cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mono City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mono County, California, United States.
Aspen Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mono County, California, United States.
McGee Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mono County, California, United States.
Hayfork
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Trinity County, California, United States.
Douglas City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after American politician and lawyer Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861).
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Trinity County, California, United States.
Mad River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Trinity County, California, United States.
glosses: A number of rivers in the United States, in California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Vermont and Washington.
glosses: Two townships in Ohio, United States, listed under Mad River Township (a third is defunct).
Trinity Village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Trinity County, California, United States.
Burnt Ranch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Trinity County, California, United States.
Trinity Center
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Trinity County, California, United States.
Hyampom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Trinity County, California, United States.
Coffee Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Trinity County, California, United States.
ghazawat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghazwa
peercasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peercast
peercasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peercast
AYCE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of all-you-can-eat.
conspiracy theorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conspiracy theorizes
form: conspiracy theorizing
form: conspiracy theorized
form: conspiracy theorized
form: conspiracy-theorize
Etymology: Probably a back-formation of conspiracy theory.
Senses: examples: text: The assassination of JFK is perhaps the most conspiracy-theorized event of modern times. One theory has it that the Mafia were behind the killing, in league with the CIA, the FBI, Cuba, and/or LBJ (take your pick).
ref: 2012, Katherine Hawley, Trust: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Hardly had these twin tsunamis hit, however, than they were followed by wave upon wave of conspiracy theorizing. Who was really behind their deaths? Was either man actually dead at all? Had they been dead for years?
ref: 2013, James McConnachie, Robin Tudge, Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories, The (3rd), Penguin, →ISBN, page 1932:
text: The idea of conspiracy theorizing as (attempted) self-empowerment is an important one, again for both majorities and minorities. One view is of conspiracy theorizing as “naïve deconstructive history.”
ref: 2014, Michael Butter, Maurus Reinkowski, Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East: A Comparative Approach, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 276:
text: What should we think about the ethical acceptability of political conspiracy theorizing? A brief overview on the comments concerning the ethics of conspiracy theorizing suggests that it all depends on the social consequences of the activity ...
ref: 2014, Juha Räikkä, Social Justice in Practice: Questions in Ethics and Political Philosophy, Springer, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Over the past five decades, American culture has descended ever further into a shadowy, suspicious world of conspiracy theorizing. The prognostication about the Brooklyn Bridge scenario is actually not as far-fetched as it might appear ...
ref: 2014, Barna William Donovan, Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious, McFarland, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Of course, the scapegoating and conspiracy theorizing in the crisis period is driven by politics (see for example Glick, 2002). Political positions are important in conspiracy theorizing. Rejection of liberal and Roma ethnic parties seemed to be ...
ref: 2015, Michal Bilewicz, Aleksandra Cichocka, Wiktor Soral, The Psychology of Conspiracy, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: To formulate or engage in conspiracy theories.
conspiracy theorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conspiracy theorize
conspiracy theorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conspiracy theorize
flipped burgers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flip burgers
flips burgers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flip burgers
intratribally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intratribal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Within a tribe.
cow grease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow's grease
Senses: examples: text: "Brown flour Frisbees with cow grease and sugar sludge."
Lawson claps his hands over his ears. "No! I can't listen to you ruin pancakes for me. You don't hate pancakes."
ref: 2019, Jeff Zentner, Rayne and Delilah's Midnite Matinee:
text: Katie wiped the smear of cow grease from her cheek.
ref: 2020, Steve Oates, The Promise of the Witch:
glosses: Butter.
cackle fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: cackleberry
cackle-fart
glosses: A chicken's egg.
guzzinta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goes into.
Senses: glosses: Division, in terms of working out how many times one number goes into another.
Queen Anne's dead
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: In reference to Anne, Queen of Great Britain, who died in 1714.
