cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
beating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
Forms: form: beatings
Etymology: By surface analysis, beat + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the beating of a drum
text: secret beatings of prisoners
text: […] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]
ref: 2008, M. W. Sphero, Religion: The Defamer of God, page 210:
text: “It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.
ref: 2018 August 18, Susan Edelman, New York Post:
text: The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 14:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
glosses: The action by which someone or something is beaten.
examples: text: To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating.
ref: 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A heavy defeat or setback.
glosses: The pulsation of the heart.
Synonyms: word: ass beating
word: ass kicking
word: battering
word: beatdown
word: beating
word: boom-boom
word: clobbering
word: drubbing
word: dusting
word: flogging
word: hiding
word: going over
word: kicking
word: lacing
word: lamming
word: larruping
word: leathering
word: loundering
word: licking
word: pasting
word: pummeling
word: shellac
word: shoeing
word: smackdown
word: thrashing
word: thumping
word: thwacking
word: warming
word: whaling
word: whipping
word: whopping
word: whupping
word: wiping
Hypernyms: word: assault
word: punishment
Hyponyms: word: belting
word: caning
word: cudgeling
word: fustigation
word: neveling
word: scourging
word: strapping
Derived terms: ass beating
beating heart
breast-beating
chest-beating
drumbeating
goldbeating
take some beating
unbeating
wife-beating
wifebeating
Related terms: word: chastisement
word: corporal punishment
word: flagellation
word: toco
word: whackage
beating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, beat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beat
dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒɡz/
ipa: /dɔɡz/
ipa: /dɑɡz/
rhymes: -ɒɡz
rhymes: -ɔɡz
rhymes: -ɑɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of dog
dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒɡz/
ipa: /dɔɡz/
ipa: /dɑɡz/
rhymes: -ɒɡz
rhymes: -ɔɡz
rhymes: -ɑɡz
Senses: examples: text: My dogs are tired. Let's get a taxi.
glosses: Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
examples: Time to let the dogs out to play. (While taking off shoes.)
glosses: Toes
examples: text: I lost money at the dogs last night.
glosses: A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.
raw_tags: with the
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.
Derived terms: dogs are barking
let sleeping dogs lie
gone to the dogs
dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒɡz/
ipa: /dɔɡz/
ipa: /dɑɡz/
rhymes: -ɒɡz
rhymes: -ɔɡz
rhymes: -ɑɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dog
snowy egret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowy egrets
Senses: glosses: A small heron, Egretta thula, having white plumage.
carpenter ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpenter ants
Etymology: From carpenter + ant.
Senses: glosses: Any of several large ants, of the genus Camponotus, found in North America and northern China, that build nests in dead wood.
Hypernyms: formicine
Hyponyms: Florida carpenter ant
Hercules ant
snowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /snəʊi/
Forms: form: snowier
form: snowiest
Etymology: From Middle English snowy, snawy, from Old English snāwiġ, equivalent to snow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: snowy day
glosses: Marked by snow, characterized by snow.
examples: text: snowy hillside
text: So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.
ref: 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:
glosses: Covered with snow, snow-covered, besnowed.
examples: text: A man got up in all the outward trappings of a gentleman: an extensive display of snowy linen, unimpeachable tailoring, ganté, botté, in perfection; nothing overdone.
ref: 1873, Grace Ramsay, A Salon in the Last Days of the Empire, and Other Sketches, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 4:
synonyms: niveous
glosses: Snow-white in color, white as snow.
Derived terms: snowily
snowiness
snowy auk
snowy egret
snowy falcon
snowy hare
snowy heron
snowyish
snowy lemming
snowy mespil
snowy mespilus
Snowy Monaro
Snowy Mountains
snowy orchid
snowy owl
snowy pear
snowy petrel
snowy plover
Snowy River
snowy sheathbill
snowy tree cricket
Snowy Valleys
snowy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snəʊi/
Forms: form: snowies
Etymology: From Middle English snowy, snawy, from Old English snāwiġ, equivalent to snow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Adult male snowies are nearly white. They become whiter as they get older. Female birds are usually white with narrow black or brown bars and spots. Young snowies are darker than the adults, and they have heavier markings.
ref: 2010, Elaine Landau, Snowy Owls: Hunters of the Snow and Ice:
glosses: Synonym of snowy owl.
synonyms: word: snowy owl
pranksters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prankster
cobras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobra
deep water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep waters
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see deep, water.
examples: text: But deep water was not secured until 1926, when Corpus Christi dug itself out 21 miles to the sea.
ref: 1940, Federal Writers' Project, Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State, page 71:
glosses: Waters suitable for deep-draft ships, especially ocean-going.
examples: text: You will be in deep water if you are found copying work from other students.
glosses: A difficult or embarrassing situation.
