cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rugburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugburns
form: rug burn
form: rug-burn
Etymology: From rug + burn.
Senses: examples: text: The ombudsman found that youth living at El Pueblo remained under the care and supervision of staff who had been accused of abusing them. In one case, a youth was reportedly dragged across the carpet by two staff members, resulting in rugburns on his face.
ref: 2019 August 13, “A Pueblo center for troubled kids had 243 abuse allegations in the year before it closed”, in The Colorado Sun:
text: The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.
ref: 2021, Adam Levin, Bubblegum, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A painful burn or redness of skin, especially on knees, elbows, and hands, from repetitive friction against a rug or similar surface.
examples: text: Like, seriously, thanks for the music. It's meant a lot. […] Your lead's hotter than rugburn.
ref: 2004, Robert Voedisch, Zamboni Blues:
text: His writing about the shattering nature of syphilis is both devastating and a bit sly. "You could joke with the word 'pox,'" he wrote. "You can’t joke with the word 'syphilis.'" Reading Lawrence’s writing about sex, in general, leaves you suspecting that he walked around with perpetual rugburn.
ref: 2019 November 8, Dwight Garner, “From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction”, in New York Times:
glosses: Rugburns in general.
Derived terms: Indian rugburn
rugburn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rugburns
form: rugburning
form: rugburned
form: rugburned
form: rug burn
form: rug-burn
Etymology: From rug + burn.
Senses: examples: text: Every time I rugburned my knees, every time some morbidly obese man fondled me as if I were his mindless property, my distaste for the job deepened.
ref: 2010, John Lindo, Collegiate Maneuvers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 174:
text: The threadbare red and gold carpeting rugburned his cheek, but he rolled over at once and kicked the door shut.
ref: 2014, Keith Melton, Dark Ride Dogs, Etopia Press, →ISBN:
text: The remaining residents cringed at the sight of Trayer's face; the left side of his cheek had been severely rugburned.
ref: 2021, Mr. J, The Stories You Ignore, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: To cause a rugburn to form.
frizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: frizzles
form: frizzling
form: frizzled
form: frizzled
form: frizle
form: frisle
form: frizel
form: frizil
Etymology: From frizz + -le. Cognate with West Frisian frisselje (“to plait, braid”), Old Frisian frisle, fresle (“head of the hair, lock of hair”). More at frizz.
Senses: examples: text: Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it.
ref: 1884, Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book: What to Do and What Not to Do in Cooking:
glosses: To fry something until crisp and curled.
examples: text: It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
glosses: To scorch.
examples: text: The bacon frizzled in the pan.
glosses: To fry noisily, sizzle.
examples: text: Now am I prowder of this pouertie, which I know is mine owne, than a wayting gentlewoman is, of a frizled groateſworth of haire, that neuer grewe on her head: […]
ref: 1599 November–December (date written; published 1600), Thomas Dekker, “The Pleasant Comoedie of Old Fortunatus. […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker […], volume I, London: John Pearson […], published 1873, →OCLC, Act [I], scene [ii], page 98:
glosses: To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.
Derived terms: frizzler
frizzly
frizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: frizzles
form: frizle
form: frisle
form: frizel
form: frizil
Etymology: From frizz + -le. Cognate with West Frisian frisselje (“to plait, braid”), Old Frisian frisle, fresle (“head of the hair, lock of hair”). More at frizz.
Senses: examples: text: The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.
ref: 1909 December 29, Jack London, “The Whale Tooth”, in South Sea Tales, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
macrolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a macrocyclic lactone with a ring of at least ten atoms
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of antibiotics having this structure
Hyponyms: azithromycin
clarithromycin
erythromycin
tacrolimus
Derived terms: pimecrolimus
sirolimus
Related terms: butanolide
mercaptal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaptals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a dithioacetal derived from an aldehyde
antinociception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinociceptions
Etymology: From anti- + nociception.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Reduced sensitivity to pain.
Related terms: antinociceptive
overbore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + bore.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Such that the capacity of the burning cartridge powder is greater than the volume within the barrel.
overbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbores
form: overboring
form: overbored
form: overbored
Etymology: From over- + bore.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To modify so that the capacity of the burning cartridge powder is greater than the volume within the barrel.
Related terms: backbore
overbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbear
big-ticket item
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big-ticket items
Etymology: The term is derived from the idea that the price is high (big).
Senses: glosses: An expensive item.
clatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clattier
form: clattiest
Etymology: A word from Cavan, Ireland.