Senses: glosses: That is yesterday's news; everybody knows that already.
wikipedia: Anne, Queen of Great Britain
ghoulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ghoul + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Ghoulish behaviour; the quality of being or acting like a ghoul.
Bonsor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
doorflap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorflaps
Etymology: From door + flap.
Senses: examples: text: They were disturbed from a game of brándubh when the old woman's leathery voice called from beyond the heavy bull's hide doorflap. The old woman's name was Una and she was ushered into the chieftain's home […]
ref: 2006, Ly de Angeles, The Shining Isle: An Urban Fantasy, page 106:
glosses: A flap of material serving as a crude door to a tent etc.
doorflaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorflap
axemanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axmanship
Etymology: From axe + -manship.
Senses: glosses: Skill in using an axe (tool for chopping wood).
axmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of axemanship.
Berkswell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP2479).
spectacular mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectacular marks
Senses: examples: (all informal)
synonyms: hanger
screamer
speccy
speckie
specky
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A mark (or catch) that typically involves a player jumping up on the back of another player.
spectacular marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectacular mark
speccies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speccy
umuganda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Rwanda-Rundi umuganda.
Senses: examples: text: As with Umuganda and Girinka, Umutoniwase hopes her textiles and clothes can be part of a bigger story of unity in the wake of adversity.
ref: 2021 April 13, Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, “The gleaming city that emerged from turmoil in the heart of Africa”, in CNN:
glosses: A national period of mandatory community work that takes place once per month in Rwanda.
on someone's back
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: My mother's been on my back about getting a job.
glosses: Nagging or harassing someone.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, someone's, back.
Related terms: on one's back
on the back of
star in the east
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: your barn door is open
XYZ
glosses: A discreet warning that one’s trouser fly is undone.
self-praises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-praise
Phoenix Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Mono Vista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Pine Mountain Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
DCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DC
East Sonora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Twain Harte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Soulsbyville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Tuolumne City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Tuolumne
glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Cedar Ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Mi-Wuk Village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Tuttletown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Sierra Village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Cold Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.
STh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Abbreviation of student in theology.
Long Barn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
Chinese Camp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
North Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Nipissing District, Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in Oneida County, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of Liberty Grove, Door County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A village in Racine County, Wisconsin.
anarcho-nationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anarcho- + nationalism.
Senses: examples: text: Beginning in 2004, MiXicano activists and XDC members Nora Salas and Ernesto Todd Mireles began to lay the groundwork for a broadly defined anarcho-nationalism.
ref: 2014, Dylan Miner, Creating Aztlán, page 126:
glosses: An ideology with elements of anarchism and nationalism.
national-anarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national-anarchist
yawn-sigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yawn-sighs
Senses: glosses: A vocal sound of gradually descending pitch, between a yawn and a sigh, sometimes used in speech therapy.
yawn-sighs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yawn-sigh
jonnock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jonnock
form: most jonnock
Senses: glosses: Honest.
jonnock
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Used to emphasise that one is telling the truth.
Tiresian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tiresian
form: most Tiresian
form: Teiresian
Senses: glosses: Relating to Tiresias.
Teiresian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Teiresian
form: most Teiresian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tiresian.
Frenchize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Frenchizes
form: Frenchizing
form: Frenchized
form: Frenchized
form: Frenchise
Etymology: From French + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: But I shall not twist the English language out of all shape and comeliness; I shall not Germanize and Frenchize and Italianize; I shall express my ideas in the simplest possible words; I shall always choose the Saxon rather than the Norman; I shall endavor to write so that "he who runs may read."
ref: 1849 April, Park Benjamin, “The Recluse. No. I”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume 34, number 4:
text: The French-Canadian does not Frenchize. In Canada, for three centuries, he has been hemmed in by English and Scotch colonists and he has never Frenchized any one. He comes from a stock to whom the thought is repugnant of making French out of any less fine material.
ref: 1926, Educational Administration & Supervision - Volume 12, page 231:
text: Resolved, that the government should "Fordize," or Kulturize, the necessarily large-scale occupations in a way that would more or less "French-ize" America; Resolved, that individuals not wait for the government to "Frenchize."
ref: 1931, John Green Sims, Is [the] truth wicked?, page 36:
text: Mallory saw all of this as part of a giant plot of Quebec nationalists to seize control of the government and “Frenchize” Canada with the support of the “mother country” of France.
ref: 2015, Matthew Hayday, So They Want Us to Learn French:
synonyms: gallicize
glosses: To make or become more French; to make or become more like France, the French language, or French-speaking people.
Frenchizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Frenchize
Frenchizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Frenchize
Frenchized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Frenchize
Frenchise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Frenchises
form: Frenchising
form: Frenchised
form: Frenchised
Senses: examples: text: These Advantages cannot now, it is true, be recoverd: An Emperor of Germany is now chosen, I shall not say legally chosen, by the Influence of France; the Empire is now full of French or Frenchised Armies; and the Queen of Hungary has been stript of a great Part of her Father's Dominions.
ref: 1742 October, “Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Political Club”, in London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, page 474:
text: That the bishop not being in the secret had acted with reserve and caution, and would do nothing without the queen's special commands; whereas the earl of Strafford not only was forward to venture and undertake any thing, as he expresses himself in one of his letters, to be the tool of a Frenchised ministry; but in many instances had gone beyond his instructions, and advised the most pernicious measures.
ref: 1811, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England:
text: “Sacristie!" exclaimed Mr. Dupont, for even his profanity had become Frenchised, “what has happened?”
ref: 1888, John Chester, Ruth, the Christian Scientist: Or, The New Hygeia, page 214:
glosses: Alternative form of Frenchize.
Frenchises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Frenchise
Frenchising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Frenchise
Frenchised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Frenchise
French braiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of French braid
French braided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of French braid
French-braid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: French-braids
form: French-braiding
form: French-braided
form: French-braided
Senses: examples: text: I didn't need to know how to French-braid because Grace could go see “Auntie” Heather for that.
ref: 2007, Tracy Klehn, Growing Friendships:
text: I French-braided my hair and tied it with a scrunchy, which was so much better than a string torn from a pocket.
ref: 2012, Faith Hunter, Death's Rival, page 204:
text: Lacee had learned to French-braid, and that's how she'd worn her long hair for six days now.
ref: 2013, Charlotte Gullick, By Way of Water:
glosses: Alternative form of French braid.
French-braids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of French-braid
French-braiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of French-braid
French-braided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of French-braid
intersector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intersectors
Etymology: From intersect + -or.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: That which intersects.
Derived terms: nonintersector
intersector
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + sector.
Senses: examples: the intersector gaps on a floppy disk
glosses: Between sectors.
Chamney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rendall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pseudolegality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-legality
Etymology: From pseudo- + legality.
Senses: examples: text: Legal theorists began asking in the 1950s how the legal system in the GDR, characterized as it was by a one-party state armed with extraordinary powers, differed from the pseudolegality of National Socialist Germany.
ref: 2003, Peter C. Caldwell, Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic, page 12:
text: One of the devices of all dictatorships is the pseudolegality of the judicial system under which the most grotesque crimes are committed.
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 87:
text: In this phase when the National Socialist regime was still attempting to consolidate its power, the pseudolegality of the entire procedure was both an essential feature of totalitarian rule and an aspect in keeping with the unavoidable consideration given to the foreign policy situation and the attitude of the majority of the population.
ref: 2015, Peter Hayes, How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader:
glosses: The appearance of legality of something that is not actually legal; The use of courts, police, or legal procedures to accomplish pseudolegal results.
recrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recracks
form: recracking
form: recracked
form: recracked
Etymology: From re- + crack.
