cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
intracoder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + coder.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: intrarater, intraobserver, intratester
text: intracoder reliability
coordinate_terms: intercoder
;
interrater
interobserver
intertester
glosses: Within one of a group of individuals performing coding, as part of an academic study or in medical coding.
juxtafoveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From juxta- + foveolar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Adjacent to a foveola
kempferol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kempferols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kaempferol.
leucocytospermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leukocytospermia.
leucopelargonidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucopelargonidin
couldn't be more different
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: couldn't have been more different
Etymology: An ironic phrase meaning how something is completely different to another entity.
Senses: examples: text: Japan couldn't be more different than the United States.
glosses: Two entities that have virtually nothing in common.
levocardiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laevocardiography.
Related terms: levocardiogram
levocardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levocardiograms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laevocardiogram.
Related terms: levocardiography
Zoetermeer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Zoetermeer.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
EABOD
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of eat a bag of dicks.
longiborneol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: juniperol
macrocarpol
kuromatsuol
glosses: The tetracyclic sesquiterpenoid alcohol 2,6,6,9-tetramethyltricyclo[5.4.0.0^(2,9)]undecan-8-ol
meteorosensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meteosensitivity.
STGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of STG
meteosensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meteo- + sensitivity.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: sensitivity to the weather
Related terms: meteosensitive
sthals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sthal
Garangao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Gargee'an
microfertilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfertilizers
Etymology: From micro- + fertilizer.
Senses: glosses: A fertilizer composed of microelements
microfertilizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfertilizer
Water Orton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP1791).
necrotoxigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From necro- + toxigenic.
Senses: glosses: That produces necrotoxins
normoinsulinaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normoinsulinemic.
Hoorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Hoorn.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
ahegaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ahegao
composition fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composition fees
Etymology: Originally from an obsolete sense of composition, “payment to settle an obligation”, from Medieval Latin compositiō (“payment made in amends or settlement”), see citations; compare legal sense of compound, “settle with a smaller payment than the claim”. Later reanalysed in some cases as meaning “aggregate”.
Senses: examples: text: The subscribers of three guineas per annum were to be called governors, and were permitted to pay a composition fee of twenty guineas to obtain the privilege of life governor.
ref: 1845, Erasmus Wilson, The History of the Middlesex Hospital during the First Century of its Existence, page 4:
text: The maximum composition fee for an offence was raised from six hundred to a thousand dollars.
ref: 1974, Thean Soo Lim, Sukumaran Nair, S. Mohd Razak, The Impact of Customs, Republic of Singapore, page 38:
text: Payment of a University Composition Fee under these regulations shall entitle a matriculated student without additional fee ¶ (a) to attend any course within the University which is listed in the table of fees attached to these regulations […]
ref: 2009, Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge, →ISBN, page 159:
topics: law
glosses: A payment of amends or to acquire a certain privilege, (universities) a tuition fee.
Related terms: letter of composition
composition fees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of composition fee
Nederweert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Nederweert.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Heiloo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Heiloo.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
Medemblik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Medemblik.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
oligomenorrhoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oligomenorrheic.
Barendrecht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Barendrecht.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
overcalibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + calibration.
Senses: glosses: Excessive calibration
Baarn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and town in Utrecht province, Netherlands.
overcontroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcontrollers
Etymology: From over- + controller.
Senses: glosses: A person who exerts excessive control.
overcontrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcontroller
Het Hogeland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Het Hogeland.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
Midden-Groningen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Midden-Groningen.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
Oldambt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Oldambt.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
Pekela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Pekela.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
pedagogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedagogists
Senses: glosses: A pedagogical teacher
Stadskanaal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Stadskanaal.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
Pitsea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban town in Basildon borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ7388).
Veendam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Veendam.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
Westerkwartier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Westerkwartier.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
glosses: A historical region of Groningen, Netherlands.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Delft, South Holland, Netherlands.
peritalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + talar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the talus
Westerwolde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Westerwolde.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
Kampen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and seaside resort village on the island of Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
glosses: A Hanseatic city and municipality of Overijssel, Netherlands.
glosses: A hamlet in Súdwest-Fryslân, Friesland, Netherlands.
glosses: A hamlet in Hulst, Zeeland, Netherlands.
Beesel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Beesel.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
phalloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalloid
Brunssum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Brunssum.
