cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dam'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dam
Senses: examples: text: “Every dam' thing about Jane [Austen] is remarkable to a pukka Janeite!”
ref: 1924, Rudyard Kipling, The Janeites:
text: Bradly squatted on the flat rock to wash his legs, saying gruffly to Podson, "Better wash that dam' mud off; it sticks like hell when it's dry."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 66:
text: Papa says you must have your Degree and a Situation as well, before we can be wed. Well, hurry on and get the dam’ degree then!
ref: 2008 December, Albert E. Cowdrey, “A Skeptical Spirit”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 115, number 6, page 109:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of damn.
dam'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: dam
Senses: examples: text: (These duck-shoots in the dark are dam’ dangerous, y’know.)
ref: 1915, Rudyard Kipling, Debits and Credits, Bombay: The Gresham Publishing Company Limited; London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 32:
text: "Always wanted a go at the figure. Funked it. Shows what a man can do, given the right model. Dam' good model."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:
text: “People are so dam’ sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.”
ref: 1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 13, in Diamonds Are Forever:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of damn.
Provençals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Provençal
Saei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: säʹā
Etymology: From Japanese 左營(さえい) (saei).
Senses: examples: text: There is a small naval port, 4 miles north of Takao, at (Saei) Toshien Harbor (entrance to harbor at lat. 22°41.8' N., long. 120°15.2' E.)
ref: 1947, United States Hydrographic Office, Hydropac Message Summary (Contains all Hydropacs in effect June 1, 1947), Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 14:
text: The Construction of the fifth naphtha cracker by Chinese Petroleum Corp. was opposed by the residents of Saei district which includes a petrochemical industry district of Kaohsiung.
ref: 1991, Toru Nabeyama, Trends of the Petrochemical Industry and Its Marketplace in East Asia, →OCLC, page 27:
text: 28 FEBRUARY 1944[…]
1700 1825 IJN minesweeper W-18 departed Takao, Formosa, for Saei, Formosa. W-18 arrived at Saei.
ref: 2018, World War II Sea War, volume 12, Bertke Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 221:
glosses: Synonym of Zuoying: the Japanese-derived name
synonyms: word: Zuoying
extra: the Japanese-derived name
raw_tags: in reference to Japanese Taiwan
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Kyrgyzophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kyrgyzo- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: The linguistic divide in Kyrgyzstan’s digital space separates information channels between Russophone and Kyrgyzophone people. Generally, Russian-language social media tends to target the middle class and urban dwellers. Kyrgyz-language media platforms, meanwhile, tend to be popular among residents from the regions or rural areas.
ref: 2023, Gulzat Baialieva, Joldon Kutmanaliev, Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Populists: How Social Media is Reshaping Political Discourse in Central Asia, The Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs, page 13:
glosses: Speaking Kyrgyz.
Kyrgyzophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kyrgyzophones
Etymology: From Kyrgyzo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: One who speaks Kyrgyz.
Belarusophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Belarus + -o- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: Belarusophone intellectual life seems to be blooming, an idea one might get from the announcement in the journal Frahmenty that brilliantly plays on myths of national origin and historical continuity and the names of canonical figures and contemporary actors of national revival: […]
ref: 2004, Elena Gapova, “The Nation In Between; or, Why Intellectuals Do Things with Words”, in Sibelan Forrester, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Elena Gapova, editors, Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures through an East-West Gaze, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Speaking Belarusian.
Belarusophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belarusophones
Etymology: From Belarus + -o- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: The “nationally conscious” as a political constituency approximately correspond with habitual Belarusophones (i.e. those who prefer Belarusian as their primary language of communication), who make up around 10 percent of the population.
ref: 2004, Andrew Wilson, Clelia Rontoyanni, “Security or Prosperity?: Belarusian and Ukrainian Choices”, in Robert Legvold, Celeste A. Wallander, editors, Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine, Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, →ISBN, pages 25–26:
glosses: One who speaks Belarusian.
engine-rich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more engine-rich
form: most engine-rich
Senses: coordinate_terms: oxygen-rich
oxidant-rich
fuel-rich
carburant-rich
glosses: Pertaining to a condition where a rocket engine is being consumed and expelled as part of the rocket exhaust, where it is not a part of normal operations.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: rich
fuel-rich
oxygen-poor
antonyms: engine-lean
engine-poor
oxygen-rich
fuel-lean
fuel-poor
lean
glosses: Pertaining to a condition where there is excessive fuel in the fuel-to-air ratio, in the running of an internal combustion engine.
literotica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of literature + erotica. Genericized from the trademark Literotica held by Sunlane Media for the free erotic fiction website literotica.com, which started in 1998.