Senses: glosses: shabby, dirty, greasy.
clatty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clatties
Etymology: A word from Cavan, Ireland.
Senses: glosses: A shabby, slovenly person.
Related terms: clarty
clats
continental breakfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continental breakfasts
Etymology: Named due to its popularity in continental Europe.
Senses: glosses: A light breakfast, often as served in a hotel, usually consisting of cereal, juice, and pastries, but without any fried items.
full breakfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full breakfasts
Senses: examples: text: Afternoon tea remains at its present price of 4s, but the prices of all other main meals have risen by 1s. Thus a full breakfast now costs 10s, lunch 13s 6d and dinner 14s 6d or 16s 6d according to train.
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment: BR meal prices up again”, in Modern Railways, page 293:
glosses: A breakfast including cooked ingredients such as sausages, bacon and eggs.
Related terms: full English breakfast
continental breakfast
geekster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geeksters
Etymology: From geek + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: It was bad enough having a boyfriend turn into a geekster right before her eyes.
ref: 1998, Laurie John, Francine Pascal, Sneaking in, page 45:
text: If you need file and print sharing enabled on a home network, and any of the info above sounds over your head, get some geekster friend of yours to do it for you, or go to http://www.grc.com for some step-by-step instructions.
ref: 2000, Tom Bentley, Safe Computing, page 112:
text: I'm more of a math major who has learned to build databases than I am a true programmer, but I felt right at home in Bryce's geekster cube farm.
ref: 2008, Morgan Hunt, Blinded by the Light: A Tess Camillo Mystery, page 20:
text: You are now doomed to be a joy ridden jungle junky groveling in the green underworld where all the passwords are taken by the dearly departed Not even a hackfest of geeksters can retrieve you here
ref: 2008, Drew Morse, The 2008 Rhysling Anthology, page 126:
glosses: Someone who is extremely studious or has esoteric knowledge, especially in technological subjects.
examples: text: This could've been a great party, but you don't know the meaning of the word, you skinny little geekster.
ref: 1992, Elizabeth D'Anard, Cinderella Summer, page 160:
text: What is the world coming to when even an American geekster like Todd Solondz (Happiness) can outshock the children of De Sade and Baudelaire?
ref: 1999, New York - Volume 31, Issue 7; Volume 32, page 56:
text: In a desperate plea to help agoraphobic desktop jockeys everywhere, Electronic Arts takes its popular sim to the place that no gaming geekster ever dared go: a date.
ref: 2001, Spin - Volume 17, Issues 7-12, page 172:
text: Who would hire a creepy geekster like this to work with sick and dying kids?
ref: 2002, Rinker Buck, First Job: A Memoir Of Growing Up At Work, page 73:
text: It's death to look too eager, too needy, too smiley. I rediscovered that truth tonight when I asked two of the little geeksters to dance. They turned me down!
ref: 2009, Julie Oliver, I've Been 16 for 34 Years, page 74:
glosses: An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
geekster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geeksters
Etymology: Blend of geek + hipster
Senses: examples: text: A small toothed geekster wearing aviator glasses and a virtuosically painted plaid shirt, Greenwold lives in Albany, New York .
ref: 1999, Artforum International - Volume 37, page 93:
text: Your average teenager wants to fit in with the rest, to appear fashionable, at the cutting edge. Nobody wants to be un-chic, dorky, or nerdy (outside of geeksters who have their own un-chic look and wear it proudly).
ref: 2011, Tom Streissguth, Getting the Hang of Fashion and Dress Codes: A How-to Guide, page 82:
text: Correspondent Ryan Duffy — one of the show’s hipster-geekster reporters — spends most of his camera time remarking on the surreal nature of the trip, in perpetual disbelief that he is actually in North Korea.
ref: 2013 June 9, Hank Stuever, “‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’: Striking nerves by striking a chord”, in The Washington Post:
text: Snaptee’s designers also tend to favor a 10’s post-irony hip-hop aesthetic, rather than Threadless’ hipster-gone-geekster – but we at Tech in Asia are far from couture snobs, even when it comes to T-shirts.
ref: 2014 September 3, Josh Horwitz, “Hong Kong’s Snaptee secures $750K to build a social network for T-shirt lovers”, in Tech in Asia:
glosses: Someone who intentionally looks geeky as a fashion statement.
unreconciled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreconciled
form: most unreconciled
Etymology: From Middle English unreconcyled; equivalent to un- + reconciled.