Related terms: word: deep-water
deep-water
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: deepwater
Senses: examples: text: a deep-water harbour
text: It is intended to develop San Lourenzo^([sic]) into a deep-water port, as Guayaquil is highly unsuitable because of drifting silt banks and a thirty-mile river approach.
ref: 1957 December 24, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837:
text: The route was opened in stages between 1846-57, to link mineral industries in the area to a deep-water port at Barrow [-in-Furness] and to the rest of the national network.
ref: 2021 October 20, “News in pictures”, in RAIL, number 942, page 31, photo caption:
glosses: Having a great depth of water.
examples: text: deep-water drilling
glosses: Carried out at great depth.
examples: text: a deep-water port
glosses: Located in or near deep ocean waters.
glosses: Living at a great depth underwater
Derived terms: deepwater big-eyed worm eel
deepwater cardinalfish
deepwater prawn
Related terms: blue-water navy
deep water
windpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windpipe
spin bowler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spin bowlers
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: spinner
glosses: A bowler who bowls the ball (in cricket) relatively slowly, with spin on it, such that the ball moves in an irregular manner after it bounces; as opposed to a fast bowler.
Related terms: spin bowling
TSO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Time Sharing Option.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: TCP segmentation offload
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Technical Standard Order; minimum performance standard issued by the United States Federal Aviation Administration for materials, components and processes used in civil aircraft.
muscleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musclemen
form: muscle man
Etymology: From muscle + man.
Senses: examples: text: And here comes the princess now, stepping from her limousine, flanked by musclemen, caught in a fusillade of clicking cameras.
ref: 2001, Mick Lewis, chapter 14, in Rags, page 158:
glosses: A bodyguard.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A man with developed muscles.
Derived terms: musclemanship
rendez-vous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rendez-vous
Senses: examples: text: In my Mind, every Virtue that could adorn it was centered; it was the Rendez-vous of every good Quality and of every noble sentiment.
ref: 1790, Jane Austen, Love and Freindship^([sic]):
text: THE Subscriber has opened a Recruiting Rendez-vous in the village of Middlebury, for the reception of Recruits for the 31st regt. U. S. infantry, and invites the able-bodied and patriotic young men of the vicinity to repair to the Standard of their Country—erected at his quarters, where they may become entitled to One Hundred and Twenty-four Dollars BOUNTY;
ref: 1814 August 17, Columbian Patriot, volume I, number 51, column 4:
text: They made a brilliant entre’e into the cafe’—a general place of rendez-vous for the students and officers when they were not at daggers drawn.
ref: 1837 September 30, “The Duel”, in Maumee Express, volume I, number 26, Maumee City, Ohio, column 4:
text: Escape for a romantic rendez-vous and be treated to this suite deal, too sweet to miss!
ref: 2007 September 23, “Suite Deal Spa Package”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 272, number 85, Boson, Mass., page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of rendezvous.
rendezvous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/
ipa: /ˈɹɒndeɪ̯ˌvuː/
ipa: /ˈɹɑndəˌvu/
ipa: /ˈɹɑndeɪ̯ˌvu/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɾɔɳɖevu/
Forms: form: rendezvous
form: rendezvouses
form: randezvous
form: rendez-vous
Etymology: Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
Senses: examples: text: I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
text: The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
ref: 1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:
text: These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:
text: You might think it's foolish / This chancy rendezvous / (You might think) You might think I'm crazy / (All I want) All I want is you
ref: 1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City, performed by The Cars:
text: “It is my understanding from other parties who are trying to arrange a rendezvous with myself and the President, it is being arranged for me to give him the firsthand information from (Assange),” Rohrabacher said.
ref: 2017 August 29, Andrew Kaczynski, quoting Dana Rohrabacher, “Rep. Rohrabacher says ‘rendezvous’ being set up with Trump to relay info from WikiLeaks’ Assange on DNC hack”, in CNN:
glosses: A meeting or date.
examples: text: Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
glosses: An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
examples: text: an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
examples: text: The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
examples: text: A rendeuous, a home to fly unto
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: A retreat or refuge.