Senses: examples: text: Whether it’s the tale of the televangelist who meets his match in Hell or the gay moralist who finds the man of his dreams at a circuit party or the skater boy who’s seduced by a Whitman-quoting bear or the Black leatherdaddy with a secret fondness for the color khaki or the Long Island housewife who beats the Devil at his own game, there is definitely something in this collection of literotica to arouse anyone who is queer in the head.
ref: 2001, Ian Philips, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent, San Francisco, Calif.: AttaGirl Press, →ISBN, back cover:
text: Sure, most pulps of the day featured horny wrestlers, well-hung lumberjacks, and the like, but it would be a mistake to think that until the 1990s’ rise of “literotica,” serious themes—and anxieties—were altogether absent from gay porn.
ref: 2007, “From Young, Wild, and Sexy: Bob Cochran (1970)”, in Simon Sheppard, editor, Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Many people like erotica, and fanfiction plays into the field of literotica, engaging with the reader’s desires intellectually.
ref: 2023, Michele Kirichanskaya, Ace Notes: Tips and Tricks on Existing in an Allo World, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: Erotic literature.
wikipedia: Literotica
non-receptor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonreceptor.
shamone
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈmoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology: A distortion of the phrase come on. Although popularly thought to be coined by Michael Jackson, the phrase actually originates from Mavis Staples, who used it in a live version of "I'll Take You There" in 1975.
Senses: glosses: An onomatopoeia popularly heard in songs by Michael Jackson.
wikipedia: Mavis Staples
Michael Jackson
ready for the off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the notion that horses, greyhounds and racegoers that are ready for the off (beginning) of a race are ready for the action that subsequently follows.
Senses: examples: text: Tullamore ready for the off(title)
ref: 2010 July 27, Caitriona Murphy, “Tullamore ready for the off”, in independent.ie, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2023:
text: Bradford West byelection almost ready for the off(title)
ref: 2012 March 12, Martin Wainwright, “Bradford West byelection almost ready for the off”, in TheGuardian, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2015:
text: "My thoughts exactly I said, so I am going to get ready for the off", now getting ready for the off meant taking off your pads and your whites (trousers) removing your jockstrap and box, pitting your trousers back on, packing your bag, and you were ready to go.
ref: 2013 June 25, Basil Jay, Sliding Down the Bannisters of Life, page 67:
text: Both aircraft began to lean forward against the brakes, like greyhounds ready for the 'off'.
ref: 2017, Richard Pike, Phantom Boys Volume 2:
glosses: Ready for action; set to go; good to go.
Lachin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Azerbaijani laçın (“falcon”), or possibly a Turkish or Ottoman Turkish cognate.
Senses: glosses: A town and district of Azerbaijan, under Armenian occupation between the two Nagorno-Karabakh wars.
litigons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litigon
Vasanth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vasant.
sea of instability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seas of instability
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The vast body of short-lived isotopes outside the stable or long-lived ones (which form a "curve" on the table of nuclides).
Related terms: island of inversion
continent of stability
seas of instability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea of instability
zymocarpus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌzaɪməʊˈkɑːpəs/
Forms: form: zymocarpuses
Etymology: zymo + carpus
Senses: glosses: refers to a genus of tropical American plants of the family Cucurbitaceae
gentleman-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gentleman-like
form: most gentleman-like
Senses: examples: text: Deuinitie (the Heauen of all Artes) for a while drew his thoughts vnto it, but shortly after the world the flesh and the diuell with-drewe him from that, and needes he would be of a more Gentleman-like lustie cut; whereupon hee fell to morrall Epistling and Poetrie.
ref: 1596, Thomas Nashe, “The life and godly education from his childhood of that thrice famous clarke, and morthie Orator and Poet Gabriell Haruey”, in Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter:
text: […] and ſo wee wept: and there was the firſt Gentleman-like teares that euer we ſhed.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 301, column 2:
text: I proteſt, it is to me the moſt difficult of things to write to one of your female geniuſes—there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may ſo call it), an eaſy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like—faſhionable—careleſs—ſee-ſaw of dialogue—which I know no more of than you do of cruelty.
