcom.com>:
text: [A]pesses do all the child-rearing.
ref: 2000, “The Life Cycle” (Part I), in Michèle Plott, Lauri Umansky, editors, Making Sense of Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies, Collegiate Press, →ISBN, Women Working: Germaine Greer, “Work”, page 201:
text: She then remarks that some people refer to art as the “apess or ape of nature, because just as the apess greatly imitates the manners of humans, art greatly imitates the works of nature.”
ref: 2009, Stephen Perkinson, “Chapter Three: The Vocabulary of Likeness at the Late Fourteenth-Century French Court”, in The Likeness of the King: A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, Conclusion: “Counterfeiting” Nature, ca. 1400, page 186:
glosses: A female ape.
apesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apess
larger Pacific striped octopuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larger Pacific striped octopus
larger Pacific striped octopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larger Pacific striped octopuses
form: larger Pacific striped octopusses
form: larger Pacific striped octopi
form: larger Pacific striped octopii
form: larger Pacific striped octopodes
form: larger Pacific striped octopus
Senses: examples: text: Unlike other octopus species, which are normally solitary, the larger Pacific striped octopus has been reported as forming groups of up to 40 individuals.
text: Also unlike many other octopus, female Larger Pacific striped octopuses don't die after laying their eggs, instead going on to lay again and again.
ref: 2017, Rebecca Tansley, Big Pacific, Princeton University Press, page 45:
text: Supporting this latter view, the recently rediscovered Larger Pacific Striped Octopus exhibits a unique hunting behavior that suggests that these animals might have ToM-like cognitive abilities.
ref: 2018, Gül Dölen, “Mind Reading Developed at Least Twice in the Course of Evolution”, in David J. Linden, editor, Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience, Yale University Press, page 198:
glosses: A species of octopus, endemic to bays and coastal waters of the tropical eastern Pacific, that has a striped body and spotted tentacles, and exhibits certain behaviours that distinguish it from other octopuses.
Synonyms: sense: species of octopus
word: LPSO
yava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑː.və/
rhymes: -ɑːvə
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kava.
slop shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slop shop
cllrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cllr
under-fired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more under-fired
form: most under-fired
Senses: examples: text: Under-fired (under-heated) grills. The heat source for these is underneath the grill. Under-fired grills are used to cook food quickly, so they need to reach a high temperature. This type of grill makes criss-cross marks on the food, known as quadrillage.
ref: 2014, Keyth Richardson et al., chapter 7, in Basic Cookery for Foundation Learning, London: Hodder Education, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of underfired.
leukamenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukamenins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of diterpenoids isolated from Rabdosia umbrosa.
leukamenins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukamenin
nonpressure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pressure.
Senses: examples: text: The decision to use pressure or nonpressure storage tanks depends on the type of material to be stored and the method of loading and unloading the storage vessel.
ref: 1991, Fluid Fertilizer Science and Technology, Palgrave, page 252:
glosses: Not involving or relating to pressure.
nucleocytoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleocytoplasm
superculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercultures
Etymology: From super- + culture.
Senses: glosses: The larger culture that contains a subculture.
supercultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superculture
Niskin bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Niskin bottle
Niskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Niskin
Nansen bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nansen bottle
Nissard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nissards
form: Nizzard
form: Nissarde
Etymology: From French nissard, from Occitan niçard. Compare Italian nizzardo.
Senses: examples: text: The most famous of all Nizzards also allowed himself to become involved in a daft plot with an English adventurer called Laurence Oliphant.
ref: 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 191:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Nice; a Niçois.
glosses: The Niçois dialect.
Nissards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nissard
nivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nivated
form: most nivated
Senses: examples: text: The nivated and glaciated areas shared the same snowfall and the same climatic conditions […]
ref: 1900, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior, United States: Department of the Interior, page 188:
text: […] since glacial striæ are wholly absent from nivated surfaces according to both Matthes' observations and my own.
ref: 1916, Isaiah Bowman, The Andes of Southern Peru, page 289:
glosses: Eroded by nivation.
Nodhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nodheads
Senses: glosses: A variety of apple with mostly red skin.
Nodheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nodhead
no-jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-jumps
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, by waiting as long as possible each time before jumping, he lost concentration and then, because of overstriding over the first part of the approach run, he made three no-jumps.
ref: 2002, John Kerr, Counselling Athletes: Applying Reversal Theory, page 72:
text: If a long jumper or triple jumper crosses the take-off board on or before take-off, it is a no-jump. Triple jumpers must 'hop, step, jump'. Other actions are a no-jump.
ref: 2004, Andy Sibson, John Taylor, Sport Examined Entry Level Teacher Support Pack:
glosses: An attempted long jump or triple jump that is disqualified for breaking a rule.
no-jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no-jump
no-till
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: no-tillage
glosses: A technique for growing crops or pasture without disturbing the soil through tillage.