Synonyms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: RV
rendezvous
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/
ipa: /ˈɹɒndeɪ̯ˌvuː/
ipa: /ˈɹɑndəˌvu/
ipa: /ˈɹɑndeɪ̯ˌvu/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɾɔɳɖevu/
Forms: form: rendezvouses
form: rendezvous
form: rendezvousing
form: rendezvoused
form: rendezvoused
form: randezvous
form: rendez-vous
Etymology: Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
Senses: examples: text: Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
text: [H]e ſupplied Charles vvith a numerous army, vvhich rendezvouſed at Angers, under the command of his eldeſt ſon John duke of Normandy, attended by ſeveral princes of the blood and the flovver of the French nobility.
ref: 1757, T[obias] Smollett, chapter V, in A Complete History of England, […], volume II, London: […] James Rivington and James Fletcher, […], →OCLC, 3rd book (From the Death of King John to the Death of Edward III.), § XLIII, page 41:
text: In the entrance-hall, a surprising number of opera-goers have already rendezvoused.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 392:
text: They saw each other four times after that, rendezvousing at New York locations reflecting their own tastes. For him, the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill; for her, the Standard and Ludlow hotels.
ref: 2024 February 16, Minju Pak, “Ode to a Punk Rock ‘Sex God’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2024:
glosses: To meet at an agreed time and place.
Related terms: rendez-vous for French definition
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by the way
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: BTW
form: btw
Etymology: First appeared in the 10th century with literal meaning "by the side of the road", from Old English weġ (which became "way") meaning "road". Soon afterward (circa 1000) it came to mean "during one's journey". The figurative meaning developed in the mid-16th century, with the first instance of the modern meaning being from 1614.
Senses: examples: text: His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she recently sold her collection of ceramic eggs.
text: […] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.
ref: 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2
text: “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: apropos
BTW
by the by
incidentally
glosses: Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened.
by the way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: BTW
form: btw
Etymology: First appeared in the 10th century with literal meaning "by the side of the road", from Old English weġ (which became "way") meaning "road". Soon afterward (circa 1000) it came to mean "during one's journey". The figurative meaning developed in the mid-16th century, with the first instance of the modern meaning being from 1614.
Senses: glosses: Irrelevantly, off-topic.
incidentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntl̩i/
ipa: /ˌɪnsəˈdɛn(t)l̩i/
Forms: form: more incidentally
form: most incidentally
Etymology: From incidental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The book discussed the subject, but only incidentally.
text: Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Not everybody welcomes standardisation as a principle, because it reduces variety (and, incidentally, tends to dispose of the quainter and more picturesque anomalies).
ref: 1951 April 24, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225:
topics: manner
glosses: In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.
glosses: By chance; in an unplanned way.
examples: text: Incidentally, did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?
qualifier: speech act
glosses: Parenthetically, by the way.
Synonyms: sense: parenthetically
word: apropos
sense: parenthetically
word: as a matter of fact
sense: parenthetically
word: by the way
Related terms: coincidentally
Sydney funnel-web spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sydney funnel-web spiders
Senses: glosses: A venomous spider, Atrax robustus, native to the greater Sydney region of eastern Australia.
'tisn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪz.n̩t/
ipa: /ˈtɪz.ənt/
rhymes: -ɪzənt
Forms: form: ’tisn’t
Etymology: ’tis + -n’t
Senses: glosses: Contraction of it isn't.
Synonyms: sense: it is not
word: it’sn’t
sense: it is not
word: tint
aoristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aorist + -ic.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to the aorist aspect.
Derived terms: aoristically
Related terms: aorist
aorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.ə.ɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛə.ɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ə.ɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹɪst/
Forms: form: aorists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀόριστος (aóristos, “unbounded”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb paradigm found in certain languages, usually an unmarked form or one that expresses the perfective or aorist aspect.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A particular verb in the aorist.
Derived terms: aorist tense
s-aorist
aorist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.ə.ɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛə.ɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ə.ɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹɪst/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀόριστος (aóristos, “unbounded”).
Senses: examples: text: the aorist stem of a verb
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect.
Derived terms: aoristic
Related terms: horizon
antitoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + toxic.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That counteracts a toxin or poison.
glosses: Of or relating to an antitoxin.
anti-roll bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-roll bars
Senses: glosses: A bar that is stressed to reduce roll (leaning to one side) in a car body during cornering.
