cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
marginalisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marginaliser
outside chances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outside chance
computer-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: computer
form: based
form: computerbased
Etymology: From computer + based.
Senses: glosses: Based on computer technology.
Guernsey County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 88 counties in Ohio, United States. County seat: Cambridge. Named after Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
false croups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false croup
primal scenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primal scene
reabusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reabuse
reabuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reabuse
reabused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reabuse
starboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starboys
Etymology: From star + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Look what you've done / I'm a, I'm a, I'm a motherfucking starboy
ref: 2016, The Weeknd, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter, Doc McKinney, Cirkut, DaHeala, “Starboy”:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:starboy.
glosses: A young male celebrity.
hugemongous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hugemongous
form: most hugemongous
Etymology: Blend of huge + humongous
Senses: glosses: Extremely large.
appetences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appetence
plaintiffs in error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaintiff in error
Shepton Mallet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6143).
Related terms: West Shepton
boulevardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boulevarde
Monterey Jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Monterey Jack
races to the top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of race to the top
rain collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rain collar
Creonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Creonic
form: most Creonic
form: Creonian
Etymology: From Creon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: For so long as the judging consciousness refuses to recognize his own evil, he remains stubbornly Creonic.
ref: 1995, Andrew Cutrofello, The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Only the person who balances self-protection with yielding in this way can be either a lover or a friend: for the completely passive victim cannot act to help another, and the Creonic agent cannot see otherness.
ref: 2001, Martha C. Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness, →ISBN:
text: Indeed, seeing the world oppositionally is 'Creonic', by which I mean it is part of his strategy of ordering the world into 'with me or against me', impugning the motives of anyone who disagrees with him and insisting on his sanity as opposed to the insanity of Antigone.
ref: 2012, T. Erskine, R. Lebow, Tragedy and International Relations, →ISBN:
text: Creaon has expressly commanded that Polyneices not be given a burial, but his sister Antigone knows that the gods require such evidence of piety and the Sophoclean drama is born from this conflict between Antigonean spirituality and Creonic secularity.
ref: 2012, Zachariah Rush, Beyond the Screenplay: A Dialectical Approach to Dramaturgy, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Creon, especially as portrayed in Sophocles' play Antigone: intolerant of those who disagree, holding onto and enforcing power, and indifferent to religious convention.
charismatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being charismatic.
Creon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiː.ɒn/
ipa: /ˈkɹiˌɑn/
rhymes: -iːɒn
Forms: form: Creone
form: Kreon
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κρέων (Kréōn).
Senses: examples: text: It has often been observed that Creon imputes corrupt motives (here and to Teiresias), because this was a level of motivation within his comprehension.
ref: 1980, R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: An Interpretation, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Above all -- and this is of central importance in connection with the legal implications -- it is essential to understand that Creon must emerge as an appropriate counterweight to the obsessive energy of Antigone: that "Antigone's fate provides the foil for Creon and, in turn, Creon's fate becomes evident only against the background of Antigone's desitiny.
ref: 2003, Theodore Ziolkowski, The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises, →ISBN, page 152:
text: Perhaps more than any other figure in the Oedipus Trilogy, Creon, Oedipus' brother-in-law, seems to be a very different character in each of the plays.
ref: 2011, Regina Higgins, Charles Higgins, Cliffs Notes on Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy, →ISBN, page 81:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.
Creone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Her death was avenged on Creone by Theseus, and her name has been immortalized in a tragedy by Sophocles.
ref: 1857, Henry Gardiner Adams, A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography:
text: In a famous passage from Sophocles' drama, the Greek princess, Antigone, defends her disobedience of Creone's harsh decree that her brother's body should not be buried, by invoking The unwritten laws of God that know not change.
ref: 1955, Arthur Léon Harding, Albert Cook Outler, Natural law and natural rights, page 53:
text: It is this that Sophocles caused Antigone to debate with Creone after she had violated his law by giving burial to her brother:
ref: 1968, Thomas M. Franck, The structure of impartiality:
glosses: Alternative form of Creon.
