cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
desglucosyrioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
desinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
deslanatoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
deslanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
dichotomin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
digacetinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
diginatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
dimorphoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
dioscin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
Derived terms: protodioscin
disporoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
diuranthoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
downeyoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
dracaenoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
drebyssoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
dregealin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Dregea + -in
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside found in Dregea lanceolata.
dresioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside found in Dregea species.
neocynapanoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
neodigitalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
neomacrostemonoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
neoodorobioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
neoprotodioscin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
neriolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
nicotianoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
nigroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
nipoglycoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
savescummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savescummers
Etymology: From savescum + -er.
Senses: topics: roguelikes
video-games
glosses: A player who savescums.
nocturnoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
nolinofuroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
nolinospiroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
savescummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savescummer
dioscoreside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dioscoresides
Senses: glosses: A particular class of steroid glycoside
dongnoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
sanguinoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
surculoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
taccaoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
purpnin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
pingpeisaponin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
pregnedioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
denin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
half-Jew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-Jews
form: half Jew
Senses: glosses: A person who is half Jewish and half gentile by birth.
canarigenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular cardenolide.
uzarigenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular cardenolide.
go from bad to worse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes from bad to worse
form: going from bad to worse
form: went from bad to worse
form: gone from bad to worse
Senses: glosses: To become even worse.
raw_tags: of a bad situation
Related terms: out of the frying pan, into the fire
worse and worse
salt box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saltbox.
hit on all cylinders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits on all cylinders
form: hitting on all cylinders
form: hit on all cylinders
form: hit on all cylinders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fire on all cylinders.
firing on all cylinders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fire on all cylinders
Rhinelandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rhinelandic
form: most Rhinelandic
Etymology: From Rhineland + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Rhineland.
Rhinelandic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rhineland + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Any (or a group) of several language varieties found in a region on both sides of the Middle and Lower Rhine river in central western Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
glosses: The colloquial form of Standard German spoken in the Rhineland.
Synonyms: Rhenish
determin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: determins
form: determining
form: determined
form: determined
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of determine.
metastatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metastatize
metastatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metastatize
metastatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metastatize
klecksography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛkˈsɒɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: Borrowed from German Klecksographie, from Klecks (“inkblot”) + -o- + -graphie.
Senses: glosses: The art of making images from inkblots.
bone-house wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone-house wasps
Senses: glosses: Deuteragenia ossarium, a spider wasp.
indigo snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigo snakes
Senses: glosses: A snake of the genus Drymarchon, species of which are found the southeastern US, Texas, and northern South America.
Derived terms: eastern indigo snake
doover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doovers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doofer.
Related terms: horse's doovers
thingumabob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingumabobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thingamabob.
thingymabob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingymabobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thingamabob.
thingummajig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingummajigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thingamajig.
thingymajig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingymajigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thingamajig.
whachacallit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whachacallits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatchacallit.
dinkus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinkuses
form: dingus
Etymology: From dinky (“tiny and cute”). The word was coined by an artist on the Australian periodical, The Bulletin, in the 1920s.
Senses: glosses: A small drawing or artwork used for decoration in a magazine or periodical.
examples: text: More generally a dinkus is a small ornamentation, usually three asterisks, that break up sections of a book chapter, article or other written text.
ref: 2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian:
topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: asterism
glosses: A small ornament, usually a line of three asterisks (* * *), especially for the purpose of breaking up sections of a chapter, article, or other text.
jook house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jook houses
form: jook-house
form: juke house
Senses: examples: text: Some old turpentine men say the jook-house was merely a bare building where the Negro laborers could frolic.
ref: 1940, The American Mercury,, page 502:
glosses: juke joint.
indigo bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigo bushes
Senses: glosses: A shrub of any of several genera in the Fabaceae family, including:
Amorpha
glosses: A shrub of any of several genera in the Fabaceae family, including:
Dalea
glosses: A shrub of any of several genera in the Fabaceae family, including:
Psorothamnus
Related terms: false indigo
cestrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cestrums
Senses: examples: text: He had identified a cestrum, a malpighia, and a climbing vine he suspected was a cissus when Dorrie and Gerry came across the terrace and pulled up deck chairs on either side of him.
ref: 2016, Joan Hess, The Deadly Ackee:
glosses: Any of genus Cestrum
nonisomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + isomorphic + -ally.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not isomorphically.