Synonyms: anti-sway bar
sway bar
roll bar
Related terms: torsion bar
anti-sway bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-sway bars
Etymology: anti- + sway + bar
Senses: glosses: A connection between the left and right suspension systems of a road vehicle designed to stabilise it, and reduce roll or sway on corners.
Synonyms: anti-roll bar
foreign language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign languages
Senses: examples: text: Irish courts will hear cases in English or Gaelic, but speakers of foreign languages must find an interpreter.
glosses: A language that is not widely or officially spoken in a particular place.
examples: text: The children struggled in their Welsh lessons because they didn't have any experience of foreign languages.
glosses: A language that is not one's native tongue.
Related terms: second language
foreign country
ripsnorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripsnorters
Senses: examples: "That venerable old ripsnorter defended the right of the clergy to drive fast horses" -- Phil Stong
glosses: a violently energetic or noisily outspoken person; someone using slambang methods
examples: "Yesterday's performance was a ripsnorter for gaiety, vigor, and general run-around" -- Virgil Thomson
glosses: something extreme; humdinger
Related terms: snorter
lacrosse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈkɹɒs/
ipa: /ləˈkɹɔs/
ipa: /ləˈkɹɑs/
Forms: form: lax
Etymology: Borrowed from Canadian French la crosse (“the stick”).
Senses: examples: text: The great invasion games of basketball, field and ice hockey, lacrosse and the varied football codes seem to provide an immense attraction for all ages, and billions of people around the world play and watch these sports.
ref: 2001, Alan G. Launder, Play Practice: The Games Approach to Teaching and Coaching Sports:
text: After the accuser proved unable to identify her assailants during two photo lineups, Nifong told the police to give her a third chance, showing her pictures only of the 46 white lacrosse players without any pictures of “fillers,” or nonsuspects.
ref: 2007 September 16, Jeffrey Rosen, “Wrongly Accused”, in The New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sport played on a field between two opposing teams using sticks (crosses) and a ball, whereby one team defeats the other by scoring more goals within the allotted time.
Derived terms: box lacrosse
field lacrosse
FIL
indoor lacrosse
lacrosse ball
lacrosse helmet
lacrosselike
lacrosse player
lacrosser
lacrosse stick
lacrosstitute
polocrosse
in the money
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: 1933: We're In The Money — song title, lyrics Al Dubin, music Harry Warren https://web.archive.org/web/20101126014740/http://harrywarren.org/songs/0140.htm
We're in the money. We're in the money. / We've got a lot of what it takes to get along.
glosses: Possessing money; rich.
topics: business
finance
glosses: For an option, having a strike price which makes it profitable to exercise. For a call this is a strike below the market price, or for a put a strike above the market price.
examples: text: The cash prizes for first, second and third place were too enticing to pass up. If he finished in the money he could just hang out for the next year and concentrate on his new life as Timothy Gales.
ref: 2014, Poe Hawkins, The Last Alchemist: And the Love of His Life, page 149:
antonyms: out of the money
glosses: Achieving a sufficiently high ranking in a contest to earn money (for oneself, or for those who have placed a bet).
Related terms: at the money
out of the money
on the money
hard yakka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːd ˈjækə/
Etymology: From hard + yakka, from Yagara yaga (“work”).
Senses: examples: text: The men who did all the hard yakka believed in a short cut – shoot the bastards; it was cheaper and easier.
ref: 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, page 247:
text: somebody sits down and does the solid, hard yakka of talking his way through with the waterside workers and with the union movement generally
ref: 1991, Kim Beazley, Australian House of Representatives
text: At the age of sixteen, boy it was hard yakka, pouring fifty ton of red hot molten gun metal from the big firebrick lined oil furnace almost every day of the working week.
ref: 1998, Keith B. Saunders, Myall Road, page 37:
glosses: Hard work.
bottom of the harbour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottom-of-the-harbour
Etymology: From the metaphor of money hidden in an inaccessible place. Also, allegedly, incriminating records were in some cases disposed of by dumping them in Sydney Harbour.