Creone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Creones
Senses: examples: text: At the commencement of these wars, a younger son of the royal family of the Creones in Caledonia, having been sent over with succours to the Britons, was chosen their Pendragon by the kings ; and the crown was fixed hereditary in his family. And, soon after the conclusion of them, the royal line of the Creones being extinguished, their domions must necessarily have devolved to the monarchs of Ireland.
ref: 1772, John Whitaker, The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted:
text: The west coast of Ross, from Volias-sinus, on the north, to the Ityo, on the south, was inhabited by the Creones, who derived their British name from their fiercencis ; Crewon, or Creuonwys, signifying the men of blood.
ref: 1807, George Chalmers, Caledonia, page 68:
text: In the west, to the north of Mull were the Creones, falling in with the north part of Argyleshire and the west part of Rosshire ; to the north of these again were the Carnonacae, being the west part also of Rosshire ; opposite to the two first is the isle of Skye, the ancient Dumna.
ref: 1887, Publications of the Scottish History Society, page 115:
glosses: A member of a tribe that lived in what is now part of Scotland.
Creones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Creone
Creonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /kɹiˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Creone + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: With thoſe that ſtretcht along the Weſtern Coaſt; / To whom the old Creonian Towns were loſt, / Where high Epidium midſt th' Hibernian Waves, / Protrudes his Head, and all their Monſters braves.
ref: 1695, Richard Blackmore, “Book IX”, in Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil […], →OCLC, page 267:
text: They took possession of the Creonian dominions, in consequence of the laws and prescriptions of the country; as the Creones now assumed a new appellation from them, and were denominated, like them, Ar-gathel, iar-gael, or Ar-gyle.
ref: 1773, John Whitaker, The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted against Mr. Macpherson:
text: Glengary, with part of his family, were returning in the steamer from a visit to some of their more Southron friends: they had passed through the Creonian Canal, and were within but a few miles of Fort William.
ref: 1833, Thomas Burgeland Johnson, The Sportsmen’s Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine, page 375:
glosses: Pertaining to the Creones.
Creonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /kɹiˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Creonian
form: most Creonian
Etymology: From Creon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Antigone is an artist of logos while speaking for eros. This is not speech by paranoon, not speech by Creonian women. This is the speech of polis.
ref: 1997, Kaarlo Tuori, Zenon Bankowski, Jyrki Uusitalo, Law and Power: Critical and Socio-legal Essays, page 247:
text: Insofar as it involves a Creonian site of authority, an ethics of a state, such as the Athenian democratic state, Lacan argued, indeed demands a beautiful, heroic, and dead Antigone.
ref: 2002, Stanley Corngold, Gerhard Richter, Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship:
text: In Sophoclean words, an Antigonian moment is manipulated to climb to power, and a Creonian moment is embraced to retain it, the revolutionary taking 'the heroic attitude of “Somebody has to do the dirty work, so let's do it!”'
ref: 2012, Matthew Johnson, The Legacy of Marxism, →ISBN:
text: We may call this the typical Creonian position. Creon exemplifies, in Sophocles' tragedy, the ruler (and victor in the civil war) who seeks to impose this exact view by prohibiting the burial of the leader of the losing side.
ref: 2015, Anna Lisa Tota, Trever Hagen, Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: Alternative form of Creonic.
Vantucky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: CB radio slang. Blend of Vancouver + Kentucky. Named to mock the residents being seen as more "rural" than the surrounding cities, mistaken for being people from Kentucky.
Senses: examples: text: It follows on the success of their longtime “Vantucky Strikes Back” shirts (right).
ref: 2011 May 17, “Cafe offers 'Vantucky Strikes Back' T-shirts, humor along with coffee”, in The Oregonian:
text: Oregon is different than Vantucky? Not really.
ref: 2013 February 15, Allan Brettman, “Nike built World Headquarters without government perks”, in The Oregonian:
text: Hungry for some cosmic consciousness on a September weekend, Portlander Keith Picone ventured north to what he usually called “Vantucky” to check out our 10th annual Peace and Justice Fair.