Senses: glosses: A ciyty and municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Echt-Susteren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Echt-Susteren.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Eijsden-Margraten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Eijsden-Margraten.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Gennep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Limburg province, Netherlands.
plowsole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plowsoles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plow sole.
Gulpen-Wittem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Gulpen-Wittem.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Heerlen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Limburg province, Netherlands.
plow sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plow soles
form: plowsole
Senses: glosses: A compact layer of soil at the base of a furrow
Horst aan de Maas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Horst aan de Maas.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Kerkrade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Kerkrade.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
potamodromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being potamodromous
Landgraaf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Landgraaf.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Leudal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Leudal.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Maasgouw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Maasgouw.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
preconsolidation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + consolidation.
Senses: glosses: Prior to consolidation
Meerssen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Meerssen.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Mook en Middelaar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Mook en Middelaar.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
propatagial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Related to a propatagium
Beekdaelen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Limburg province, Netherlands.
Peel en Maas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Peel and Maas
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Peel en Maas.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Roerdalen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Roerdalen.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
propiconazol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of propiconazole.
Simpelveld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Simpelveld.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Vaals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Vaals.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Valkenburg aan de Geul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Valkenburg aan de Geul.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Venray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Venray.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Voerendaal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Voerendaal.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Limburg, Netherlands.
Nefertem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛfə(ɹ)tɛm/
Forms: form: Nefertum
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ancient Egyptian god, who represented the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower
Nefertum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nefertem.
radiodosimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + dosimetry.
Senses: glosses: radiation dosimetry
Related terms: radiodosimetric
rederivatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rederivatizes
form: rederivatizing
form: rederivatized
form: rederivatized
Etymology: From re- + derivatize.
Senses: glosses: To derivatize again
rederivatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rederivatize
rederivatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: derivatized again
ribophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ribose phosphate
Schagen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Schagen.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of the region of West Friesland, North Holland, Netherlands.
selenodisulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound dithiaselenirane composed of a three-membered ring of one selenium and two sulfur atoms
selenotranscript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenotranscripts
Etymology: From seleno- + transcript.
Senses: glosses: The transcript of RNA associated with a selenoprotein
Related terms: selenotranscriptome
selenotranscriptomic
selenotranscripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selenotranscript
sonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sono- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of sound
sulvanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulvanite
teledermatoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teledermoscopy.
tenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tentacular.
tribenuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular herbicide
Derived terms: tribenuron-methyl
letter of composition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letters of composition
Etymology: From an obsolete sense of composition, “payment to settle an obligation”: see composition fee.
Senses: examples: text: Recently I received a letter of composition of $20 from the Car Parks Division, Urban Redevelopment Authority, for parking my broken down car in Keong Siak Road where it joins Sago Street and Sago Lane.
ref: 1978 May 27, “Parking Victim”, “Need for ‘no parking’ signs”, in The Straits Times, page 17:
text: I have been away from Singapore for more than 15 years, and imagine my surprise on receiving a scanned copy of a "failure to file return" […] This the^([sic]) the first letter from the IRAS after more than 15 years and it is a letter of composition and penalty - for Pay and Pay?
ref: 2008 January 2, Soojenn, “Singapore - A Police State”, in Singapore in General (blog):
text: […] about 300 foreign companies did not file their tax returns with IRAS. Letters of composition were issued to these companies.
ref: 2013, OECD, Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information Tax Purposes Peer Reviews: Singapore 2013, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Official notice of a composition fee (a fine).
letters of composition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter of composition
underconsolidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + consolidated.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently consolidated
underconsume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underconsumes
form: underconsuming
form: underconsumed
form: underconsumed
Etymology: From under- + consume.
Senses: glosses: To consume insufficiently
Related terms: underconsumption
underconsuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underconsume
undercontroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercontrollers
Etymology: From under- + controller.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A person who controls insufficiently
undercontrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercontroller
unglycated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + glycated.
Senses: glosses: Not glycated
Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.
holy writ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Holy Writ.
hæmatidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmatidroses
Senses: examples: text: Other conditions such as uridrosis, phosphorescent sweat and hæmatidrosis may be mentioned in this connection.
ref: 1901, William Hardaway, A Clinical Manual of Skin Diseases: With Special Reference to Diagnosis and Treatment for the Use of Students and General Practitioners, 2nd edition, London: Henry Kimpton, page 434:
glosses: Obsolete typography of haematidrosis.
tuition fees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: tuition
glosses: A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
Wuhan shake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wuhan shakes
Senses: glosses: The act of greeting by touching the insoles of the feet together, to avoid spreading coronavirus by a handshake.
keikis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keiki
railtour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railtours
form: rail tour
Etymology: From rail + tour.