Senses: examples: text: The 'bottom of the harbour' scheme was so named because a company once stripped of its assets, was dumped and, like a body in a cement suit, sank never to be seen again.
ref: 1982 June 5, Sydney Morning Herald, page 13:
text: John Howard argued that he was a relatively new Treasurer in 1978 when he was first given some advice from Treasury officials concerning the bottom-of-the-harbour tax schemes.
ref: 1983, Rob Chalmers, Jenny Hutchison, Don Whitington, Inside Canberra: A Guide to Australian Federal Politics, page 121:
text: Finally, the Leader of the Opposition was caught out for a third time by the 1984 report of the bottom of the harbour Special Prosecutor, Robert Gyles, who sheeted home the responsibility in this way.
ref: 1985, Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives weekly Hansard, number 18, page 2021:
text: The bottom-of-the-harbour scheme involved a practice which effectively denuded a company of any assets, meaning it was unable to meet its tax obligations.[…]With bottom-of-the-harbour schemes the legal obligation remained, but the company had no assets with which to meet the obligation.
ref: 2010, John Howard, Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography, unnumbered page:
glosses: A tax avoidance scheme from the 1970s.
schicksa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schicksas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shiksa.
Winterval
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn.tə.vl̩/
ipa: /ˈwɪn.tɚ.v(ə)l/
Forms: form: Wintervals
Etymology: Blend of winter + festival or interval.
Senses: glosses: A period of holidays in midwinter, including both secular and religious holidays (i.e. not just the specifically Christian and Western festivals of Christmas and New Year's Day).
stage-phoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage-phoners
Senses: glosses: One who fakes a cell-phone conversation.
bluejack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bluejacks
form: bluejacking
form: bluejacked
form: bluejacked
Etymology: Blend of Bluetooth + hijack
Senses: examples: text: My friend's mobile keeps getting bluejacked - it's really quite annoying.
glosses: To send messages to (a device) anonymously using Bluetooth.
bluejacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluejackers
Etymology: Back-formation from bluejacking + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who anonymously sends messages to a device using the Bluetooth system.
dental spa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental spas
Senses: glosses: A dental regimen using spa treatments, intended to aid the comfort of the patient
me time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: me-time
Senses: examples: text: According to data gathered by the online reservations platform OpenTable, solo dining has increased by 29 percent in just the past two years. The No. 1 reason is the need for more “me time.”
ref: 2025 January 8, Derek Thompson, “The Anti-Social Century”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: Baths are inevitably associated with licentious pleasure: the most generous expression of the “me time” age.
ref: 2025 June 7, Jo Ellison, “Breakfast in bath—yes or eurgh?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 21:
glosses: Time to oneself; a period spent relaxing or engaging in a hobby on one's own.
face time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: page 128: T_F = Face time in minutes = 480 — lunch — travel in time — travel out time
page 131: Likewise, a critical I.E. analysis of travel time can show quickly whether or not there is any potential for increased face time from improved […]
ref: 1979, Proceedings of the Illinois Mining Institute, volume 87:
glosses: Time spent in visual communication with another party (as opposed to communication over the phone, via e-mail, instant messaging, etc.).
glosses: Time spent visibly at one's workplace to satisfy expectations about one's working hours, even if this is unneeded or unproductive.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: The time during which the presenter's head is shown on screen.
Related terms: facemail
windshield time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The amount of time in one's car during which one performs activities related to one's job.
polypill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypills
Etymology: From poly- + pill.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: combopill
SPC
glosses: Medication that is a combination drug of at least four active ingredients, and that is intended to be consumed widely, even by currently healthy individuals, as a means of preventative medicine.
security mom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: security moms
Senses: glosses: A mother for whom issues of safety and national security are of great importance.
living bandage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living bandages
Senses: glosses: A wound covering made of skin, especially when said skin is derived or obtained from the patient
Apple Isle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Apple Isle
Etymology: From apple + isle.
* (Avalon): Translation of Latin Insula Pomorum (“Island of Apples”), Geoffrey of Monmouth's alternative name for Insula Avallonis.
* (Tasmania): A reference to Tasmania's former status as an important apple grower and exporter. Possibly influenced by a supposed resemblance of the map of Tasmania to the shape of an apple.