ref: 2014 May 17, Scott Hewitt, “Welcome to Vancooler Washington”, in The Columbian:
text: And if the drivers from Vantucky don't like it they can take a boat across the Mighty Columbia and a prop plane out of Fort Vancouver.
ref: 2013 May 24, Richard Read, “Skagit River Interstate 5 bridge collapse could cause Washington legislators to fund Columbia River Crossing”, in The Oregonian:
text: And they're assuming the fry is from Portland and not Vantucky or Beaverton or Hillsboro.
ref: 2014 April 25, Kevin McFarland, “Grimm: “Nobody Knows The Trubel I've Seen"”, in A.V. Club:
text: To sophisticates across the river, Vancouver is “Vantucky,” a place that doesn’t share their tastes in microbreweries, organic dining and public transit (traits skewered for their whiff of smugness in the “Portlandia” television series)...For years, most of the development has been in the suburbs, from ranch-style tract homes to McMansions. Leavitt embraced the bridge plan, in part, as a way to end the Vantucky punchlines.
ref: 2014 December 19, Peter Robison, “Bridge of 1917 Remains Deathtrap as Infrastructure Decays”, in Bloomberg:
text: My official hometown has been called Vantucky, The Couve—and the chip on Vancouver's shoulder is perfectly understandable.
ref: 2016 October 7, Micah Meadowcroft, “Out of Portland's Shadow”, in The American Conservative:
text: Seven years later, Killer Burger has nine locations, from Eugene to Vantucky.
ref: 2017 February 28, Sophia June, “The 16 Best Classic Burgers in Portland”, in Willamette Week:
glosses: derogatory name for Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.
hawok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawock
Senses: glosses: Shells used as money in some Native American cultures.
smooth brome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth bromes
Senses: glosses: A perennial grass, of species Bromus inermis, native to Eurasia, widely planted elsewhere as a hay or pasture crop, but also known as an invasive weed outside its native range.
smooth bromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smooth brome
paint thinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paint thinners
Senses: examples: text: Pour a solvent such as paint thinner, mineral spirits, or a liquid sandpaper product in a metal can or enamel bowl. Wear protective gloves.
ref: 2004, Mickey Baskett, Fabulous Painted Furniture, page 13:
glosses: A solvent used to thin oil-based paints or clean up after their use.
paint thinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paint thinner
contradick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contradicks
form: contradicking
form: contradicked
form: contradicked
Etymology: Eye dialect.
Senses: examples: text: And as for the cow you've bought, bargain or no bargain, I've been at the drenching of her—contradick me who will.
ref: 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner:
text: We are all well I do my lessons always and never corroberate the girls—Meg says I mean contradick so I put in both words and you can take the properest.
ref: 1872, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
text: "If you could just get into a little argyment with that young lady so you're not speakin' to each other — contradick her like a gentlemun, quiet and firm, about everythin'; that's one thing ladies can't stand.
ref: 1947, Phil Stong, Positive Pete, page 55:
text: He was referring to L. Paul Bremer, the top dog of desert camouflage boot-wearing big shots at CPA. “Well, I wouldn't want to contradick your report to Bremer, now would I?”
ref: 2015, Marvin Gray, Welcome to the Dark Side, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of contradict.
contradick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contradicks
Etymology: Blend of contradict + dick.
Senses: examples: text: micah 9 is a contradick. lol.
ref: 1997 December 8, BoOnani, “micah 9 is a contradick”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
text: My brother is king of the contradicks! You can't reason with them. It's like trying to talk to a magic 8 ball.
ref: 1998 December 26, laura, “Read this Izzy trash![Fwd: Sorry about that.........]”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet):
text: Are you calling me a contradick?
ref: 2003 November 12, Wiseman, “OT - Another Chopper down in Iraq”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet):
glosses: An obnoxious person who routinely contradicts themselves or others.
aggrandisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggrandisations
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of aggrandization.
labeo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labeos
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Labeo, from Latin labeō.
Senses: glosses: Any carp of the genus Labeo.