Related terms: no-tilled
no-tilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Employing or relating to the no-till technique.
noug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Table 3 shows the effect of treatment on daily estimated ME intake from hay plus block only, significant at the 10% level, whereby the intake of hay plus block decreased linearly with increasing intake of noug.
ref: 1987, D. A. Little, A. N. Said, African Research Network for Agricultural Byproducts, Utilization of Agricultural By-products as Livestock Feeds in Africa (page 141)
glosses: Alternative form of noog (“Guizotia abyssinica”).
definitive host
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: definitive hosts
Senses: examples: text: Cats are the definitive host of Toxoplasma gondii.
text: They remain within the intermediate host until it is eaten by the definitive host.
ref: 2002, Jack Chernin, Parasitology, →ISBN, page 14:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The host in which a parasite reproduces sexually.
nitrosylmyoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrosylmyoglobin
nodal fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of erythema nodosum.
synonyms: word: erythema nodosum
EVAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Abbreviation of evaporative emission control system.
nucleolocytoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Both nucleolar and cytoplasmic.
northern dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of New Latin aurōra boreālis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aurora borealis.
synonyms: word: aurora borealis
jugular notch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jugular notches
Senses: examples: text: His name was Saeed and her name was Nadia and […] she was always clad from the tips of her toes to the bottom of her jugular notch in a flowing black robe.
ref: 2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 1:
glosses: Synonym of suprasternal notch.
synonyms: word: suprasternal notch
jugular notches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jugular notch
uncinctured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cinctured.
Senses: glosses: Not cinctured.
myelocytomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myelocytoma
mycoplasmological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to mycoplasmology.
mycoplasmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of mycoplasma.
Derived terms: mycoplasmologist
mutular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having or relating to mutules.
myophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myophore
myophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myophore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to myophores.
myons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myon
myeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myeons
form: myon
Etymology: From Korean 면(面) (myeon).
Senses: glosses: An administrative unit in South Korea, corresponding to a small rural township.
myeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myeon
naboom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nabooms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of candelabra tree (“Euphorbia ingens”).
synonyms: word: candelabra tree
extra: Euphorbia ingens
nabooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naboom
candelabra trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candelabra tree
nonprenex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prenex.
Senses: glosses: Not prenex.
biraderi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of baradari (“Muslim social strata”).
synonyms: word: baradari
extra: Muslim social strata
nakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naka
hirbad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hirbads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of herbad (“Zoroastrian priest”).
herbads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbad
hirbads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hirbad
ervad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ervads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of herbad (“Zoroastrian priest”).
ervads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ervad
herbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbed
navar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navars
Senses: glosses: A kind of Zoroastrian priest.
navars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navar
dasturs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dastur
dustoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustoors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dastur (“Zoroastrian high priest”).
dustoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustoors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dasturi (“commission, kickback”).
dustoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustoor
Nasranis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nasrani
absteyner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absteyners
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abstainer.
absteyners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absteyner
Nasaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nasarees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nazarene (“member of historical Jewish sect”).
Nazoree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nazorees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nazarene (“member of historical Jewish sect”).
Nasarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nasaree
Nazorees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nazoree
Nazarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nazaree
mukhannath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mukhannaths
form: mukhannathun
Etymology: From Arabic مخنث
Senses: glosses: An effeminate man in the early Arab world, sometimes a performer of music or dance, etc.
glosses: The receptive partner in homosexual activity.
raw_tags: in Arab contexts
Related terms: khanith
mukhannaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mukhannath
mukhannathun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mukhannath
mimeticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimeticists
Etymology: From mimetic + -ist.
Senses: topics: art
arts
literature
media
publishing
glosses: One who takes a mimetic approach; a proponent of mimesis.
glosses: A scientist who attempted to understand large-scale phenomena by creating miniature physical models.
Related terms: mimeticism
mimeticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mimeticist
neonatal abstinence syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: NAS
glosses: A withdrawal syndrome of infants after birth, caused by in-utero exposure to dependence-forming drugs.
stringline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From string + line.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Describing a derailment typically occurring when a train having improperly distributed weight starts or accelerates on sharply curving track
stringline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stringlines
form: stringlining
form: stringlined
form: stringlined
Etymology: From string + line.
Senses: examples: text: The train stringlined on a curve when the engineer increased power at the front.
ref: 2007 July 11, Allan Dowd, “CN Rail criticized by Canadian derailment probe”, in Reuters:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To derail on sharply curving track, usually due to incorrectly distributed weight
GIDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GID
Gorillæ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Gorillai.
gorillæ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Gorillai.
nebularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nebularizes
form: nebularizing
form: nebularized
form: nebularized
Etymology: From nebular + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To form into a nebula.
glosses: To convert into a cloudy or diffuse form.
nebularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nebularize
nebularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nebularize
nebularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nebularize
nebularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nebular + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of nebularizing.
Mozarabite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mozarabites
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mozarab.
synonyms: word: Mozarab
Mozarabites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mozarabite
mud scows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud scow
definitive hosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of definitive host
mud slogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud sloggers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An infantry soldier.
mud sloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud slogger
mullocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mullockers
Etymology: From mullock + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This clause shall be satisfied as to such of the employees as are contract miners, or fillers, or truckers, or mullockers, by adding 1s. to the amount which they are to be respectively set to earn.
ref: 1920, The New South Wales Industrial Gazette, volume 17, page 106:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A worker who clears waste material from a mine.
mullockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mullocker
mullocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mullock
mullocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mullock
Magyarab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magyarab
form: Magyarabs
Senses: glosses: A member of a people living along the Nile River in Egypt and Sudan, of Hungarian ancestry.
wikipedia: + people
casemix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casemixes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of case mix.
casemixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casemix
case mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case mixes
form: casemix
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: cohort
glosses: A group of statistically related patients considered together for purposes of classification.
case mixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of case mix
monomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monomorph
unimorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unimorph