Senses: examples: text: The journey involved a quest for the mysterious Avalon, the Apple Isle — home of immortality and hidden wisdom.
ref: 2002, Sheena Morgan, The Real Halloween: Ritual and Magic for the New Millennium, page 67:
text: He is equally at home over and under the waves, bringing some chosen ones, like Connla and Bran and the great King Cormac, to visit him in the Apple Isle, the Land of Promise.
ref: 2004, Eithne Massey, Legendary Ireland: A Journey through Celtic Places and Myths, page 139:
text: How can we, who have heard the Voice of the Lady of the Apple Isle, fulfill this calling?
ref: 2010, Jhenah Telyndru, Avalon Within: A Sacred Journey of Myth, Mystery, and Inner Wisdom, page 5:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Avalon.
examples: text: Less esteemed was her attempt to drive all snakes from the Apple Isle by paying convicts a shilling for each reptilian head brought to her.
ref: 2004, “Jane Franklin: Not People of the First Respectability”, in Tim Flannery, editor, The Birth of Melbourne, page 96:
text: The irony of me talking about wanting a more balanced life as I gently strolled around the Apple Isle with no job or family to bother me, having left my wife alone to fend for herself with four young kids, was something I didn't dwell on.
ref: 2009, Nigel Marsh, Fat, Forty, and Fired, page 78:
text: Named Tasmania's first ever All Australian at the 1953 Adelaide carnival (when he was playing at North Launceston) Leedham is regarded by many as being the best footballer ever produced in the Apple Isle.
ref: 2009, John P. Devaney, Full Points Footy: Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs, page 337:
glosses: Tasmania.
Synonyms: word: Tassie
joe blake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joe blakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Joe Blake.
Noah's ark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Noah's Ark
Etymology: From Middle English Noþess arrke.
Senses: examples: See Citations:Noah's ark
glosses: The vessel built by Noah under God's instructions, as described in Genesis and the Quran.
Synonyms: Ark
Noah's ark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Noah's arks
form: Noah's Ark
Etymology: From Middle English Noþess arrke.
Senses: glosses: A toy consisting of a model boat and animals to put in it.
glosses: A small bivalve mollusc, Arca noae.
glosses: A shark.
glosses: A nark (spoilsport).
Synonyms: word: Noah
word: Noah's
popliteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒˈplɪtɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˌpɒplɪˈtiːəl/
rhymes: -iːəl
Etymology: From Late Latin popliteus (from Latin poples (“ham, knee”)) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: On removing a quantity of fat which separates the popliteal nerve from the vein and artery, these will be exposed lying in direct contact, the vein being posterior or superficial to the artery and a little to its outer side at the upper part of the space.
ref: 1839, John Steggall, Malcolm William Hilles, A Manual for the College of Surgeons in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, page 433:
text: The popliteal entrapment syndrome is a developmental disorder resulting in an anomalous relationship between the popliteal artery and muscle structures in the popliteal fossa.
ref: 2006, Gregory J. Landry, edited by Gerald B. Zelenock, Mastery of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 53: Treatment of Nonatherosclerotic Causes of Infrainguinal Arterial Occlusive Disease, page 443:
text: The popliteal artery is exposed through an incision that parallels the anterior border of the sartorius muscle and passes just posterior to the medial condyle.
ref: 2009, Carol E. H. Scott-Conner, Operative Anatomy, page 758:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the popliteus (the area behind the knee).
Derived terms: femoropopliteal
infrapopliteal
intrapopliteal
popliteal artery
popliteal fossa
popliteal muscle
popliteal notch
saphenopopliteal
subpopliteal
Related terms: ham
popinjay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏʹpĭnjā
ipa: /ˈpɒpɪnd͡ʒeɪ/
enpr: päʹpĭnjā'
ipa: /ˈpɑpənˌd͡ʒeɪ/
Forms: form: popinjays
Etymology: From Middle English popinjay, popyngeay, popingay, popejay, from Anglo-Norman papegai, papejoie et al., (northern) Old French papejai (“parrot”), probably from Old Occitan papagay (compare Occitan papagai, Catalan papagai), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, “parrot”), of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: [I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places.
ref: 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Nynth Booke of the Seconde Decade, of the Supposed Continent”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], transl., The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, 2nd decade, folio 83, recto:
qualifier: now archaic outside heraldry
glosses: A parrot.
glosses: A decorative image of a parrot on a tapestry, cloth etc.
examples: text: The very quintessence of popinjay vulgarity is reached when nicely is made to do service for well, in this wise: "How do you do?" "Nicely." "How are you?" "Nicely."
ref: 1881, Alfred Ayres [pseudonym; Thomas Embly Osmun], “Nicely”, in The Verbalist:
synonyms: word: fop
word: macaroni
word: peacock
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A vain, gaudy person; someone who is shallow or superficial.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A target to shoot at, typically stuffed with feathers or plumage.
glosses: The green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
pop eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pop eyed
form: most pop eyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of popeyed.
unimpressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more unimpressive
form: most unimpressive
Etymology: From un- + impressive.