Senses: glosses: To crack again.
recracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recrack
recracks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recrack
recracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recrack
pseudo-legality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Isser Woloch sees this as one questionable episode in the public life of modern France, 'a nation where coups clothed in pseudo-legality have repeatedly changed the rules of the game'.
ref: 2003, Geoffrey Ellis, The Napoleonic Empire:
text: Many executions by the military rebels were given a veneer of pseudo-legality by trials, although they were effectively little different from extra-judicial murder.
ref: 2012, Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust:
text: Will it not also be obvious 'pseudo-legality' to have that which seeks to legitimize itself in order to defend intransigently a mechanism prepared to assure voting by the illiterates, prohibited by law?
ref: 2014, John W. F. Dulles, Unrest in Brazil: Political-Military Crises 1955-1964:
glosses: Alternative form of pseudolegality.
Luscombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Upperby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY4053).
geometry of fear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: Coined in 1952 by Herbert Read in his description of the work of the eight British artists represented in the "New Aspects of British Sculpture" exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia of 1952.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The artistic style of an informal group or school of young British sculptors in the years after the Second World War, characterized by angular, jagged forms thought to reflect post-war angst and guilt.
wikipedia: Herbert Read
Saucerman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mud on one's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An allusion to various lines of work where a person is physically present on site, e.g. construction as opposed to architectural design.
Senses: examples: text: The civil engineer, for all his skills, is still often known as the man with mud on his boots.
ref: 1966, Teaching Engineering Design: Proceedings of the Conference on the Teaching of Engineering Design held at Scarborough between 13 and April 1966:
text: I used to place architects on a higher level, well above someone like me who works with his hands and gets mud on his boots.
ref: 2001, Stephen S. Saucerman, Moving to Commercial Construction, page 96:
text: Cook never attained meaningful practical experience, but Herron loved site mud on his boots.
ref: 2008, Kenneth Allinson, Architects and Architecture of London, page 390:
glosses: Practical experience.
get-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: get-ins
Senses: examples: text: […] ensuring everything is ready for the company's get-in, including the get-out of the previous production […]
ref: 2016, Susan Cooper, Staging Dance, page 103:
antonyms: get-out
glosses: The setting up of equipment, scenery, etc. when arriving at a theater or television studio to begin work on a production.
get-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of get-in
J-school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: J-schools
Etymology: The initial letter of journalism plus school. Compare B-school.
Senses: examples: text: The website itself changed it name, to the CU Independent, and changed from a class within the J-school to a student activity, making it more truly independent from the university (though it’s still funded in large part by the school).
ref: 2011, Gil Asakawa, “It’s Been 3 Years Since The “War Against Asians” Story Ran In CU’s Student News Site”, in HuffPost:
text: J-schools used to see themselves largely as training grounds for the cannon fodder that would head off to local radio and TV stations and newspapers.
ref: 2018, Bill Grueskin, “Do we still need J-schools? Yes, more than ever”, in Columbia Journalism Review:
glosses: A school or a division within a college or university teaching topics related to the practice of journalism.
caper-berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caper-berries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caperberry.
caper-berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caper-berry
caper berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caper berries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caperberry.
caper berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caper berry
Niec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Nieć.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
VAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VA
laughing stalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing stalks
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of laughing stock.
cityfy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cityfies
form: cityfying
form: cityfied
form: cityfied
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of citify.
pentanary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of five components or elements. Used to refer to alloys, semiconductors, or solid chemical compounds.