ref: 1778 May 14, Ignatius Sancho, “Letter LXII. To Miss C⸻.”, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. […], volume I, London: […] J. Nichols: And sold by J. Dodsley, […], published 1782, pages 195–196:
text: “You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 132:
glosses: Alternative form of gentlemanlike.
corpse-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corpse-like
form: most corpse-like
Senses: examples: text: Every one capable of thinking felt the advantage of the idea, and in a moment (it was all done in rapid moments) Captain Benwick had resigned the poor corpse-like figure entirely to the brother’s care, and was off for the town with the utmost rapidity.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 262:
text: Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; […]
ref: 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:
text: […] a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
ref: 1842 May, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy”, in Graham’s Magazine, volume 20, number 5, page 259:
text: A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.
ref: 1937, Henry Kuttner, The Salem Horror:
text: His body was dead white where it was not cruelly galled, bitten, rasped; his colourless face puffy, sweat-swollen, corpse-like, a tangled yellow beard covering his mouth; his eyes were red and pustulent.
ref: 1990, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:
glosses: Alternative form of corpselike.
lady-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lady-like
form: most lady-like
Senses: examples: text: They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more dainty & Lady-like at the balls, &c
ref: 1778, Samuel Crisp, The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney, volume III, published 1994, page 188:
text: “Having understood as much, I was rather astonished to find her so very lady-like! But she is really quite the gentlewoman.”
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 273:
text: They were shewn into a back sitting-room on the ground-floor, where a certain air of elegant untidiness denoted the lady-like superiority of Mrs. Smallwood.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 68:
text: Ladies in English legend have been known to turn into foxes; but do so ladily, in a properly lady-like manner.
ref: 1967, Japan Quarterly, page 76:
text: The images of strong, active women were inspiring, a long way from the days when females were relegated to "lady-like" sports and young girls were left on the sidelines while their brothers played.
ref: 1997 spring, Sandra Perlmutter, “Message from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports”, in Linda K. Bunker, editor, Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls: Physical & Mental Health Dimensions from an Interdisciplinary Approach: Executive Summary: The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Report […], Washington, D.C.: President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of ladylike.
death-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more death-like
form: most death-like
Senses: examples: text: Not the faintest, or most distant sound, of any description whatsoever, reached their attentive listen; not even the reverberated echo of their footsteps struck their directed ear—a soft earth received their cautious tread, and all was a profound and death-like quiet.
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter I, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:
text: “Theresa! (exclaimed the stranger) “is your name Theresa? asked she, a death-like paleness at the same time overspreading her countenance.
ref: 1808 November 12, “The Mysterious Recluse”, in The Lady’s Weekly Miscellany, volume VIII, number 3, New York, N.Y., page 34, column 2:
text: As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 101–102:
text: Some few disclosures, some secret conversations, broken by the hollow cough, by the death-like faintings, passed between them.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XVIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 317:
text: Mother Earth, at their devastating touch, falls into a death-like swoon—her green mantle overlaid by a dust-coloured shroud.
ref: 1924, Victor Branford, Living Religions: A Plea for the Larger Modernism, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of deathlike.
ill-health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From about the time of her entering the family, Lady Bertram, in consequence of a little ill-health, and a great deal of indolence, gave up the house in town, which she had been used to occupy every spring, and remained wholly in the country, leaving Sir Thomas to attend his duty in Parliament, with whatever increase or diminution of comfort might arise from her absence.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 38:
text: Loss of money is far the worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money unimpaired, it will be generally found that his loss of reputation is due to breaches of parvenu conventions only, and not to violations of those older, better established canons whose authority is unquestionable.
ref: 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 66, in The Way of All Flesh:
text: Continued ill-health has compelled Mr. D. H. Wakely to relinquish his duties as Honorary Publications Officer of the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society.
ref: 1956 July, “Notes and News”, in Railway Magazine, page 493:
text: There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.
ref: 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131/132:
text: "We know the cost in terms of ill-health to the sector is hundreds of millions of pounds a year. A healthy person is a more productive person," says Prosser.
ref: 2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 35:
glosses: Alternative form of ill health.
scariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scariants
Etymology: Blend of scare + variant
Senses: examples: text: Public health officials derided the X-MPLE strain as a "scariant" last night.
text: Initial reactions have been sceptical at best, with prominent experts suggesting the apparent new strain looks more like a “scariant” – an unconfirmed strain causing a global scare – than a variant.
ref: 2022 January 11, Aude Mazoue, “Covid variant or ‘scariant’? Experts warn a future ‘Deltacron’ is possible”, in France24:
glosses: An unconfirmed or unstudied variant or strain of COVID-19 that causes widespread panic.
leucinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌl(j)uːsɪˈniːmi.ə/
Forms: form: leucinaemia
Etymology: From leucine + -emia.