Derived terms: green fringelip labeo
binarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French binarchie, from Latin bīnī (“twin”) + -archia (“-archy”), from Ancient Greek -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of biarchy.
synonyms: word: biarchy
quattuorvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quattuorvirates
form: quadrumvirate
form: quartumvirate
form: quatuorvirate
form: quatrumvirate
Etymology: From Latin quattuorvirātus, from quattuorvir + -ātus.
Senses: glosses: A group of four people, especially a council of four men sharing office or rule.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
Related terms: quattuorvir
quattuorviral
Midsomer Norton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪdsʌməɹ ˈnɔːɹtən/
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6654).
quartumvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartumvirates
Etymology: From quārtus (“fourth”) + the latter part of triumvirate, possibly originally as a variant of quatrumvirate, itself a variant of quadrumvirate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.
Radstock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6854).
predatory conference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predatory conferences
Senses: glosses: A low-quality and for-profit academic conference in which any person can present as long as they pay a fee.
predatory journal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predatory journals
Senses: topics: media
publishing
coordinate_terms: predatory publishing
glosses: A publishing outlet that poses as a reputable academic journal, but will publish anything submitted for a fee.
tetradarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetradarchies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετραδαρχία (tetradarkhía), from τετράς (tetrás, “tetrad, group of four”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule”).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative form of tetrarchy: rule by four people.
tetradarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetradarchy
Norton Fitzwarren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The manorial affix is from lands held by the Fitzwarren family.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish near Taunton, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1925).
Bitter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch or German.
Derived terms: Bitter electromagnet
Bitter plate
Castle Cary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌkɑːsəl ˈkɛəɹi/
Etymology: Situated at the source of the River Cary.
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST6432).
Related terms: Castlecary
sextumvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextumvirates
Etymology: From Latin sextum (“sixth”) + the latter part of triumvirate (“group of three men”), cf Latin seviratus. See also quadrumvirate, quartumvirate and quatrumvirate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sexvirate: a group of six men.
sexvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexvirates
form: sevirate
form: sextumvirate
Etymology: From Latin sexvirātus, from sexvir (“sexvir”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Senses: glosses: A group of six men, especially (politics) a council of six men who share office or rule, particularly (historical) various such councils in ancient Rome.
Related terms: sexvir
sevirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sevirates
Etymology: From Latin sēvirātus, from sēvir (“sexvir”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sexvirate: a group of six men.
Bruton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Brue (river) + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, on the River Brue, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST6834).
glosses: A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation.
Derived terms: Bruton's tyrosine kinase
Adygeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Adygei or Adygea + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The Adygeic family represents a special type of object incorporation. We examine here Abchazian.
ref: 1983, Georg F. Meier, “The incorporated object”, in Manfred Faust et al., editors, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Textlinguistik, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, page 290:
text: The decisions of the 1820s–50s deprived the Adygeic princes who had accepted Russian citizenship of almost all their former privileges, above all the right to convoke troops, declare war, make raids.
ref: 2018, I. S. Karabulatova et al., “Mythologization of the Abrek's Image in the Modern Caucasian Linguistic Consciousness”, in Astra Salvensis, volume 6, number 12, →ISSN, page 740:
glosses: Relating to Adygei or Adygea.
octovirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octovirates
Etymology: From Latin octōvirātus, from octōvir + -ātus. By surface analysis, octovir + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a group of people performing it).
Senses: glosses: A group of eight people, especially (politics) a council of eight men who share office or rule.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
Related terms: octovir
Brue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the Bristol Channel at Burnham-on-Sea.
Lundy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name means 'puffin island', from Old Norse lundi (“puffin”) + ey (“island”). Compare Lundey in Iceland.
Senses: glosses: An island in the Bristol Channel, off the coast of Devon, England, and included in Torridge district (OS grid ref SS14).
glosses: A sea area corresponding to the Bristol Channel
Derived terms: Lundy cabbage
Lundy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lundys
Etymology: Irish and Scottish surname from a variant of Lundie.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Paulton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːltən/
Etymology: From Old English peall (“ledge”) + tun (“homestead, village”).