Related terms: nonisomorphic
isomorphically
Mikmaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mikmaqs
form: Mikmaq
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mi'kmaq.
Mikmaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mi'kmaq.
zuchetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zuchettas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zucchetta (kind of squash)
shake hands with the unemployed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes hands with the unemployed
form: shaking hands with the unemployed
form: shook hands with the unemployed
form: shaken hands with the unemployed
Etymology: An oblique reference to the usual 'employment' of the penis in sex, masturbation, or urination. In reference to masturbation, sometimes credited to American comedian George Carlin.
Senses: examples: text: An older man made this remark when he left the bar to urinate: "Well, I'll go back and shake hands with the unemployed." Since he was heading for the men's room I didn't get the significance of this statement for a minute or so; it was, of course, a reference to sexual inactivity.
ref: 1975, E. E. LeMasters, Blue-collar Aristocrats: Life-styles at a Working-class Tavern, University of Wisconsin Press, pages 103-104:
synonyms: word: break the seal
word: hit the head
word: micturate
word: pass water
word: pee
word: piddle
word: piss
word: slash
word: take a leak
word: take a piss
word: take a whiz
word: urinate
word: void
word: wee
word: wee wee
word: widdle
word: whiz
glosses: To urinate.
raw_tags: of men
examples: text: Why did the preppie boy make a great social worker? He had a lot of practice shaking hands with the unemployed.
ref: 1993, Seattle Sal, Grunge Jokes, S.P. Books, page 43:
synonyms: word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate.
raw_tags: of men
Malecite-Passamaquoddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maliseet–Passamaquoddy
form: Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Etymology: From Malecite + Passamaquoddy.
Senses: glosses: The Algonquian language spoken by the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy peoples in New England and Canada.
Hyponyms: Malecite
Maliseet
Passamaquoddy
Oceanianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oceanianists
Etymology: From Oceanian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in the study of Oceania.
glosses: A patron of Oceanianism.
ERPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ERP
Sexton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sextons
form: Sexson
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Khujand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Khodjend
form: Khodzhent
form: Khojend
Etymology: From Tajik Хуҷанд (Xujand).
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Sughd, Tajikistan.
Synonyms: word: Alexandria
word: Alexandria Eschate
word: Leninabad
word: Leninobod
Roddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutives + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Roderick or Rodger.
Roddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roddys
form: Roddey
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Rodaigh (“descendant of Rodach”), a personal name probably derived from rod (“spirited, furious”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
semipositone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + positone.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, we mention that several papers studied nonlinear eigenvalue problems of the form
ref: Leszek Gasinski; Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou (2004), Nonsmooth Critical Point Theory and Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, CRC Press, page 704
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: an eigenvalue problem that would be a positone eigenvalue problem except that the nonlinear function is not positive when its argument is zero.
glosses: for scriptstyle λ>0 under the assumption that scriptstyle f: ℝ→ ℝ is continuous, positive, monotone. For this reason such problems were named positone... If the nonlinearity scriptstyle f: ℝ→ ℝ is continuous, monotone and scriptstyle f(0)<0,...then the eigenvalue problem is called semipositone...
cis-gender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 2014, Toni K. Troop, quoted in Irene Monroe, In 2014, Still Not Independence Day for Women, Huffington Post
I woke up angered that the reproductive health of all of us -- LGBQ/T, straight, cis-gender -- is not valued and our rights not ensured.
glosses: Alternative form of cisgender.
Terrestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Terrestrian
form: most Terrestrian
Senses: examples: text: In the meantime the Terrestrian and Venerian governments were already preparing vigorously for further inroads.
ref: 1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 500:
glosses: Of or relating to Earth or its inhabitants; of terrestrial origin.
Terrestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Terrestrians
Senses: examples: text: This rocket squad was composed almost solely of Terrestrians, for they were used to the greater gravity of Earth, and could stand greater acceleration than could Venerians.
ref: 1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 516:
text: How would it look for the First Administrator to go limping around the galaxies explaining that he was behind schedule because his ship got wrecked on Sol III and the Terrestrians were incapable of matching his drives?
ref: 1950 November, Raymond Fisher Jones, “Tools of the Trade”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 46, number 3, page 55:
glosses: An inhabitant of Earth; a human.
Synonyms: Earthling
Terran
Tellurian
Hypernyms: Solarian
Hyponyms: Earthgirl
Earthman
Earthwoman
Terrestrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Terrestrian
Terrestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈɹɛstɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /tɪˈɹɛstɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /təˈɹɛstɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /tɪˈɹɛstɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /tɪˈɹestɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /təˈɹestɹɪ.əl/
Forms: form: Terrestrials
Etymology: From Latin terrestris, from terra (“land, earth, ground”).
Senses: examples: text: It will be manifest that natural scenery must present many beautiful varieties of effect altogether unfamiliar to us terrestrials, who know of no colours in scenery except those inherent in the objects themselves which form the landscape.
ref: 1873, Richard Anthony Proctor, The Expanse of Heaven, page 235:
text: The other was not a Terrestrial, but a visiting Martian.
ref: 1925, Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+, page 41:
text: There'd been Earthling girls; and not a few Khazaki women had been intrigued by the big Terrestrial.
ref: 1950 Fall, Poul Anderson, “Star Ship”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 8, page 74:
glosses: An inhabitant of the planet Earth.
Synonyms: Earthling
Tellurian
Terran
Hypernyms: Solarian
Hyponyms: Earthgirl
Earthman
Earthwoman
Related terms: Terra
Terrestrials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Terrestrial
Tellurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tellurian
Earthie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːθi/
ipa: /ˈɝθi/
Forms: form: Earthies
form: earthie
Etymology: From Earth + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: "Earthgirl?" the guard repeated. "She didn't look like an Earthie."
ref: 1947 October, Frederik Pohl, “Donovan Had a Dream”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 27:
text: The blue men of Mica II discriminated against Earthies, considered them inferior since the Micans had conquered the Earthies a hundred years ago.
ref: 1963 May, John Jakes, “Underfollow”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 24, number 5 (#144 overall), page 66:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of the Earth.
Synonyms: Earthling
Terran
Tellurian
Hypernyms: Solarian
Hyponyms: Earthgirl
Earthman
Earthwoman
Earthies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Earthie
thank you card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thank you cards
Etymology: From thank you + card.
Senses: glosses: A card written as a thank you to someone, usually in response to receiving a gift or having been invited to attend an event.
Earthgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːθˌɡɜːl/
ipa: /ˈɝθˌɡɜɹl/
Forms: form: Earthgirls
form: earthgirl
Etymology: Compound of Earth + girl.
Senses: examples: text: You have given me an idea, Earthgirl, and it is one that I am afraid you will live to regret.
ref: 1939 February, Harold Kerton Wells, “Moon of Mad Atavism”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 13, number 1, page 35:
text: "Earthgirl?" the guard repeated. "She didn't look like an Earthie."
ref: 1947 October, Frederik Pohl, “Donovan Had a Dream”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 27:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
coordinate_terms: Earthman
Earthwoman
glosses: A young female inhabitant of Earth.
Hypernyms: Earther
Earthling
for more see Thesaurus:Earthling
Earthgirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Earthgirl
father-figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: father-figures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of father figure.
pineapple bun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineapple buns
Senses: glosses: A sweet bun, mainly popular in Hong Kong and Macau, with a crunchy sugary topping that has a checkered pattern resembling the epicarp of a pineapple.
pineapple buns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pineapple bun
Ember
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This conversation took place at an advertising agency between an American copywriter named Ember (E), and one of his Japanese co-workers named Nakada (N).
ref: 1993, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication:
text: In this section, a straightforward and attractive character named Ember, an academic colleague of Krug, is trying to distract his friend from brooding upon the death of his wife.