Senses: examples: text: The town's [(Consett's)] final rail passengers came and went on March 17 1984, with a railtour from Newcastle organised by the Derwent Rail Action Group.
ref: 2020 April 22, Philip Haigh, “Rethinking, rather than reopening, is the catalyst for growth”, in Rail, page 56:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A special excursion by train which is run in order to allow people to experience rail travel which is not available using timetabled passenger services.
railtours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railtour
group representation constituency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: group representation constituencies
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A type of parliamentary constituency with multiple representatives from the same political group, at least one of whom must be from an ethnic minority.
Synonyms: word: GRC
group representation constituencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of group representation constituency
functional constituency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functional constituencies
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A type of non-geographical electoral constituency in which the constituents are defined by their professional occupation.
functional constituencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of functional constituency
non-arrival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: non-arrivals
Etymology: From non- + arrival.
Senses: examples: text: However, a major part of the accessibility issue is the number of non-compliant electric multiple units in traffic on outer suburban routes, due to the non-arrival of Bombardier Class 720s.
ref: 2020 April 22, Richard Clinnick, “We are feeling positive”, in Rail, pages 62–63:
glosses: Alternative form of nonarrival.
non-arrivals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-arrival
Leiderdorp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Leiderdorp.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
life member
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life members
Senses: examples: text: I confess that if I weren't a Life Member I would resign in protest.
ref: 2020 April 22, Barry Doe, “National Trust ceases to consider public transport”, in Rail, page 64:
glosses: Someone who has become a member of an organisation for the rest of their life.
Related terms: life membership
life members
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life member
Goldfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goldfish
form: Goldfishes
form: goldfish
Etymology: From goldfish. Named after the shape.
Senses: examples: text: They were both working on their second and The Bad Czech was threatening to break the pub record for eating Goldfish, previously held by the chairman of the division of chemistry. […] He took the little fish-shaped cracker and held it in fingers as big as 50-milliliter test tubes.
ref: 1983, Joseph Wambaugh, The Delta Star, Morrow/Perigord, page 215:
text: No tomato soup with the toasted cheese? And I'd put mustard on the sandwich too, and parmesan cheese Goldfishes on the soup.
ref: 1999 December 31, Tracy T., “Knock knock...”, in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 Oct 2025:
text: For me, Goldfish crackers were always a comfort food growing up.
ref: 2007, George Stella, Eating Stella Style, Simon & Schuster, page 63:
glosses: A small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish.
wikipedia: Pepperidge Farm
cooks someone's goose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cook someone's goose
cooking someone's goose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cook someone's goose
cooked someone's goose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cook someone's goose
Slade Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Bexley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ5276).
anti-agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-agreement
form: most anti-agreement
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antiagreement.
hydroxymidazolam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The metabolite of midazolam [8-chloro-6-(2-fluorophenyl)-4H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepin-1-yl]methanol
lymphophenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lymphopenia.
neobaicalein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The apoptopic flavone 2',5-dihydroxy-6,6',7,8-tetramethoxyflavone
Synonyms: scullcapflavone
abackstays
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Lined up in the direction of the wind and thus not propelled by the wind
raw_tags: of sails
Sutton Bonington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5025).
abackwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abackward.
abare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abares
form: abaring
form: abared
form: abared
Etymology: Derived from Old English abarian (“to strip, make bare, expose”).
Senses: glosses: to strip, uncover (make bare)
abasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Anglo-Norman
Senses: glosses: The condition of being abased; humiliation; abasement
abatagati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nguni witches and/or wizards
McNaughton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McNaughtons
form: MacNaughton
form: McCreight
form: McCright
Etymology: From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, Anglicized form of Mac Neachtain, a patronymic surname from the personal name Neachtan, a name of the god of water in Irish mythology, of uncertain ultimate origin; see Nechtan. Compare McCracken.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Oneida County, Wisconsin, USA.
Derived terms: McNaughton rules
luópán
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luópáns
Senses: synonyms: Chinese compass
glosses: A geomantic compass used in feng shui, similar to ones made in ancient China.