Senses: glosses: not reconciled
glosses: inconsistent
unreconciled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unreconcile
cloudscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudscapes
Etymology: From cloud + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A work of art or other image depicting sky and clouds.
gumball machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumball machines
Senses: glosses: A coin-operated machine that dispenses gumballs.
glosses: The flashing light on top of a police car.
glosses: A police car.
hysterics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysteric
hysterics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Her hysterics are uncontrollable.
text: The jokes had me in hysterics.
text: But when they went to tread down the earth, it seemed to her like sacrilege; and, forgetting every thing in one strong emotion, she sprang forward to prevent it. The effort was too much; and, for the first time, she sank back in the arms of the servants in strong hysterics!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Last Night with the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 317:
text: "How such swooning daughters can do it, constantly fainting and having hysterics, is a mystery to me," said Muriel Jane. "Ho, they're a pretty sly lot," said Silvander Dan.
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 24:
glosses: Hysteria; a bout of hysteria.
Derived terms: in hysterics
Related terms: histrionics
imploringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imploringly
form: most imploringly
Etymology: From imploring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “You must help me,” she said imploringly.
text: For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly.
ref: 1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “Peter Breaks Through”, in Peter and Wendy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 3:
synonyms: entreatingly
glosses: Beseechingly; in a manner that beseeches or implores.
guestbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guestbooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guest book.
fayre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fayrer
form: more fayre
form: fayrest
form: most fayre
Etymology: From Middle English fayr, feir, fager, from Old English fæġer.
Senses: examples: text: 'Nay, I wyll nat so,' seyde sir Trystrames, 'for here is none that woll gyff ryghtuous jugemente. But I doute nat,' seyde sir Trystrames, 'my lady is fayrer than youres, and that woll I make good with my hondys, and who that woll sey the contrary, I woll preve hit on his hede!'
ref: 15th century, Thomas Malory, Tale of Sir Tristram; published in Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver, editor, Malory: Works, London: Oxford University Press, 1971, OCLC 432570779, page 259
text: Now fayre, fayrest off every fayre.
ref: 1503, Kenneth Elliott, editor, Now Fayre, Fayrest off every Fayre: For Three Voices: Welcome Song for Margaret Tudor on her Marriage to James IV of Scotland (music score), Glasgow: Musica Scotica Trust, published 2003, →ISBN, front cover:
text: But that which I prize and eſteeme most is, That I have conquer'd in ſingle combat, that ſo famous Knight Don-Quixote de la Mancha, and made him confeſſe that my Caſildea is fayrer then his Dulcinea, […]
ref: 1652, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and VVitty-knight-errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now Newly Corrected and Amended, London: Printed for Richard Hodgkinsonne, for Andrew Crooke, →OCLC, page 160:
text: He comming home at undertime, there found / The fayreſt creature that he ever ſaw / Sitting beſide his mother on the ground; […]
ref: 1758, Edmund Spenser, edited by John Upton, Spenser's Faerie Queene. A New Edition with a Glossary, and Notes Explanatory and Critical [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson in the Strand, →OCLC, book III, canto VII, stanza XIII, page 436:
text: But, more than alle, her youthful hearte / Was fraughte with virtue's lore; / More fayre, more tender, and more true, / Was mayden ne'er before.
ref: 1784, Thomas Evans, “The Lordling Peasante. In Two Parts. … Part the First.”, in Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with some of Modern Date; now First Collected, and Reprinted from Rare Copies and MSS. With Notes, 2nd edition, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Evans, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 173:
text: Michael Erle, the maniac lover; or, The fayre lass of Lichfield.
ref: 1856, Thomas Egerton Wilks, Michael Erle, the Maniac Lover; or, The Fayre Lass of Lichfield. A Romantic Original Drama. In Two Acts. [Spencer's Boston Theatre; vol. 4, no. 26], Boston, Mass.: W.V. Spencer, →OCLC, front cover:
glosses: Fair, beautiful.
Eva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːvə/
rhymes: -iːvə
Etymology: The (Vulgate) Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā). A Latinate variant of the English Eve.
Senses: examples: text: "Eve," said Poirot thoughtfully. "The fashions in names change, do they not? Hardly ever, nowadays, do you hear of an Eva. But Eve, it is popular."
ref: 1951, Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Bantam Books, published 1988, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Mrs Saunders referred to Aoife throughout this talk as 'Eva' and when Gretta corrected her, Mrs Saunders replied that didn't Gretta think it would be better 'for everyone' to use what she termed 'the proper spelling' of the name? If only to give Eva a better chance of learning to write it?
ref: 2013, Maggie O'Farrell, Instructions for a Heatwave, Tinder Press, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: A female given name from Latin, ultimately from Hebrew.