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6556).
decadarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decadarchies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεκαδαρχία (dekadarkhía), from δεκάς (dekás, “a group of ten”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule”). Equivalent to deca- + -archy.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of decarchy.
synonyms: word: decarchy
Related terms: decadarch
dekadarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dekadarchies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεκαδαρχία (dekadarkhía), from δεκάς (dekás, “a group of ten”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule”). Equivalent to deka- + -archy.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of decarchy: rule by ten people.
synonyms: word: decarchy
extra: rule by ten people
Batheaston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Somerset, England, to the east of the city of Bath.
undecimvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undecimvirates
form: undecemvirate
Etymology: From Latin ūndecimvirātus, from ūndecimvirī (“undecimvirs”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Senses: synonyms: word: government
glosses: A group of eleven people, especially (politics) a council of eleven men sharing office or power and particularly (historical) the groups of eleven magistrates in ancient Athens.
Related terms: undecimvir
Bathampton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌbɑːθˈæmptən/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England, to the east of the city of Bath (OS grid ref ST7766).
Bathford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bath + ford.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England, to the east of the city of Bath (OS grid ref ST7966).
Ilchester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district; in the past a Roman town and market town (OS grid ref ST5222).
glosses: An English earldom.
glosses: A census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, United States, named after Ilchester, Somerset.
Yeovilton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjoʊvɪltən/
Senses: glosses: A village and former civil parish, now in Yeovilton and District parish, Somerset, England, and previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5423).
glosses: A Royal Naval Air Station next to the village.
Zeals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Seles, from Old English sēalas, plural of sealh (“willow”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England, close to the border with both Dorset and Somerset (OS grid ref ST7831).
EFP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EFPs
Senses: examples: text: The RAF device which killed Herrhausen is generally described as a platter charge, rather than an Iraq-style EFP. That's because the RAF are not thought to have had the skill to produce an EFP.
ref: 2008 July 29, David Hambling, “Superbomb Mystery: The Herrhausen Assassination”, in Wired, →ISSN:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of explosively formed penetrator.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of exchange for physical, exchange futures for physical, or exchange futures for product, a type of transaction.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of electronic field production.
Related terms: english: improvised explosive device
translation: improvised explosive device
word: IED
english: kinetic energy weapon
translation: kinetic energy weapon
word: KEW
english: rocket propelled grenade
translation: rocket propelled grenade
word: RPG
word: shaped charge
word: Claymore
explosively formed penetrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explosively formed penetrators
form: explosively-formed projectile
Senses: glosses: A type of shaped charge with a shallow depression instead of a deep cone on the attacking face, allowing the metal plate to be explosively formed into a high velocity projectile that can penetrate armour at stand-off distances, greater than that of the hypervelocity plasma from the deeply coned form of shaped charge munitions.
Synonyms: word: EFP
word: explosively formed projectile
word: explosively-formed projectile
word: self-forging fragment
word: self-forging warhead
Hypernyms: shaped charge
Derived terms: word: EFP
Related terms: alt: IED
word: improvised explosive device
alt: KEW
word: kinetic energy weapon
alt: RPG
word: rocket propelled grenade
word: Claymore
Stour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaʊəɹ/
ipa: /ˈstʊəɹ/
ipa: /ˈstaʊɹ/
Etymology: Most of the rivers' names are from the root of stour (“powerful, tall, large”), though some may have been borrowed through and influenced by Celtic (compare Welsh dŵr (“water”).
Senses: glosses: A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
glosses: A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.
examples: text: The Stour is at its lowest ebb, and the sheen of the flats makes it difficult to tell where ground ends and water begins, out in the bay.
ref: 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 37:
glosses: A river in Essex and Suffolk, England, flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.
glosses: A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
glosses: A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.
Derived terms: Great Stour
Little Stour
Newbold-on-Stour
Shipston-on-Stour
Stourbridge
Stourton
proceduralisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proceduralism
Ashburton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English æsc (“ashtree”) + burna (“stream”) + tūn (“town”).