Galabank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gala + bank, being located close to Gala Water, a river.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet near Stow, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4445).
wikipedia: Gala Water
Bokononism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle in 1963. Named after the religion's alleged founder, Bokonon + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: [>We show singles exactly how to find their True Soulmate! And we show Couples how to determine if they have found their True Soulmate!]
How tough can it be to know once you've found the right one? As long as you're not somewhere that has made Bokononism illegal, couldn't you just put your feet together?
ref: 1997 March 13, the tree by the river, “Re: Still looking for your Soulmate? We can help!”, in soc.singles (Usenet):
text: Because there isn't any, and I can't think of any possible reason that there need be any. Thus I have assumed that there is no god. The difference is that since there *can be* no evidence of it, I must admit that I can not really know the answer. In my case, that is grounds for agnosticism (or Bokononism really). In the case of many others, faith takes over.
ref: 2000 May 8, m. brazeau, “Re: help me refute a theist”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):
text: Whatever wackadoodle philosophy you might be embracing today – frutarianism or Bokononism – is cool as long as it doesn’t hurt those around you, right? ¶ Refusing to immunize puts the rest of us at risk. And unless there is sound science and the guidance of a good doctor, it’s a pretty bogus way to hedge a bet in that game of parenting roulette.
ref: 2015 January 26, Petula Dvorak, “Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are putting others at risk”, in The Washington Post:
topics: fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
religion
glosses: In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, a religion secretly practiced by the people of San Lorenzo, the supreme religious act of which consists of any two worshippers rubbing the bare soles of their feet together to inspire spiritual connection.
wikipedia: Cat's Cradle
Related terms: granfalloon
karass
Tynehead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3959).
CAGD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of computer aided geometric design.
Hypernyms: CAD
Shawfair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A new residential development near Millerhill, Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3269).
MIMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
communications
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
telecommunications
glosses: Ellipsis of MIMO technology (“multiple-input multiple-output technology”).
Coordinate terms: spread spectrum
Derived terms: sense: multi-in multi-out
english: ITU-T G.9963
translation: ITU-T G.9963
word: G.hn-mimo
sense: multi-in multi-out
english: MIMO orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
translation: MIMO orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
word: MIMO-ODFM
sense: multi-in multi-out
english: multi-user MIMO
translation: multi-user MIMO
word: MU-MIMO
cisgirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cisgirl
babber-lipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more babber-lipped
form: most babber-lipped
Senses: examples: text: Forsooth, Narcissus: by the same token he was turned to a daffodil, and as he died for love of himself, so, if you remember, there was an old ill-favoured, precious-nosed, babber-lipped, beetle-browed, blear-eyed, slouch-eared slave that, looking himself by chance in a glass, died for pure hate.
ref: 1607, Simon Waterson,, Lingua: Or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the fiue Senses, for Superiority:
text: You clamber up because you boast a pair of sea-eyes, when any babber-lipped black in the waist must have sighted them the sooner.
ref: 1922, Henry Cottrell Rowland, Hirondelle, page 167:
text: He danced, mimicked frogs and cows in his songs (I think of Clarence “Frogman” Henry singing “Ain't Got No Home” in 1956), and capped his sly performances as a babber-lipped buffoon by placing billiard balls or a cup and saucer in his mouth (I think of the guy with the balls in his mouth on the cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.).
ref: 2009, Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather:
glosses: Having thick, protruding lips.
Caesarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caesarism
babbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babbies
Senses: examples: text: A babbie robbed of her mam and da and two sets of families grieving.
ref: 2010, Rita Bradshaw, Forever Yours:
text: So even though I was greetin like a babbie the day my auntie Edie came tae take me away, and my ma was – what's it? incon-soul-able – I think it was the best thing fur wur family.
ref: 2011, Nina de la Mer, 4 a.m.:
text: That she was granen—in the way of a babbie coming. And she hardly more than a babbie herself.
ref: 2013, Benjamin Black, Holy Orders: A Quirke Novel, page 260:
glosses: Alternative spelling of babby.
Przemyslids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Przemyslid
baby-farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-farms
Senses: examples: text: Can't send it to the workhouse, you know, or a baby-farm, or a baby-farmer, like that woman.
ref: 1883, All the Year Round - Volume 32; Volume 52, page 413:
text: The home may be a large baby-farm and the woman that manages it a large farmer, or it may be a small home and she may be a small farmer.
ref: 1917, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, Scotland, by W. L. Mackenzie, page 135:
text: But the 'Children's Home' at Rühen was not the only baby-farm set up by the Nazis.
ref: 2008, Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of Liverpool, The Scourge of the Swastika, page 160:
glosses: Alternative form of baby farm.
baby-farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby-farm
MPPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of most penetrating particle size.