ref: 2014, Samuel Schuman, Nabokov's Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Brigdha had hoped that she would have a chance to speak with this red headed woman, named Ember, who now approached. She seemed to also be from somewhere else. Maybe you will help me, Ember? she wondered.
ref: 2016, Tom Watson, Ember of a New World, →ISBN, page 258:
text: A serene smile curved her mouth, and soft strands of her dark hair swayed around her, softening the sharp edges that had once been on her face. “She's named Ember because that's what she is,” Ashrynn said, “she's a single burning ember ...”
ref: 2016, Cressa Rose, Book 3: Night Ashes (a Night City Novel), →ISBN:
glosses: A unisex given name.
Derived terms: Emberlynn
tokheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tokhes
Shevardnadze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian შევარდნაძე (ševardnaʒe).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Georgian surname შევარდნაძე (ševardnaʒe).
man with no name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men with no name
Senses: glosses: A quiet, eccentric, antihero, especially in movie Westerns.
Related terms: strong silent type
unoverlooked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + overlooked.
Senses: glosses: Not overlooked; not seen from above.
Antonescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Antonescus
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Antonescu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
Ceaușescu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃaʊˈʃɛs.kuː/
note: by assimilation
ipa: /-ˈtʃɛs-/
ipa: /tʃaʊˈʃɛs.ku/
note: by assimilation
ipa: /-ˈtʃɛs-/
rhymes: -ɛskuː
Forms: form: Ceausescu
Senses: glosses: A surname in Romanian.
Derived terms: Ceaușescu moment
Ceausescu moment
misreporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misreporters
Etymology: From misreport + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who misreports.
misreporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misreporter
Whitman's sampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whitman's samplers
form: Whitman sampler
form: Whitman Sampler
form: Whitman's Sampler
Etymology: From the brand name of a popular assortment of boxed chocolates marketed in the US. The company was named after its founder, Stephen Whitman of Philadelphia.
Senses: examples: text: So here we go, offering a Whitman's Sampler of local talent, just a hint of the multitude of hopeful artists working their way toward the spotlight.
ref: 2005 March 18, Richard Harrington, “Lend Them Your Ears: Breaking Stories From the Music Scene”, in Washington Post, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
text: In a June 13 court filing, plaintiffs cite the memo as one of "a Whitman's Sampler" of V&E papers showing that the firm "was present at the creation, active throughout and still in on [Enron's] fraudulent scheme when it finally collapsed."
ref: 2006 July 9, “Talk Show”, in Businessweek, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
text: Witness just this Whitman's Sampler of sweet author treats: The first female secretary of state (Madeleine Albright). A perennial best-seller and an Oprah pick (Sue Miller). A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (Muhammad Yunus). Three local black poets (Colleen J. McElroy, Gloria Burgess, Lauri Conner). A humor writer for "Saturday Night Live" and The New Yorker, turned best-selling debut novelist (Patricia Marx).
ref: 2008 January 17, John Marshall, “From poets to politicians, a great week for author readings”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
text: Dozens of investors have filed lawsuits seeking redress from the rating agencies, contending that the companies bear responsibility for investors’ losses, under a Whitman’s sampler of theories.
ref: 2009 July 18, David Segal, “A Matter of Opinion?”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
glosses: A diverse collection.
Synonyms: assortment
collection
diversity
melange
miscellany
smorgasbord
Whitman sampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whitman samplers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Whitman's sampler.
Whitman Sampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whitman Samplers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Whitman's sampler.
Whitman's Sampler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whitman's Samplers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Whitman's sampler.
chitins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitin
nonchitinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + chitinous.
Senses: glosses: Not chitinous.
you're all right
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Would you like another pint, mate?
Nah, you're all right.
related: word: you're alright
glosses: Used to politely reject an offer.
top-roped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of top-rope
top-roping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of top-rope
go on then
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: - Would you like another pint, mate?
- Yeah, go on then.
glosses: used to accept an offer
examples: text: - I'm going to go and ask her on a date.