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish in Teignbridge district, on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7569).
glosses: A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
glosses: A river in Western Australia, which flows into the Indian Ocean.
glosses: A large town in Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: A river (with two branches) in Canterbury, New Zealand which flows past the town to the Pacific Ocean.
glosses: A territorial authority that includes the town, in Canterbury, New Zealand; in full, Ashburton District.
glosses: A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Derived terms: ashburtonite
Ashvegas
Shrek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹɛk/
Forms: form: Shreks
Etymology: From the fictional ogre Shrek, created by the American author William Steig for his 1990 picture book Shrek! and popularized by the DreamWorks computer-animated movie franchise, whose name derives from Yiddish שרעק (shrek, “fright”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Well, well, well, who have we got here? 'A very fat Shrek suddenly loomed up on them. 'Your host at your service,' he said, with a little bow.
ref: 2012, Clodagh Murphy, Frisky Business:
text: 'I don't want my sister to see you look like a mess, like an ugly Shrek.'
ref: 2016, Jadyn Patrilita, Petimara Ualesi, Fear to Lose:
text: How do you dry your hair? NO DIFFUSER? You are a Shrek. Diffusers are essential!
ref: 2017 May 27, Rekha Shankar, “A Few Simple Tips for Curly-hair Care”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: An extremely ugly person.
wikipedia: Shrek (character)
Shrek (franchise)
Shrek!
William Steig
Related terms: Shrekkie
Shrekky
Shreks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shrek
Dart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Proto-Brythonic *dar (“oak”). Cognate to the Darent.
Senses: glosses: A river in Devon, England, which flows from Dartmoor to the English Channel at Dartmouth.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio, United States, said to be named for a bird flying like a dart.
Derived terms: Dartmoor
Dartmouth
Dart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Darts
Etymology: Metonymic occupational surname for a maker of darts, from Middle English dart.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Dart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Darts
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: An officer trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England.
nabemono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鍋物, literally "cooking-pot things."
Senses: glosses: Any of a variety of Japanese hot pot dishes.
Derived terms: nabe
Kingswear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Hams district, Devon, England, across the River Dart from Dartmouth (OS grid ref SX8851).
primeval soups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primeval soup
southern cassowary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern cassowaries
Senses: glosses: A large flightless black bird, Casuarius casuarius.
southern cassowaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southern cassowary
nonaboriginals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonaboriginal
nonaborted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aborted.
Senses: glosses: Not aborted.
nonaborting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aborting.
Senses: glosses: Not aborting.
marine soaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marine soap
bourded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bourd
bourding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bourd
subtypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subtype + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a subtype.
Derived terms: heterosubtypic
homosubtypic
subtypical
subtypically
microendoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microendoscopy
Kingsbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7344).
glosses: A hamlet in Luxborough parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS9837).
synonyms: King's Bridge
glosses: A village in Llwchwr community, to the west of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS5897).
glosses: A rural community in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh municipality, Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A neighbourhood of the Bronx, New York.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States.
biterritorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + territorial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to two territories.
Manitowoc County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Manitowoc.
sawing logs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saw logs
bumping nasties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bump nasties
creampieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creampie
deep throating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deep throat
compact camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compact cameras
Senses: examples: text: I confess — I took virtually every picture in this book with my compact camera!
ref: 2011, Rick Sammon, Confessions of a Compact Camera Shooter, →ISBN:
text: Have you wondered what zoom on a compact camera really means?
ref: 2011, Erin Manning, Portrait and Candid Photography Photo Workshop, →ISBN, page 25:
text: This isn't a Canon/Nikon debate, or a DSLR (digital singlelens reflex)/compact camera debate.
ref: 2013, John Batdorff, Street Photography, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of point-and-shoot camera
synonyms: word: point-and-shoot camera
Manitowoc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænɪtəwɒk/
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, on the shore of Lake Michigan.
glosses: A river in Wisconsin, the Manitowoc River, which flows into Lake Michigan at Manitowoc.