Related terms: english: mucus penetrating particle
translation: mucus penetrating particle
word: MPP
baby-farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-farmers
Senses: examples: text: Can't send it to the workhouse, you know, or a baby-farm, or a baby-farmer, like that woman.
ref: 1883, All the Year Round - Volume 32; Volume 52, page 413:
text: Proudly conscious of her peculiar abilities, the baby-farmer made reply, "Twenty-one deaths out of a possible twenty-three in the past six months."
ref: 1884, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 26, page 154:
text: When the baby-farmer went to register the infant's death, the registrar, learning that it was illegitimate, and thinking that some of the statements made regarding it were suspicious, very properly insisted on the attendance of the mother before he would grant the certificate of registration.
ref: 1884 September 1, “Baby-farming Disclosures in the Potteries”, in Midland Medical Miscellany and Provincial Medical Journal, volume 3, number 33, page 278:
glosses: Alternative form of baby farmer.
baby-farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby-farmer
babyolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baby + -o- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: There will be as there must be much baby talk in the nurseries of a people so far gone in “babyolatry” as are we Americans.
ref: 1926, Milwaukee Public Schools: Professional pamphlet series: Issue 12:
text: To take one small example, Swinburne's famous celebration of Marian's baby in Aurora Leigh (mentioned on p. 141) stems not so much from a contemporary 'glorification' of maternity as his own much-documented and idiosyncratic 'babyolatry'.
ref: 1999, Andrew Gurr, Phillipa Hardman, Lionel Kelly, The Text as Evidence: Revising Editorial Principles:
text: I must say I prefer living breathing parents who communicate with their children, whatever the quality of the message delivered, to parents who have been converted to the stupid and harmful religion of babyolatry!
ref: 2005, Aldo Naouri, Fathers and Mothers:
glosses: An obsession with babies or infants
ostenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ostent
ostented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ostent
back chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back chats
Senses: examples: text: Many parents often feel exhausted by the constant arguing, 'back chat' and debate they receive from their children. Once you tell a child off, he will talk back and debate the issue endlessly.
ref: 2004, Uttom Chowdhury, Tics and Tourette Syndrome, page 86:
text: Eldest daughter is wearing too much make-up and giving out the usual back chat, no matter.
ref: 2010, Stephen Oakes, Every Little Thing Matters, page 39:
text: There was some back chat when I went back to my unit but none of it was nasty.
ref: 2012, Colin Shindler, National Service: From Aldershot to Aden:
glosses: Alternative form of backchat.
back chat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back chats
form: back chatting
form: back chatted
form: back chatted
Senses: examples: text: Erm, say mum told me off or something I can back chat her sometimes and she can't hear me.
ref: 2012, Michele Moore, Children's Reflections On Family Life, page 83:
text: She was about to back chat me when I changed my facial expression.
ref: 2012, Deryck Foster, To Find Friends, page 118:
text: He left me to run the yard and I back chatted him one day. He told me to 'fuck off' so I told him to 'fuck off' and as I'm walking off up the road he hit me on the head, from about thirty yards, with a half brick. He knocked me out in front of his pals.
ref: 2013, Anthony Donnelly, Christopher Donnelly, Simon Spence, Still Breathing:
glosses: Alternative form of backchat.
back chats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back chat
back chats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of back chat
back chatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back chat
back chatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of back chat
back-chat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-chats
form: back-chatting
form: back-chatted
form: back-chatted
Senses: examples: text: Most church women I know still go visiting, may "back-chat" their male partner, and may not be "quiet" at all.
ref: 1998, Melissa A. Johnson, Nature and progress in rural Creole Belize, page 149:
text: Very few dared to back-chat Smith anyway.
ref: 2008, Ben Collins, The Red Fox: The Biography of Norm Smith, page 318:
text: Children may choose the fight or flight response. They may back-chat or argue or they may withdraw.
ref: 2009, Bill Rogers, How to Manage Children's Challenging Behaviour, page 49:
glosses: Alternative form of backchat.