Related terms: Ava
Eve
Evie
Evita
Evy
FSLN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish FSLN (“Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional”).
Senses: examples: text: In Nicaragua, “Sandinista” generally refers to members of the left-wing political movement, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) that came to power in the Nicaraguan Revolution at the end of the 1970s. Ortega’s party is the FSLN.
ref: 2024 August 27, Abel Alvarado, “Nicaragua’s Ortega offers to send ‘fighters’ to Venezuela after disputed election”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Sandinista National Liberation Front; a socialist political party in Nicaragua.
springboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springboards
Etymology: From spring + board.
Senses: glosses: A board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform that propels one into the air, used for diving or gymnastics.
examples: text: The opportuninity acted as a springboard for their success.
text: It was the section of the North Midland Railway from Derby to Ambergate which provided the springboard for a scheme that took shape in the early part of 1845 for a route through the Peak to Manchester.
ref: 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:
glosses: Something that acts as a catalyst to begin or accelerate an action or growth.
Derived terms: springboard diving
Related terms: diving board
springboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: springboards
form: springboarding
form: springboarded
form: springboarded
Etymology: From spring + board.
Senses: examples: text: Such a change could amount to a seismic shift in the nation’s electoral dynamics, potentially springboarding a Republican into the White House, and the possibility has animated hopeful Republicans and fearful Democrats.
ref: 2007 October 4, Jennifer Steinhauer, “In Ballot Fight, California Gets a Taste of ’08”, in New York Times:
glosses: To launch or propel as if from a springboard, especially toward political office.
cantilevered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæntɪˌlivə(ɹ)d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cantilever
cantilevered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæntɪˌlivə(ɹ)d/
Senses: examples: text: The cantilevered shelf of crumbling concrete where my mother sits has been declared unsafe.
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 31:
glosses: Fitted with, or constituting, a cantilever; projecting out laterally from a wall or similar support and thus hanging without other supports.
Derived terms: noncantilevered
uncantilevered
paradoxically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpaɹəˈdɒksɪkli/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/
Forms: form: more paradoxically
form: most paradoxically
Etymology: From paradoxical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The proliferation of labor-saving devices has not given us more leisure time, paradoxically.
text: If there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a smallest uninteresting number, but this number is paradoxically interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number.
text: Paradoxically enough, however, in general only the parties of the Left have done most to spread the belief that it was the numerical strength of the opposing material interests which decided political issues, whereas in practice these same parties have regularly and successfully acted as if they understood the key position of the intellectuals.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 418:
text: Paradoxically, the same faculty who complain about busyness are most likely to end up waiting passively. While they acquiescently wait to write, they busy themselves with other, often trivial, activities.
ref: 1997, Gary A. Olson, Todd W. Taylor, Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, page 218:
text: But Central Point, which had been a visibly mixed-race community since the 19th century, was home to a secret but paradoxically open interracialism.
ref: 2008 May 14, Brent Staples, “Loving v. Virginia and the Secret History of Race”, in New York Times:
text: Paradoxically, the deluge of writing itself contributes to declining readership. It's not just that if you're writing then you can't be reading. It's also that the sheer volume of what is now available acts as a disincentive to settle down with a single text. The literary equivalent of channel surfing replaces the prolonged concentration required to tackle a book.
ref: 2013 September 6, Colin Robinson, “Put down the pen and give us all a break”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 39:
text: Cottagecore is related to grandmacore, faeriecore, farmcore and goblincore; other nostalgia-ridden aesthetic communities that, paradoxically, thrive on many of the most popular internet platforms of the day.
ref: 2020 March 10, Isabel Slone, “Escape Into Cottagecore, Calming Ethos for Our Febrile Moment”, in The New York Times:
text: Lacking the anthropomorphic elasticity of their hand-drawn counterparts in the original film, the animal characters of Favreau’s Lion King appeared, paradoxically, both lifelike and lifeless, their voices never matching their limited facial expressions
ref: 2024 December 18, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Disney's taxidermized IP is brighter and livelier in Mufasa: The Lion King”, in AV Club:
glosses: In a paradoxical manner; so as to create a paradox.
jeton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetons
Etymology: Borrowed from French jeton.