Senses: examples: text: In a culture dominated by the young, fun and hard-bodied, the middle-aged big man struggles for visibility; he is dismissed as unimpressive, a cultural dead weight.
ref: 2024 August 15, Aaron Timms, “Embrace Your Summer Dad Bod. These Movies Show You the Way.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Lacking the ability to impress, inability to produce an impression.
pop in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops in
form: popping in
form: popped in
form: popped in
Senses: examples: text: She's popped in a couple of times on her way back from the fields to see if there's any news of the littl'un.
ref: 2009, Ann Neve, Footsteps in the Sea, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 217:
synonyms: drop by
drop in
stop by
stop in
coordinate_terms: stop off
glosses: To pay a visit in an impromptu manner.
Related terms: pop out
vox pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vɒksˈpɒp/
/ˈvɒkspɒp/
Forms: form: vox pops
Etymology: Clipping of vox populi, from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: The reporter got some vox pops in the city square to see what people thought of the country's new flag.
text: While the BBC guidelines relating to balance are[…] so diligently applied that the opinion of 100 so-called experts must always be weighed[…], vox pops remain a chance for journalists to run more or less free.
ref: 2017 April 29, Catherine Bennett, “Want to know what people really think? Don’t do a vox pop”, in The Guardian:
text: Vox pops – a series of comments from a variety of people – are a great way to include a sample of public opinion in your programmes and to add colour to reports that would otherwise suffer from a lack of lively soundbites.
ref: 2018, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: journalism
media
synonyms: vox
man on the street
glosses: A short, informal, non-prearranged interview with a member of the public, especially to canvas opinion.
salaam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɑːm
Forms: form: salam
Etymology: From Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”). Doublet of shalom, a borrowing from Hebrew.
Senses: glosses: A respectful ceremonial greeting used mostly by Muslims.
Related terms: salaam alaikum
salaam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːm
Forms: form: salaams
form: salam
Etymology: From Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”). Doublet of shalom, a borrowing from Hebrew.
Senses: examples: text: […] the finest dressed one entered first; put her two hands to her forehead, then to her breasts, and with her two hands touched the Colonel’s foot; this is called a grand salam […]
ref: 1790, John MacDonald, Travels, in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, London: for the author, page 168:
text: 1840, John Wilson, “On the Genius and Character of Burns” in John Wilson and Robert Chambers, The Land of Burns, Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Volume 2, p. lxxv,
Finally, Josiah might have made his salaam to the Exciseman just as he was folding up that letter […]
text: 1895, Rabindranath Tagore, letter dated 14 August, 1895 in Glimpses of Bengal, London: Macmillan, 1921, pp. 160-161,
My servant was late one morning, and I was greatly annoyed at his delay. He came up and stood before me with his usual salaam, and with a slight catch in his voice explained that his eight-year-old daughter had died last night.
text: The old gentleman made several deep salaams.
ref: 1921, Ruth Plumly Thompson, chapter 3, in The Royal Book of Oz, Chicago: Reilly & Lee:
text: Mr. Tsoutsou and his wife appeared for just a moment to see how I was faring, commented bravely on the delicious, appetizing appearance of the skinned fish and disappeared with bows and salaams which sent an electric thrill through the assembled patrons of Herakleion’s most distinguished restaurant.
ref: 1942, Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, London: Secker & Warburg, Part Two, p. 112:
glosses: A low bow as a ceremonial act of deference.
salaam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑːm
Forms: form: salaams
form: salaaming
form: salaamed
form: salaamed
form: salam
Etymology: From Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”). Doublet of shalom, a borrowing from Hebrew.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e went away salaaming, and protesting his friendship and his master’s goodwill.
ref: 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part III, page 176:
text: He salaamed low to Flory, covering his face with his hand […]
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: Outside the town, three ragged children salaamed the Governor from the back of a camel.
ref: 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, page 165:
text: Beside himself, his possibilities; / salaaming hours of a half-blind morning / while the rainy lepers salaamed back,
ref: 1964, John Berryman, chapter 24, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 26:
text: The tea-planters’ houses of Ceylon […] were often surrounded by admirable lawns of coarse mountain grass, upon which the planters’ ladies enviably sat, buzzed about by harmless insects and salaamed by passing serfs.
ref: 1968, Jan Morris, chapter 17, in Pax Britannica, Faber & Faber, published 2010, page 379:
text: Nantwich made a kind of diving or salaaming motion with his hands, and the man nodded and smiled.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: To perform a salaam to (someone).
public opinion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Andromeda Initiative was initially rejected as a human-driven boondoggle by many asari investors, and the construction of the Leusinia was met with ridicule. However, the efforts drew the attention of several Matriarchs who had assisted in previous attempts to send crewed missions to Andromeda, and their impassioned extranet addresses helped turn the tide of public opinion.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Ark Leusinia Codex entry:
glosses: The opinion of the public, the popular view.