back-chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-chats
Senses: examples: text: ' […] Be firm with him; tell him you have already chosen a bride. He won't dare give you back-chat.' Mother talked to Ramu in Tamil.
ref: 2007, Vivek Iyer, Samlee's Daughter:
text: He was always very good to me but I made sure I never stepped out of line. My fears in this direction were confirmed when, later in the season, Dave Shawcross, a highly talented wing-half, had the nerve to give Jim a bit of back-chat.
ref: 2012, Fred Eyre, Kicked into Touch: Plus Extra Time:
text: No, you love minimum back-chat and three square meals a day.
ref: 2015, Matthew Trevannion, “Bruised”, in Matthew Trevannion, Rachel Trezise, Tim Price, editors, Contemporary Welsh Plays, page 419:
glosses: Alternative form of backchat.
back-chats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of back-chat
back-chats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-chat
back-chatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back-chat
back-chatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of back-chat
bracteately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bracteate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bracteate fashion.
backgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backgames
Etymology: From back + game.
Senses: examples: text: The strategy of the backgame is very similar to the defensive strategy discussed earlier; i.e., you begin to make your points inside your inner table and wait for him to leave a blot.
ref: 1977, Nicolaos S. Tzannes, Basil Tzannes, Backgammon Games and Strategies, page 65:
text: We are also taught that we should not commit to a backgame until we have to and that we should try to win by going forward if at all possible.
ref: 2007, Chris Bray, Second Wind, page 96:
text: When playing a backgame, you need to have at least two anchors in your opponent's home board, ideally on their 2- and 3-points.
ref: 2007, Michael Crane, Teach Yourself Backgammon, page 27:
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
examples: text: This doctrine, once fully established, will add a great facility to business, and prevent unnecessary delays: for example —in former times a minister would have been exceedingly hampered with such a promise as we have here cited: he would have shifted, and delayed, and played the backgame to have got rid of it, or to reconcile the breach to his conscience and reputation: but here you see there was no unnecessary delay; the business went on; and he who acknowledged that he had given his word in a private capacity, brings the book to prove that as a first lord of the treasury "he was not bound to adhere to it," — and this is sound casuistry.
ref: 1836, Junius:
text: If we understand the law as a backgame of images to which life adheres through repression, which the body represses by repeating, then the bodegón articulates at a level just above or just below the kitchen pieces , the pans and pots and jars of the kitchen scene, a type which contracts into everyday life like water in water.
ref: 1991, Roberta Kevelson, Action and Agency, page 106:
text: This is a question of the long term, the backgame. Let's see who wins in the end.
ref: 2004, Michigan Law Review - Volume 103, Issue 1, page 464:
glosses: An indirect strategy in which one attempts to achieve one's goals by maneuvering behind the scenes.
backgames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backgame
Gallafent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
leopard crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leopard crawls
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military-specific crawl in which an arm is advanced with the diagonal knee; designed for the smallest silhouette possible with most limbs touching the ground.
high crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high crawls
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of leopard crawl.
synonyms: word: leopard crawl
LAV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LAVs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of light armoured vehicle (a type of military armoured car).
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of lymphadenopathy-associated virus
Panhard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panhards
Etymology: Borrowed from French Panhard.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
abattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abattles
form: abattling
form: abattled
form: abattled
Senses: glosses: To do battle.
glosses: To fortify, embattle.
Proto-Afro-Asiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Proto-Afroasiatic.
Proto-Afro-Asiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Proto-Afroasiatic.
Proto-Afrasian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Afrasian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Proto-Afroasiatic.
synonyms: word: Proto-Afroasiatic
Proto-Afrasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + Afrasian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Proto-Afroasiatic.
synonyms: word: Proto-Afroasiatic
Afro-Asiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Afroasiatic.
Afro-Asiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Afroasiatic.
abefore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: formerly
Hercverse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Herc(ules) + -verse.
Senses: examples: text: Joxer, Xena, Gabrielle etc. were not at all in ancient mythology. If the Hercverse was loyal to the original Grecian myth, then they wouldn't be around.
ref: 1998 September 22, Andy00, “Re: Why I don't like Joxer.”, in alt.tv.xena (Usenet):
text: But in the middle of an ep that was otherwise functioning normally in the Hercverse version of ancient Greece, it just seemed too wierd...^([sic]) feeble lutes turning into electric guitars... and it wasn't even done consistently with Herc's character... and the music was bad... and it wasn't really funny...
ref: 1999 February 13, Xorys, “Maunderings re <>”, in alt.tv.xena (Usenet):
text: No, it's not necessarily a plot hole. The show's history doesn't have to exactly match the show's 20th century background. (For example, Strife is still around in the 20th c. Hercverse, even though he died in the show.)
ref: 2000 October 12, Daryle Walker, “Re: Spoilers: Coming Home”, in alt.tv.xena (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The fictional universe depicted in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spin-offs (including Xena: Warrior Princess).