Senses: examples: text: The girl took a jeton and was given a fresh towel which she draped over her arm like a waiter.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 490:
glosses: A counter or token.
mahout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈhaʊt/
ipa: /məˈhuːt/
ipa: /məˈhaʊt/
ipa: /məˈhut/
ipa: /məˈhaːʋəθ/
rhymes: -aʊt
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: mahouts
Etymology: PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
The noun is borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi महौत (mahaut)/Urdu مَہَوت (mahaut)), महाउत (mahāut), variants of महावत (mahāvat)/مَہاوَت (mahāvat), from Sanskrit महामात्र (mahāmātra, “elephant keeper; high official; king’s minister”), from महा (mahā, “great”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”)) + मात्र (mātra, “measure; quantity”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The Serrievvan hath the overſight of the Camels, and the Mahout, that of the Elephants.
ref: 1662, Adam Olearius, “The Voyages & Travels of J. Albert de Mandelslo [i.e., Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo] […] into the East-Indies. […]”, in John Davies, transl., The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia. […], London: […] Thomas Dring, and John Starkey, […], →OCLC, book I, page 81:
text: The very best of all the elephants belonged to the very worst of all the drivers or mahouts; and the superior beast's name was Moti Guj. He was the absolute property of his mahout, which would never have been the case under native rule, for Moti Guj was a creature to be desired by kings; and his name, being translated, meant the Pearl Elephant.
ref: 1891 August, Rudyard Kipling, “Moti Guj—Mutineer”, in Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1891, →OCLC, page 307:
text: [I]n a cabinet were about a hundred little elephants made of ivory. They were of different sizes, and some had their mahouts or palanquins on their backs.
ref: 1910 November – 1911 August, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “‘There Was Some One Crying—There Was!’”, in The Secret Garden, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 71:
text: Around mid-day elephants were taken into the forest by their mahouts to forage on foods of their choice, and then carried back a supply of food gathered by mahout and elephant. During the relaxed mid-day period, it was common to see mahouts sleeping on their elephants' backs, under an umbrella for shade.
ref: 2005, Lynette A. Hart, “The Elephant–Mahout Relationship in India and Nepal: A Tourist Attraction”, in John Knight, editor, Animals in Person: Cultural Perspectives on Human–Animal Intimacies, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2020, →ISBN, page 172:
synonyms: word: mahawat
word: oozie
glosses: An elephant trainer, keeper, and driver.
mahout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈhaʊt/
ipa: /məˈhuːt/
ipa: /məˈhaʊt/
ipa: /məˈhut/
ipa: /məˈhaːʋəθ/
rhymes: -aʊt
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: mahouts
form: mahouting
form: mahouted
form: mahouted
Etymology: PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
The noun is borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi महौत (mahaut)/Urdu مَہَوت (mahaut)), महाउत (mahāut), variants of महावत (mahāvat)/مَہاوَت (mahāvat), from Sanskrit महामात्र (mahāmātra, “elephant keeper; high official; king’s minister”), from महा (mahā, “great”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”)) + मात्र (mātra, “measure; quantity”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Word was passed down the river, the call going out for the bravest of Brul mahouting only the strongest of mounts.
ref: 1984 August, Alan Dean Foster, chapter XI, in Voyage to the City of the Dead (A Del Rey Book), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 151:
text: Don't forget, though, your wedding will always be memorable to you yourself, […] On the other hand, even if you arrive on an elephant mahouted by Lady Gaga, there will still be guests in years to come who won't be able to remember whose wedding that was because they were aged 26–32 at the time and it was the eighth wedding they were at that year.
ref: 2016, Colm O’Regan, “Standing on Ceremony”, in Bolloxology, London: Transworld Ireland, →ISBN, part 1 (Private), page 50:
glosses: To drive (an elephant or elephants).
examples: text: First a team of six ponied pulling a miniature fire engine jumping with midget firefighters, then a dozen scantily mahouted elephants painted pink, came out of the arc light and sawdut into neon glow and mirroring asphalt.
ref: 1957 July, Edward Wellen, “Sweet Dreams”, in Larry T[aylor] Shaw, editor, Infinity Science Fiction, volume 2, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Royal Publications, →OCLC, pages 67–68:
text: Traditionally they are hunters and gatherers but today they are agricultural labourers. […] They are experts at collecting honey and mahouting.
ref: 2010, Rajeevan R., “A Socio-political Analysis of the Tribes in Kerala”, in Towards Political Empowerment: Political Socialization and Political Participation of Tribal Community in Kerala, Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: To drive elephants.