- Go on then.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go on, then. (proceed)
chalk bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalk bag
traditional climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of rock climbing in which the climbers place all gear required to protect against falls, and remove it when a passage is complete.
Synonyms: trad
Related terms: traditionalist
sport climbing
sport climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sport developed from rock climbing. A style of climbing in which the protection is in the form of permanently fixed bolts.
Hyponyms: competition climbing
Olympic climbing
Related terms: traditional climbing
nativar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nativars
Etymology: Blend of native + cultivar
Senses: glosses: A cultivar of a native plant species.
Goryeo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koryŏ
form: Koryo
form: Kolye
Etymology: From the Revised Romanization of Korean 고려(高麗) (goryeo). Doublet of Korea.
Senses: glosses: a Korean dynasty, a kingdom, which gave rise to the modern exonym for Korea.
wikipedia: Revised Romanization
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Gaoli
word: Kao-li
fibrining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fibrin
dimentia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Misspelling of dementia influenced by dimension.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dementia.
dimensia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Misspelling of dementia influenced by dimension.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dementia.
dimented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of demented.
musclesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more musclesome
form: most musclesome
Etymology: From muscle + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised by muscularity or having muscles; musclebound
Related terms: muscle
muscular
send someone to the showers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends someone to the showers
form: sending someone to the showers
form: sent someone to the showers
form: sent someone to the showers
Senses: examples: text: [H]e was able to pitch out of trouble until the eighth, when a single by LF Randy Winn and double by 2B Bret Boone sent him to the showers.
ref: 2004 September 29, “Mariners game at a glance”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
text: The umpires’ ruling precipitated a wild protest […]and three straight run-scoring hits off Pelfrey that sent him to the showers after a six-run inning.
ref: 2010 July 5, Mark Viera, “Reds 8, Mets 6: Pelfrey Comes Undone After a Reversed Call”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
text: Gerrard was sent to the showers 10 minutes into the second half, replaced by his Liverpool team-mate Jordan Henderson.
ref: 2013 November 20, Kevin Garside, “England 0 Germany 1”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
text: Orr, in the first row behind the photographers, said something and Smart stepped to him and pushed him with both hands. […]Sending Smart to the showers—or instructing arena security to eject the fan—would have been a move in the name of safety.
ref: 2014 February 9, Roger Rubin, “Marcus Smart, Texas Tech fan shove fiasco handled poorly”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.
examples: text: The Federal Trade Commission in recent years has seldom struck out. […]But last fortnight the FTC was caught way off base, sent red-faced to the showers.
ref: 1941 February 3, “Government: FTC Boner”, in Time, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
text: Lucky John Sununu. […]Given the thin bench of replacements, no wonder Bush doesn't want to send him to the showers.
ref: 1991 July 7, Newsweek Staff, “Chief Of Staff Edition”, in Newsweek, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
text: Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has returned. […]Having been sent to the showers during last year’s disastrous campaign to place the nation’s seniors on a voucher program, Ryan is back.
ref: 2012 March 21, Rick Ungar, “RyanCare 2.0-Still Shifting Health Care Costs Onto The Backs Of Our Elderly”, in Forbes, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
text: Silver needed to be bold and decisive and he was unquestionably both in sending the lout Donald Sterling to the showers with a lifetime ban on Tuesday.
ref: 2014 April 29, Mitch Lawrence, “Donald Sterling's racist behavior has been habitual for years”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
glosses: To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
Coordinate terms: send someone packing
muscleful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muscleful
form: most muscleful
Etymology: From muscle + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of or having a lot of muscles; muscular.