Related terms: Xenaverse
Rumbelow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes.
ref: 2023 October 18, Damien Gayle, “Greta Thunberg charged with public order offence after London oil protest”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A surname.
woolwinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolwinders
Etymology: From wool + winder.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to bundle wool for packing.
woolwinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolwinder
stay-at-home order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stay-at-home orders
Senses: synonyms: word: safer-at-home order
word: lockdown restriction
word: partial curfew
word: movement control order
glosses: An order requiring citizens to remain at home unless absolutely necessary.
Related terms: curfew
lockdown
forcque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forcques
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Alternative form of fork (“bottom of a sump”).
forcques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forcque
boleroing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bolero
boleroed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bolero
boleroed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dressed in a bolero.
boogalee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boogalees
form: boogerlee
Etymology: Probably related to bougie and/or boogaloo.
Senses: examples: text: "That boogalee's been talking," he said, arranging his pillows higher. "I know he saw me this morning." "He did." "Snoopy," said Donald. "Mr. Petit ain't a boogalee," said Mrs. Candy. "And he ain't snoopy. He's right. What my roomers does is […]"
ref: 1947, Robert Tallant, Mrs. Candy and Saturday night:
text: Avis Trosclair was a boogalee, a Cajun from the deepest bayous of Louisiana, a man of vast inner resources of happiness. About 42 years old, he talked with a perpetual love of humorous conversation, with a Cajun accent.
ref: 1960, The Twainian:
text: We were considered pleasant to be around in spite of—or perhaps because of—a supposed utter lack of ambition. We were routinely called “boogalees” behind our backs and “coon-asses” to our faces. But times were changing, […]
ref: 2011, Myron Tassin, We Are Acadians #2: Nous Sommes Acadiens, Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 18:
text: After the war some of us bought a houseboat on Vermilion Bay near Tigre au Chenier. Walter got everything organized. It was just like him to locate a cook-caretaker living right out there in the swamp and to line up some real boogalee guides.
ref: 2011, Walker Percy, The Moviegoer: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
text: To Bobby's schoolmates there, he was more than a non-English speaker, he was a Boogalee, a New Orleanian's derogatory term for a Cadien, or Cajun. The city boys teased Bobby about his hand-me-down coveralls […]
ref: 2017, Woody Falgoux, Rise of the Cajun Mariners: The Race for Big Oil, Skyhorse, →ISBN:
glosses: A Cajun (with the implication that the person has partially black as well as partially white ancestry).
boogerlee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boogerlees
Senses: examples: text: ... Ted Herbert (pronounced "A-BARE") had single-handedly saved the city. When the flood came in 1927 Herbert was an unlikely hero; he was just a young fun-loving boogerlee, a "no count Cajun" who worked as a salvage master […]
ref: 1992, B. Clarence Hall, Clyde Thornton Wood, Big Muddy: Down the Mississippi Through America's Heartland, E P Dutton, page 270
text: Discussion of racial purity of coonasses, boogerlees, and out-of-state Cajans represented a relative improvement of the prestige of Cajun: after all, descendants of the Acadian exiles in Louisiana could be called names more pejorative […]
ref: 2002, Jacques M. Henry, Carl Leon Bankston, Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 44:
text: 'Look at that high-yellow boogerlee, he said, nodding towards the door, just to make conversation. 'Damn! She an ice-cream dream!' Lick's breath caught in his throat and his fingers depressed every valve on his cornet, a reflex action.
ref: 2004, Patrick Neate, Twelve Bar Blues, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 339:
glosses: Alternative form of boogalee.
boogerlees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boogerlee
boogalees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boogalee
producted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of product
producting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of product
Saracen stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saracen stones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sarsen.
synonyms: word: sarsen
Saracen stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saracen stone
Sarsden stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sarsden stones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sarsen.
synonyms: word: sarsen
Saracen's stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saracen's stones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sarsen.
synonyms: word: sarsen