Senses: glosses: Increase in blood leucine concentration.
synonyms: leucinosis
glosses: Maple syrup urine disease.
Derived terms: hyperleucinemia
Manjuristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmæn.d͡ʒəˈɹɪs.tɪks/
Etymology: From Manchu + -istics, influenced by Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju).
Senses: examples: text: Not all contemporary sinologists were as enthustiastic as Amiot about the utility of studying Manchu, but Amiot became one of the founding fathers of Manjuristics by publishing the first extensive dictionary of Manchu, and he was followed by a number of French, German and Russian orientalists who made valuable contributions to the study of the Manchu language.
ref: 2015, Pär Cassel, ““Spelling like a State”: Some Thoughts on the Manchu Origins of the Wade–Giles System”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 58, numbers 1-2, page 40:
glosses: The study of the Manchu language.
Hypernyms: Tungusology
Related terms: Manjurist
.ovls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of .ovl
.ovl's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of .ovl
valinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌveɪlɪˈniːmi.ə/
Forms: form: valinaemia
Etymology: From valine + -emia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hypervalinemia.
synonyms: word: hypervalinemia
methioninemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˌθaɪənɪˈniːmi.ə/
Forms: form: methioninaemia
Etymology: From methionine + -emia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hypermethioninemia.
synonyms: word: hypermethioninemia
in actuality
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In fact; in truth.
radio transmitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio transmitters
Senses: glosses: transmitter (electronic device)
radio transmitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radio transmitter
anti-ballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiballistic.
arts college
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arts colleges
Senses: glosses: art school
arts colleges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arts college
assembly plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assembly plants
Senses: glosses: A factory where machines, especially cars, are made from their components.
assembly plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assembly plant
body of Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the body of Christ
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Body of Christ.
decision-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decision-makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decisionmaker.
decision-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decision-maker
customs duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: customs duties
Senses: glosses: A tax or tariff imposed on goods transported across international frontiers
customs duties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of customs duty
in a while
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in a jiffy.
comp time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of compensatory time.
Senses: synonyms: compensatory time
time off in lieu
TOIL
banked time
bank time
qualifier: labour law; human resources; labour law; human resources
glosses: The act of an employer granting an employee paid time off instead of overtime pay in compensation for additional hours of work.
Related terms: overtime
surface gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface gravities
Senses: glosses: the gravitational acceleration experienced at a planet's surface at the equator, including the effects of rotation.
training school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: training schools
Senses: examples: text: British Railways are to build a school for training apprentices at Crewe.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: New Training School at Crewe”, in Railway Magazine, page 713:
glosses: A former type of specialist school in England that specialised in adult education and teacher training.
after a while
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Presumably short for "I'll see you after a while"
Senses: glosses: goodbye; see you
art work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art works
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of artwork.
un-ostentatious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-ostentatious
form: most un-ostentatious
Senses: examples: text: What, my dear grandmamma, is the boaſted character of moſt of thoſe who are called Heroes, to the un-oſtentatious merit of a truly Good man?
ref: 1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXI. Lady Grandison, To Mrs. Shirley.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], 2nd edition, volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 299:
text: He is not a gallant man, but he is a very humane one; and this, considering Jane Fairfax’s ill health, would appear a case of humanity to him;—and for an act of un-ostentatious kindness, there is nobody whom I would fix on more than on Mr. Knightley.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 155:
text: This is a work highly creditable to the Baron and his able Editor, M. Jaubert. We cannot omit commending the un-ostentatious and economical manner in which it is put forth.