Synonyms: quinary
Related terms: quaternary with four components
hexanary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing six components or elements.
stringbeany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪŋ.biːni/
Forms: form: more stringbeany
form: most stringbeany
Etymology: From string bean + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] doing variations on Old Devil Moon on trumpet, backed by an aging hippy on drums, a stringbeany, college student type on upright bass, and a balding man in his fifties playing an effectively understated piano.
ref: 2002, Laurance L. Priddy, Critical Evidence, page 96:
glosses: tall and slender
thanks, but no thanks
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: An expression of gratitude for the offer of something that one does not want or is not interested in (often used sarcastically or impolitely)
Rousselian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rousselian
form: most Rousselian
form: Roussellian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), French writer.
examples: text: But it is to the United States that we must turn if we would see the re-incarnation of the Rousselian spirit at its best and at its worst […].
ref: 1911, William Boyd, The Educational Theory of Jean Jacques Rousseau:
glosses: Pertaining to the life or doctrines of the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Hall Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1081, postcode B28).
glosses: A neighbourhood in West Bromwich, Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP0094, postcode B71).
glosses: A neighbourhood in Bilston, Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO9594, postcode WV14).
Bilston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded in the Domesday Book as Billestune, from earlier 10th century Bilsetnatun, Bilsatena.
Senses: glosses: A market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9596).
glosses: A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2664).
glosses: A surname.
Ringrose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Brammall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: brammallite
Forrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pounder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pounders
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Skelcey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Thames Haven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rail-served freight terminal on the Thames in Thurrock borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ7481). Other places in this area are Coryton, Shell Haven and London Gateway.
Frodingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE8911).
Derived terms: North Frodingham
Cresset
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
decyclizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decyclization
decylubiquinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decylubiquinol
dedensifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedensification
dediazoniations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dediazoniation
dediazotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dediazotation
dedimerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedimerization
dedomestications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedomestication
deep-dish pizzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep-dish pizza
West Auckland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1826).
deepoxidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deepoxidase
deepoxidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deepoxidation
deer antler knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deer antler knife
deer horn knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deer horn knife
default mode networks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of default mode network
as provided for
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: As provided for in the new city charter, it has 51 members, compared with 35 in the Council it succeeds.
qualifier: Regarding an action
glosses: Under the conditions stated (within or by a given document).
breaks the story
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break the story
breaking the story
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of break the story
broke the story
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of break the story
frieze groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frieze group
gets one's knickers in a twist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's knickers in a twist
getting one's knickers in a twist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get one's knickers in a twist
got one's knickers in a twist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get one's knickers in a twist
having more chins than a Chinese phonebook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have more chins than a Chinese phonebook
had more chins than a Chinese phonebook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have more chins than a Chinese phonebook
has more chins than a Chinese phonebook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have more chins than a Chinese phonebook
Tyseley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mixed industrial and residential area in the Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1184).
gender mender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender menders
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of gender changer (“electronic coupling device”).
synonyms: word: gender changer
extra: electronic coupling device
gender menders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gender mender
gaffer grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaffer grips
Etymology: From gaffer (“lighting electrician”) + grip.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A clamp that can be attached to part of a set and used to hold lights.
gaffer grips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaffer grip
Johnstonville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States.
Patton Village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States.
Herlong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Herlongs
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Herling.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States.
Nubieber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States.
gallery shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallery shots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gallery hit.
synonyms: word: gallery hit
gallery hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallery hits
Etymology: As if applauded from a theatrical gallery.
Senses: examples: text: […] which is sure to reward a long innings or even a showy 'gallery' hit.
ref: 1882, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 692:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: gallery shot
glosses: A shot that appeals to the watching audience.
gallery shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallery shot
gallery hits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallery hit
Laira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5055).
speaks one's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speak one's mind
speaking one's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speak one's mind
spoke one's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of speak one's mind
Indian meal moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian meal moths
form: Indianmeal moth
form: Indian-meal moth
Senses: synonyms: pantry moth
mealworm moth
weevil moth
glosses: Plodia interpunctella, a species of moth that feeds on dried foods, especially nuts and fruit.
flattie spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flattie spider
gap sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gap sheets
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A file on an employee indicating areas in which they require further training.
gap sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gap sheet
pantang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantangs
Etymology: From Malay pantang.
Senses: glosses: taboo; ritual prohibition
glosses: lying-in
pantang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Malay pantang.