defibrillator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfɪbɹɪleɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: defibrillators
Etymology: From defibrillate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Two deaths have been linked to St. Jude Medical heart defibrillators with batteries that failed. […] Losing battery in a defibrillator could mean the failure of pacing heartbeats or delivering shocks, a potentially deadly consequence for cardiac patients.
ref: 2016 October 11, Hailey Middlebrook, “After 2 deaths, patients warned about heart defibrillators’ failed batteries”, in CNN:
text: High intensity EMF can have adverse impacts on the operation of implantable medical devices (IMDs) such as pacemakers and defibrillators.
ref: 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 73:
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An electronic device used internally or externally that delivers a controlled electric shock to a patient to correct ventricular fibrillation, a lack of coordination of the contraction of muscle tissue of the large chambers of the heart.
bread and butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹ̠ɛd n̩ ˌbʌɾɚ/
note: stressed form
ipa: /-ænd ˌbʌtɚ/
Senses: examples: text: They will do some machining if you ask them, but sheet metal has always been their bread and butter.
text: “There’s a big lockout at the foundry.” / “Lockout, what!” cried several. / “Sure as blazes, boys; just when the procession was passin’ I takes a squint at the big foundry door, and there I seen it writ, as clear as sunshine with a hole through it, on a bit o’ paper, that the ould foundry’s shut after Sathurday next, till further notice. Divil a bit less, but I’m shure them’s the very words.” / Silence fell on the crowd in the tobacco smoke. Most of them were foundry-men and had families. Their bread and butter were at stake.
ref: 1890, N[athan] H[enry] Chamberlain, chapter I, in What’s the Matter? or, Our Tariff and Its Taxes, Boston, Mass.: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. […], page 13:
text: Every escort has at least one or two regular clients; they are our bread and butter.
ref: 2017, Samantha X, Back on Top: Confessions of a High-Class Escort, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: That which is central or fundamental, as to one's business, survival, or income; a staple or cornerstone.
examples: text: What the nation, like the man, earns for itself by the honest labor of its people—when a man exerts himself to anything in an honorable calling—he is said to be earning his bread and butter, which includes his food and clothes and house-rent and all the rest of the thing [sic] he pays for. Now, if a man does not earn his bread and butter, he must either have it given to him as a gift, or steal it, as our forefathers nearly all did, honest, good people, too, as they were. ... It is worth while examining as to whether we earn all our bread and butter ... We ought to look after the bread and butter on our farms, and see that we eat the best bread and butter.
ref: 1897, Annual Report, Volume One, Ontario Department of Agriculture:
glosses: The basic requirements of living, such as food and housing.
examples: text: The bread-and-butter were good enough, but the ale poorish.
ref: 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:
text: [I]n the centre stood an enormous table laid for tea—four cups and saucers, piles of bread and butter, crumpets, coconut cakes and a large plum cake with pink icing.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Laughing Gas”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bread, butter.
Derived terms: bread-and-butter issue
bread-and-butter letter
bread-and-butter note
bread-and-butter pickle
bread and butter pudding
Related terms: bread-and-butter
guns and butter
bread and butter
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹ̠ɛd n̩ ˌbʌɾɚ/
note: stressed form
ipa: /-ænd ˌbʌtɚ/
Senses: examples: text: Should this happen, retrace your steps to the point of separation if you wish to counteract the spell. Or, say the words "bread and butter."
ref: 1989, Vergilius Ture Anselm Ferm, Lightning never strikes twice (if you own a feather bed):, page 238:
text: Peter Bartis, at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, explains, “Bread and butter go together, a sign of unity.” He finds a citation in the seven-volume Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore: “If two persons are walking and they come to ... “When walkers were separated and did not use this phrase or bread and butter,” DARE adds, “it was believed they would have a quarrel.
ref: 2003, William Safire, No Uncertain Terms, page 46:
text: "Bread and butter," the larger of the two women quipped as they moved past their Nancy-obstacle. "Bread and butter!".
ref: 2011, James Hilliard, The Doll Show:
text: Before Trudy succumbed to her injuries from the bomb that destroyed her car, she uttered the words “bread and butter. Monk tells us that whenever he and Trudy had to part ways, even if only briefly, she would say bread and butter.
ref: 2011, D. E. Wittkower, Mr. Monk and Philosophy: The Curious Case of the Defective Detective:
text: If one of us kids was walking alongside him and we were separated by an object, whether a light pole or a person walking between us, my dad always muttered, “Bread and butter.”
ref: 2014, Wendy Davis, Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir:
glosses: Said when two people walking together are temporarily separated by an obstacle in order to indicate that they belong together.
mercaptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaptides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: thiolate
thiolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiolates
Etymology: From thiol + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of a thiol in which a metal atom replaces the hydrogen attached to sulfur RSH => RS⁻M⁺.
mercaptole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaptoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dithioketal
Related terms: thioacetal
thioacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioacetals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: either a monothioacetal or a dithioacetal
monothioacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monothioacetals
Etymology: From mono- + thioacetal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a thioacetal having general formula R₂C(OR')(SR')
Related terms: dithioacetal
dithioacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithioacetals
Etymology: From di- + thioacetal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a thioacetal having general formula R₂C(SR')₂
Related terms: monothioacetal
swamp beggar-ticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: an American beggar-ticks, Bidens connata, common in wet pastures and meadows
beggar-ticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beggar's ticks
Abruzzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˈbɹut.tsi/
Senses: glosses: A former mountainous region in central Italy that borders the Adriatic Sea; properly Abruzzi e Molise; now separated into Abruzzo and Molise.
Derived terms: Abruzzi Apennines
next door
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: next-door
form: nextdoor
Senses: examples: text: He lives next door but one (= two houses from mine).
text: "Yeh know Tom Jamison, he lives next door t' me up home.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 102:
glosses: In an adjacent building, room or place.
next door
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more next door
form: most next door
form: next-door
form: nextdoor
Senses: examples: text: Try the place next door.
glosses: That is in an adjacent place; that is located next door.
Related terms: boy next door
girl next door
next door
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: next-door
form: nextdoor
Senses: examples: text: Next door the kirk was an olden tower, built in the time of the Roman Catholics [...].
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 17:
glosses: Next door to.
Alessandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Alessandra.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Italian, equivalent to English Alexandra.
Alessandro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alessandros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Alessandro.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Alexander.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Riverside County, California, United States.
pedlar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedlars
Etymology: From Middle English pedlare, variant of Middle English pedare. More at peddler.
Senses: examples: text: After a time she touched the bell, with great caution; the cook appeared, to whom she gave a slip of paper, on which the woman vanished, leaving the little pedlar of small wares standing on the steps, where she had already placed her basket,...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 162:
text: I had strolled along the platform where the native pedlars called their wares as passengers leaned from the wide carriage windows.
ref: 1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:
qualifier: otherwise dated
glosses: Alternative spelling of peddler.
Derived terms: dope-pedlar
pedlaress
amoroso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorosos
form: amorosi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian amoroso. Doublet of amorous and amoureux.
Senses: glosses: A male lover.
amoroso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian amoroso. Doublet of amorous and amoureux.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: tender; loving
chillaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chillaxin
form: chillaxin’
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chillax
chillaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chillaxing
form: most chillaxing
form: chillaxin
form: chillaxin’
Senses: examples: text: But these chillaxing engineers, led by Zuckerberg, were the ones who could bring the site back up with a few hours of frantic coding, and everyone else, considered ‘duller, incapable of quick and intelligent thought’, was there to serve the thing they had created and, therefore, them.
ref: 2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:
glosses: Relaxing, chilling.
foolishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːlɪʃli/
Forms: form: more foolishly
form: most foolishly
Etymology: From Middle English folysly, folysschly; equivalent to foolish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He dressed foolishly to entertain the children.
text: I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural aukwardness.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 220:
text: “Nothing to speak of,” said Adam Woodcock, answering for the boy—“a foolish quarrel with me, which was more foolishly told over again to my honoured lady, cost the poor boy his place.[…]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 329–330:
glosses: In a foolish manner.
examples: text: Foolishly, he had decided that, because a home was the best investment, two homes were even better.
glosses: Without good judgment.
ransack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹænsæk/
homophone: RANSAC
Forms: form: ransacks
form: ransacking
form: ransacked
form: ransacked
Etymology: From Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann (“house”) + saka (“search”); probably influenced by sack. Compare Danish ransage, Swedish rannsaka.