Derived terms: Manitowoc County
queer kens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queer ken
quire ken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quire kens
Senses: examples: text: To mill each Ken, let Cove bring then, / through Ruffman's Jaug or Laund, / Till cramping's quire, tip Cove his hire / and Quire Ken do them catch,
ref: 1754, “Canting Songs”, in The Scoundrel's Dictionary, page 22:
glosses: Alternative spelling of queer ken.
quire kens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quire ken
hanging a Louie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang a Louie
hanging a Ralph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang a Ralph
hanging in the balance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang in the balance
hanging low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang low
hanging five
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang five
hanging ten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang ten
back dooring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back door
opening up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of open up
collective notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collective note
cigarette holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigarette holder
hecatarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hecatarchies
Etymology: From hecato- + -archy, after the pattern of heptarchy etc. and under the influence of Hecate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hecatontarchy.
synonyms: word: hecatontarchy
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
hecatontarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hecatontarchies
form: hecatarchy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑκατονταρχία (hekatontarkhía), from ἑκατον (hekaton, “hundred”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule”).
Senses: glosses: A government of 100 rulers.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
mirins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirin
myriarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪɹiˌɑɹki/
Forms: form: myriarchies
Etymology: From myriarch + -y, after the pattern of heptarchy etc.; see myriarch for more. As a military unit, Calque of Mongolian түмэн (tümen).
Senses: glosses: A government of 10,000 people.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A regiment of 10,000 soldiers, especially (historical) a Mongolian toman.
glosses: An area controlled by a Mongolian myriarch and theoretically comprising 10,000 households.
Synonyms: sense: rule
word: government
sense: unit
word: toman
Coordinate terms: sense: rule
word: government
Related terms: myriarch
Buckfastleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish with a town council in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7366).
unmuddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + muddled.
Senses: glosses: Not muddled.
adventitially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adventitially
form: most adventitially
Senses: examples: 1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, Preface,
But if any do obstinately contend, That Allegories are always adventitially, and as it were by constraint, never naturally, and properly included in Fables, we will not be much troublesome, but suffer them to enjoy that gravity of Judgment, which I am sure they affect, although indeed it be but lumpish, and almost leaden.
glosses: Alternative form of adventitiously.
Derived terms: periadventitially
Plymstock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Plymouth, Devon, England, on the east side of the River Plym (OS grid ref SX5153).
Harju County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Hiiu County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Ida-Viru County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Järva County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Jõgeva County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Lääne County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Lääne-Viru County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Pärnu County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Põlva County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Rapla County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Saare County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Tartu County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Valga County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Viljandi County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Võru County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Estonia.
Plym
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /plɪm/
Etymology: Back-formation of Plympton, meaning "plum tree;" also see Cornish ploumenn.
Senses: glosses: A river in Devon, England, which flows from Dartmoor via Plymouth to Plymouth Sound on the English Channel.
Plym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /plɪm/
Forms: form: Plyms
Senses: glosses: A member of the Plymouth Brethren.
cottage bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Thinly sliced lean cured pork from a shoulder cut, typically oval-shaped and meaty.
polytherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytherapy
Plympton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈplɪmptən/
Forms: form: Plymptons
form: Plimpton
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old English Plȳmentūn (c. 900), from *plymen (“growing with plum trees”), from plūme (“plum tree”). Doublet of Plumpton.
Senses: glosses: A former town which is now a suburb of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5456).
glosses: A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A former township in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada, now in Plympton-Wyoming.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Plympton St Mary
Plympton St Maurice
Plympton-Wyoming
subindications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subindication
Afrodiaspora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afrodiasporas
Etymology: From Afro- + diaspora.
Senses: examples: text: Styles "nobody can deal with" in graffiti, breaking, and rap music not only boost status, but also they articulate several shared approaches to sound and motion found in the Afrodiaspora.
ref: 1999, Gena Dagel Caponi, Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin' & Slam Dunking:
glosses: An African diaspora.
Related terms: Afrodiasporic
Afrodiasporas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afrodiaspora
Torpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in eastern Cornwall, England, opposite Plymouth and Devonport in Devon, to which it is linked by ferry (OS grid ref SX4355).
a-choo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of achoo.
gamelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gameland
scrum-halves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrum-half
screens passages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screens passage
lung cancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lung cancer
carabao English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carabao + English.