ref: 1827 December, “[Review of Books.] Voyage d’Orenbourg à Boukhara, fait en 1820, à travers les Steppes qui s’étendent à l’ Est de la Mer d’ Aral et au-dela de l’ancien Jaxartes. Redigé par M. le Baron Georges de Meyendorff, et revu par M. le Chevalier Amedee Jaubert. […]”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, volume XXIV, number 144, page 748:
glosses: Rare form of unostentatious.
center line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: center lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centerline.
allosemitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allosemitic
form: most allosemitic
Senses: examples: text: If Jewish Self-Hatred was mainly concerned with the “Jew’s voice,” then The Jew’s Body extends this argument so as to create a seminal anatomy of antisemitic (or, more accurately, allosemitic) representations.
ref: 1994, Bryan Cheyette, “Sander Gilman on Hatred and Self-Hatred”, in Jonathan Frankel, editor, Reshaping the Past: Jewish History and the Historians, volume X, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, page 272:
text: He follows historian Henrik Rosengren and argues that we should differentiate between allosemitic and antisemitic perceptions, where the former would describe Jews as different but not necessarily in a negative or hostile way.
ref: 2020, Karin Kvist Geverts, “Antisemitism in Sweden: A Neglected Field of Research?” (chapter 10), in Jonathan Adams, Cordelia Heß, editors, Antisemitism in the North (Religious Minorities in the North: History, Politics, and Culture; Volume 1), Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, pages 196–7:
glosses: Of or pertaining to allosemitism; seeing and treating Jews as alien.
child care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of childcare.
home life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home lives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homelife.
in quick succession
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They scored two goals in quick succession.
text: In several cases, prickly sensations and itching appear in quick succession momentarily.
ref: 1972, Sobhana (Mahā caññʻ Cha rā toʻ ʼA rhaṅʻ), Practical Insight Meditation, page 31:
glosses: Happening or occurring rapidly and sequentially at very short intervals.
re-purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-purposes
form: re-purposing
form: re-purposed
form: re-purposed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of repurpose.
return address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return addresses
Senses: qualifier: postal
glosses: The address of a person sending an item in the post, written on the item sent.
return addresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of return address
railroad line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railroad lines
Senses: glosses: A railway
video tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video tapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of videotape.
anal intercourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Anal sex.
funeral pyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funeral pyres
Senses: glosses: A pyre; a funeral pile.
orbital velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbital velocities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oribtal speed.
synonyms: word: oribtal speed
pre-colonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of precolonial.
quite so
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "[…]He asked if it were really true that they ate chalk and slate pencils. Wasn't that unendurable? I answered that those were the chief solid articles of food, but that after their complexions were established, so to speak, their parents often allowed them pickles and native claret to vary the diet."
"What did he say to that?" I asked.
"Oh, he said, 'Quite so, quite so;' that was his invariable response to all my witticisms.
ref: 1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 7, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: indeed; I agree with that; absolutely.
record holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: record holders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of recordholder.
record holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of record holder
six-string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: six-strings
Senses: examples: ref: 1985, Bryan Adams, “Summer of '69”, in I got my first real six-string / Bought it at the five and dime:
glosses: guitar
six-strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of six-string
call for help
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calls for help
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cry for help.
synonyms: word: cry for help
destinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destinatories
Senses: examples: text: The seeing consciousness of the actual observer or destinatory behaves as a master who wants to appropriate the art object, the text. As a matter of fact, it has every reason to behave so because the first dialectics—described in the preceding section—has found its mastery: to create a text, to create a work of art is from the outset to demand its hermeneutic reconstruction by a destinatory. […] that the receiver or observer (destinatory) can attain […]
ref: 1990, Ellen Spolsky, The Uses of Adversity: Failure and Accommodation in Reader Response, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: […] among the creditors of the destinatory. This, it need hardly be said, is an important point. To produce all these results took a long time.
ref: 2003 November 13, F. W. Maitland, Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93:
text: That bank-note belongs 'in equity' to the destinatories [sc. beneficiaries]. He pays it away as the price of shares in a company; those shares belong 'in equity' to the destinatories. He becomes bankrupt; those shares will not be part[…]
ref: 2016 May 26, P. G. Turner, Equity and Administration, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
text: ... the information as to the name or names of the ultimate recipients, destinatories, or consumers of the said goods, and of the port or ports of destination should be furnished to the customs authorities at the port of Calcutta.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Supreme Court, page 82:
glosses: One who is the intended recipient of an action.
destinatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destinatory
nuclear-armed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: armed with nuclear weapons
Gowhole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in New Mills parish, near Furness Vale, High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK0183).
filibustress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filibustresses
Etymology: From filibuster + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: She thereby sparked a small argument among veteran Senate gallery-ites about whether she should be called a filibusterer or a filibustress.
ref: 1962, Time Magazine, August 10 1962, page 11:
text: […]joy-bells rang in the ears of the dusky filibustress as she struggled for breath.
ref: 1982, George MacDonald Fraser, The Pyrates, page 231:
text: I was watching the House of Representatives On C-SPAN and it made me think of you. Then I watched Mr.Smith goes to Washington with Jimmy Stewart, in the filibuster, and I was thinking to myself, I bet Irma would be a great filibustress!
ref: 2021, “What Have I Done” (0:02:33 from the start), in Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 11, episode 8, Larry David (actor), via HBO:
glosses: A woman who filibusters.
necromanceresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necromanceress
iPad kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iPad kids
Etymology: Popularized in January 2021 after Gen Z TikToker Gabe Escobar criticized Millennial parents for allowing excessive screen time for their children.
Senses: examples: text: That iPad kid went ballistic in the restaurant after his mom took his iPad away.
text: Unfortunately, technology is growing in popularity by the minute, even establishing itself in our education and physical activity. Now more than ever our society is supporting the development of iPad kids.
ref: 2022 January 23, Bart Pursel, “The Infamous iPad Kid”, in Sites at Penn State, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2023, retrieved 25 Apr 2023:
text: Some in Generation Z have frowned upon the idea of raising their own children as "iPad kids" after witnessing recent hyper fixation with technology.
ref: 2022 October 26, Ashley Hagar, Hisham Bensaadat, “"iPad Kids" are Shaping the Future of Education”, in The Spectator, Seattle University:
synonyms: iPad baby
iPad child
glosses: A child, generally Generation Alpha, who gets all of their entertainment through an iPad or other tablet; a child who is addicted to using their tablet.
Ansichow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 安西州.
Senses: examples: text: Chinese annals and no doubt later-day official correspondence describe such miserable, old-world town as Ansichow as a miniature Peking. And Ansichow is the first Chinese town in China proper from which traveller ignorant of the country gets his initial impression of it.
ref: 1912 September 7, “Cities of Old Cathay”, in North China Herald, volume CIV, number 2352, page 672:
text: The line starts from Ansichow westward to Tunhwang, and skirts the southern edge of the Lobnor Swamp to Chochiang.
ref: 1922, Sun Yat-sen, The International Development of China, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 139:
text: The southern margin is marked by sand-buried cities, now desolate but formerly the site of extensive settlements which were connected by a road from Yarkand through Khotan to Ansichow.
ref: 1934, George Babcock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 268:
glosses: Anxi, a historical department in Gansu, China, whose capital is located in present-day Guazhou County, known as Anxi County until 2006.
powerwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerwashes
Etymology: From power + wash.
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: factory reset
hard reset
soft reset
glosses: The process of resetting a Chromebook or any other ChromeOS device to its factory settings, by deleting all data from the unit.
powerwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powerwashes
form: powerwashing
form: powerwashed
form: powerwashed
Etymology: From power + wash.
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To perform a powerwash.
powerwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powerwashes
form: powerwashing
form: powerwashed
form: powerwashed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of power wash.
FNF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fault not found.
FNF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Friday Night Funkin' (“a 2020 rhythm-based video game”).
TechToker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TechTokers
Etymology: From TechTok + -er.
Senses: examples: text: TikTok is famous for its viral pranks, endless wave of memes, and, for me at least, its ability to make an hour disappear by sucking you into a rabbit hole. There are unlimited niche topics to get lost in, but where I often find myself is #TechTok. [see title]
ref: 2021 April 14, Jordan Bowman, “The Best Gadgets on TikTok, According to TechTokers”, in The Strategist:
text: That divide between employees who code and those who work in areas like sales or recruiting is present at some companies, other TechTokers acknowledged, but they also pointed out that the vlogger has at times looked pretty elitist herself; […]
ref: 2022 September 4, Steffi Cao, “#WorkingInTech Influencers Are Facing Backlash For Their Glamorous TikToks About The Industry”, in BuzzFeed News:
text: Francis is just one of many young people who have made a name for themselves on TikTok by sharing their lives as #corporatebaddies, #techgirls, or #techtokers, then found themselves impacted by the mass layoffs sweeping the tech industry.
ref: 2023 February 11, Stephanie McNeal, “What Happens When A Corporate TikTok Girlie Gets Laid Off? She Posts Through It.”, in BuzzFeed News:
glosses: A TikToker who makes videos about, discusses, or is otherwise interested in technology.