Synonyms: brawny
row Z
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Victoria Park's diminutive stands may preclude launching the ball into Row Z, but Row A would have sufficed as Hartlepool's otherwise dependable defender Chris Westwood looked to clear his lines.
ref: 2002, Jason Mellor, “Hartlepool hopes go west after late slip-up”, in The Guardian:
text: 1446: Bobby Zamora smashes a volley into row Z, which is very much appreciated by the West Ham fans.
ref: 2010, Caroline Cheese, “Premier League as it happened”, in BBC Sport:
text: Sturridge’s curling strike looked dull in comparison to this wonder throw, with the expertly folded flyer gliding from row z onto the pitch and straight into the Peruvian’s face, as the crowd at the Home of Football erupted.
ref: 2014, "Direct hit! Peru star hit by England fans' paper plane after INSANE row z throw", talkSPORT
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The back row or rows of the stands.
favid coral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favid corals
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of coral in family Mussidae, having the appearance of a brain.
Synonyms: brain coral
lower order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsmen, constituting the tail, who bat last - roughly in positions 8 to 11.
Synonyms: bottom order
Related terms: top order
middle order
bouquet of circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouquets of circles
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph with only one vertex.
Synonyms: rose
bouquet
wedge of circles
bouquets of circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouquet of circles
wedge of circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedges of circles
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph with only one vertex.
Synonyms: rose
bouquet
bouquet of circles
wedges of circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedge of circles
LERF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Acronym of locally extended, residually finite.
nervous nineties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have never found anything particularly significant in the term nervous nineties for I firmly believe that a batsman should treat every ball on its merits, be his score 9 or 90.
ref: 2011, Michael Vaughan, Year In The Sun
text: Watson nearly fell again in the nervous nineties when Bresnan took an overhead catch at long off when the all-rounder was on 90 but the fieldsman tumbled over the rope and a six was declared.
ref: 2013, Chris Barrett, “Shane Watson belts brutal century as George Bailey sets record against James Anderson”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The set of individual scores between 90 and 99, when a batsman may play badly due to feeling pressure to convert the score into a century.
*bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of *band
annish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænɪʃ/
rhymes: -ænɪʃ
Forms: form: annishes
Etymology: Blend of anniversary + ish (“issue”).
Senses: examples: text: And if the remainder of the March ish is as good as it begins, it'll be something! There will be two -- at least -- new columns inaugurated in the Third Annish -- plus some BNF's contribbing other items to the lineup.
ref: 1950 February, Art Rapp, “Timber!”, in Spacewarp, number 35, page 2:
text: On January 1st, 1952 (past history to you readers) I expect to put out Volume 1, Number 1 of OOPSLA, my own fan mag. Sub rates are 10c per copy, 60c a year at a bi-monthly schedule. At that price goes the possibility of an annish.
ref: 1952 April, Gregg Calkins, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, volume 13, number 3, page 12:
text: Professor rich brown has recently promulgated a theory of the Conservation of Egoboo, which postulates that the amount of egoboo resulting from any given piece of fanac is constant. He points out that Nydahl is now as famous for his gafia as he would have been if his annish had received the acclaim he expected.
ref: 1986 November, Walt Willis, “The Harp That Once or Twice”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 6:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Issue of a periodical that marks the anniversary of its first publication.
thish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of this + ish (“issue”)
Senses: examples: text: Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish, but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...
ref: 1961 November-December, Lee Hoffman, Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 3, page 30:
text: I was simply too stressed to sit down and work on this zine. That I finally got around to publishing thish is not, alas, due to my problems being resolved but rather to a sudden determination on my part to lose myself in the task and thus escape from all that dogs me, if only for a little while.
ref: 1996 March, R. Graeme Cameron, “Editorial”, in The Space Cadet Gazette, volume 3, number 1 (whole number 5), page 2:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.
examples: text: Thish of TWS was really a shock to me, and I'm not pulling any punches!
ref: 1953 August, D. Clarkson, “[letter]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 135:
text: Only story I really enjoyed in thish was THE VANISHER.
ref: 1955 Spring, Pat Scott, “Pat Me Gently [letter]”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 10, page 92:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A reference to the specific issue of a periodical currently under discussion.
nextish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From next + -ish (“issue”).