Senses: glosses: Broken English; the English language poorly spoken or written.
carabao English
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carabao + English.
Senses: glosses: In broken English.
3D IC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3D ICs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of three-dimensional integrated circuit.
acaloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + caloric.
Senses: glosses: Not caloric (containing no calories)
Chinkland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɪŋklænd/
Forms: form: Chink-land
form: Chink land
form: chinkland
form: chink land
form: chink-land
Etymology: From Chink + -land.
Senses: examples: text: 'So-so?' he mimicked. So-so? Where does that fuckin' come from, Danny? Chinkland?'
ref: 2014, JR Carroll, Cheaters, →ISBN:
glosses: China.
examples: text: I used to tell the kids who slanted their eyes and told me to go back to Chinkland that I was a direct descendant of Robert E. Lee, giving me more right to live in this country than they had.
ref: 2004, Caroline Hwang, In Full Bloom, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Shit, all they wanted was to be back in Wyoming or South Carolina or Pennsylvania or wherever the hell they came from, copping a feel at a drive-in movie, sneaking a fifth with the guys, dreaming of their first car. Not slogging through a stinking tropical jungle in Chinkland, fighting off malaria, wondering if a Bouncing Betty was going to blow their balls off.
ref: 2013, H. W. "Buzz" Bernard, Supercell, →ISBN:
glosses: Loosely, East Asia or (chiefly US) Asia in general.
Related terms: Gookland
Japland
Chink-land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "I tell you I don't have. Were they in Chink-land?" "Yeah." "Maybe they got captured."
ref: 1955, Anthony B. Herbert, Robert L. Niemann, Conquest to Nowhere, page 240:
text: It's Chinatown now, and you go with them in the roundup of celestial Chink-land until presently they stop—it's an inspiration.
ref: 2014, Michael Lasser, America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Chinkland.
Chink land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Go to Chink land so we can see the whole field!
ref: 2005 April 15, Vernon North, “Japan gas move adds fuel to fire”, in soc.culture.korean (Usenet):
text: We had a patrol from Item Co. out in the valley between Pork Chop and Chink land.
ref: 2005, Chuck Knox, The Sound of Distant Drums, →ISBN:
text: “That's deep enough, boys. Don't have to dig all the way Chink land,” the Razor stated, lighting another cigarette as he took over for the Nazi.
ref: 2015, Maria Mayer, Crone: A Scarlet St. James Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Chinkland.
chinkland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I'm just wondering, how long will those ridiculously incoherent chinks rant about the fictitious militarism in Japan while the communist chinkland is exactly the militarism?
ref: 2005 April 13, TripleEight, “Boycott 2008 Olympic games in the dumb dictatorial chinkland”, in soc.culture.europe (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of Chinkland.
chink land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He wants them to pack their stuff on their boats and sail back to chink land.
ref: 1989, Joe R. Lansdale, Pat LoBrutto, Razored saddles, page 240:
text: Kazak is doing everything to stop the illegaly migration to chink land.
ref: 2004 December 20, Vernon North, “PRC Chink threatening Kazakhstan”, in soc.culture.asian.american (Usenet):
text: “Christ doesn't he know that jacket has been out of style since Chubby Checker?” One asked. “Maybe it's still popular in chink land".
ref: 2007, Al E. Gateson, Viper, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Alternative form of Chinkland.
chink-land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: So use all of your energy to improve your chink-land, chinkee prick.
ref: 2000 February 5, Bubbity, “HUMAN RIGHTS, the bitter truth to some Chinese”, in soc.culture.china (Usenet):
text: Over there in chink-land, the Communist government practices gun-control, and the population would have to be trained extensively, as well as armed.
ref: 2001 April 5, RSanbero, “China Will Be Nothing But A Midnight Snack For The US”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
text: Then we could have a cheap place in chink-land for a cheap ass vacation and cheap pussy!
ref: 2016 August 16, Brennus is a pathetic whiner, “Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast.”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of Chinkland.