Senses: glosses: superstitious
pantangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantang
Pontycymer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pontycymmer
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Garw Valley community, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9091).
morepoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morepokes
Senses: examples: text: [I]t was better fun wandering about with the old man at night than moping in my hut, listening to the morepoke.
ref: 1876, Richard Rowe, “The Bunyip”, in A Child’s Corner Book: Stories for Boys and Girls, London; Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo. […], →OCLC, page 182:
text: Where's that old morepoke? O, you're there, are you? Fetch the jack off o' your wagon—come! fly roun'! you're (very) slow for a young fellow.
ref: 1903 August 1, Tom Collins [pseudonym; Joseph Furphy], chapter 1, in Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, Sydney, N.S.W.: Bulletin Newspaper Company, →OCLC; republished Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin House of Books, 2012, →ISBN:
text: We were a family of odd bods and every summer we spent by the river. At night the morepokes called again and again.
ref: 2016, Brigid Lowry, “My Inky Life: Thoughts about Writing Memoir”, in Still Life with Teapot: On Zen, Writing and Creativity, North Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of morepork.
morepoke
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the shades of evening close in over the Australian forest, the ear is startled by the cry of "morepoke," clearly and loudly repeated, and a bird as large as an owl flits by on noiseless wing, like the goat-sucker at home. This is the Morepoke, a species of large night-jar,^([sic]) all head and mouth, about the size of an owl.
ref: 1861, [Horace William Wheelwright], “A Chapter on the Ornithology of Port Phillip”, in Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist; or, Notes on the Field Sports and Fauna of Australia Felix. By an Old Bushman, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, […], →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: Alternative spelling of morepork.
morepokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morepoke
cheese up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheeses up
form: cheesing up
form: cheesed up
form: cheesed up
Etymology: From cheese + up.
Senses: examples: text: "No, just get over here. You need to try this one!" she exclaimed as she cheesed up a chunk of bread with one of our blues. Angeline stuffed the open faced mini-sandwich into my mouth […]
ref: 2005, J. B. Dann, Anecdotal, page 233:
glosses: To add cheese to; make cheesy or cheesier.
glosses: To become cheesy (overly dramatic, emotional, or exaggerated).
examples: text: I cheesed up at his perfect fucking face.
ref: 2022, Emilia Rose, Indulge Me:
glosses: To smile widely; to crack a huge grin.
glosses: To make (someone) smile.
cheesed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cheese up
cheesing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheese up
cheeses up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cheese up
gas passer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas passers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An anesthesiologist.
Related terms: pass gas
gas passers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas passer
Budleigh Salterton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0682).
Related terms: East Budleigh
gas meter bandit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas meter bandits
Senses: examples: text: We might not have had that much to pinch, but they'd still have your brass candlesticks off the mantelpiece. There's always wrong 'uns, in every walk of life, who'll have whatever you've got from under your nose. Bloody gas-meter bandits, […]
ref: 2000, Gilda O'Neill, My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London:
text: At the lowest end of the scale are petty criminals, shoplifters, sneak thieves, joyriders, muggers (or 'street robbers', as they are now called) and gas-meter bandits. Up a step are burglars, car thieves, fraudsters and drug dealers.
ref: 2011, Razor Smith, A Rusty Gun:
text: Fucking gas-meter bandits, thought Billy. Some fucking gang. I'm stuck with a couple of gas-meter bandits. Stan and his nagging missus. His non-existent job that he's never late for.
ref: 2011, Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers:
glosses: A small-time thief.
gas meter bandits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas meter bandit
Tipton St John
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ottery St Mary parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0991).
gate fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The anxious excitement felt by a prisoner whose release is imminent.
Related terms: gate-happy
gate-happy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gate-happy
form: most gate-happy
Etymology: From gate + happy.
Senses: glosses: Excited about one's imminent release from prison.