Senses: examples: text: Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish, but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...
ref: 1961 November-December, Lee Hoffman, Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 3, page 30:
text: This ish is fairly barebones, owing to a busy schedule on my end. I’ve tried to make up for a lack of illos with some color in the titles. Hopefully, it won’t burn out your eyes. I promise a return to better production values nextish.
ref: 2009 May, Warren Buff, “Editorial”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, number 5, page 1:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: In the subsequent issue of a periodical.
billety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of billetty.
autotomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From autotomy + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to autotomy.
dead loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead losses
Senses: glosses: An absolute or total loss.
precremation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + cremation.
Senses: glosses: Before cremation.
prefuneral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + funeral.
Senses: glosses: Before a funeral.
predisposal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + disposal.
Senses: examples: predisposal treatment of radioactive waste
glosses: Before disposal.
Mozart effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mozart effect
Etymology: Calque of French effet Mozart, a term coined by Alfred A. Tomatis (1920–2001), who used Mozart's music as the listening stimulus in his work attempting to cure a variety of disorders.
Senses: glosses: The supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement in spatiotemporal reasoning or in mental performance generally.
wikipedia: Alfred A. Tomatis
uraniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uranium
tuballoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Natural uranium in the refined condition.
Related terms: oralloy
oralloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Oak Ridge + alloy
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Highly-enriched uranium.
wikipedia: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Coordinate terms: depletalloy
tuballoy
Related terms: autunite
coffinite
torbernite
green salt
hex
pitchblende
yellowcake
ishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ish
annishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annish
yeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yed
long game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long games
Senses: examples: text: I'm in it for the long game.
text: He had won the long game and success had turned to ashes in his mouth.
ref: 1917, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 20, in Finished:
text: Mr. Lynch has always preferred the long game and he is banking on luring Democrats home to the Mayor's side in November.
ref: 1993 July 19, Todd S. Purdum, “As Campaign Warms, Dinkins Manager Is Cool, Calm and Directed”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jul 2014:
text: The U.S. and its allies hope to use the leverage of sanctions to persuade Iran to back down[…] For each side, the long game remains shaping the diplomatic compromise to their own liking.
ref: 2010 August 21, Tony Karon, “Fears May Be Overblown as Iran Reactor Comes Online”, in Time, retrieved 11 Jul 2014:
text: And when none of it works and I’m down the rabbit hole, it’s fine. This is a long game. I buy the stupid plant and give myself the gift of a break.
ref: 2021 January 22, Lilah Raptopoulos, “My tug-of-war with algorithms”, in Financial Times:
text: “Munir really doesn’t have an opportunity to play a very long game in the current situation. He has to prove fairly quickly that he and the military are prepared and that they will defend the country,” he said
ref: 2025 May 10, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Shah Meer Baloch, quoting Shuja Nawaz, “Who is Gen Asim Munir, the army chief leading Pakistan’s military amid India crisis?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A long-term strategy or endeavor.
examples: Chamber's Encyclopedia: “About 1785 the experiment of dividing the game into half was tried, and short whist was the result. The short game soon came into favour; and in 1864 the supremacy of short whist was acknowledged.”
glosses: The version of the game played until one team makes ten points, as opposed to the short game, which is played to five points.
examples: text: [T]he Seahawks held Newton to 119 passing yards, as the Panthers kept mainly to the ground and Seattle's secondary shut down the long game.
ref: 2013 September 8, “What we saw: Seahawks 12, at Panthers 7”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 11 Jul 2014:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The aspect of the game in which the strategy is to advance downfield by throwing the ball to a receiving player; the passing game.
examples: text: “[E]verybody thinks when the wind blows it affects the long game the most, but it doesn’t,” Westwood said. “It tends to affect the putting most.”
ref: 2010 July 18, Christopher Clarey, “Another Second for Golf’s Latest Near-Miss Man”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jul 2014:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The portion of the game, played with driver clubs, in which the ball is advanced down the fairway to the putting green.
Related terms: word: take the long view
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: long ball
polyphyllins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyphyllin
presettlement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + settlement.
Senses: glosses: Before settlement.
postsettlement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + settlement.
Senses: glosses: After settlement.
stumphole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stumpholes
Etymology: From stump + hole.
Senses: glosses: A hole in the ground left when a tree stump is removed.