Synonyms: doxasphere
Derived terms: court of public opinion
Related terms: vox pop
opinion poll
popular opinion
pop shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop shops
form: popshop
Etymology: From pop + shop, from pop being an abbreviation of soda pop.
Senses: examples: text: Meet me at the car hop, or at the pop shop
ref: 1962, “Pretty Little Baby”, in Don Stirling, Bill Nauman (lyrics), Connie Francis Sings Second Hand Love & Other Hits, performed by Connie Francis:
glosses: Synonym of malt shop.
synonyms: word: malt shop
pop shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop shops
form: popshop
Etymology: From pop + shop, from pop (“to pawn”).
Senses: examples: text: [S]he has often refused a guinea from a Flagellant, when the next hour she has been obliged to send her watch to the pop shop to get a dinner […].
ref: 1789, Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies, London: H. Ranger, page 92:
glosses: A pawnshop.
operating loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operating losses
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Negative operating income.
futilitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˌtɪlɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /fjuˌtɪləˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more futilitarian
form: most futilitarian
Etymology: Blend of futility + utilitarian c. 1830.
Senses: examples: text: In America the silence was more oppressive than the ignorance; but perhaps elsewhere the world might still hide some haunt of futilitarian silence where content reigned—although long search had not revealed it—and so the pilgrimage began anew!
ref: 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:
glosses: Having the opinion that all human activity is futile.
futilitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˌtɪlɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /fjuˌtɪləˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: futilitarians
Etymology: Blend of futility + utilitarian c. 1830.
Senses: examples: text: It is in the region of the Island that most of the battles take place between organized labour and the apostles of free labour. Let there be any industrial trouble of any kind, and down upon the district swoop dozens of fussy futilitarians, to argue, exhort, bully, and agitate generally.
ref: 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company:
glosses: A person believing that all human activity is futile.
glosses: A person devoted to profitless pursuits.
Related terms: futilitarianism
popgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popguns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pop gun.
Related terms: elder-gun
pop out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops out
form: popping out
form: popped out
form: popped out
Senses: glosses: To leave a room or building with the expectation of returning soon.
examples: text: In the menu that then pops out, select the number of degrees you want to rotate the image (90° if the image is lying on its left side, 180° if the image is upside down, or 270° if the image is lying on its right side).
ref: 2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 182:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To appear on the screen as a temporary window or menu.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: To be retired after three strikes, including a popout (pop fly) on the third strike.
examples: text: So you think I should just stay home and pop out kids for the next twenty years?
glosses: To give birth.
examples: text: “You’re such a dog person, Haley. Get over yourself. Cats are people too.” / I wasn’t about to touch that one. “Make yourself comfortable, but if a cat pops out from under your clothes, you’re outta here.[…]”
ref: 2006, Ginny Aiken, Decorating Schemes (Deadly Décor Mysteries; 2), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Revell, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pop, out.
Related terms: pop in
popout
pop out cake
amyl nitrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /am.ɪl ˈnʌɪ.tɹʌɪt/
ipa: /ˌæm.əl ˈnaɪˌtɹaɪt/
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: popper
amyl
liquid gold
glosses: A yellowish volatile synthetic liquid C₅H₁₁NO₂ of commercial amyl alcohol and nitrous acid that is used medicinally as a vasodilator. It is rapidly absorbed by the body on inhalation, and is sometimes used recreationally especially as an aphrodisiac.
isoamyl nitrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ester of isoamyl alcohol and nitrous acid, a volatile yellow liquid used as a vasodilator and antidote to cyanide poisoning; used illicitly as a sexual stimulant.
Related terms: amyl nitrite
popper
relative density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative densities
Senses: glosses: A measure of the density of a material. The ratio of the density of a substance to the density of water at the same temperature. It is dimensionless and therefore has no units.
Synonyms: specific gravity