FoodTok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From food + -Tok.
Senses: examples: text: FoodTok can be a dizzying mash-up of competing birria taco recipes, fufu reviews, and Coca-Cola pot roast recipes passed down from sorority cookbooks. […] On FoodTok, I get to see how people eat and cook in their everyday lives, to peer into virtual kitchen windows like a voyeuristic passerby who just got a whiff of something delicious (or horrifying).
ref: 2021 February 9, Hazel Cills, “The Voyeuristic, Hypnotic Pleasure of FoodTok”, in Jezebel:
text: What does your “For You” page look like on TikTok? Do you watch mostly dance challenges, lip syncs, comedians, travel videos or something else? Have you ever ventured onto food TikTok, or FoodTok? […] Why might someone aspire to be a FoodTok star? Have you ever wanted to become a TikTok celebrity for cooking or something else?
ref: 2021 May 28, Nicole Daniels, “Lesson of the Day: ‘TikTok, the Fastest Way on Earth to Become a Food Star’”, in The New York Times:
text: TikTok recipes – or FoodTok, to use the parlance of the people – are a genre unto themselves. Creators post short videos of (usually) simple recipes that take fairly ordinary, well-trod ingredients (feta, tomatoes) and give them new relevance.
ref: 2022 August 5, Lauren Sams, “How TikTok is taking over your kitchen”, in Australian Financial Review:
text: If you’ve spent any amount of time on FoodTok, then you know there are plenty of creators out there who’ll make your mouth water…but Cedrik Lorenzen is looking to do more than whet your appetite, if ya know what I mean.
ref: 2022 August 26, Corinne Sullivan, “TikTok’s Sexy Food Guru Cedrik Lorenzen Is Here to Whet Your Appetite”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: FoodTok is an infinite recipe book, a source of information, comfort and entertainment, and, at the same time, a disgusting universe of ever more ungodly “hacks”, tricks and challenges. […] Not-so-secret sploshing content resides in the overlapping midpoint of FoodTok’s Venn diagram, with “appealing” on one side and “outrageous” on the other.
ref: 2023 April 22, Eloise Hendy, “Dorito casseroles, butter diets and how weird food took over the internet”, in The Independent:
glosses: The community of food- and cooking-oriented accounts on TikTok.
cold drink money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In South Africa such requests are so common that bribes for driving offences are known as “cold drink money”.
ref: 2023 April 20, “How to ask for a bribe without asking for a bribe”, in The Economist:
text: The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) has welcomed a court judgment that found a Pretoria taxi driver guilty for trying to bribe a traffic officer with R70 ‘cold drink money’.
ref: 2019 July 26, “Taxi driver nabbed for offering a R70 ‘cold drink’ bribe”, in BusinessTech:
glosses: a small bribe
narrow banking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: a proposed idea in which a bank invests deposits in safe government bonds instead of lending the money out.
narrow bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrow banks
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: a bank which invests deposits in safe government bonds instead of lending the money out.
narrow banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narrow bank
shewey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shew + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: She was a very ſhewey, good-looking woman: ſhe had been, probably, reckoned handſome in the days of her youth: they certainly, by the effort ſhe made to ſet off her face and figure to the greateſt advantage, thoroughly convinced the moſt careleſs ſpectator formarum, that ſhe had not given up, in her own mind, all pretenſions to admiration.
ref: 1797, [Joseph] Addison, “The Humble Friend. A Moral Tale.”, in Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments, Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, London: […] the Author, page 244:
text: They were shewn into the usual sitting room, well-proportioned & well-furnished;—tho’ it saw Furniture rather originally good & extremely well kept, than new or shewey—[…]
ref: 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, pages 169–170:
english: Sanditon
translation: Sanditon
text: One simple but very shewey method of exhibiting bonfires or illuminations was practiced. These consisted of barrels of straw or shavings which were arrayed round a square — as the Piazza Colonna &c — and when these were set on fire, the staves confined the material & retained the flame — so as to render it more permanent than I should have expected.