Related terms: roothole
stumpholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stumphole
macromorphologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From macromorphological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of macromorphology.
treestump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treestumps
form: tree stump
Etymology: From tree + stump.
Senses: glosses: The stump of a tree.
treestumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treestump
Chestertonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɛs.təˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɛs.tɚˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Chestertonians
Etymology: From Chesterton + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The children of light, whether they are Chestertonians or not, cannot afford to pass by The New Jerusalem.
ref: 1921, review of The New Jerusalem, in The Catholic World (volume 113, no 674), May 1921 p. 241
text: All this upsets our Chestertonian, who, reflecting that Britannia needs no boulevards, no spaces wide and gay, feels it somehow irritating that the French should need them either.
ref: 2003, Jan Morris, The World: Travels 1950-2000, W. W. Norton & Company, page 68:
glosses: A person who supports G. K. Chesterton, especially in his theology.
Chestertonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɛs.təˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɛs.tɚˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Chestertonian
form: most Chestertonian
Etymology: From Chesterton + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The situation is like that in the Chesterfieldian (or is it perhaps actually Chestertonian?) definition of a gentleman: "One who is never rude by accident."
ref: 1993, New Scientist, volume 138, numbers 1874-9, page 49:
glosses: Of or relating to G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer and lay theologian.
Related terms: Chesterfieldian
kamikazeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kamikaze
kamikazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kamikaze
tanaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanaholics
Etymology: From tan + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: For the "tanaholic," then, the psychological appeal of lying in the sun has an almost primordial component, bringing him or her back to a timeless, preverbal sense of unencumbered self.
ref: 1997, Daphne Merkin, Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 223:
text: What if, like so many of us, you are a recovering tanaholic? There are some effective, but expensive, treatments to help your skin look better.
ref: 2007, Kate Klimo, Buffy Shutt, Coming of Age...All Over Again: The Ultimate Midlife Handbook, Springboard Press, →ISBN:
text: No lie, it became like an addiction, and when I moved on from sun beds, I started to apply fake tan every single day. Seriously, I was a tanaholic!
ref: 2013, Lauren Goodger, Secrets of an Essex Girl, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who is addicted to tanning.
tanaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanaholic
pussyfication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussyification
Etymology: From pussy (“weakling”) + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: The "streets"— once paved with survival, bullet shells, and 40s— are now lined with gold rims, diamond-crusted watches, Courvoisier. Rap's pussyfication is nearly complete.
ref: 2002, Details, volume 21, numbers 1-2, page 252:
text: Smooth adds, "We must save this beautiful nation on earth, Amos. Now that is hard because we are witnessing the 'pussyfication' or the neutering of America. […]
ref: 2012, Thomas Harper Jr., Parting Shot, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: [Ice T:] I think right now you're dealing with the pussyfication of the male sex. Men are just being so passive, not standing for something; they're very politically correct.
ref: 2014 July 3, Paul Lester, “Ice T: 'Body Count is 100% grindhouse over-the-top'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The process of making or becoming weaker, gentler, or less masculine.
Synonyms: sissyfication
pussyification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussyfications
Etymology: From pussy + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: I could have done without the whole Dominion war, especially the "pussyification" of the Jemhaddar (late TNG started the same process to the Borg and Voy totally destroyed the Borg as formidable villains) from nearly invincible warriors to "can't hit the broadside of a barn" fools.
ref: 2003 September 27, 10110011, “Re: Star Trek Enterprise: Would you buy it?”, in alt.startrek (Usenet):
text: You walk into a bar, you know what you're getting into. Deal with it. Don't like it? Play weddings. It's the pussyification of the world, I tell ya...
ref: 2009 August 24, js, “Re: cruel summer”, in alt.guitar.bass (Usenet):
text: The pussyification of the NFL continues. Every single goddam year the rules get more and more VAGINIZED.
ref: 2011, Jeanne Marie Laskas (quoting an anonymous message board post), "The People v. Football", GQ, March 2011
glosses: Alternative form of pussyfication.