Related terms: gate fever
gazumph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gazumphs
form: gazumphing
form: gazumphed
form: gazumphed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gazump.
gazoomph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gazoomphs
form: gazoomphing
form: gazoomphed
form: gazoomphed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gazump.
gazumphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gazumph
gazumphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gazumph
gazumphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gazumph
gazoomphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gazoomph
gazoomphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gazoomph
gazoomphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gazoomph
gazumpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazumping
gearboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gearbox + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having the specified kind of gearbox.
Lindu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A certain ethnic group of Indonesia.
Lindu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Austronesian language of these people.
tolkach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolkachs
form: tolkachi
form: tolkachy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Russian толкать (tolkatʹ)
Old East Slavic -ачь (-ačĭ)
Russian -ач (-ač)
Russian толкач (tolkač)bor.
English tolkach
Borrowed from Russian толкач (tolkač), from толкать (tolkatʹ, “to push”) + -ач (-ač).
Senses: synonyms: word: pusher
glosses: In the Soviet Union, an employee whose role was to use informal connections to make it possible for their enterprise to meet or manipulate the government-imposed targets.
tolkachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolkach
tolkachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolkach
Greekesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Greekesque
form: most Greekesque
Etymology: From Greek + -esque. Piecewise doublet of Greekish.
Senses: examples: text: In the nave of Nôtre Dame every vestige of this Greekesque foliage is got rid of, its general outline alone excepted; and a kind perfectly new and most truly noble is substituted, founded slightly on reminiscences of the true Romanesque foliage previous to the Oriental importation, retaining the outline suggested by the acanthus leaf, but worked up into a form which had never before been hinted at, and which was destined to effect a great revolution in this branch of art.
ref: 1879, Sir George Gilbert Scott, Lectures on the Rise and Development of Mediæval Architecture:
text: Noble specimen he with the Greekesque bootees, tiger skin jock, and plastered all over with swellings that look like a bad case of boils.
ref: 1914, Young Men - Volume 40, page 27:
text: The sculptural and pictorial arts of west Europe may claim to be Byzantinesque, but never, till the modern revivals, could architecture as a fine art think itself Greekesque.
ref: 1929, James Louis Garvin, Franklin Henry Hooper, Warren E. Cox, The Encyclopedia britannica - Volume 9, page 245:
text: We drove around until we spotted a white, stucco, "Greekesque" motor inn.
ref: 1993, Peter McGehee, Beyond happiness: the intimate memoirs of Billy Lee Belle, page 18:
glosses: Resembling a Greek appearance or style.
tolkachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolkach
Greekifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Greekify
Greekifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Greekify
Greekified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Greekify
chastushky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chastushka
bylini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bylina
politotdely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of politotdel
politotdeli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of politotdel
stanitsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stanitsa
lishentsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lishenets
hangxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæŋ(ɡ)ˈzaɪ.ə.ti/
rhymes: -aɪɪti
Etymology: Blend of hangover + anxiety.
Senses: synonyms: the fear
glosses: An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension, remorse, and/or obsessive concern about some uncertain event, which may be experienced during the day(s) following a bout of alcohol drinking. It however can also refer to one of the classic symptoms of alcohol’s rebound effect, which is a physiological mechanism, rather than a psychological regret.
Greekise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Greekises
form: Greekising
form: Greekised
form: Greekised
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the insurrection —small as it was—has brought home to Europe and to the Greeks, who are so actively engaged in endeavouring to “Greekise” the whole of Southern Albania, the fact that there are Albanians in this district, and that Moslems as well as Orthodox Christians are prepared to risk their lives and property by fighting for the interests of their nationality.
ref: 1912, The Fortnightly Review - Volume 97, page 341:
text: English has been Latinised, Greekised, Frenchised in a way that Gaelic never has been.
ref: 1977, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness - Volume 49, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of Greekize.
Greekises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Greekise
Greekising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Greekise
Greekised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Greekise
Longbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0177).