ref: a. 1839, Peter Irving, Peter Irving’s Journals, New York, N.Y.: The New York Public Library, published 1943, page 50:
text: I saw the servants of the Duke of Northumberland in their shewey dress liveries, throwing lumps of bread and cheese among the dense crowd of vagabonds they had collected together . . .
ref: a. 1855, Mary Thale, quoting Francis Place, “Editor’s Introduction”, in The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771-1854), Cambridge: At the University Press, published 1972, →ISBN, section 2, page xviii:
glosses: Obsolete form of showy.
quindecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quindecimalis, from quindecim (“15”) + -ālis (“-al”), from quinque (“5”) + decem (“10”). Equivalent to quindecim + -al.
Senses: examples: text: here the system assumes a quinary, or, perhaps more properly, a quindecimal radix, sixteen being expressed by a word signifying fifteen and one; seventeen, fifteen and two, &c.
ref: 1834, Dionysius Lardner, Treatise on Arithmetic, Practical and Theoretical, page 17:
glosses: Based on the number fifteen, base 15.
sedecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From se- + decimal.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to sixteen
glosses: hexadecimal
Synonyms: sexadecimal
undevicesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ūndēvīcēsimus (“nineteenth”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: St. Paul arrived in Greece 1,900 years ago this summer. It was a momentous event for the peoples of the western world. To signalize this undevicesimal centennial, the Greek Orthodox church is inviting scholars and religious leaders thruout the world to Athens for a delayed celebration in June of 1951.
ref: 1950 March 4, John Evans, “Notes on News in Religion”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CIX, number 54, Chicago, Ill., page 8:
glosses: Based upon the number nineteen.
Synonyms: decennoval
septemvigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septen- + vigesimal.
Senses: glosses: Based upon the number twenty-seven.
duotrigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duo- + trigesimal.
Senses: glosses: Based upon the number thirty-two
quadricentesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + centesimal.
Senses: glosses: Based upon the number four hundred
trecentosexagesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trecent- (“three hundred”) + -o- + sexagesimal.
Senses: glosses: Based upon the number three hundred and sixty
quattuordecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quattuordecim + -al.
Senses: examples: text: But perhaps the most surprising “most-needed additions” of this kind are “teddera, peddera, pimp, and yan-a-dick,” which are said to be numerals used for counting sheep. It is not quite clear what numbers these additions displace or whether the shepherd has really adopted a “quattuor-decimal” system.
ref: 1932 October 26, “Saturday Competition: New Words”, in The Manchester Guardian, number 26,875, page 18, columns 5–6:
text: Reinterpret these symbols as the digits (!) in a quattuordecimal number system, i.e. a number system based on 14 in the same way that the decimal system is based on 10.
ref: 1952, Stephen Cole Kleene, Introduction to Metamathematics, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: D[avid] van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 6:
text: “If my memory serves me, one of your predecessors used the same terminology several millennia ago when he wanted to check some equations he had developed dealing with sub-nuclear fission. When he went back over his calculations to see if he could find out what had gone wrong, he found he’d dropped a quattuordecimal point. But by then it was too late. One of our planets was missing.”
ref: 1955 February, Theodore R[ose] Cogswell, “Test Area”, in Fantastic Universe, volume 3, number 1, page 53:
text: Talk about a bumpy night, “La La Land” is now the only movie to be nominated for 14 Oscars and not win Best Picture. (Don’t ask me why I’m smiling.) But it does have something over the first film to receive decatessariple (quattuordecimal?) nominations, “All About Eve.”
ref: 2017 March 3, Trevor Fraser, “Movie Musings: More than another teen movie, an Oscar record holder and more”, in Orlando Sentinel:
text: […] 5-8 introduces a hint of melismatic complexity, inserting into its duple meter a series of triplets and a melismatic quattuordecimal (14-note) figure.
ref: 2021 September, Ariella Siu-Yin Mak-Neiman, Haydn Revisited: Compositional Atavism in the Keyboard Sonatas and Trios, supporting document submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts in Music, University of California, Santa Barbara:
glosses: Based upon the number fourteen.
quinquavigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinqua- + vigesimal.
Senses: glosses: Based upon the number twenty-five
nonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonal
form: most nonal
Senses: glosses: Relating to the number nine.
Synonyms: nonary