Senses: examples: text: Their vow is made / To ransack Troy.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene prologue]:
text: Hellen Gravely: 'You ransacked my hotel, captured my staff with that strange vacuum of yours... And to top it all off, you catnapped my sweetie, my little darling... My precious Polterkitty!'
ref: 2019 October 30, Next Level Games, Luigi's Mansion 3, v1.4.0, Nintendo, level/area: Main Observation Room (15F: Master Suite):
synonyms: sack
glosses: To loot or pillage.
examples: text: to ransack a house for valuables
text: He ransacked his memory for a clew to that haunting familiarity. He tried to make himself believe it was just a crazy, senseless notion. But it persisted; he could not shake it off.
ref: 1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg:
text: to ransack every corner of their[…]hearts
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
examples: text: Thenne came there an olde monke whiche somtyme had ben a knyghte & behelde syre Melyas / And anone he ransakyd hym / & thenne he saide vnto syr Galahad I shal hele hym of this woūde by the grace of god within the terme of seuen wekes
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:
glosses: To examine carefully; to investigate.
examples: text: Rich spoil of ransackt chastity.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:
glosses: To violate; to ravish; to deflower.
ransack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹænsæk/
homophone: RANSAC
Forms: form: ransacks
Etymology: From Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann (“house”) + saka (“search”); probably influenced by sack. Compare Danish ransage, Swedish rannsaka.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps this stone also will turn up in the ransack of the sultan's treasury.
ref: 1861, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
glosses: Eager search.
Excellency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Excellencies
Senses: qualifier: Her or Your
glosses: A form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries.
raw_tags: used with His
Synonyms: Excellence
Derived terms: Excy
His Excellency
Her Excellency
Your Excellency
Audrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːdɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːdɹi
Etymology: From Middle English Aldreda, Etheldreda, from Old English Æþelþrȳþ (from æþele (“noble”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)).
Senses: examples: text: Touchstone. Come, sweet Audrey, / We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: She hates her name. What was wrong with the name Audrey? It may not have been something Elise would choose now, but she'd been eighteen when her daughter was born, and the name had seemed pretty damn cool.
ref: 2004, Anne Frasier, Play dead, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Old English.
glosses: A male given name from Old English.
Related terms: word: tawdry
english: Saint Audrey
translation: Saint Audrey
word: derived from
sealion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlaɪən/
Forms: form: sealions
form: sealioning
form: sealioned
form: sealioned
form: sea lion
Etymology: The verb is from “The Terrible Sea Lion”, a 2014 strip in the webcomic Wondermark, in which a character expresses a dislike of sea lions and a passing sea lion repeatedly, intrusively asks the character to justify this.
Senses: examples: text: There, Peggy speaks for every angry marginalised person who’s ever been sealioned or tone-policed in a disagreement.
ref: 2015 January 28, Andrew Wheeler, “Agent Carter’ Recap, Episode 4: The Blitzkrieg Button”, in Comics Alliance, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2015:
text: The purpose of sealioning never to actually learn or become more informed.
ref: 2015 March 24, Sarah Seltzer, “Beyond Mansplaining: A New Lexicon of Misogynist Trolling Behaviors”, in Flavorwire, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2015:
text: I can attest to reactionary right-wing trolls being the black belt masters of Internet pile-ons, or as Wondermark has indelibly dubbed the practice, “sealioning.”
ref: 2015 April 1, Arthur Chu, “Trevor Noah and the Toxicity of Twitter: A Cocktail Party Conversation That’s Being Refereed”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2017:
text: Popular definitions of harassment also extend to “sealioning” — a recently coined term based on an Internet comic, “The Terrible Sea Lion” — which seems to mean little more than unwelcome attempts to engage someone in debate.
ref: 2015 November 19, Cathy Young, “The dangers of going too far to curb online harassment”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2015:
glosses: To intrude on a conversation with probing questions in an attempt to engage in unwanted debate, usually disingenuously as a form of harassment or trolling.
Derived terms: sealioner
sealion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlaɪən/
Forms: form: sealions
Etymology: The verb is from “The Terrible Sea Lion”, a 2014 strip in the webcomic Wondermark, in which a character expresses a dislike of sea lions and a passing sea lion repeatedly, intrusively asks the character to justify this.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea lion.
examples: text: Randi's list is a key reason I've been able to continue to use Twitter, as it prevents relentless ideological sealions from crowding my mentions.
ref: 2014 December 2, Glenn Fleishman, “Twitter takes aim at trolls—and promises more”, in Boing Boing, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2014:
synonyms: sealioner
glosses: One who engages in sealioning.
metallacycloalkane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallacycloalkanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monocyclic heterocycle consisting of a metal atom and saturated carbon atoms in the ring.
metalloenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloenzymes
Etymology: From metallo- + enzyme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that contains a metal atom which is essential for its biological activity
Related terms: metalloenzymic
methylidyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylidynes
Etymology: From methyl + -ide + -yne.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carbyne
sea lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea lion